Fisher Will Coach Florida State When Bowden Retires, ESPN Says

Fisher Will Coach Florida State When Bowden Retires, ESPN Says
By Mason Levinson
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Florida State University offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher will succeed Bobby Bowden when college football's winningest coach retires, ESPN reported on its Web site.
The Tallahassee, Florida, school will hold a Dec. 10 news conference to announce that Fisher, 42, has agreed to a three- year contract that will pay him almost $1 million a year until he succeeds Bowden, 78, who has won more games as a coach in college football's top division than anyone else, ESPN said, citing people close to the situation that it didn't identify.
Florida State spokesman Elliott Finebloom said he couldn't confirm the story in a telephone interview. Finebloom said that Bowden has agreed on a new contract that he's yet to sign and that the school has tentatively scheduled a news conference next week to discuss the coaching situation.
Bowden, whose Seminoles were 7-5 during the regular season and 4-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, will coach his team in its 26th straight bowl game when it faces Kentucky in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 31. He has 373 career wins, two more than Penn State's Joe Paterno, who is 80. Fisher is in his first season at Florida State after seven at Louisiana State University in the same position.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mason Levinson in New York at mlevinson@bloomberg.net .

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