Alan Bowman Talks "Loyal and True" as First Player Guest on the Mike Gundy Show

STILLWATER – The Mike Gundy Show has added a new segment this season as there is a player guest included on the show. This being the first one of the season and the first at the new location of The Legacy Village senior living community, Gundy and Cowboys Radio Network play-by-play voice and host Dave Hunziker went with the player equivalent of a senior. The Cowboys 24-year-old quarterback in his seventh year of college football Alan Bowman took the joke of Social Security enrollment and Medicare with a smile.

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Kidded about being an old man, Bowman is in the best shape of his playing career.

It’s easy for Bowman playing for his third college program and in his second year at Oklahoma State to take the “old man” jokes because he is so excited to be playing the game he loves for another season.

“I can’t wait. We’ve been talking about it for so long and obviously, we all came back for a reason and I’m just ready to play,” Bowman said with his intitial comment.

Bowman has talked about this so many times. The story on how he came back. He had an attorney helping and Oklahoma State head of compliane Ben Dyson helped map out the plan and the NCAA went right along with it. Okay, Bowman asked for two more years and they gave him one, but that was really what he was after.

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Bowman with receiver and teammate Rashod Owens.

“I felt I had more to give and that we had more as a team,” Bowman said. “It was really when guys on the offensive line said, ‘I want to come back for another year.’ Another said, ‘I want to come back.’ Then Ollie is coming back and the defense is coming back and I thought somehow I had to get another year.”

Asked what he feels he adds most to the cause, the most to the efficiency of the offense and it wasn’t his arm or his offensive mind. It was his demeanor. 

“I would say the experience and lessons that I’ve learned, the calmness,” Bowman started. “I feel as if one of my best attributes is to calm everybody down. We may be on a two minute drive to go win the game and I’m good at just keeping everybody calm and moving forward. To stay even keeled and in those high pressure moments to be one that can kind of level everybody to do your job and move on forward. Being older and being in a lot of different offenses allows our offense to do some fun and crazy things. Things you wouldn’t have if you had a bunch of first-year players. Doing a lot of fun things like that is the advantage of having an experienced quarterback and an experienced team.”

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Quarterbacks with wins over OU are never forgotten.

Bowman has been very popular with his teammates. He is a positve guy. He is a team player. He is proud of that win last season over Oklahoma that will give him lifetime bragging rights with his two sisters that went to OU. He is very glad to have had the chance after three years at Texas Tech and two at the University of Michigan to finish with two years as a Cowboy.

“This has be the best,” Bowman said. “It’s because of the people and the way everybody welcomed me. It is loyal and true. They say it nd they mean it. I’m so glad I came here and so excited to have this upcoming season.”