Win some, lose some.
Back when NCAA rules allowed it, Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden took movie star Burt Reynolds _ an ex-FSU player and a huge Seminoles booster _ on a recruiting trip to Ohio to better his chances of sealing the deal. I'll pitch FSU to the player, Bowden told Reynolds, while you sweet-talk the kid's single mother.
"Well, the kid ended up going to Notre Dame," Bowden quipped, "and the mother came to Florida State."
