Bowden agrees to 1-year term

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Bowden, Seminoles Agree to 1-Year Deal
AP - Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:48:59 -0500 (EST)
By BRENT KALLESTAD
Jimbo Fisher will succeed Bobby Bowden as Florida State's next football coach -- someday. President T.K. Wetherell designated offensive coordinator Fisher as "head coach-in waiting," but skipped out of a somewhat unusual news conference Monday without answering questions about the contracts that are not yet finalized.

Bowden, major college football's winningest coach, agreed to return for a 33rd season with options to stay longer.

"Every year I'll just re-sign it and tell 'em if I want to coach another year," Bowden said. "I couldn't ask for anything better than that."

Bowden, Fisher and interim athletic director Bill Proctor all skirted questions about what Proctor described as "agreement(s) in principle" that give "stability to our program."

Bowden, 78, said he supported the plan brought to him last week by the president and Proctor, who have both known the coach since the early 1960s.

"I think it's a great plan," Bowden said. "Hey, you get 78 years of age, it's hard to say how you're going out, but we've got a
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plan. It kind of all started with my contract."