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Jimbo Fisher replaces Bobby Bowden as head coach at Florida State. (AP Photo/Phil Coale)
I hope you are ready for this, Jimbo Fisher. You are replacing a legend in college football today, according to Florida State Examiner Corey Dowlar. With Bobby Bowden officially hanging it up today the fate of the Florida State football program is on your shoulders. There is a reason that the university had decided to tab you as the coach in waiting so now the pressure is on. Are you up to it?
The world of college football will keep an eye on Florida State over the next few years to see if the Jimbo Fisher experiment pays off. As Bowden inched closer and closer to retirement the Seminoles named Fisher as their coach in waiting as a way of keeping the recruiting process in check at Florida State. Really, that is the only benefit of naming a successor while a coach is still on the sidelines. But does it always work? That question is still left unanswered.
Fisher, in a sense, is the first true high profile example of the coach in waiting philosophy. It may have worked in some places but when a program that has the potential to be one of the top teams in the country on a yearly basis pulls this action, the nation watches in anticipation.
The Jimbo Fisher Profile
The Bowden family has always been in Fisher's football life it seems. Terry Bowden, one of Bobby's sons, coached Fisher, a quarterback, at Salem College from 1985 to 1986. When the younger Bowden moved on to Samford University in 1987 Fisher followed him with a transfer. Playing quarterback for Samford Fisher was named the NCAA Division III National Player of the Year after breaking a number of school records.
After one season in the Arena Football League Fisher joined the coaching staff at Samford as a graduate assistant. He eventually worked his way up to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Fisher made the move to Auburn when Terry Bowden was hired by the SEC school. when Terry Bowden resigned in the middle of the 1998 season Fisher also jumped ship and floated around a little bit before joining the Florida State staff. Stints at Cincinnati and LSU with Nick Saban. After interviewing for the head coach position at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and being vetoed by the Board of Trustees Fisher picked up a position with the Florida State staff under Bobby Bowden.
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