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Bowden forges on despite summer of turmoil

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Monday, July 25, 2005

HOT SPRINGS, Va. -- Florida State was a solid pick to win the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference here at media day Monday. That news arched the septuagenarian eyebrows of Seminoles coach Bobby Bowden. "I'm kind of surprised," Bowden said wryly. "Looks like y'all haven't been reading the papers. Y'all don't know we lost some players?" To the contrary. The big gathering of reporters around Bowden and the pile of cassette recorders in front of his face proved the fourth estate w ...

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