Give Bret Bielema credit..........

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3399, who started this fiasco, had the OP and has added no comments since. He succeeded in making fools of all of us who have commented. Kudos to 3399.
 


Rescooter said:
And by the way, this is my 500th post. I can't think of a better way to celebrate than bashing Bret Bielema.
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Rookie!!! :>)

I doubt there is a Gopher fan alive who wouldn't like to see Becky crumble and soon.

However, it won't surprise me to see them run all over Utah State and the OL regaining a good share of its identity.
 

Bayfieldgopher said:
Rookie!!! :>)

I doubt there is a Gopher fan alive who wouldn't like to see Becky crumble and soon.

However, it won't surprise me to see them run all over Utah State and the OL regaining a good share of its identity.
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LOL!

I think Utah State will run into a Buzz-Saw.
 

I don't know what makes u guys think Utah St will run into a buzz saw. U r who u r and Wisconsin is not that good this year.
 


Bret's coaching ability is way past being questionable. Give credit were credits due. He has had much success for to long to say other wise; the punk can coach.

Bret is known for severe mood swings (related to alcoholism?) and vindictive, revengeful behavior. To me this reads as he over reacted to something? Maybe the fired coach questioned/embarrassed King Bret in front of the team or other coaches? Maybe one of Brets co-ed girl friends mentioned o Bret that she thought the fired coach was like......totally hot.
 

I think the big thing is that everyone knows ,that great coaches are measured by how they handle adversity, Beilema for the first time is faceing adversity. It will be interesting, seeing if this is a bump in the road, or a foreshadowing increasing disarray. I'm watching wondering, if this is the beginnings of a slow motion train wreck, like a train wreck I can't not look.
 

Sportsfan24 said:
Bret's coaching ability is way past being questionable. Give credit were credits due. He has had much success for to long to say other wise; the punk can coach.
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He can't manage the clock to save his ass, though.
 

Sportsfan24 said:
Bret's coaching ability is way past being questionable. Give credit were credits due. He has had much success for to long to say other wise; the punk can coach.

Bret is known for severe mood swings (related to alcoholism?) and vindictive, revengeful behavior. To me this reads as he over reacted to something? Maybe the fired coach questioned/embarrassed King Bret in front of the team or other coaches? Maybe one of Brets co-ed girl friends mentioned o Bret that she thought the fired coach was like......totally hot.
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That was my thought as well. We're probably not getting the whole story. One thing with the massive turnover in coaches is that Bielema has lost a couple of "filters" through which to interpret things. Markuson might have simply said something "wrong" and there was no one else to talk Bielema off the ledge.
 





badgergopher said:
Alvarez comments:

http://m.host.madison.com/sports/co...cle_f5959e06-fd35-11e1-8bce-0019bb2963f4.html

I'm not a football guy so can't judge his comments about the spread. Would be interested to hear the take of TBNL or others whether this makes sense.

Or we can just talk about the Gophers. I understand they have a game Saturday...
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I'm not that much of a football guy either, but given Alvarez' explanation, why hire Markuson in the first place? They knew he was coming from a team that ran the spread. Shouldn't coaching and technique teaching philosophies be covered during an interview? The more I read, the more this reminds me of all the goofy on-the-fly coaching decisions Brewster made (shudder).
 

50PoundHead said:
I'm not that much of a football guy either, but given Alvarez' explanation, why hire Markuson in the first place? They knew he was coming from a team that ran the spread. Shouldn't coaching and technique teaching philosophies be covered during an interview? The more I read, the more this reminds me of all the goofy on-the-fly coaching decisions Brewster made (shudder).
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Of course Alvarez supports the decision, he has to. If he said he didn't support the decision, I'd be shocked. I don't know what he really thinks, we'll never know. But the more you hear about it, the stranger it looks. When you have to hold press conferences to let people know you're not panicking, it looks a lot like panic.

