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Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden and his three sons talk about their road to coaching. Hear why they followed in their father's footsteps and more.
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" I did not encouraging to -- coach eroded and wanted to. Now -- young people if you're the son of a coach you have desire to get it could just need as much bad as you do good I don't think until I became coordinator. -- that's responsibility accountability pressure on intensify if your career that law. That's my job it was bad so why working with each other that nobody on one because and so. -- Delegate forward and let them I don't know how many of those players you know who just love your father went back up always hammered -- Just don't take it short do it the right way and and and just win and they did."
" Hi and welcome to spotlight the -- is I'm Jen hill threat. It's in name that's been heard on college football sidelines for over five decades. From humble beginnings in Alabama Bobby Bowden grocer the -- of his sport to become one of the greatest collegiate gridiron coaches of all time. During that time he raised a family. The family that would in large part. Brought to continue be family business. Terry Tommy and Jeff Bowden -- followed in their dad's footsteps. And here we present a rare chance in fact the first ever for TV cameras. To listen to Bobby and his sons recount their incredible journey together college football's. "
" You never the first time all together. The first -- all together but he's seven and that's counting the year that was not -- stepping up were all together and that was operator will explode that was our break out your flowers thing. First major blow with -- replace him. Orange Bowl you know undefeated season. National right in you know how right did nothing got support from the -- of something like that that Wally until it goes there was a coach coming. These three of his four sons got to coaching him and we chose to do -- all of our son's out of our sons of those middle of the coaching you know at this point out yet. No shows it to -- that I did not encourages sort of I really did want to do my thing."
" we will rest you know you you hear a lot of coach's sons being Jim France they only show -- yeah round practiced in the -- was -- you know. -- all the involved with athletics and sports we couldn't come to your tracks -- clear water -- hang around so. I think all of us chose it for legitimate reasons and it and it deep in grains. Desire to coach because I'm sure -- like we just didn't follow you around everywhere you went because we're all involved. When that track or are football or basketball or baseball or some of this."
" so you're the first one side you'll be your coach -- early in your career like my view right term papers about views -- you know. Then goes Theriot terrorist and his business and it's a longer. Things -- added thing. Patrick yeah he did throughout the hazard it'd been yep it was coming out of my agent you know and but all of into the building and."
" wear -- I think we're made it easier for us is the fact that when we begin coaching. You had already achieved it a pretty high level success. Now when Terry and I got into it probably -- also the fact that. We felt pretty comfortable about what to do how to do it. In a tremendous amount conference. About having a plan that we -- be successful I think that was really helpful you've given because yeah I was out I mean I can just about specifically remember when you get. When I was getting close to graduating I was I was full go in all four that's what I wanted to do there's probably nothing more exciting but. But as says. College started to come to winning in Indian you sit here thinking is this it to some -- his love what I know what the earliest all or left field. In practice was fun to make that part of it was four and to think that this was gonna be and how what grade let go."
" You know it's funny thing about football -- a lot thankful I mean that. Talk radio and Internet. The want to acknowledge that there were a lot of bad phone moments when we review you were at Stanford University yeah West Virginia as the system Florida State is the system we're grown up now. Now we didn't experience all the the bad things written all the time about your years don't talk radio so bad nowadays I'm not sure young people. If you're the son of a coach you have the desire to -- you see as much bad as you do good I don't remember all those days worth of with a terrible business oriented and yet. When you get -- an awful lot quicker nowadays you did did back when I started but you didn't have the media. You didn't have Internet you have a whole thing you have. That -- so critical everything that's so critical putback went out started coach and you all forget they get into it it was was Campbell would interest you know."
" That's probably good reason -- none of your grandsons and pursued a career because this generation have a lot the next generation. Really had not yeah I have to also media exposure of them in the intensity and and the microscope that you under and with a the end -- TV radio and newspaper or whatever it's a completely different ball."
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