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...
call challenge emotional high man rather super talented
He's a very emotional young man. He's what you call high maintenance. He's getting it ... He's got to. I'd rather him be super talented and a challenge than not super talented and perfect.
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Receiver was not a priority in the beginning and it became one. We were very fortunate to fill some holes. I was really getting nervous at the end as I lost the player and got to thinking that Rod Owens may not be ready to play.
worth
If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.
asked degree four great hours law sleep top
He did a great job. Just so much was asked of him and to get a law degree on top of that is really something. I think he had like four hours of sleep a day.
players team unselfish willie
He is one of the most unselfish players I've ever been around. The things that Willie has done for our team during his career, you can't measure.
nine several
He does that several times during the game. And nine times out of 10, he's right.
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.
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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.
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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.
call
He's what you call high-maintenance. He's day to day. He's getting it; he's got to.
people
You know people can say what they want. They're just not going to say it around here.
change
He can change a game. I know that.
situation time
I'm very disappointed any time a situation like this comes up. It's just unfortunate.