Bret Bielema To Arkansas!
In a stunning coup, Arkansas will hire Wisconsin's Bret Bielema as its next football coach, Yahoo! Sports has learned.
Bielema, who has taken the Badgers to three straight Rose Bowls, was nowhere on the radar amid months of speculation over who Arkansas would hire.
An announcement will come Tuesday, sources told Y! Sports, but Bielema is not expected to be introduced until Wednesday.
But like adding Rutgers and Maryland will prevent this sort of thing from happening. People in charge of things are just in charge of them, for no reason.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:17 PM ^
I guess he weighed his options.....
Spend the next ten years looking up at ohio in the big ten
or
Spend the next ten..er I mean three years looking up at Alabama and LSU.
Seems like the decision a complete moron would make. Fitting.
****Disclosure****** I don't like Bielema, at all, in any way. He is the clear winner of the "Big Ten Dick of the Year" award every year. Now he will have to share that title in the SEC with several of his kind.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
Didn't Dantonio win that award last year?
December 4th, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
I think they were co-recipients last year. It was a big scandal, with people thinking Bielema only won a share because of his historic a--holitude. Many thought Dantonio displayed a superior a--holitude on a week in, week out basis.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
Are you saying Bielma and Dantonio split a dick? This site has really lost it's family values.
December 4th, 2012 at 6:35 PM ^
So I'm guessing you're going to transfer to Eleven Warriors now
December 4th, 2012 at 4:40 PM ^
No, three way tie, Bielema, Dantonio and Pelini.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:40 PM ^
After considering your comment for a split second, I have to agree, can't believe i missed the other two pricks. Nothing like those three sharing a dick. I can see it now. Pelini screaming at a slobbering Bielema to cram it further up Danotio's ass as Dantonio has "that look". Where's the threat now, dicks.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:19 PM ^
December 4th, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
Green to Arkansas, word on the street.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
Yeah because, in the ten minutes since this was announced, Green let this be known "on the street."
December 4th, 2012 at 4:19 PM ^
December 4th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
from Boise? I thought he was going to Arkansas.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
This is a hire that Arkansas will regret. Bielema is not a good fit. He is very much a niche coach at a niche program. On more than one occasion, he has expressed his disdain for dirty recruiting. He's going to hate being in the SEC West. It will take at least a few years to build the type of team the he has run in Wisconsin, unless he scraps that approach and is more of a CEO type. He is so strongly identified with Manball that it's hard for me to see him doing that.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
stupid people make me very, very happy. and there's plenty of stupid to go around here. so, so wonderful.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:37 PM ^
Decloaking to observe that Arkansas' AD Jeff Long was a grad assistant at Miami (NTM) and assistant for Bo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Long_(athletic_director)
The hiring of the destined-to-fail Mr. Smith should have been an indication of a high opinion of midwestern football stylings. Jeff Long obviously does not think that background in the B1G makes a coach unsuitable for the Razorbacks.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:50 PM ^
Since some athletic directors still have to worry about spending within their limits, it's probably a good time to remind people of this chart at the end of this story:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/2011-06-15-athletic-departments-increase-money_n.htm
There were only 22 D1 programs which were profitable in 2009/2010.
Of those 22:
8 B1G
6 SEC (included Texas A&M even though they were in Big12 at the time)
5 Big12
2 Pac12
1 ACC
Say what you want about the B1G not spending for coaches, but some day you have to live within your means or you start dropping programs like Maryland recently did. Wait, sorry what did you say, Maryland is now in the B1G...awwww shi......
December 4th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
let's not pretend that arkansas is some sort of destination job. the last coach to last ten years there was houston nutt, who flirted with half a dozen jobs while he was there. before that, it was frank broyles, who retired THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO.
since then, it's been retreads (danny ford), job hoppers (lou holtzth, petrino, ken hatfield), and wtfs (jack crowe). this isn't a place like alabama or florida or texas where you anyone with a pulse can win at least a little bit.
as lou holtz famously said, "fayetteville isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from there." kinda like wisconsin, actually. second tier to second tier.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:42 PM ^
What's the point of all this goddamned fucking money if the Big Ten can't even keep the good coaches it has, let alone hire new ones.
If Purdue misses out on Butch Jones because of penny-pinching bullshit, I'm going to be pissed. This league is going to hell.
December 4th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ^
I wonder if this is beacuse of Nebraska joining the conference? He may have been worried about recruiting against Ohio, Michigan (with renewed interest in Ohio), MSU and now Nebraska.
**Edit** Not like going against LSU and Bama is going to be any easier on the recruiting trail.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:00 PM ^
Tom Bradley, Skip Holtz, Darrell Hazell, Pat Narduzzi.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:19 PM ^
Sounds like Purdue is set to hire Hazell.
December 4th, 2012 at 10:28 PM ^
December 5th, 2012 at 7:23 AM ^
It's Wisconsin not a Blue Blood school, Chucky and the rest of the A list guys are not walking through the door.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:00 PM ^
How has no one mentioned THE PROCESS with this yet?
Jeez, Ark just hired away the coach who is (was?) about to coach in the fcuking ROSE BOWL for the 3rd straight year, 4 weeks before the game, and NO ONE knew about it. Compare that to THE PROCESS from 3 years ago and the CLUSTERFUCK from 5 years ago.
how the hell did Ark's AD become competant and M's become the Central States Division of FUBAR, Inc.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
December 4th, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
I mean the AD in general, but the process is not the product
December 5th, 2012 at 8:14 AM ^
Well, Arkansas was beginning to look like Purdue, after whiffing on its first 2 or 3 choices. Then they come up with a real head scratcher in Bielema.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:02 PM ^
Book it.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
He's already taken the NC State job, no? I expect them to make a run at Chryst and it'll be tough for him to say no. He grew up in Madison, graduated from UW, and had rebuffed offers to leave before Pitt hired him away.
If so, poor Pitt.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:04 PM ^
Who has a verbal with Wisconsin for 2013 (other than their yearly transfer QB) that we may now have on our wish list?
December 4th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
if this fails he left a Wisconsin job where would be an absolute legend.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
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December 4th, 2012 at 5:34 PM ^
I suspect Alvarez may hire himself back as coach.
December 4th, 2012 at 5:36 PM ^
always thought he has that slightly inbred look that goes so well with the whole Arkansas thang.
December 4th, 2012 at 6:46 PM ^
It's not like Bielema wasn't very well paid already. Madison's a great midwestern city, Wisconsin is a well-regarded state school with a solid athletic history in the Big Ten, and Bielema was doing about as well there as anybody could realistically expect.
From a national perspective, Arkansas is no higher up the food chain than Wisconsin is, and from a competitive standpoint, it's certainly going to be no easier for Bielema down there.
My hunch is that we'll eventually find out this happened because of internal friction between Bielema and Alvarez, and that money is only part of it, not the cause.
December 4th, 2012 at 6:50 PM ^
Will Bret Bielema still be coaching at Arkansas when we play them in 2018?
My guess is no.
December 4th, 2012 at 8:06 PM ^
Michigan may benefit with both of these guys. I talked with both of them tonight.
http://www.themblock.com/2012/12/recruiting-impact-of-bielema-leaving.html
December 5th, 2012 at 8:29 AM ^
December 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM ^
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