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This move doesn't make sense for a lot of reasons. It's a major demotion for Bielema. He's going from a good BCS school to a mid major program at the bottom of its conference. To those saying he wants to play with the big boys in the SEC, you couldn't be any more dense and out of touch with reality. The fact is that Bielema had an offseason situation where 6 of his coaches left the team. He also fired his offensive line coach midseason. He's had back to back Rose Bowl losses and prior to that, couldn't get it done in the postseason in mid-major bowls. The ongoing rumor is that he's not easy to get along with either. My guess is that people in Madison don't like him too much. Couple that with a mediocre 8-5 season and the writing on the wall with Ohio State making him their bitch, on the field and off (especially with recruiting practices), and it's no surprise that he's ready to give himself a fresh start while keeping his image intact for being a "high profile" head coach before Ohio State and M*chigan regain their glory (afterall, three straight Rose Bowl appearances look impressive, as do 3 straight Big Ten titles, even if they come with the asterisk *during down years for both Ohio State and M^chigan*. My guess is that Bret rides his reputation into Fayetteville with high hopes, gets his ass stomped in both recruiting and on game day, which will get delusional SEC homers saying "Even the 'best' Big Ten coach can't hang in the SEC". If he's successful, you'll beat your chests and say "We can take any Big Ten coach we want because we're the SEC." Regardless of what happens, nobody in our conference liked Bret Bielema. We're happy to see him go. He was a douche bag in every essence of the word. He fits right in with your conference.
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Woodshed 1914 said...
This post is just plain ignorant. First, Arkansas is one of the Nation's Top 25 programs historically. Bret Bielema inherited a program that had an alltime winning percentage if 56%. He has won 74% if his games there. Like it or not he won the same number of Big Ten titles as Alvarez. Was the Big Ten down? Who can say for sure. He followed a very good coach in Alvarez and maintained their success with no drop off.
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devidee said...
That is complete spin. And horrible spin at that.
Bielema inherited a program that won 3 Rose Bowls and had an 8-3 bowl record. Bielema never won a BCS game and was 2-4 in bowls.
Bielema went 23-1 against Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, and Purdue and 16-18 against everybody else.
Citing the Big Ten titles is beyond moronic as Wisconsin was the 6th best team in the Big Ten this year with 5 losses.
Wisconsin's program got worse under Bielema, not better.
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Woodshed 1914 said...
I can't believe that I am even responding to this garbage. You speak as if it is a realistic expectation for Wisconsin to beat tOSU, PSU, it Michigan with regularity. That is down right idiotic. What Alvarez did at Wisconsin was amazing. Especially his dominance of Jim Tressell. However I could say that he won Rose Bowls when the Pac 12 was down but that would be kin to the rhethoric that you are spewing. So how did Wisconsin get worse? What did he not accomplish that he should have in his time as head coach. I'll hang up and listen.
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Woodshed 1914 said...
Offensive PPG Alvarez's last seven years: 27.7 Bielema's seven years: 33.4
Defensive PPG Alvarez's last seven years: 21.1 Bielema's seven years: 20.3
Rushing YPG Alvarez's last seven years: 192 Bielema's seven years: 214
Passing YPG Alvarez's last seven years: 185 Bielema's seven years: 202
Defensive Rushing YPG Alvarez's last seven years: 145 Bielema's seven years: 125
Defensive Passing YPG Alvarez's last seven years: 212 Bielema's seven years: 190
Total Offense Alvarez's last seven years: 377 Bielema's seven years: 416
Total Defense Alvarez's last seven years: 357 Bielema's seven years: 315
Passing - Completion Percentage Alvarez's last seven years: 54.6 Bielema's seven years: 62.4
W/L Record Alvarez's last seven years: 58-31 Bielema's seven years: 68-24
Bowls Alvarez had three Rose Bowl appearances in 16 seasons at Wisconsin Bielema had three Rose Bowl appearances in seven seasons, all in consecutive seasons (2010, 2011, 2012)
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dustelli said...
Not in anyway defending that asshat bert, but you are way off base. not surprising based on you career here.
Give me a fucking break with this not competitive crap. The only thing you can say is that because of bubba's poor in game coaching we lost a lot of close games we probably could have and should have won.
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buckeye_mikey69 said...
The reason was the money and getting a fresh start. Playing in that conference had nothing to do with it. Citable douchebaggish speculation runs rampant in some.
quit the rampant speculating.....
the conference is the money, if not he would have stayed in the BIG.
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Bielema Can Win At Arkansas