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What are you thoughts on Bobby Bowden?

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F... fsu
 
WHen Bobby was at WVU, he really helped the Marshall team after their team was lost in the plane crash. That was pure class.

He never ducked us so I give him props.
 
nice guy, good christian, good father, good husband, good coach and program builder. hate fsu, but it's hard not to respect the man and his legacy.
 
He played us.... Other than that, this is a canes board, can't say anything more positive about dude on here
 
I lost all respect for Bowden for how handled discipline when Janikowski and two other players broke team rules before the Sugar Bowl BCS Championship Game against VaTech. The two other players were sent home. Must have been third teamers. Bowden said he would deal with Janikowski differently, "Polish rules".

I could not have had less empathy had I tried when FSU slid into their own era of mediocrity during his last seasons.
 
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Played us when nobody else would.... Cost that guy how many title shots, and he still played us. Sold his soul a bit for his NCs, but that could be said for a lot of others in this game.
 
He never shied away from playing us year in and year out unlike those Florida punks. Respeck
 
He did a few questionable things but so did our coaches. He andHoward built the rivalry to what it is today and he always respected us and never backed down from anyone. He built a program from a far worse situation than e have been under and was if anything to loyal to his players.
 
Man **** this ****. Ya'll are some pussies. " I have nothing but respect because he kept us on schedule and hes had an impressive run at FSU blah blah blah"

**** that. **** Bowden. **** FSU. And **** our ****** fans that are sucking his **** in this thread.
 
bhall960 said:
Man **** this ****. Ya'll are some pussies. " I have nothing but respect because he kept us on schedule and hes had an impressive run at FSU blah blah blah"

**** that. **** Bowden. **** FSU. And **** our ****ty fans that are sucking his **** in this thread.
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And you for sounding like a **** gator fan. Canes fans don't pick on their fans like that PERIOD
 
Nothing quite enjoyable as watching BB, shake his head in disbelief after a wide right or left.

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One of the all-time greats. The worthiest of adversaries of Schnelly, JJ, and Erickson.

I'm thinking of Vince Vaughn's line to Will Ferrell at the end of Anchorman.
 
ThomasM said:
PanteraCanes said:
I liked when he called out UF and ND for refusing to play Miami. I also liked when he said we should of been in the championship game instead of them.
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What about the many more times he said FSU should be #2 playing Oklahoma instead of us? His words after the fact mean nothing. Of COURSE it should have been UM playing OU, as evidenced by the pathetic showing his team put on.
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So you are expecting a coach to come out and say before a game that their players are horrible and shouldn't be there? I am sure they would of felt motivated for the game after that. To be honest I was surprised he admitted it at all. You know for a fact if it was reversed you would be turning on the coach for saying it, especially before the game.
 
GonzoCane said:
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Played us when nobody else would.... Cost that guy how many title shots, and he still played us. Sold his soul a bit for his NCs, but that could be said for a lot of others in this game.
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Yes, of course.
Him wanting to play UM had nothing to do with maintaining a recruiting presence in soFla.
It was all about helping UM.
SMH at the impressionable old people around here who bought that nonsense.
 
Big fan of Bowden. You guys who are being fake tough guys don't get it. You can respect the man and what he represents but still want to kick his ***. Richt adors the man. You have a problem with him?
 
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