Article By RG Yoho on 23rd December, 2009
Bowden coached six seasons at West Virginia in the early- to mid-1970s.
Following a West Virginia victory in the 1975 Peach Bowl, Bowden accepted the coaching job at Florida State and never left.
However, I would like to forever put to rest a fallacy that has been wrongly perpetuated over these many years.
Yes, Coach Bowden was hanged in effigy during his time in Morgantown, but that is certainly not the reason he left.
The coach left West Virginia not because he was run out of town; the man left because of his roots.
That is not to say that Bowden’s time in Morgantown was all roses and sunshine.
In 1970, Bo...
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