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Bret Bielema (HC Illinois)

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AJHawkfan;2345733; said:
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"Seriously you fat, sweaty hog...... get off me."
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She looks so much like my cousin's wife...it's really creepy...
 
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Since Bret the Big D-Bag was the focus of the comments, I will post this here:

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ma-wants-rules-changes-to-slow-down-no-huddle

Arkansas coach Bret Bielema and Alabama coach Nick Saban might not be on the most friendly of terms after Bielema told Arkansas fans this past March to compare his (superior) Big Ten record to Saban's. (Are there coaches with which Saban is on the most friendly of terms?) But the SEC West's current coaching overlord and the division's new-kid-on-the-block will see eye-to-eye on at least one topic: the rise of the no-huddle, up-tempo offense.

AL.com reported Monday that Bielema, a member of the NCAA's Playing Rules Oversight Panel, proposed a rules change that would create "a 15-second substitution period" after each first down to allow defenses to substitute. At the recent SEC spring meetings, Bielema framed it as a player-safety issue -- just as Saban did when asking for similar rules changes last October.
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So, if you can't beat the spread O, you should change the rules so you can? How about coaching the D to defend more than a downhill running game, Bret? Instead, you want to go the JoPa route and try to have the rules changed to benefit you and your team.

What a dick.
 
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buxfan4life;2346889; said:
So, if you can't beat the spread O, you should change the rules so you can? How about coaching the D to defend more than a downhill running game, Bret? Instead, you want to go the JoPa route and try to have the rules changed to benefit you and your team.

What a dick.
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How the hell did he even get on that panel in the first place?

No wonder the NCAA is so terrible at basically everything when they let mouth breathers like Bielema sit on panels of influence.
 
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Implementing such a rule doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon -- Bielema said there have been discussions -- but Bielema and Saban's concerns about safety had support from at least one other coach.Florida's Will Muschamp cited the threat posed by playing in the region's heat.
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Deal with it.

Bulima could have stayed in WI where it is cooler and safer for his players.

The last I heard, a play could also flop over and get carried off if they got too hot.

Or play bowl games in Minnesota if it is safer.



http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/06/post_494.html
 
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Some quotes on the issue from folks who disagree:

AU Coach Gus Malzhan

"No, I'd say that's probably more of an in-shape issue than anything else," Malzahn said.
Ever since Malzahn took over, Auburn has emphasized getting players on both sides of the ball ready to play at a fast pace.
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Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze:

"Offensive players are playing, too, the same number of snaps," Freeze said. "Are they in danger also? I mean, offensive players get hurt, too, and if we don't substitute, they're having to play the same number of plays."
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Coach Spurrier, as always, hits the nail on the head:

Normally outspoken on just about everything, South Carolina's Steve Spurrier acknowledged that "rapid-fire plays" were a topic of discussion during the coaches' meeting with SEC coordinator of officials Steve Shaw in Destin. For his part, Spurrier would be fine with a rules change similar to the one Bielema mentioned.
On the other hand, Spurrier also pointed out that there is already a way teams can slow down uptempo offenses and get rest for defensive players.

"Of course, the answer is for the other team's offense to stay on the field and get the other fast-paced team stay on the sideline," Spurrier said.
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BigWoof31;2347069; said:
Some quotes on the issue from folks who disagree:

AU Coach Gus Malzhan



Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze:



Coach Spurrier, as always, hits the nail on the head:
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I think Daddy Warbucks nailed it as well... How can someone claim safety when the offensive guys are out there for the same number of snaps.
 
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11W Skull Session today claiming that Bret left Wisconsin for Arkansas becuase the assistant salaries were too low.
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WHY BERT LEFT WISCONSIN. Friday was a slow news day. Really, nothing caught my attention beyond this Grantland piece, which was bound to catch my attention because it concerns our friend, Bert.

"Bert" is the shorthand I've been using for four years now (example) to refer to what others call "Bret Bielema", a man whose parents I just assume meant to name him "Bert" because he looks like a "Bert" and acts like a "Bert". That his legal first name is "Bret" must be attributable to a clerical error at the hospital in which he was born because there is no other good reason for it.

Bert was given the full treatment from Grantland, which built the entire 5,300 word article on the following premise, via ESPN.com.
Why did Bret Bielema, a Midwesterner who led Wisconsin to three straight Rose Bowls, bolt for a middle-of-the-road SEC team at Arkansas?
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The article measures at over 5,300 words. So, here's the answer in just 52 words from the article.
Bielema made plenty ? $2.6 million, to be exact ? but his assistants' salaries trailed behind those at similar programs. So every winter, Bielema endured the same phone calls, the same shrugged-shoulder meetings. Another coach called, Bielema's assistants would tell him. And those coaches offered paychecks that Bielema couldn't match.
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That's really it. If recruiting is the life force and the fuel for successful college football programs, a core of familiar, reliable, and ambitious assistants is the glue that makes it stable. If not for Wisconsin being the worst laggard on assistant salaries in the Big Ten before Bert left, he might still be there. Right now, Wisconsin is comfortably above the median among Big Ten assistant salaries. Bert leaving Wisconsin for Arkansas was the wake-up call for Barry Alvarez.

The article does a weird spin job. It's not about Bielema, which one would expect from this article and who has solid bona fides to his name. Rather, it's a spin job on Arkansas. The author characterizes it as a mid-level SEC job while Wisconsin is somehow more prestigious and qualitatively "above" Arkansas.
And all of this raises the question: Is it better to coach a middling SEC program than to coach a perennial contender for the Rose Bowl?
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And while Arkansas may never be able to outrecruit and outplay Alabama or LSU over the long term, it can position itself for the rare year, like Auburn's in 2010, when talent and schedule and luck align, resulting in a shot at the championship.
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The Badgers went 12-1 in his first season, and over the next six years they planted themselves alongside Ohio State and Michigan as lords of the Big Ten. There were those three straight Rose Bowls, something that only Woody's Buckeyes and Bo's Wolverines have done.​
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This was the premise for the article, and it's not quite true. There are times when even the author doesn't quite believe what he's writing.
You might also know that Bielema was liked, but never quite loved, by Wisconsin fans; that he was considered competent but workmanlike, certainly not a genius, and that his success was explained away by factors like Ohio State's and Penn State's respective probations and the Rich Rodriguez era at Michigan.
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This is accurate. It may understate just how successful Bert was at Wisconsin and how good he was, but the fact remains that his best team (2011) lost to the losingest Ohio State team since 1897. His 2008 Badgers lost to Rich Rodriguez' 2008 Michigan squad, which lost more games (nine) than any other team in the Wolverines' entire 134-year history. Yes: that Michigan team. Michigan won just one league game in 2008, and it happened to be against Bert's Badgers.

The truth is Arkansas is doing something that Wisconsin should've been doing five years earlier: using the ton of money its conference is generating and investing it in gridiron success. When the article cites Bert as saying he can be more successful at Arkansas than he was at Wisconsin, he's, for all intents and purposes, telling the truth.

Alas, there's really nothing in that article that we didn't know already, but it is worth reading if you wanted to see how many casual obscenities Bert can be cited as saying for a piece published by ESPN.
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