TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When Warrick Dunn arrived at Florida State in 1993, he had just lost his mother, and worried about how he would care for his siblings back home in Louisiana.
But there was something about the way coach Bobby Bowden made him feel at ease, and it had nothing to do with football.
"Looking back, Coach Bowden saw something in me that no one else saw," Dunn said during a ceremony honoring Bowden's life. "He believed in me, and that's a powerful thing for an 18-year-old who's just trying to figure out life.