One moment for Bobby Bowden

In another universe, he would have been our outgoing coach of the past 2+ decades.  Goodbye, big guy.  You always deserved better than you got, and gave more that you received.

Read about how he almost became our coach in '86 here, it agrees with what an old Bama man once told me, so I believe it even though it comes from Terry B.

Sure enough, as we all sat in the room at the Winfrey Hotel, the call did in fact come. A big Alabama booster, who was close to the president of the university and an old friend of dad's, called and said that Alabama was looking for a new head coach and dad was their choice. I remember my father getting off the phone and saying, "I can't believe this, but they want me to be the head coach, and I have to go talk to some guys about the job." I distinctly remember him being excited, because he told them that he did not want to be interviewed – he had a good job and was very happy at FSU. He said he would only go talk with them if the job was going to be offered. And he was assured that it was.

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" - John Greenleaf Whittier