Bobby Bowden Retires - IT DESERVES ITS OWN THREAD!!!!

I can understand the sentiment that Bowden should be able to walk away on his terms.

But, the flip side to that is he should also know/admit it's time, if not past time, to do so.

 

Amato was one to talk. Plenty of kids at NCSU under his regime were not exactly Rhodes Scholars.

Tom O'Brien has dismissed 27 players during his three years following Amato's ousting. You think all of those were because they refused to do push-ups and sit-ups?

 

Jesus. 27? Really?

 

So that's about nine a year? I guess it's not as over-the-top as I first thought, but still...that's a good-sized number. I'd like to know how that relates to other ACC schools' numbers.

 

Yup, 27. They finished 5-7 and that's not too sharp, but better this and get this program cleaned up than put up with Chuck Amato's crap again. Twenty-seven might be low, Moddy. Wouldn't put it at all above O'Brien to lowball that number because he feels it's more important for him to get things straightened up than brag to everyone that there's a new sheriff in town.

Hats off to Amato for getting some Wolfpack Club members to crowbar their wallets open for something besides another red polyster jacket. But otherwise, see ya and good riddance. The guy was embarrassing, and his remark about Akron epitomized the point. Akron accepts non-qualifiers? Yeah ... and Tramain Hall, among others, just "needed some paperwork clarified before being admitted." Uh-huh ...

 

Back to Bowden, I love the fact that the State Trooper who is his bodyguard -- Billy Smith -- has been guarding him since 1976.
Or, to put it in perspective, that dude has been Bowden's muscle since the year I was born.

Smith is like 78 and is a guy who, no matter how old he is, is not to be messed with.

 

Granted the dismissals were over a period of three years but tossing 27 kids is the equivalent of skipping one season of recruiting and signing two under the limit in the next class.

That sounds like a lot to me.

 

Amato will be gone 10 minutes after the clock hits 0:00 in the bowl game. He and Fisher despise each other. Dexter Carter also is history. Don't know about Odell Haggins. The only guys apparently safe with Fisher are Trickett and Dawsey.