FSU PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT ILLUSTRATED
Excerpted from TK Wetherell’s statement regarding the coaching situation at FSU, discussed briefly here, and illustrated below.
Two years ago Coach Bowden and I and others stood together and announced that we were beginning a period of transition for the football program.
That plan is in place and will produce results, given the opportunity and support.
…I want to assure all fans, friends, supporters and alumni of Florida State University that that transition will be finalized. Jimbo Fisher will be Florida State University’s next Head Football Coach.
…Our athletics programs are built on the foundation of helping young people build character and display that in their personal actions as well as on the fields of play.
We also expect our teams to be competitive.
…Any coach can choose to retire at any time…
…However, it is the athletics director’s responsibility to determine which coaches are hired and which contracts are extended.
Like this.
I know all of our fans, friends, supporters and alumni will accord the coaching staff and our young student-athletes all the support, encouragement and respect they deserve. I will respect the process. FSU does not make coaching changes in the middle of the season…
Specifically, I also know that Bobby Bowden loves this university. I have talked with him at length, and I know that he will do the right thing, as he always has done. I know the man and I know what’s in his heart.
I have spoken with numerous fans, alumni, Boosters, supporters and staff, and I will make a final report to the full Board of Trustees at the end of the year. Until then, FSU will concentrate on supporting our team and student-athletes in winning as many games as possible. Neither the university nor I will have further comment on this matter until then.
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Vandy J says:
Dear God…should have sent a poet…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:08 am
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SuperJew says:
This proves that even the greatest football coaches can be humbled by rabies.
Where’s the Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For The Cure when you need it?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:45 am
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what me worry? says:
That opening photo says it all!
October 7th, 2009 at 11:52 am
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Big Jon says:
Even the five second version has me all emotional. Fuckin’ dog….
/wipes away single tear, sniffs
October 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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Golden Hand says:
I know Bobby’s senile and everything, but it’s interesting to look at how expectations have changed. Here’s the record of College Football Hall of Famer Bobby Dodd, the guy Tech named the stadium after, in his last 10 seasons: 4-4-2, 5-4-1, 5-5, 5-5, 7-4, 7-3-1, 7-3, 7-3, 7-3-1, 9-2. With a 3-7 record against UGA. Plus taking Tech out of the SEC. And people were screaming, “No, please don’t go!” when he retired after losing the last two games of the 1966 season.
What have you done for me lately, dadgummit?
October 7th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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TJ says:
Good to see that guy found a use for his old pog tube in his Team Fortress 2 Halloween outfit.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
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Rich says:
I have a prediction as to one potential winner in all this. TK’s gonna retire without actually having The Talk with Coach B… leaving that mega-uncomfy job to the acting president (assuming that they put in an acting president and form an Executive Search Bureaucracy of some sort). I’d further assume that this would be Provost Abele (maybe this is already a stated fact, I dunno).
So Abele gets the turd job of having the security guys box up Bobby’s stuff and change all the locks at the sports complex. He subsquently (and unfairly) gets ridden out of town by the populace. (I’m picturing a paper mache clown head and a donkey [80S POP CULTURE ALERT].)
Result: A decent lifelong academic turns to the classified ads in the Chronicle of Higher Ed, and says, “Dumb Southern Football School Rejected Me: Make Me Your Next President.” I bet he looks really good to a non-football college of reasonable academic stature, somewhere in the Carolinas or Virginia.
So… good luck, Larry. Enjoy the cooler weather up there.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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Gator Vince says:
That explains the foam around Bobby’s mouth after the ‘97 game in Gainesville. Seriously, I respect the old bugger for creating the fearsome adversary that them dadgum ‘Noles became. I’m old enough to remember when we could be 0 and 5, FSU could be 5 and 0, and we’d still kick their butts. I wish they’d kept this discussion “in the family”, instead of leaving everyone’s pantaloons out on the line, blowing in the breeze for all the world to see. What the hey. If they pull off the upset in Gainesville this year, the alumni should make Jim Smith pose for a photo kissing the ass of Bobby’s statue, or resign hizzone dam seff.
Gator Vince
October 7th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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jacketexan says:
I wonder what the chances of TK getting the boot and Bowden taking the AD role…
October 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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Orson's love slave says:
Another TF2 reference makes me all tingly down there. We need an EDSBS clan.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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FSU Dude says:
I still remember when we (FSU) beat the gators in a nice string of years from 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993,1995, and 1996. I remember all the moaning about those losses from gator fans. These things are cyclical – FSU will be back. No worries.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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Geaux Irish says:
Old Yeller would like to call bullshit on any comparisons between itself and Bobby Bowden.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
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DoubleDawg05 says:
Who is editing the PRESIDENT of FSU’s press releases? The first two sentences have grammatical errors. Buffoonery.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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I R A Darth Aggie says:
Dudes, when you are a coach, and your boss tells the press that your job is safe, it isn’t. That press release is like finding a horse’s head in you bed, or the Godfather giving you that big, slobbery kiss.
It’s all over but for the cryin’
October 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:
What would make that Old Yeller video complete, is JoePa pulling the trigger….because you know JoePa is behind all of these here shenanigans…..I’d say Bobby should do the same for JoePa anonymously suggest that JoePa should step down, especially after losing to Iowa…AGAIN…then they could meet at the 50 yard line, step 10 paces, turn, and shoot…..
October 7th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
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THEBIGFISH says:
Bowden should put a horses head in JoePa’s bed Godfather style…thats his only hope…
October 7th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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This Guy says:
FSU Dude, you lost in ‘95, and counting ‘96 is disingenuous at best. Either that, or we beat you twice in ‘97. Your call.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:39 am
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Anon says:
Somebody’s sappin’ mah football program!
October 8th, 2009 at 7:38 am