JoePa tiptoes around question on Bowden’s future
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State coach Joe Paterno said Florida State’s Bobby Bowden should “decide what he wants to do now” but otherwise refrained from commenting about the future of the Seminoles’ coach.
Responding to a question from a listener Thursday during his weekly radio appearance, the 82-year-old Paterno said the 79-year-old Bowden is a “wonderful person,” and that Bowden has helped build Florida State’s national reputation.
Paterno leads Bowden 387-384 for most wins among major college coaches.
Paterno said he’s trying to avoid news about the future of Bowden, whose tenure came under fire this week after the chairman of the university’s trustees said the coaching staff was in disarray and Bowden should leave after this season.
“I don’t know what’s going on, put it that way, but I certainly think Bobby, being what he’s done, and the kind of person he’s been, he certainly deserves … he ought to be able to decide what he wants to do now,” Paterno said on the show.
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10/9/9
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