Bert on Smart failing to steal Enos due to non-compete clause

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“Kirby called me (Sunday) morning and asked for permission to talk to Dan,” Bielema said during his bowl press conference. “I said, ‘You’ve got to talk to Dan if that’s something you want to do, but he’s got a non-compete clause in the SEC.’ That kind of null-and-voids those things from really becoming real within our conference.”

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“It was something I didn’t necessarily want to have in our contracts,” he said. “They weren’t in my coaches’ contracts to begin with. They’d been added, and that was strictly a Jeff Long thing he talked to me about. I was very, very opposed to it. When this issue came up a couple days ago, I texted him, ‘Hey, I love you, man,' because he taught his ball coach something really good.”

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