re: Bielema expects slow-down rule to pass (UPDATE with video and transcript)

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Bielema, speaking to the media before a meeting of the White County Razorback Club on Thursday night, reiterated his stance that the proposal is safety-based — saying he wants to be proactive and make a change before presented with a player's "death certificate."

The former Wisconsin coach pointed to the recent death of California football player Ted Agu during a training run, saying the inability to substitute an injured player between plays could lead to injury or death.

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This is so wrong. It's one thing to be over-dramatic and alarmist to further your cause. That's bad enough. But naming a player and using his tragic death that happened on a simple training run in order to justify your opinion takes it from being just tacky into a whole new arena -- a ghoulish, win at all costs, unethical, exploitation based, arena.

I haven't picked on Bielema or engaged in bashing him but this speaks to who he truly is as a person. That person looks very much like a callous douchebag.