Decision of FSU's Bowden Appeal Delayed

Florida State's president has passionately pursued protecting FSU football and the entire athletic department from NCAA penalties to the point of insanity. Bobby Bowden wants to keep his wins. Plus, Florida State has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect Bowden's total wins before he is put out to pasture in 2011 -- the least the NCAA can do is make a final ruling before that point.

Maybe not. The NCAA was supposed to rule on Florida State's appeal of sanctions from the Seminoles' academic scandal today. Instead, the NCAA gave the Committee on Infractions another week to consider the appeal -- which could include the FSU football team forfeiting up to 14 games.

At least it gives college football fans something else to talk about as we trudge through the doldrums of June.