Terry Bowden

College coach infobox
Name = Terry Bowden

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Sport = Football
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Title = Head coach
CurrentRecord =
OverallRecord = 111-53-2
BowlRecord = 2-1
Awards = 1993 Paul "Bear" Bryant Award
1993 Walter Camp Coach of the Year
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Player = Y
Years = 1977-1978
Team = West Virginia
Position = Running back
Coach = Y
CoachYears = 1982
1983-1985
1986
1987-1992
1993-1998
CoachTeams = Florida State (GA)
Salem
Akron (Assistant)
Samford
Auburn
FootballHOF =
CollegeHOFID = __NOTOC__Terry Bowden is a college football analyst/commentator, motivational speaker, and former college football coach. Bowden is the son of Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden. His siblings include Tommy Bowden, the head football coach at Clemson and Jeff Bowden, former offensive coordinator at Florida State. Bowden currently serves as the color commentator for the Westwood One radio network's national NCAA game of the week, and as a college football writer for Yahoo! sports.cite web |url= http://www.westwoodone.com/site/pressrelease?pid=26525 | title= Westwood One Announces Terry Bowden And Kevin Kugler As NCAA Football Broadcast Team | publisher = Westwood One | author = Sessa, Peter | date = 2006-08-10 | accessdate = 2006-10-08] In a July 2007 column, he stated his desire to return to coaching for the 2008 football season. cite web |url= http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=Aq0bvGOigc2Osal9pZbAKmscvrYF?slug=tb-youjustneverknow073007&prov=yhoo&type=lgns | title= You just never know | publisher = Yahoo Sports | author = Bowden, Terry | date = 2007-07-30 | accessdate = 2007-08-01] As of November 13, 2007, Bowden continued to express an interest in returning to coaching. When West Virginia University coach Rich Rodriguez left for the University of Michigan coaching vacancy, Bowden called West Virginia "the dream job" for him. However, Bill Stewart (football coach) who was an assistant coach at WVU was offered the job instead after his win over the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl.

Coaching career

As a college football coach, Bowden compiled a 111-53-2 record with head coaching stints at Auburn University, Samford University, and Salem College. [cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/college/news/1998/10/24/bowden_record |title=CNN/SI - College Football - Terry Bowdens Record - Saturday October 24, 1998 09:21 AM |accessdate=2005-12-02]

In his first season at Auburn in 1993, he led the Tigers to a perfect 11-0 season (the team was ineligible for post-season play because of infractions by the previous coaching staff). Bowden's Tigers would run the string of undefeated games until the final game of the 1994 season against arch-rival Alabama and finish his first two seasons with a 20-1-1 record. The win-streak is still the longest in AU football history. During his tenure at Auburn, Terry Bowden recruited 18 players that were drafted into the National Football League, including three players taken in the First Round (cite web |url= http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?abbr=A&collegeName=Auburn&abbr
| title = NFL Draft History by Team). In 1997, Bowden's Auburn Tigers lost a 20-7 lead in the SEC Conference Title game where they gave up a last minute, 73-yard touchdown pass to Peyton Manning of the Tennessee Volunteers. The next season, after a string of injuries at the center position and disastrous start, Bowden resigned in the middle of the 1998 season the night before Auburn was to play Louisiana Tech. Bowden was given no assurances he would have a chance to remedy the situation for the next season and believed his firing was imminent when he was told that influential and powerful board member Bobby Lowder was promising the head coaching position to someone on Bowden's own staff (Lowder, five years later, played a controversial behind-the-scenes rolecite web |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2285976 | title = A Tiger of a trustee | publisher = ESPN.com | author = Fish, Mike | date = 2006-01-13 | accessdate = 2006-09-17] in a botched attempt to remove Bowden's successor Tommy Tubervillecite web |url= http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=ncf&id=1956506 | title = Tuberville goes from pink slip to perfection | publisher = Associated Press | date = 2004-12-31 | accessdate = 2006-09-17] ). Bowden had fallen out of favor with Lowder the previous season.

While at Salem and Samford, Bowden coached quarterback Jimbo Fisher to a NCAA Division III National Player of the Year award.cite web |url= http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=28715&SPID=2164&DB_OEM_ID=5200&ATCLID=174005&Q_SEASON=2006 | title = Jimbo Fisher | publisher = LSU Athletic Department | date = | accessdate = 2006-10-16] Fisher later became quarterbacks coach for Bowden at Auburn, and after much success as the offensive coordinator for LSU, is now the offensive coordinator at FSU for Bobby Bowden. Another quarterback from Bowden's time at Auburn, Patrick Nix is the current offensive coordinator for Miami (FL).

Coaching record

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year = 1984
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overall = 8-3
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year = 1985
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overall=19-13-0
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name=Samford Bulldogs
conf=Ohio Valley Conference
startyear=1987
endyear=1992CFB Yearly Record Entry
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year = 1987
name = Samford
overall = 9-1
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overall = 5-6
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overall = 4-7
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championship =
year = 1990
name = Samford
overall = 6-4-1
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championship =
year = 1991
name = Samford
overall = 12-2
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championship =
year = 1992
name = Samford
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name=Samford
overall=45-23-1
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name=Auburn Tigers
conf=Southeastern Conference
startyear=1993
endyear=1998CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1993
name = Auburn
overall = 11-0
conference = 8-0
confstanding = 1 - West*
bowlname = Ineligible*
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ranking2 = 4CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1994
name = Auburn
overall = 9-1-1
conference = 6-1-1
confstanding = 2 - West*
bowlname = Ineligible*
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ranking2 = 9CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1995
name = Auburn
overall = 8-4
conference = 5-3
confstanding = 2 - West
bowlname = Outback Bowl
bowloutcome = L 14-43
bowlopp = Penn State
bcsbowl =
ranking = 21
ranking2 = 22CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1996
name = Auburn
overall = 8-4
conference = 4-4
confstanding = 3 - West
bowlname = Independence Bowl
bowloutcome = W 32-29
bowlopp = Army
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ranking = 25
ranking2 = 24CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship = division
year = 1997
name = Auburn
overall = 10-3
conference = 6-2
confstanding = 1 - West "(t)"
bowlname = Peach Bowl
bowloutcome = W 21-17
bowlopp = Clemson
bcsbowl =
ranking = 11
ranking2 = 11CFB Yearly Record Entry
championship =
year = 1998
name = Auburn
overall = 1-5^
conference = 1-4^
confstanding = 6 - West
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name=Auburn
overall=47-17-1
confrecord=30-14-1CFB Yearly Record End
overall = 111-53-2
bcs = no
poll = two*On NCAA probation.
^Bowden resigned after the first six games of the 1998 season.

Education

Bowden attended West Virginia University, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and graduated "magna cum laude" with a degree in accounting. [cite web |url=http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/samf/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/Records.pdf |title=Samford University 2005 Football Media Guide |accessdate=2005-12-02] In addition to his post-grad work at Oxford University in England, he also received his Juris Doctorate degree from Florida State University College of Law.

Miscellaneous

Bowden is the expert analyst for Westwood One Radio's College Football National Game of Week, co-hosts "The Coaches Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio with Jack Arute, is the exclusive college football columnist for Yahoo! Sports, and works several times a month as a Motivational Speaker.

References

External links

* [http://terrybowden.com Official site]
* [http://sports.yahoo.com/top/expertsarchive?author=Terry+Bowden Columns at Yahoo! Sports]