A Bad Way To Go, Dadgummit

A trustee for FSU has publicly asked Coach Bobby Bowden to step down at the end of the year. There are rumors of a divided coaching staff, and a bunch of excuses about not winning football games. The game has passed the old guard by. Bowden, Chuck Amato, and Mickey Andrews seem to think it’s still 1988, and what worked then will work now, even though that was twenty years ago and they were twenty years younger. Andrews, who’s in charge of the defense talks about a lack of discipline on the field, what exactly does he think his job is? Myron Rolle is probably going to cure cancer, but he could never quite figure out where to be on the football field, whose fault is that? Darnell Dockett, Antonio Cromartie, Javon Walker, Anquan Boldin, and Leon Washington are all guys that are doing better in the pros than they did at FSU. Those are five guys off the top of my head. It's not supposed to work like that. The Noles are going to lose to the Gators for the sixth year in a row and finish the decade 3-7 against UF. The 5th year seniors were juniors in high school the last time the Seminoles beat the Gators, and they won that game on a bad call. The current freshmen were too young to have been in MJ’s class that year. They were in seventh grade in 2003. I could understand Coach Bowden's reluctance to go if he was still actively coaching, but he isn't. He stands in his tower and watches. He's not even recruiting anymore. He also has zero chance to catch JoePa, 14 forfeited wins or not. If we ignore the sanctions, he's still going to be five or six behind Paterno at the end of this year. This is ending badly and it breaks my heart. I really wish he would have retired after 1999. He could've ridden off into the sunset with the storybook ending. His first undefeated season. His second National Championship. The first team to go wire-to-wire at #1. He would've trumped John Elway. Instead there's a good chance he's going to leave the program he personally built a smoldering ruin.