Highlights from the Bobby Bowden booster luncheon: “It’s not doomsday”
After a one-week hiatus, we’re back with highlights from the Bobby Bowden booster luncheon. Not a bad menu today: salad with dressing and croutons. A vegetable medley. Some rice. Some meat with some stuff on it. Looked OK but I didn’t try it. And, for dessert, coconut cake. Not bad.
The weekly booster luncheons – third floor of the University Center, $15, starting around 11:15 a.m. on Mondays, if you want to go – are always good ways to measure the mood of the faithful. And I must say I was a bit surprised today. Wasn’t too much a sense of doom and gloom. Bowden received a standing ovation twice – when he walked into the room and when he rose from his seat to take his spot behind the podium.
As for the highlights:
-Bowden opened with a joke. The background: M.C. Charlie Barnes said he didn’t read any newspapers or watch any TV on Sunday. He said that would have interfered with his drinking. So Bowden said, “Do you have any of that whiskey left?” Even funnier considering Bowden doesn’t drink. But losses like the one his team suffered on Saturday might drive him to drink.
-About that defeat, Bowden said, “It’s amazing, you play a ballgame against BYU where everything goes right for you and then you come back and play one where the opposite happens.” He said he hoped the team learned a lot in defeat.
-Here’s an interesting stat: The Florida State defense allowed 223 yards in four plays, Bowden said. In the second half, USF gained just 93 yards total. And in the first half, the Bulls gained only about 50 yards outside of those four costly plays.
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