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 Biography: Terry Bowden has made the same dramatic entrance into the broadcasting industry as he did as a head coach in college football. He has quickly become one of the top studio analysts in college football, co-hosting television's most distinguished studio show on ABC Sports. Sitting beside John Saunders at ABC's New York City studio, his energy and insight are captivating viewers all over the country. Although Terry Bowden's bright future is firmly planted in network television, it all began walking the sidelines as a head football coach. Looking back to those years tells you two things about Terry - number one, he's a winner; and number two, don't ever underestimate him. As a college football coach, Bowden was enormously successful, compiling a 15 year record of 111-53-2 and an impressive winning percentage of 68%. As head coach of the Auburn Tigers, he won 73% of his games and posted the best opening five-year run of any head football coach in school history. Prior to becoming head football coach at Auburn, Bowden built two programs from the ground up as head coach at Salem College and Samford University. As the nation's youngest head coach at age 26, it didn't take long for winning to become Terry Bowden's trademark. As a student-athlete at West Virginia University, he lettered two years as a running back (1977-78), held a 3.65 GPA in accounting, the highest GPA on the football team, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. He did post graduate work at Oxford University in England, and earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the Florida State University School of Law in 1982 while a graduate assistant coach at FSU. He was born into the most famous and successful college football family. His father, Bobby Bowden, turned Florida State into a national champion, his brother Tommy is head coach at Clemson, brother Jeff is the offensive coordinator at Florida State and brother-in-law Jack Hines is an assistant coach at Clemson. Terry Bowden certainly did his part to add luster and glory to the first family of college football. In 1998, Bowden left his stellar coaching career behind and made the exciting move into broadcasting with ABC Sports. Terry Bowden has been ultra-successful as a student, an athlete, and a college football coach. He is a much sought after motivational speaker. The qualities that have made him successful throughout his life - enthusiasm, contagious optimism, confidence and work ethic - are the same qualities that he now relies on as a network television studio analyst for college football. He can be heard daily in central Florida hosting The Terry Bowden Show on ESPN Radio, weekly on "The Coach's Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio, weekly during football season as the Color Analyst for Westwood One's College Football Game of the week, and his articles can be read as the expert football analyst for YahooSports.com. |
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Programs: Win With Teamwork Enthusiasm Sells Audacity: The Belief That You Can Accomplish Anything Motivating The Benchwarmers Planting Shade Trees Under Which You'll Never Sit It All Starts With Loyalty You Can Make A Difference |
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