"How can I begin? He came here and inherited a grease fire for an offense at a time when the only person keeping the FSU team afloat, Kevin Steele, was leaving. He took over an offense that was left in shambles after Jeff Bowden was done with it.
Witch each succeeding year FSU's offense got better and its defense got worse. His presence was so critical as the FSU offensive coordinator that many other programs were trying to hire him as their head coach. In a strategic move the FSU athletic department offered him the keys to the head coaching job when Bobby retires, thus eliminating the threat from other college football programs desperately looking for a viable head coach.
The following two years FSU's defense nearly collapsed. Had the offense done the same FSU would've fallen off the deep end and turned into the Nebraska of the early 2000's. Had the administration not had the wisdom to go to extreme measure to retain him then it's likely Bobby's retirement wouldn't have been a retirement, but an outright firing. Had all these terrible things transpired FSU's football program would've gone from the highest heights to rock bottom in the quickest time college football has ever seen.
But, as the defense was falling apart and defensive recruiting turned into a grease fire, Jimbo was slowly, patiently preserving and slowly rebuilding the offense from the Hiroshima that Jeff Bowden left it. Brick by brick, inch by inch, against the prevailing current that wanted to engulf the entire program, Jimbo patiently endured the criticism from impatient and spoiled fans that wanted the hurricane Katrina type disaster that his predecessor left him to be turned around in a year, and stayed the course.
By the end of 2008 the tables turned and the offense became the saving grace for FSU football. By 2009 the offense that Jimbo built was all that stood in the way between the abyss and the football program. With Jimbo's offense FSU would've resembled what it looked like the year before Bobby arrived in 1975."
I couldn't have said this better, so I thought it was appropriate to post Mainfram_nole's thoughts here on the Chuck Wagon.
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