Jeff Bowden
Jeff Bowden
Jeff Bowden is an American college football coach at the University of Akron. He currently serves as special teams coordinator and the outside wide receivers coach on his brother Terry's staff. Before that he served as the offensive coordinator for the Florida State Seminoles under his father and head coach Bobby Bowden. He resigned from that position on November 14, 2006, following a shutout loss to Wake Forest three days earlier. He has also been a wide receivers coach and...
It's got to be frustrating. But I think (the receivers) understand.
certain practice
That really frees me up in pre-practice preparation. I want them getting used to going to him for certain things.
game hit matter past played
A lot more of them should have played in this past game because they could have been just as effective. But it didn't matter because we couldn't hit targets, so it didn't matter who was in out there.
certainly change feeling game good group miami ranks seen teams
We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.
experience familiar games great help national perfect played primarily recruiting system three wide work
He's very familiar with our program, our system and our standards. He will work primarily with the wide receivers and help out in recruiting locally. He played in three national championship games and then got some great experience in the NFL, so we feel like he is a perfect fit.
doubt hope hump
He's progressed, he's made it through the hump, the big self-doubt point, got us over that hump in the championship game. Now you hope he can do it one more time.
ball huge job momentum secondary seen taking
I don't know if I've seen a secondary that does a better job of taking the ball away from receivers. Those are huge momentum plays.
call
He's what you call high-maintenance. He's day to day. He's getting it; he's got to.
kids penalties
We had some penalties from kids being over-aggressive.
against ahead belly block call flat guys knew original prepared run situation stayed
We had a play called, a run to the outside, but we knew that he wanted the fullback belly. We should have stayed with our original call in that situation but we went ahead with the fullback belly and we had not prepared for that against them. We flat out couldn't block all of their guys on the play. We should have overruled him on that one.
worth
If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.
either worse
You'd like to be 50-50, that'd be ideal. No worse than 55-45, I would say. That could go either direction.
care greatest hanging matter needs potential running taking tight urgent
I think we're doing well, and really well where the need is the greatest and that's the OL. We're hanging in there at tight end and we need a running back. Receivers haven't been a priority, but there is potential out there for us. I think the most urgent needs - we're taking care of them and now it's just a matter of hanging on to them at this point.
changes deal types
Just think of the different types of personalities they've had to deal with through the generations. All the changes in society.