re: Mike Bianchi: Bobby Bowden better than both Nick Saban and Bear Bryant

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he ducked the SEC like a vag to pad his winning.

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You really have to go back and see where Bowden started from at FSU. I went back and watched some old FSU games recently and even having a pretty decent knowledge of how he built FSU, I was floored by the way he did it.

You talk about the SEC, he played as many of them as he could in the seventies, eighties, and early nineties, usually on the road. Signed two-for-one, and three-for-one home and home series with almost any powerhouse that would do it. It was almost a barnstormers mentality, taking his fledgling program to fight anyone, anywhere. He played both of the major Florida schools every year, something neither of those two teams in that three-way can say. He took a program with little to no football success and made it into a premier powerhouse for two decades. FSU could have had a few more National championships... especially if the format was BCS/Final Four. They were almost always one of the top four teams in America at bowl time.


It is truly an amazing rise to power, and an unconventional route.