RIP, Steve Ellis

Class move by FSU to start a scholarship in his name.

Bowden will probably think he is eulogizing Bill McGrotha.

 

Given the circumstances, that last comment was pretty low class.

 

How many other college coaches would do that for a writer?

Very classy move.

 

You mean Nick Saban wouldn't do that for Paul Finebaum?

 

RIP to a fine journalist and an even better person.

 

Nah, pretty sure Bowden would do it because he's a class act human being first and foremost...before anybody would ever even accuse him of being a college football coach.

Steve would deserve this. Thanks coach.

 

These are two first-class humans.
Only a few weeks ago, Steve Ellis wrote that Bobby Bowden should step aside. I can't argue with that logic. Steve did not write that lightly. It was not a knee-jerk column. It was written, I imagine, only after considerable reflection based on 28 years of knowledge.
Having said that, I still can't think of many coaches who would speak at the memorial service of a reporter who had only recently advocated said coach's dismissal.
I believe recent events speak well to all parties. And I still can't believe that there will be FSU football with neither Bobby Bowden nor Steve Ellis in the picture.

 

That says a lot about the kind of guy Bowden is, too.