Source: tallahassee.com Posted By: Renee H...5525 days ago
Most trustees who want to meddle inappropriately in their university's intercollegiate athletics programs do so subtly, behind the scenes, because they know it's generally frowned upon. Not Jim Smith, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Florida State University, who straightforwardly told a reporter for The Tallahassee Democrat last weekend that it was time for the university to get rid of its longtime football coach, Bobby Bowden, because the team was not winning enough.
"Frankly, it was personally....