Bowden reportedly became emotional while viewing the movie We Are Marshall, and has said that he was the original candidate for the Marshall head coaching job ultimately filled by crash victim Rick Tolley.
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His final coaching appearance was the 2010 Gator Bowl game on January 1, 2010, with a 33–21 victory over his former program, West Virginia.
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Bowden allowed Marshall's new head coach Jack Lengyel and his assistants access to game film and playbooks to acquaint themselves with the veer offense, a variation of the option offense which aids teams with weak offensive lines.
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A third son, Jeff Bowden, was the offensive coordinator at Florida State.
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Tommy Bowden's four wins in the series remain the only times a son has ever beaten his father when facing off as head coach in any of America's four major sports.
Deckerhoff formerly hosted a 30-minute weekly TV show with former FSU head coach Bobby Bowden called "The Bobby Bowden Show" in which they reviewed the previous day's game.
Bowden's own father, now deceased, was a first cousin of former Florida State Seminoles football coach Bobby Bowden.
Boulware accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Florida State University, where he played for coach Bobby Bowden's Florida State Seminoles football team from 1993 to 1996.
Over the years, Seibert has seen some memorable football, including the Bobby Bowden era (1959–62), a one-loss season in 1971 and the Terry Bowden era, which ended with a 14-game Bulldog winning streak in the stadium.
Bobby Vinton | Bobby Jindal | Bobby McFerrin | Bobby Darin | Bobby Fischer | Bobby Womack | Bobby Bare | Bobby Flay | Bobby Charlton | Bobby Thomson | Bobby Shew | Bobby Rydell | Bobby Moore | Bobby | Bobby Riggs | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Bobby Watson | Bobby Troup | Bobby Shantz | Bobby Labonte | Bobby Broom | Bobby Andrews | Bobby V | Bobby Deol | Bobby Tambling | Bobby Jordan | Bobby Jarzombek | Bobby Hackett | Bobby Bowden | Bobby Bonds |
He is also known as the "Coach of Coaches", having tutored such coaches as Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells, Bobby Bowden, Don James, Dan Henning, Ken Meyer and many others.
Some of the individuals Randy worked with included Coach Bobby Bowden of Florida State University, Dominique Wilkins of the University of Georgia and Atlanta Hawks and defensive great Ted Roof from Georgia Tech who now is the Defensive Coordinator at Randy's alma mater.
Bowden is a son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head football coach at Clemson University, and Jeff Bowden, the former offensive coordinator at Florida State who serves as Terry's special teams coordinator at Akron.