For nearly three and a half decades, the name Bobby Bowden was synonymous with the FSU football program as the man who – well, quite frankly, the man who saved the program and turned it from an also ran into arguably the best program in the country for a period of around a decade and a half at its highest point.
At the same point, it might be hard for some in the Seminoles family to realize that the 2019 season will be the 10th since Bowden was leading the garnet and gold – a decade long period that was brought on by quite the controversy surrounding those in charge of the school and the big money boosters wanting to move on.