Bobby Bowden and experts differ on generation gap in sports and coaching

[Sexton Hardcastle]

Good read. :thumbsup:

Bobby Bowden and experts differ on generation gap in sports and coaching
By Andrew Carter / The Orlando Sentinel
Sunday, June 28, 2009


ORLANDO, Fla. — Bobby Bowden has been coaching football for more than a half century, the past 33 years at Florida State, and he said recently that he’s often asked one question in particular more than most: How have the athletes changed from generation to generation?

And his answer, he said, is usually the same: They haven’t, really.

"These kids come into my office, players, whether it’s 55 years ago or last week, (a) player walks into my office, I look at him . . . (it’s the) same sweet kid," Bowden said recently during one of his spring booster tour stops. "Same sweet, innocent boy. You know it? Only his hair his longer. Or he’s got earrings . . . and he wears his underwear outside instead of inside.

"But he’s still the same sweet kid (as) that kid I had 50 years ago."

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...articleid=1181773&srvc=sports&position=recent

 

[The Fusker]

I don't think he quite grasps the changes in the times.

 

[NashBuff]

I don't think he quite grasps the changes in the times.

Yeah it's sad how times have changed. I long for the days when players had no tattos on their arms...now it's the thing to have among the youth these days. There are better things to do with money than having something put on your skin permantely.

 

[Darth Snow]

Yeah it's sad how times have changed. I long for the days when players had no tattos on their arms...now it's the thing to have among the youth these days. There are better things to do with money than having something put on your skin permantely.

kids have always wasted money one way or another. many worse things to spend money on as well.

 

[Highflyer]

Yeah it's sad how times have changed. I long for the days when players had no tattos on their arms...now it's the thing to have among the youth these days. There are better things to do with money than having something put on your skin permantely.

It's not your arm.

 

[NashBuff]

kids have always wasted money one way or another. many worse things to spend money on as well.

I spent my money on things that weren't necessary when I was the age of college students instead of on things that really mattered. I'm glad I wasn't idiotic enough to get a tattoo on my body.

 

[NashBuff]

It's not your arm.

That's my opinion and it's true that it's their body.

 

[Highflyer]

I spent my money on things that weren't necessary when I was the age of college students instead of on things that really mattered. I'm glad I wasn't idiotic enough to get a tattoo on my body.

So I'm an idiot. Well, glad we got that out of the way.

 

[sackman]

So I'm an idiot. Well, glad we got that out of the way.

Dude, we got that out of the way a looooooonnnnng time ago.





Pow. zing. :lol:

 

[Mick Ronson]

as a college teacher for about a decade, i'd say some of what Bowden says is true. some of it misses a pretty dramatic generation gap, maybe.

funny quote about the underwear, though. me, the body ink doesn't bother me.