Q & A: T.K. Wetherell

What's your message to FSU fans?

Wetherell: We're three games into the season. We have nine more to play. We tell everybody and we do this in every sport the same - we evaluate them at the end of the season. You don't change horses in the middle of the year and you don't change coaches in the middle of the season. That's ridiculous.

Can people put financial pressure on you?

Wetherell: When you back somebody in a corner, that's the worst thing to do. I think what people need to do is support the university and support the team.

There's a feeling among a number of fans that Coach Bowden has earned the right to write his final chapter. Do you agree with that?

Wetherell: We all work for the university and for the betterment of the university. This university and system is bigger than all of us.

He has earned the right that anybody else has, just like any Dean - they pick their faculty, they are held accountable for those decisions, and there are times we do those evaluations.

... Bobby Bowden has coached 50 years. He wants to win more than any of us want to win. He's probably suffering more than any of us right now. (The coaches and players) don't come in here and say let's see if we can get a game plan to embarrass ourselves. They are out there doing the best they can do. They want to win probably more than us. It's their livelihood, their profession, their honor. They'll get it straight if they can."

And do you think they can?

Wetherell: "I think they can run the table, I'll be honest with you. ... I think they can win the rest of their games. I don't think there is any doubt in my mind about that."