Very strange to use as a defense for the firing that he has a different style. Surely they knew that he had a different style, didn't they do some research before they hired him? Didn't they get to see his coaching style during spring and fall practice?
 



I just thought Alvarez' explanation about how Markuson was a spread guy and Wisconsin isn't a spread team is really lame and agree with your assessment. It's not like they didn't have references, film from teams Markuson coached, or eyeball evidence from the spring as to Markuson's style and teaching ability from which to determine whether or not he was a fit for the Wisconsin program.

It's just odd.
 

You have to go back to the reason BA hired BB in the first place. It was win-win for him. BA knows BB is an assh*le. It wasn't about X's and O's, I was about hiring a young brash guy and backing him up with an experienced guy like Chryst. Promises were likely made to Chryst that he was the "back-up" and next HC.

If BB suceeded, BA is a hero. If BB failed, BA can "step in" as interim coach and be a hero. Then he names Chryst, and he's a hero. BA is a hero no matter what. In the end, it's all about BA and his massive ego. More power to him.
 

And if Wisconsin as a down year, a lot of people will be blaming this firing.
 

highwayman said:
You have to go back to the reason BA hired BB in the first place. It was win-win for him. BA knows BB is an assh*le. It wasn't about X's and O's, I was about hiring a young brash guy and backing him up with an experienced guy like Chryst. Promises were likely made to Chryst that he was the "back-up" and next HC.

If BB suceeded, BA is a hero. If BB failed, BA can "step in" as interim coach and be a hero. Then he names Chryst, and he's a hero. BA is a hero no matter what. In the end, it's all about BA and his massive ego. More power to him.
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And he do have one of those.
 

They probably did know he was a spread guy and hired him hoping he could transition. They were in a big hurry to hire someone after losing recruits Dodson and Denman and Markuson brought a quality signee with him. So it all starts with being forced to make a rushed decision due to the mass exodus. We're just seeing the effect six months later.
 

Brett is Dan Hawkins. His assistants made him look better than he really was.
 

Still a better love story than "Twilight".

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What keeps coming up is that Beilema owns this problem, lock stock and barrel, if the O-line continues to have problems it's all on him. If things don't start improving quickly, Brett's seat temperature will get quite hot but they wont replace him this year barring a complete meltdown. I'll watch the rest of the year to see if this turns into a train wreck.
 

badgergopher said:
Alvarez comments:

http://m.host.madison.com/sports/co...cle_f5959e06-fd35-11e1-8bce-0019bb2963f4.html

I'm not a football guy so can't judge his comments about the spread. Would be interested to hear the take of TBNL or others whether this makes sense.

Or we can just talk about the Gophers. I understand they have a game Saturday...
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I know first hand how Barry approaches Bret when Bret wants to do something stupid. Barry correctly allows Bret to do what he wants. Like Parcel said "if you want me to do the cooking, allow me to buy the groceries....or something like that" In the end Bret's stay in mad town is based on W's and L's.

However; for a scucessful coach, Bret's rope is awfully short because of past misdeeds.
 

Sportsfan24 said:
I know first hand how Barry approaches Bret when Bret wants to do something stupid. Barry correctly allows Bret to do what he wants. Like Parcel said "if you want me to do the cooking, allow me to buy the groceries....or something like that" In the end Bret's stay in mad town is based on W's and L's.

However; for a scucessful coach, Bret's rope is awfully short because of past misdeeds.
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Sportsfan24, care to elaborate on the bolded comment, even in a cryptic way?
 


Dr.Don said:
3399, who started this fiasco, had the OP and has added no comments since. He succeeded in making fools of all of us who have commented. Kudos to 3399.
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I share some of the thoughts about Bret Bielema as others have posted. But let's face it, say what you want, what Gopher fan wouldn't trade the results he has had? I just don't buy the notion that it is all the work of the coordinators. I have seen a lot of great coordinators unable to produce because of a bad head coach. He must be doing something right. Time will tell.
 

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