Jeff Bowden

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Jeff Bowden is a former college football coach who most recently served as the offensive coordinator for the Florida State Seminoles under his father and head coach Bobby Bowden. He resigned from the position on November 14, 2006, following a shutout loss to Wake Forest University three days earlier.^[1] He has also been a wide receivers coach and coached at Salem College, Samford University and Southern Mississippi.

[edit] Coaching

Bowden started to coach immediately after he graduated when he was hired as the wide receivers coach at Salem College in 1983, where his brother Terry Bowden was the head coach. After two years, he was promoted to the position of offensive coordinator. He then returned to FSU, his alma mater, for a season as a graduate assistant coach. In 1987, he began a four year stint as offensive coordinator at Samford University. Bowden then moved up to the Division I-A level as wide receivers coach at Southern Mississippi for three years before being hired by his father at Florida State in 1994 as wide receivers coach. He was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2001 when Mark Richt departed for the head coaching position at Georgia.

Jeff Bowden's choice as offensive coordinator was often criticized as nepotism. The offense struggled during the younger Bowden's career and after years of frustration the Noles were shut out at home by Wake Forest. Days later, a deal was struck for Jeff Bowden to step down. As a part of Jeff Bowden's agreement with Florida State and Seminole Boosters, Inc. (the Florida State athletic booster organization), he will receive an $107,500 annually, or $537,000 total, through August 2012 from the Booster club.^[2]