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Bret Bielema wasted little time in playing to the eager crowd.
Loyalty being what it is these days in college football, you didn't know whether to be happy or sad to see Barry Alvarez back on the Wisconsin sideline seven years after he left coaching to become the Badgers' athletic director.
Gary Andersen doesn't mind taking a back seat with his new team when it comes to the Rose Bowl.
Several schools tried to lure Gary Andersen away from Utah State.
Gary Andersen publicly pledged his allegiance to Utah State not long ago. Now he's on the verge of becoming Wisconsin's coach.
The Big Ten spent much of the year as a national punch line.
When Wisconsin linebacker Mike Taylor was a kid, he used to watch the Badgers and dream of playing for Barry Alvarez.
Bret Bielema watched from afar in April as Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long handled the difficult circumstances surrounding Bobby Petrino's firing, liking what he saw so much that he wrote Long a letter of support a few months later.
Bret Bielema will be paid $3.2 million annually for six years at Arkansas, the school said Wednesday as it prepared to introduce its new football coach.
Bret Bielema will earn $3.2 million annually for six years in his new job at Arkansas, which will also pay its new coach's $1 million buyout to Wisconsin.
Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema is taking his brand of power football to Arkansas.
Bret Bielema is taking his brand of power football to Arkansas, leaving Wisconsin after seven seasons.
Wisconsin is in some unfamiliar territory.
The courses for the Big Ten championship game opponents were set when they met in late September.
Eye gouging. Disputes over game film.
College coaches aren't allowed to talk about specific players before they sign, but Bielema did acknowledge during his signing day news conference that Arkansas' class of 22 players could "grow by one."
"It can turn for other people; it doesn't have to turn for me," Bielema said. "I don't care where you are at in life. Everything is about how you react to what happens. It's not what happens; it's how you react to it. I think that's the part that I know I control."
