Bert Bielema going to Michigan Practice w/ Mike D'Antoni & Butch Jones
Bert tweeted this....
After early meetings & lift tomorrow with our players. Thinking about heading to watch an open practice tomorrow at IMG with the staff. #WPS
Mike Dantionio tweet at him....
Want to do lunch?
Apparently Butch Jones has nothing else going on in Knoxsville...
Mind if I join you guys for lunch?
Needs all the help he can get, I guess.
Yes, help with coaching may be part, but more importantly... FREE FUCKING BUFFET YUMMIES EAT FAT GRRRRR HUNGRY STUPID GRRRRR...
Demeaning himself. If you were a coach or player there, would you be more impressed by (1) Harbaugh on the field, changing how people coach and recruit college football or (2) Bielema, sitting in the stands looking in like the kid who didn't make varsity.
Let him watch.
double post. sorry
Want to put the story back on the front page, throw a SEC coach in the stands for practice. It would be gift to the PR department to keep Michigan in the news cycle in a positive way (not like the jackass at UT).
Harbaugh should leave both of them nameplates and credentials. Own it and see if they actually show...you can't lose either way.
Will he be there too?
Curious as to why. Arkansas won't be playing Michigan in the national title game in January, so scouting our squad is pointless.
Getting ready for 2018 opener??? Hope he knows Thurs isn't an open practice. Hate for him to drive/fly all the way from Ak and not get to see any practice.
"Coach Bielema, for the love of God please. We simply cannot stop at every god damned Waffle House in Florida. We need to start making some.....ugh, fine, we'll stop."
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I'm not sure if he was being serious. But if he was, it may have more to do with recruiting than scouting. There will be a lot of Florida HS coaches there.
I guess Michigan does play Arkansas in 2 years, but I doubt that is the reason. Bielema may not even be there anymore at that point.
I'm guessing there will be a lot of coaches hoping to pull a Saban bump and run into some recruits catching the open practice.
He is probably more interested in picking Harbaugh's brain to find out how to beat an SEC team.
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more likely seeing what other successful coaches are doing during their practices. possibly incorporating some drills or techniques. i would be there too if i were a coach.
I hate this guy but that was a funny tweet IMO.
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Which Buffett?
Flip Arkansas and Michigan and I'd say its a good chance Michigan gets dinged
If Bret's coming it's cause he's smart enough to know that watching one our practices he might just learn something and his pride (unlike the other SEC demi-god coaches) isnt too great to allow it. And the offense he runs is similiar enough to ours (remember his talk last year regarding fullbacks) that he probably will.
Good for him if he does.
He's INTERESTING. His lack of filter is unique among CFB coaches. It makes 100% sense he would meet his wife (who has no filter herself) while playing blackjack in Vegas. He's exactly the type of dude who would actually show up in Bradenton and have some fun with it all.
Kind of under-appreciated through it all: he's a pretty good football coach. Proven that over 10 years now at Wisconsin and Arkansas (which was in the total basement when Bret arrived).
The Toledo and Texas Tech losses last year were rather comical, especially considering the sideshows (talking smack about Ohio State's schedule and the Kingsbury feud). But Arkansas beat all of Auburn, Ole Miss, Tennessee and LSU as part of a 6-1 finish, with the one loss by a point vs. Mississippi State. That's not too bad.
Guys love their fat jokes and I think one facet of the Hoke hate (see Oregon DC thread above) is that the dude was overweight and UM fans had to bite their tongues on many opportunities to make a joke about someone's weight. Charlie Weis was the only dude that was fair game, because ND and he was way bigger than Hoke.
Now all that pent up frustration of having to take the fat jokes from MSU and OSU fans about Hoke can be unleashed.
he is an asshole. ask mike martin. plus his hitting on wisky co-eds. dude is smarmy.
and send his wife instead.
Alright, folks. It is a party now. Bret is coming.
"A lesser athlete would have gone down!" Oh... wait....
Networking because he will be looking for a job soon.
Hope he doesn't bring his coaches b/c he added a SEC non poaching clause but I doubt he added a HS one!
Anytime I see his name, I immediately think of this picture. Then I don't want to eat for a while.
Dinner now ruined after seeing that pic.
Lesson for the future: Don't eat while reading MGoBlog.