Terry Wilson Bowden is an American college football coach. He is currently the head coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Bowden is the son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head coach of Clemson University.
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Terry Wilson Bowden is an American college football coach. He is currently the head coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Bowden is the son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head coach of Clemson University. He attended and played football for West Virginia University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in accounting. Terry Bowden began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Florida State before becoming the nation’s youngest head coach in 1983. In 1986, Bowden left to be an assistant coach at The University of Akron for Gerry Faust. In 1987, he became the headCoach at Samford University, a school where his father played and coached. In 1992, he was hired to succeed Pat Dye as the head Football coach at Auburn University.
In 1998, he faced criticism for recruiting woes, off-the-field issues that resulted in player discipline, and in his relationships with Auburn administrators. He resigned as head coach the night before Auburn played against Louisiana Tech. After resigning at Auburn, he accepted a role as a studio analyst and color commentator for ABC Sports’ college football coverage. He was also an exclusive college football columnist for Yahoo! Sports. In December 2007, the job at his alma mater, the West Virginia Mountaineers, opened up and Bowden took it. In the end of the 2008 season, he returned to the broadcasting booth for the 2008 Fiesta Bowl. He also co-hosted The Coaches Show on Sirius Satellite Radio with Jack Arute.
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