TERRY BOWDEN IS COMING AND YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT

Tommy Bowden has plenty of time for this shit.

Damn… if its working for him… all i have to say is -

I’m from West Virginia and want to coach!! I’m from West Virginia and want to coach!! I’m from West Virginia and want to coach!! I’m from West Virginia and want to coach!!

::waits for phone call::

Seriously though.. as a WVU guy, I shutter at the thought…. just because hes the best of Bowden’s boys, doesnt sit well enough with me to pass on alot of the other names floating around.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

And…if he got the job…his first game would be against?

That’s right – Auburn.

Nick Saban… Terry Bowden… is Morgantown somewhere over the rainbow or something? I’m picturing the Lollipop Guild as the Board of Trustees.

I am sure there will be a rule , sooner or later, that doesnt penalize the players when they get duped into coming to a university, then the coach bails on them…there is no penalty, no sit out period, just get ya shit and start over somewhere else, but if your on Scholarship, you have to wait a year to play? Bullshit…
If Im locked into a program after being redshirted and supposed to start in that guys system the next year, and he leaves, then I want to transfer and have to wait another year….hell by that time I’m 30 yrs old with 2 kids after waiting on my turn to play……Free Agency fellas, negotiating monetary value on scholarships based on where they are vs where they want to go….
WVU is in a spot right now…no recruiter, no O-coordinator, no head coach, no nothing, and I am sure, depending on who they get, will have to do some sort of damage control to keep the athletes they have…

Tiny Terry needs a job like a crackhead needs a hit.

WVU should hire him to make the implosion complete.

Saban to WVU. Believe it.

Wow. look how things have changed in 10yrs:Terry Bowdens compensation for going 20-0……
“He took Auburn to the Southeastern Conference championship game last year. He had signed a seven-year contract in December, with a base salary of $155,000 and benefits boosting the total package at more than $800,000.”
and this for a 7 yr period

We’ve done a good job forgetting it, but players commit to schools, not coaches.

Is Terry Bowden to WFVU going to be the NCAA equivalent of Art Shell’s second turn at the helm of the Raiders?

If I’m not mistaken, WFVU and Auburn play in ’08.

Thank Jebus Terry isn’t from Nebraska. I couldn’t have handled a “Bowden to NU” rumor.

Was Bowden run off the Plains strictly due to the 1-5 record? Was there some other scandal swirling around him?

MPP makes a good point. I would take a different approach on the remedy, though.

Coaches jumping from school to school with the frequency of a cheap ham radio is bad. Giving players the ability to engage in the same destabilizing behavior would not only NOT solve the problem with coaches, it would create a new, probably much worse, problem with players.

How about preventing coaches from taking another job within one year [options] 1) in the same division; 2) unless both teams agree to it; 3) unless the pay differential is over a certain amount (I’m thinking of a way to allow the normal coaching progression of someone like Urban Meyer).

Just some thoughts.

My point of view here is that I like college football for all the ways in which it does NOT look like the NFL. Encouraging everyone to move from team to team makes it look more, rather than less, like the NFL.

Here to echo the thoughts on Terry Bowden’s column. While his humanity may be questioned—and I don’t mean his sense of compassion, I mean his status as an earth-borne human—I do immensely enjoy his work on Yahoo.

Wait, did you guys know that WFVU and AU play in Morgantown in 08? I bet no radio personality anywhere will say anything about that coincidence this week. It probably won’t show up on any blog either.

1. - But who is coaching at that school can have a huge impact on your decision. To ignore that is absurd. If a coach comes in and totally changes the philosophy, you may not fit in as a player.

#15
Yeh, there was a bunch of off the field stuff, like starting receivers trafficking cocaine….arrest….half the recruiting class not being eligible, and thus having no depth, lots of injuries…..basically a perfect storm for a coach to get fired and he got caught in the tornado..plus Bobby Lowder wasnt his biggest fan and was, just like he did with Tubberville, actively seeking Bowdens replacement when Bowden was there,and it was rumored that Bowden got wind of it and didnt see the need of hanging around just to be fired, even if he turned it around after going 1-5 and having the off the field issues…..Poor guy goes 11-0 first season in and cant do nothing since they are on probation from the previous regime….

