All right, Ingram Smith but Elliot back again for another episode of the No Cast, but we'll be talking a little bit about practice in a second, but certainly wanted to jump on here.

We talked at length maybe two weeks ago or so when the general word was put out that Coach Bowden was dealing with a terminal health issue later found out that it was.

Pinker out at cancer and sadly earlier this morning coach Bowden you know it was called home and you know this won't be a particularly long podcast but just wanted to jump on record something give our thoughts ideas of the man personal experiences with him if we had any and.

Yeah, this is a this is we don't do a real scripted podcast at all this is a zero script podcast so really just going to jump on record give our thoughts and go on from there.

I mean it's it's sad and.

I'm also you know happy for coach Bowden that that he's not in pain right 91 years old for my money the winningest coach of all time in history of the sport somebody who built for to state up into a national power you know as a program that it had some good moments but certainly nothing sustained and certainly nothing on a national scale.

Before he got there and he got there at a time that they were in a real ditch and he pulled them out and he built up you built them up into something you know truly special just what one of the programs that if you would you told somebody back in the 70s hey in 2021 there's going to be something called a podcast two guys named Bud nigger are going to be talking on it and say yeah a little bit worried about the SEC but we're not worried at all about Florida state being left out because they have such an indelible impact on the sport and there's such a national.

Brand you to be left at right and that's basically what Bobby Bowden went on to do is turn it issue into something where I think we're both pretty confident they won't be left behind.

In realignment.

You know I spoke Denny canell a little bit today my coach on on the third pod and you know you and I know this was you going on for a while.

Denny had had a miss show a couple of couple months back and he had gone to see him you know and he just shared what what a great impact that he had on his life you know both as a person spiritually and as a player as well but more so that the prior to and I mean that kind of strikes me as well is

think about all the Americans and all conference players and you know pro bowl or draft fix and NFL Hall of Famers who came under Bobby Bowden.

The first thing they talk about oftentimes is how when you know they're leading their lives now is retired athletes are successful business man or whomever is is how he helped them become that right whether that was you lead into Christ or have them act.

In a better way trying to do the right thing that that's that's kind of the lasting legacy that he'll have for folks in the episode family as opposed to just you know the national family who think of him as kind of a what a folks he showman I guess.

Yeah the New York Times used something of those words yeah kind of short sell on a guy a guy who was also quick to kind of use that to his advantageous times as we talked we talked about previously but i mean look we acknowledge just a couple weeks ago everybody in this sports kind of playing second Nick Sabin when it comes to the the greatest coaches of all time but I don't think we're.

You know letting the know in the no cast you know ten our glasses too much when we say that he's almost undoubtedly one of the five best coaches in the sports history very likely one the three best coaches.

A level of longevity and consistency that will never be seen never be replicated obviously it's.

The sport is changing rapidly as we've been reminded last month or so and you know they'll they'll never be this made from scratch product again that turns into the absolute juggernaut of the sport i don't think there'll ever be anybody that.

In here it's a program that won what four games in the previous three years or something like that and then turned it into you know the absolute envy of pretty much every university in the country i'm not sure they'll ever be a university that will benefit as much.

And the hiring as a coach as Florida state did from hiring Bobby Bouton in the in the seventies there so just a really remarkable guy obviously when you listen to his former players when you listen to a Dell talk.

And one of the local news outlets at Corey fuller on earlier today i don't know if you saw that bud that is a exceptionally you know emotional.

Certainly unique and in many aspects but you know played and you're going to hear all sorts of people say this but played such a kind of fatherly figure for so many of these athletes and in a sport that even in the seventies and eighties and nineties was very much a business.

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