{"id":173,"date":"2010-08-25T04:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=173"},"modified":"2010-08-25T04:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:34:00","slug":"even-bowden-should-realize-fla-state-needed-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Even Bowden should realize Fla. State needed a change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/THT_yemCspI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/NiRIqs8t2C4\/s1600\/Bobby_Bowden.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/THT_yemCspI\/AAAAAAAAAPs\/NiRIqs8t2C4\/s200\/Bobby_Bowden.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it sad to see Bobby Bowden questioning Florida State\u2019s loyalty after he was pushed out as football coach after last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know things don&#8217;t always end the way you expect them to, but where was the loyalty you would think you&#8217;d get after 34 years of service?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/sports\/seminoles\/bobby-bowden-shares-his-side-of-story-in-875289.html\">he wrote in his book, \u201cCalled to Coach.\u201d<\/a> &#8220;You can&#8217;t imagine how many times those in charge told me over the last 20 years, &#8216;Bobby, you can coach as long as you&#8217;d like at FSU.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bowden desperately wanted to win 400 games. He finished at 389, although the NCAA doesn\u2019t recognize 12 of those after finding  the athletic department guilty of academic fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Bowden had a great run at Florida State but golly, that run was over. The Seminoles won the ACC in 2005 but were only 16-16 in league play in the last four seasons. Toss in the fact that FSU has lost six straight to Florida \u2013 and four by blow-out scores \u2013 and it was time for a change in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>Even Bowden should recognize that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it sad to see Bobby Bowden questioning Florida State\u2019s loyalty after he was pushed out as football coach after last season. &#8220;I know things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}