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

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My man, I may have started the the thread to tease, but am telling you sincerely, unlike many of the SEC HCs jettisoned this year, I don't feel Bielema the damaged goods that the rest are.

I see a competent HC that in the right situation, is a winning HC with a third act.

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People think Bret is a bad coach just because he's unsuccessful and shite. Narrow-minded dumbasses.


But, no, seriously, I agree. Bret is a very good coach. He's not an elite coach -- an elite coach would have overcome some of the inherent disadvantages of Arkansas like a dearth of local talent and having to run the gauntlet of what has been the most brutal division in CFB over the last 8 years or so -- but he's very good fundamentally and uses intelligent if not brilliant gameplans to best match up with different opponents. He could do well at a school in a different division (I think he'd actually be a pretty good coach at UT, though they have to grapple with cyclical talent issues too, or back in the B10.) Honestly, if Coach Mason were fired next week for losing to that pestilential sad sack of a program over in Knoxville, I wouldn't object to hiring Bielema to replace him.