Terry is older and wiser. I believe he is ready to run a good program. Yesterday is gone ( ask Bama). Of course ,St. Nick has 1st dibs.

I’ll go ahead and call it…..there will be a “NFL to the SEC stepping stone rule……If you leave the NCAA and go to the NFL, you cant come back and automatically pass go and end up in the SEC, regardless….you have to finish at least in the NFL with 2 yrs, then sit out a year if you leave the NFL before you can put on a headset in the SEC…” or levy fines and enforce the buyouts in CASH…..I mean recruiting is recruiting…whether by coaches or military recruiters….if they lie to ya, they aint the ones having to suffer for the next 4 yrs……they paint a rosy picture, you sign on the dotted line, and ya come to find out, that MF was full of shit, now your stuck flying C130’s full of rubber dog shit outta Hong Kong

A little going away present for Rich Rodriguez. Somebody posted a West Virginia Playbook online. Enjoy…

http://fastandfuriousfootball.com/CollegeOffense/2005_Univ_of_West_Virginia_Offense.pdf

Terry Bowden has to wait his turn behind Bill Cowher, Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, and Urban Meyer. They all want the job.

WVU fans are funny.

Karl Dorrell is available. They know that, right?

Holy shit. Look at those headphones!

WfVU could have hired Bowden seven years ago, when he was a hotter property. I think they’ll go in different direction (John (Doc) Holliday, Bud Foster, someone like that.

1. is nibbling around the edges. If memory serves, the term “influential alumni’s daughter,” was bandied about. I’m just sayin’

1975ish — Bobby Bowden’s likeness (pre-Oakleys) is hung from a tree in Morgantown (or so he’d have you believe) and he leaves for the obscurity of the FSU job.

2007 — Terry begging to get hired. College football strangeness never ceases. At least Noel Devine would be comfortable.

I’m hearing a lot of sentiment for Bud Foster, but at this point we Mountaineers would settle for anybody who doesn’t whore around every year. Meatchicken – good luck with Coach Rodgreeduz and his 6 plays.

MPP – I like the NFL – SEC rule. Now that’d shut things down these days!

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw.

The midget….a Mountaineer!!!

Tater Tot Bowden only whores around w/ the coeds, so no worries there ’Eers

Why has Terry’s site removed all photo’s of him self younger than ten years old ? Seriously. The pics of him on his website are the pub shots from when took the Auburn job in 1993. The photo above is from the 1997 season.

and Mike Price got anew job pretty quckly. As did Jacke Sherrill after A & M, Danny Ford after Clemson , DiNardo after LSU and hell even Mike Dubose is coaching Millsaps.

And re-treads like Lynn Amadee and Bruce Arians keep getting re-hired

What is it about Terry that keeps him unemployed, at least in the football ranks?
What is about Terry that

Nothing like having a sleezebag lawyer type for a coach…

he will convince ya that your team could not have done it without him when they win, and that it was absolutely not his fault when they lose… and you believe him

Pray my Mountaineer friends, that this pudgy little man does not become the leader of your team… it will be years before you awake to the understanding

Funny story….there was a guy, who was like a midget or dwarf..he was like 4’7 and he used to be a trainer for Alabama when Bear was there…I think his name was Colin “Big C” Macguire…..Big C used to drive a van and wholesale Daniel Moore paintings door to door to businesses, Doctors offices, car dealers etc….all over Alabama…he could quote obscure facts about Alabama off the top of his head like Rainman…
One day he walks in wearing a shirt, with big red letters
“I AM NOT TERRY BOWDEN….THANKS FOR ASKING”

how about this for some clarity on the rrod incident:

http://postgazette.com/pg/07352/842541-144.stm

They should hire a young up-and-comer. That way when Michigan needs a new coach down the line, they will have a prospect at AAA to call up to the show.

But…but….but….I thought you said earlier Saban was going back to WVU because it was reported by a couple of coal-mining bloggers? ::Snicker:: People are so gullible these days.

At this rate Bill & Vince Dooley will come out of retirement and apply.

Hasn’t Terry Bowden begged for every open coaching job in the past decade?

Funny how Bowden’s regime fell apart only after the players obtained via questionable methods went through the system. When Auburn had to follow the same rules as everyone else, all of a sudden they weren’t that great. Terry Bowden won’t ever coach again because the schools he wants to coach at don’t want him and the schools that would take him he doesn’t want.

