Sources say Bobby Bowden to announce retirement Tuesday

[Reno Paul]

Updated: November 30, 2009, 7:31 PM ET
Sources: Bowden to retire


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By Mark Schlabach
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TALLAHASSEE -- Legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who built one of college football's greatest dynasties in 34 seasons with the Seminoles, plans to announce his retirement Tuesday morning, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com.
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Bowden, whose 388 career victories trail only Penn State's Joe Paterno as college football's winningest coach, met with FSU president TK Wetherell and athletic director Randy Spetman on Monday morning. According to sources, Bowden was given two options: return to FSU in 2010 as an ambassador to the program, in which he would have little input in the day-to-day operations of the program, or retire after the Seminoles' upcoming bowl game.
Sources told ESPN.com that offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, who was named Bowden's eventual successor near the end of the 2007 season, has agreed to contract terms to replace Bowden after this season. The school's booster organization would have owed Fisher $5 million if he didn't replace Bowden by January 2011.
Bowden, 80, led FSU to national championships in 1993 and '99 and 14 consecutive top-five finishes in the Associated Press top 25 poll from 1987 to 2000. But the Seminoles finished 6-6 after last week's 37-10 loss at No. 1 Florida, which was the third time in four seasons that FSU lost six games.
Mark Schlabach covers college sports for ESPN.com.

[doc mercer]

$5,000.000 to Fisher if they didn't move things in place?

OMFG ....

and ND is giving Weiss $18,000,000??


This is one fucked up country ..... the chick who was McCains' "financial advisor" got $40,000,000 to walk away from HP after she took that company down the shitter

I need to talk with Dirty or I might book ...

[Reno Paul]

Longtime coach Bowden to retire after Florida State's bowl game

Dec. 1, 2009 CBSSports.com wire reports

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game. Bowden, 80, will retire as the second-winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State's Joe Paterno. Bowden has won 388 games in his career at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons. "We've got one more game and I look forward to enjoying these next few weeks as the head football coach," Bowden said Tuesday in a statement released by the school. Florida State's bowl game has not been determined. The are bowl eligible with a 6-6 record. Bowden won two national titles with Florida State, in 1993 and 1999. Among his top achievements was a string of 14 straight seasons ending in 2000 when the Seminoles won at least 10 games and finished ranked in the top five of the AP poll. Florida State was 152-19-1, an .864 winning percentage, during that span. "He set records of achievement on the field that will probably never be equaled," university president T.K. Wetherell said. "Bobby Bowden in many ways became the face of Florida State. It was his sterling personality and character that personified this university." FSU officials announced after the 2007 season that offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher would succeed Bowden. The end of the Bowden era has been brewing for years, and the call for change only grew louder this year, when loss after loss, many coming in the final minutes, began piling up. The regular season ended with a sixth straight loss to bitter rival Florida, a 37-10 blowout. Bowden is a football lifer, who modeled his career after his idol Paul "Bear" Bryant, the legendary Alabama coach who died shortly after he retired in 1982. "After you retire, there's only one big event left," Bowden has said over the years. "And I ain't ready for that."

[doc mercer]

FSU wasn't shit until Bobby showed up ....

Go enjoy retirement

YOU DESERVE IT SIR ...