ULM hires Terry Bowden
MONROE, La. (BVM) 鈥� The University of Louisiana Monroe hired former Akron football head coach Terry Bowden last December. Bowden, 64, is taking over after Matt Viator finished with an 0-10 season. Bowden recently was with Clemson serving as an offensive analyst under Dabo Swinney.
鈥淲e’re extremely excited to welcome Terry Bowden to our Warhawk family as head football coach,鈥� ULM athletic director Scott McDonald . 鈥淗e brings a winning pedigree to our program. He has won at all levels of college football, beginning as the youngest head coach in the country in his first job at Salem College and continued that through his tenure at Samford and Auburn, where he consistently competed for SEC Championships. He followed with success at North Alabama and at Akron, where he led the Zips to their first bowl victory in school history.鈥�
Bowden has a 175-114-2 overall record as a head coach. A daunting task of leading the Warhawks to success lies ahead. ULM has been to only one bowl game since reaching the FBS level in 1975. And since 1980, the program has finished with only one winning season. But if there is one person to lead a football team, it鈥檚 a Bowden.聽
Terry is the son of legendary Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. And he is also the brother of former Clemson coach Tommy Bowden.聽
鈥淔or the first 18 years of my life, I sat around the breakfast table with one of the greatest college coaches of all time,鈥� Bowden said in the release. 鈥淔or the last two years, I have had the great honor to sit around a football office with the very best head coach and coordinators in the business today. In between, I have been fortunate enough to win a bunch of games and watch losing programs become winners. As a competitor, who wouldn’t be excited about that! I cannot wait to get to ULM and get to work with one goal in mind 鈥� to win a Sun Belt Conference Championship.鈥�
Bowden and his staff will start preparation for the upcoming college football season. The 2021-2022 season is scheduled to kick off Aug. 28.聽
鈥淔inally, I want to appeal to all the great people who make up the Warhawk Nation. We need all of you to join in with us and come together to make this football program and this great University everything that it can be,鈥� Bowden said. 鈥淚’m asking the students, faculty, former players, alumni, and the Monroe community to join with me now and bring back the championship football program that we once had. Our past success can be a great indicator of our future.鈥�
Welcome to Monroe, Coach Bowden!
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