Bowden’s column isn’t bad but his talk show here in Orlando is horrid. It’s clear that it has to be a subject that he’s prepared for in order to speak on it – his knowledge on anything outside of current college football is spotty. He’s blanked on the name of the Red Sox’ Stadium, referred to Carson Palmer as “that kid from USC”. I had to get a satellite radio just to have something to listen to on the drive home because I refuse to listen to him.

This is great! Either Saban or Tiny Tot will be the WFV coach next year. No matter which one lands the job, our trip to Morgantown next year will be extra enjoyable.

I’ve got a buddy thats a big Auburn fan.
He says Tiny Terry is just now pursuing coaching jobs b/c Auburn had to pay him X amount of dollars a year ever since he left. Hush money?

Good luck if WVU hires him – can’t recruit worth a damn. The ultra-fast, lawyer talk doesn’t go over so well with recruits, or at least it didn’t in the states of Alabama and Georgia. Auburn was left with the dregs and questionable qualifiers. Once Pat Dye’s recruits were out of Auburn, we had zero talent left – hence lovely 1-5 start to season.

Not to mention walking in and quitting the day before homecoming.

Terry Bowden quit the day before a game. Some people (bammers) will say he was run out of town on a rail, but there was a tough meeting that day about the bad season and Terry chose to quit midseason. If he was fired he would have a had a job since 1998, but he quit on his team and that is why no school will even interview him.

The Bowden boys are an interesting bunch. Tommy is a pretty bright guy – likable, smart and has the demeanor and humor to handle the position he’s in, even if it means perpetually losing three games a year. He’s clearly the most like Bobby once was 20 or so years ago. … Jeff is like your TV when the cable goes out – you might get a clear signal on one channel if you hook up the antennae and tilt it in the right direction. … Then there’s Terry: thinks he’s the life of the party, but in reality he’s just the one talking the loudest. Being a TV/radio commentator/blabbermouth suits him perfectly. … And then there’s Steve…

I dont know whose house I would want blown up first,
either the Bowdens(coaches) or the Baldwins(actors),
is it me or are they all Catholic or Mormon where the believe in creating a family that either all of them coach or act…..where one in each family is dominant at his job and the rest are sketchy at best?

I think their wives need some sort of award for putting up with all them dads and sons…..like a Medal of Honor or something cause you know with Bobby’s schedule as a coach, Mrs. Bowden was raising them hellions solo..from birth til high school grad……had to be tuff

from the Terry “thinks he’s the life of the party” dept.:

One night, while attending summer quarter at AU right before the 1998 season, my roommates and I went to an almost empty Botchers for some of their giant LITs. Like I said, the place is empty except for Terry Bowden, two guys who I assume were assistants and their wives listening to the accoustic band on the back deck. Terry apparently enjoyed the “college atmosphere” a little too much as he is wearing an untucked, unbuttoned flannel over a t-shirt and jeans with no socks and berkinstock’s and is way more than three-sheets to the wind. He ends up sluring through some song up there with the band and one of the assistant’s wives starts flirting with one of my roommates. At that point the assistant decides it’s time for them to split, which she resists in a drunken MILF comedic sort of way.

Needless to say, it was an interesting night. My only regret is that it was before camera phones.

However – best quote in the article about Bowden’s leaving……

“Terry’s record at Auburn speaks for itself,” Alabama coach Mike DuBose said when told of the resignation. “We wish Terry and his family all the best in the future.”

ha ha ha ha ha……..

http://frattinghard.com/wp-content/uploads/bowdendrunk.jpg

#27: Yep, I remember rumors about Tiny Terry and a Trustee’s daughter. Was it Lowder’s? Does he have a daughter? Seems like that’s who it was.

Yuck.

Ah, 1998. Who didn’t get drunk with Terry Bowden? And Botcher’s deck. Good times…. good times.

Good God, if we had camera phones and face book back then, Terry would be a legend. And not like his dad.

#52
Damn, either that chick is an Amazon, or Terry Bowden is the size of a puppet that would be put in a suitcase…oops wait……is that what the Irons brothers were doing? Transporting Terry Bowden?