Found May 26, 2009 on Online Sports Guys: Yardbarker Blogger Network
((HT: Gainesville Sun))Florida State is scheduled to open its 2009 football season Labor Day night against archrival Miami. The most important date of the year for the school and coach Bobby Bowden ((pictured, thanks Gainesville Sun)) could be this week.The university expects to hear from the NCAA as early as Tuesday on its appeal of sanctions resulting from an academic cheating scandal that included taking away as many as 14 victories from Bowden's coaching record.Such a penalty would leave Bowden unable to keep pace with Penn State's Joe Paterno in their competition to finish long coaching careers with the most wins at the major college level."It's just us two and you'd hate to give up in a good battle like that," Bowden recently told the Palm Beach Post during a South Florida booster tour stop. "But as far as losing sleep over it, I don't do that."Bowden, who turns 80 in November, now has 382 wins, one fewer than the 82-year-old Paterno.But...
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