Terry Bowden
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| Terry Bowden | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 111-53-2 | |
| Bowls | 2-1 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Awards | ||
| 1993 Paul "Bear" Bryant Award 1993 Walter Camp Coach of the Year |
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| Playing career | ||
| 1977-1978 | West Virginia | |
| Position | Running back | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1982 1983-1985 1986 1987-1992 1993-1998 |
Florida State (GA) Salem Akron (Assistant) Samford Auburn |
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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.[1] In a July 2007 column, he stated his desire to return to coaching for the 2008 football season. [2] 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.
[edit] 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.[3]
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 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 (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 role[4] in a botched attempt to remove Bowden's successor Tommy Tuberville[5]). Bowden had fallen out of favor with Lowder the previous season due to his affair with Lowder's daughter.
While at Salem and Samford, Bowden coached quarterback Jimbo Fisher to a NCAA Division III National Player of the Year award.[6] 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).
[edit] Coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Salem College (WVIA Conference) (1983 – 1985) | |||||||||
| 1983 | Salem | 3-7 | |||||||
| 1984 | Salem | 8-3 | |||||||
| 1985 | Salem | 8-3 | |||||||
| Salem: | 19-13-0 | ||||||||
| Samford Bulldogs (Ohio Valley Conference) (1987 – 1992) | |||||||||
| 1987 | Samford | 9-1 | |||||||
| 1988 | Samford | 5-6 | |||||||
| 1989 | Samford | 4-7 | |||||||
| 1990 | Samford | 6-4-1 | |||||||
| 1991 | Samford | 12-2 | |||||||
| 1992 | Samford | 9-3 | |||||||
| Samford: | 45-23-1 | ||||||||
| Auburn Tigers (Southeastern Conference) (1993 – 1998) | |||||||||
| 1993 | Auburn | 11-0 | 8-0 | 1 - West* | Ineligible* | 4 | |||
| 1994 | Auburn | 9-1-1 | 6-1-1 | 2 - West* | Ineligible* | 9 | |||
| 1995 | Auburn | 8-4 | 5-3 | 2 - West | L 14-43 Outback Bowl | 21 | 22 | ||
| 1996 | Auburn | 8-4 | 4-4 | 3 - West | W 32-29 Independence Bowl | 25 | 24 | ||
| 1997 | Auburn | 10-3 | 6-2 | 1 - West (t) | W 21-17 Peach Bowl | 11 | 11 | ||
| 1998 | Auburn | 1-5^ | 1-4^ | 6 - West | |||||
| Auburn: | 47-17-1 | 30-14-1 | |||||||
| Total: | 111-53-2 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. °Rankings from final AP Poll of the season. |
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*On NCAA probation.
^Bowden resigned after the first six games of the 1998 season.
[edit] Education
Bowden attended West Virginia University, was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in accounting.[7] 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.
[edit] 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.
| Preceded by |
Salem College Head Football Coach 1983–1985 |
Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Kim Alsop |
Samford University Head Football Coach 1987–1992 |
Succeeded by Chan Gailey |
| Preceded by Pat Dye |
Auburn University Head Football Coach 1993–1998 |
Succeeded by Bill Oliver (interim); Tommy Tuberville |
| Preceded by Gene Stallings |
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award 1993 |
Succeeded by Rich Brooks |
| Preceded by Gene Stallings |
Walter Camp Coach of the Year 1993 |
Succeeded by Joe Paterno |
[edit] References
- ^ Sessa, Peter (2006-08-10). Westwood One Announces Terry Bowden And Kevin Kugler As NCAA Football Broadcast Team. Westwood One. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
- ^ Bowden, Terry (2007-07-30). You just never know. Yahoo Sports. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ CNN/SI - College Football - Terry Bowden's Record - Saturday October 24, 1998 09:21 AM. Retrieved on 2005-12-02.
- ^ Fish, Mike (2006-01-13). A Tiger of a trustee. ESPN.com. Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
- ^ Tuberville goes from pink slip to perfection. Associated Press (2004-12-31). Retrieved on 2006-09-17.
- ^ Jimbo Fisher. LSU Athletic Department. Retrieved on 2006-10-16.
- ^ Samford University 2005 Football Media Guide. Retrieved on 2005-12-02.
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