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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n

EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) \u2014 Todd Bowles kept a promise to his late mother and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach is now a college graduate.<\/p>\n

The 59-year-old Bowles walked across the stage at Mount St. Mary\u2019s University on May 13 to receive his diploma after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in youth and community development.<\/p>\n

Bowles missed the second day of the Buccaneers\u2019 rookie camp to attend the ceremony, knowing his mother Joan would be proud of him for completing his degree 37 years after he left Temple to begin his playing career in the NFL.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother never said anything, she just went with it and she let me go ahead and live my life,\u201d Bowles said while he addressed the graduating class. \u201cShe passed in 2009 and the only thing she asked me was to make sure I got my degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stuck with it and here I am at 59. You\u2019re never too old to stop learning. You stop learning and you get old. You get old when you stop learning. So I say to you, Class of 2023 \u2014 the future is yours, take it, grab it, run with it, be excited \u2014 be excited \u2014 every now and then come back and thank your parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bowles, entering his second season as coach of the Buccaneers, was born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and played college football at Temple under coach Bruce Arians. The defensive back signed with Washington as an undrafted free agent in 1986 and played eight seasons in the NFL \u2014 winning a Super Bowl in 1988.<\/p>\n

Bowles turned to coaching after his playing career ended, serving in a variety of assistant roles with several NFL teams before becoming the Miami Dolphins\u2019 interim head coach in 2011. He reunited with Arians, who was the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 head coach, in 2013 as the defensive coordinator before getting his first full-time gig as a head coach with the New York Jets in 2015.<\/p>\n

After four seasons with New York, he joined Arians\u2019 staff in Tampa Bay \u2014 again as the defensive coordinator \u2014 before taking over as the Buccaneers\u2019 head coach last year when Arians retired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an amazing, amazing thing for me to be in a class with you,\u201d Bowles said while speaking to the graduating class. \u201cI\u2019m more nervous now than I ever was speaking in front of a locker room at halftime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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