OT: Bret Bielema making an ass of himself again

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http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/10/12/the-sec-should-repr… In the loss to Alabama he was on the field after a play and clearly initiated contact with an opposing player, then made it seem like he was taken out by it. To top it off, after drawing an unsportsmanlike flag in his favor he "did a little jig." NBCsports is calling for some kind of reprimand/punishment on him by the SEC. Favorite line in the post about it:
There is no reason Bielema should have been on the field in the first place, and he certainly embellished the situation so much a soccer player or Duke basketball player would be proud.

ijohnb

October 12th, 2015 at 11:39 AM ^

was a massive, massive mistake for him to leave Wisconsin.  That program was really starting to hum and he really could have had them as the class of that division.  Arkansas is doomed to a life of mediocrity in the SEC and he maybe costing himself even a chance at a Purdue-esque job with his antics right now.

JeepinBen

October 12th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/10/12/9507665/thoughts-on-…

 

I think we make these jokes because we see these as isolated incidents of failure, like laughing at a friend who busts his ass on an icy sidewalk or has a soda explode when he opens it. Steve Sarkisian getting drunk at a booster dinner is funny, in isolation, because it's wildly unexpected. Placed in the larger context of what appears to be fairly serious alcohol problem? Now I just feel like an asshole for that throwaway tweet, laughing and pointing at someone who's grappling with a disease that sent over a million American adults (and another 73,000 adolescents) to treatment in 2013.

Clarence Boddicker

October 12th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^

Oh, it's real for me. I've had trouble with alcohol, and my mother and father both went through A.A. I had an old college friend who died from cirrhosis at 42. I watched another come close to wrecking his marriage over booze.That's why I appreciate the sketch. Great humor about a painful subject, by comics like Pryor, can be just thing we need in negotiating the terrain of that painful subject ourselves. Laughing at pain to better cope with it...

BrotherMouzone

October 12th, 2015 at 11:16 AM ^

I'm glad he's not part of the B1G anymore. Coaches who don't respect the integrity of the game have no place in sports. I mean really? He even did a celebratory dance. Shit, HE initiated the contact with the player, maybe he should sit out a game or two, not that Arkansas would do any worse....

Bodogblog

October 12th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^

It's not that bad in terms of contact with the player.  It's exactly that bad in terms of a head coaching making a complete ass of himself.  

The AD there is a former M guy, big stuff on the CFB playoff committee?  He has to be absolutely beside himslef watching the fool in that video. 

SF Wolverine

October 12th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^

guy is facing the absolute reality that:  (a) he is a crappy coach in way over his head; and (b) that he left an almost ideal situation with the system he was gifted at UW. 

This has all the markings of something that will end quite poorly.