You haven’t a clue. The world was absolutely different when he started at FSU. Difficult, but navigable. In fact he took over FSU head coach before the NCAA lost it’s monopoly over television rights to NCAA football
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA...ty_of_Oklahoma
Even after that independents were more numerous and had greater power than now. It’s simply foolish to compare the Bowden golden era to the current circumstances, ABC pretty much owned football tv rights before ESPN.