Pure Gold: Bobby Bowden An Inside Look - Hardcover

Bowden, Bobby; Ellis, Steve; Vilona, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159670120X ISBN 13: 9781596701205

Publisher: Sports Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Pure Gold brings together 25 former players, staff members, and coaches to provide first-person insight into the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division 1-A college football: readers travel the interstates and back roads with Barnes and Bobby Bowden as they spread the word of FSU football; longtime secretary Sue Hall describes the so-called CEO of Florida State football; Tom Osborne, a legendary college football coach himself, reveals what it is like to coach against Bobby Bowden; former Bowden assistant and Georgia head coach Mark Richt retells the life-changing effect Bowden's first meeting with FSU players following the death of Pablo Lopez had on him. FSU president T. K. Wetherell, who once played football under assistant coach Bowden, remembers what it was like to take orders from Bobby. Wetherell reflects on his playing days and on the time he saw Bowden at his most vulnerable, in the days that followed the tragic death of his grandson, Bowden Madden.

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About the Author

Bill Vilona has spent the past 17 years covering the Florida State athletic program for the Pensacola News Journal and the network of Gannett-owned newspapers nationwide. He joined the News Journal in 1988, after spending six years at the Bristol Herald-Courier in Bristol, Virginia, where he covered East Tennessee State University, auto racing, and high school sports. A Pittsburgh native, Vilona graduated from the University of Tennessee and has been involved in sports journalism since 1981.

Steve Ellis is in his 25th year of covering Florida State football and Bobby Bowden. His coverage of Florida State began in 1982, when he helped start The Osceola, a weekly publication dedicated to Seminoles athletics. He served as the publication’s editor for eight years. He joined the Tallahassee Democrat in 1990. Ellis worked on ESPN’s 2002 special The Season: Florida State. He detailed Florida State’s march to its first national championship in Seminole Glory: A Look Back at Florida State’s 1993 Championship Season. Ellis then coauthored the 2004 book Bobby Bowden’s Tales from the Seminoles Sideline that captured the fun and serious stories from Bowden’s Florida State experience. The 1978 graduate of Clemson began his sportswriting career as editor and cofounder of The Orange and White, a weekly publication about Clemson sports.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sports Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159670120X
• ISBN 13: 9781596701205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244