re: Ark fans, look at Wisky rolling along under Chryst(and Anderson)..it ain't Bert's fault!

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I believe Bielema to be a very fine HC, and admire his honesty. Thought given the talent at hand, his team's were competent, fought hard, and tough.

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He was good enough to be 2-3 vs. LSU. But evidently, you don't have to be too good to do that.

I will say this - I like his offensive philosophy, run it down your throat, ball control, real American football.
And it appeared for a couple of years that he was building that kind of juggernaut, until the wheels fell off last season.

For his style to work, you have to have a very good offensive line. We had a pretty decent one once in his tenure. Since then, not so much.

The whole success of the team is built on that one critical factor - a good O line. Without that, the running game doesn't work, without the running game the play action passing doesn't work, without either one working the defense has to stay on the field too much and it just snowballs...

If we had a good O line this year, we most likely wouldn't even be having this conversation. Ifs and buts.