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Date: August 10, 2021 at 8:46:05 AM CDT
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Whitley: Bowden should be all-time winningest coach
Reply-To: gatornews+owners@googlegroups.comWhitley: Bowden should be all-time winningest coach
David WhitleyThe Gainesville Sun
Before we ponder whether Minecraft will become an Olympic sport, allow me to ask a question as eternal as the Olympic flame:
What the heck is wrong with the NCAA?
The outrage I have in mind isn't new, but Bobby Bowden's death makes it freshly relevant. In a just world, he would be the all-time leader in wins for "major" college programs with 388 victories. But the Keystone NCAA Cops stripped FSU of 12 wins in 2010 as part of an academic cheating scandal.
More:Bobby Bowden dies: Legendary coach built Florida State into college football powerhouse
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A tribute:Whitley: Saint Bobby is the ultimate class act
At issue was an online music appreciation course that jocks used to pad their grades in 2006-07. An investigation found Bowden was unaware of the crip course, but the buck stopped at the top.
Fair enough, but compare that to the all-time leader in wins, Joe Paterno. He finished with 409 wins, but the NCAA stripped him of 111 after Penn State's sexual-molestation scandal. Pennsylvania lawmakers sued, and the NCAA restored the wins in 2015 as part of the settlement.
Let's recap:
FSU self-reported the infraction. It gave up victories in five sports, including the 2007 men's track and field national championship. And it was all over one online music course.
Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of sex abuse of young boys. At best, a clueless Paterno spent decades missing the disturbing clues around his program.
At worst, he turned a blind eye, passed responsibility to his superiors (some of whom ended up in jail) and willingly covered up the worst scandal in college football history.
Paterno got to keep all his wins. Bowden did not.
NCAA logic at work. ...
The SEC's Toughest Man Competition might go to LSU quarterback Myles Brennan. He was loading up a boat for a fishing trip when he tripped and broke his arm.
Brennan thought it was just bruised and went fishing. Turns out he'd fractured his upper arm so badly that surgeons had to insert screws and plates to repair it.
You have to be one tough hombre to go fishing with a shattered arm. I just hope Brennan caught a big one, because he's going to miss at least half the football season. ...
Current and former Florida athletes finished with 17 medals at the Tokyo Olympics. That would have placed UF in 17th in the medal count if it were a country.
Georgia finished with eight medals. And it still has not won a national championship since Herschel Walker roamed the Earth. ...
After participating in and watching dozens of preseason football interviews, one question remains. What's the difference between a player's "skills" and his "skill set"? ...
Speaking of interviews, if you want to know why media members revered Bobby Bowden, a quick story. At the height of Michael Jackson's fame, a Tallahassee TV reporter asked FSU's coach to do an interview wearing one sequined glove, which was Jackson's trademark.
Bowden put on the glove, propped his elbow on the back of a couch and answered a bunch of football-related questions. His deadpan routine was unrivaled in coaching history until Nick Saban bit the head off a bat. ...
Speaking of St. Nick, Alabama's board of trustees approved his contract extension last week. Saban will average $10.6 million a year through 2028.
He'll be worth every penny, but talk about salary inflation. You know what FSU paid Bowden annually when he arrived in 1976?
$37,500, but they probably threw in moving expenses. ...
The Florida Panthers signed Miami Hurricanes quarterback D'Eriq King to an NIL deal Monday. In related news, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced they'd signed Vinny Testaverde as a backup goalie. ...
The Dodgers' trade for Max Scherzer last week was almost scuttled because Scherzer would have to pay about $1 million more in taxes if he moved to California. After a brief stalemate, L.A. agreed to pay Scherzer's tax bill.
I have no editorial comment other than to say if the L.A. Times wants to hire me, my tax bill is negotiable. And I would write on only three days rest. ...
Correction — Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat, not Nick Saban. The Sun regrets the error. ...
Four of the six medals in Olympic women's skateboarding went to competitors 13 or younger. In its quest to appeal to young viewers active on social media, the International Olympic Committee is adding the ancient Greek sport of breakdancing to the 2024 Paris Games.
At this rate, the 2028 L.A. Olympics will replace wrestling with a TikTok competition. ...
I don't want to say Michael Jackson was ahead of his time, but he was wearing a glove and a mask decades before anyone ever heard of Wuhan, China. Not that anyone really wanted to be like Mike. ...
Bears rookie QB Justin Fields adheres to a plant-based diet and plans to open a vegan pizza shop in Chicago. That sound you just heard was Mike Ditka choking on a 24-ounce porterhouse. ...
Today in History: 1944 — U.S. defeated Japan in Battle of Guam. The NCAA later overturned the decision after it was determined a few Marines took a bogus online music course. ...
That's all the space we have for this week's Whitley's Believe It or Not. If it taxed your reading skill set, look at the bright side. The tax would have been a lot worse in California.
— David Whitley is The Gainesville Sun's sports columnist. Contact him at dwhitley@gannett.com. And follow him on Twitter: @DavidEWhitley
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