Florida State’s renowned head football coach Bobby Bowden will retire from college football. The 80 year old met with the athletic director and president of Florida State in which he was given two options, either he could come back to FSU but have little input in their football program or he could retire, Bowden is choosing to retire. Coach Bowden has 388 career wins at Florida State which ranks him second on the all-time list behind Penn State coach Joe Paterno.

So after 34 years as FSU head football coach Bobby Bowden will not return to campus come fall, instead offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher will replace Bowden has head coach. Bowden led the Seminoles to two national championships, first in 1993 and then in 1999, they also won 12 ACC titles within 1992 to 2005. The 80 year Bowden has seen better days then the recent past, as his team finished the 2009 season with a 6-6 record, it was the 3rd time in four years that FSU lost six games. Bowden will step down as head coach after the Seminoles upcoming bowl game. Bowden was born in Birmingham Alabama in 1929; he attended the University of Alabama where he was quarterback from 1946 to 1948. He had six different coaching jobs before his final stop at Florida State in 1976. Bowden was selected to the Football Hall of Fame in 2006; he also holds the record for most winning seasons along with Alabama legendary coach Paul Bear Bryant, and Penn State coach Joe Paterno.

When Bobby Bowden took over as Florida State head coach he inherited a team that had only won 4 games in the previous 3 seasons. Bowden has the highest win percentage out of any head coach at Florida State with a record of 309-91 in his 34 seasons. Bowden led the Seminoles to three straight BCS national championship games in which they only won one, January 4, 2000 against the Virginia Tech Hookies. The 80 year old head coach would have liked to finish one more season with the team before calling it quits, the athletic director and president thought differently and told Bowden he could either be an ambassador to the program and have a small role or he could retire. Florida State’s offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher was the next in waiting to take over for the team once Bowen retired.

Fisher was a quarterback in college and was named NCAA Division III Player of the Year. Fisher started his college coaching career in 1991 at Samford University as an offensive coordinator. The bottom line is, coach Bowden was past his prime as a head coach, he built the FSU program from nothing and turned it into a national powerhouse, it will be tough for any head coach to repeat the success of Bowden. Check out The Sports Weekly for other top headline sports news, and great Sports Stories at your fingertips.

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