Letter to Bret

[RedRazorHog]

Just watched the presser.  To hear Brett talking about all the programs coming back up after a down year, and what's coming back and so forth, well it just bothers me to hear him say he should come back.  Sorry for the long post, but I needed some therapy so I wrote much of it out here.  So here is what I would say to him:


Bret,

Why you think you should come back is appalling to me.  I've heard you things "what it was like when we got here" or "what we've had to clean up" or "we've had these injuries" or "what they did at Mississippi State or Notre Dame or Michigan State" and I have to ask you "what have you really done"?

You hitched your wagon to the Allen boys at QB.  You made that decision to start them and live and die with them.  You could have made different decisions there.  In an act of desperation, you even switched your core this year by going to a QB that runs and operates primarily from the gun.  You could say that shows you are adapting, but it could also show that you just don't know what to do.  You have had a couple of other solid athletes that could have played from the gun or run, but you refused to play them.  Duwop comes to mind. 

You claimed that you would build a road grader offensive line, but the Arkansas Line was terrible by most all accounts over the past few years.  I can remember seeing Brandon Allen trying to play against Missouri a few years ago and the guy looked as frail as Abe Vigoda out there, because he had been beaten down with bad line play.  We all saw the graphic about Austin Allen being hit more than any quarterback in all of college football.  More importantly, he was hit that much by SEC level defenses.  I think you can check the NFL rosters and see that the most linebackers and d-line personnel come from the SEC. 

We've had great athletes that could have been great college players, but you refused to play them because you like to play "your guys".  Think of some of the speed we could have played and used.  Even Nick Saban realized long ago that he needed to put more speed on the field.  This year we saw glimpses of capability of highly touted, highly successful athletes that have sat on your roster and gotten no reps – think of Will Gragg and TJ Hammonds.  You continually trot out your guys who are NOT the best athletes.  Slow tight ends, tight ends that run end-zone routes out of bounds, or completely wiff on their assignments leading to disastrous consequences.

You threw a kid under the bus for missing field goals that would not have won a game.  You had a spring and fall camp to find the right kicker, and you did not do that until after throwing a person that actually tried – under the bus.  Character from the Head Coach is what will teach the team, yet you take credit for things that finally happen versus what should have happened.  TJ Hammonds had an awesome game, then he's had basically 7 touches since.  Gragg and Martin are two examples of studs that you don't make sure are involved in the game.  As the Head Coach you should make sure that YOUR Coordinators are ensuring that THE players with success should be "game-planned" into the game plan.  Watch Saban, he makes sure that his studs are in the game.

How many coaches have you hired and how many have left.  How many of the ones that left have gone to resurrect their success after leaving and how many did you not fire that you should have?  Why do you keep coaches that cannot perform.  Why would you have coaches that are poor examples for the young men that you are supposed to be making "uncommon".   Pittman, Cheney, Smith, Chaney, Ash, Partridge, Shannon, Johnson, Segrest are a few names that come to mind.  Maybe we see the Anderson's and Scott's come over because your reputation at both Wisconsin and Arkansas precedes you.

Your obsession with walk-ons is admirable but there is a reason they are walk-ons.  When you start a true freshman over a highly touted, 4-star player that you recruited – either your talent assessment is poor by selecting the 4-star or your talent assessment is flawed because you are playing a walk-on over someone that had 30 offers by programs rated ahead of Arkansas.

Your game management is reprehensible.  How many times have you lost a game that you were leading in the first half?  What adjustments did you ever make in the second half to win a game?  How many times have you been blown out in the second half?  What is your success rate in managing 4th downs?  Are you overruling your offensive coordinator?  In some press conferences you say "I made the call to...." and in some press conferences you say "...he told me we needed to..."  Give me 5 examples of an adjustment you made against an SEC or Power 5 school that you made that led to a turn around that resulted in a win.

You're sloppy.  You're The Head Coach of a Major Division One, SEC Conference Football program yet you parade around in flip flops, shirts that look like parachutes, unshaven, overweight and overall not professional.  This might be part of the discipline that is lacking in the program.  The Bret Bielema show is a joke, done on the field immediately after the loss, no preparation whatsoever, no breakdown of something the team is trying to do, no explanation of a strategy, just you giving a press-conference-like set of comments.  Broyles, Hatfield, Nutt and Petrino all prepared and broke down things the other team was trying to do, or things the team was trying to do, and two things happened as a result:  (1)  Fans felt like they knew what they were talking about.  They were more often blown away with the level of detail and it reaffirmed that those Head Ball Coaches knew what they doing (2)  Recruits saw that kind of coaching and were inspired and awed by knowledge.  High school studs are studs because they are athletes that want to win.  They all know that at the SEC level there are an immense amount of athletes and that the difference in winning and losing is the coaching.  They watch your show and go "wow, don't know what to think".  The other thing is that you think people don't see around town...think about this... because you're pretty visible in a pretty small town. 

No Bret, I don't think you've earned the right to come back another year.  We don't think that playing favorites, an SEC team with 10 Fayetteville kids on their roster (I bet that no other SEC team has so many players from the same high school on their roster), who makes the same coaching mistakes you make and has such a losing record against true Power 5 teams deserves a spot leading the Arkansas Razorbacks.  You have set this program backwards.  Please take this all as input, if you do take it, and course correct – you can be a better coach, but if you go unchanged, I'm afraid you will continue to fail.

[Busta_Nutt]

Bret*

[jst01]

Most people would stop reading a letter addressed to them if you couldn't spell their name correctly.  It would be like getting a piece of mail from the Insurance agency down the road that had your first name spelled wrong...immediately tossed in trash.

[jcbville]

[Boardon Hamsay]

Just watched the presser.  To hear Brett talking about all the programs coming back up after a down year, and what's coming back and so forth, well it just bothers me to hear him say he should come back.  Sorry for the long post, but I needed some therapy so I wrote much of it out here.  So here is what I would say to him:


Bret,

Why you think you should come back is appalling to me.  I've heard you things "what it was like when we got here" or "what we've had to clean up" or "we've had these injuries" or "what they did at Mississippi State or Notre Dame or Michigan State" and I have to ask you "what have you really done"?

You hitched your wagon to the Allen boys at QB.  You made that decision to start them and live and die with them.  You could have made different decisions there.  In an act of desperation, you even switched your core this year by going to a QB that runs and operates primarily from the gun.  You could say that shows you are adapting, but it could also show that you just don't know what to do.  You have had a couple of other solid athletes that could have played from the gun or run, but you refused to play them.  Duwop comes to mind. 

You claimed that you would build a road grader offensive line, but the Arkansas Line was terrible by most all accounts over the past few years.  I can remember seeing Brandon Allen trying to play against Missouri a few years ago and the guy looked as frail as Abe Vigoda out there, because he had been beaten down with bad line play.  We all saw the graphic about Austin Allen being hit more than any quarterback in all of college football.  More importantly, he was hit that much by SEC level defenses.  I think you can check the NFL rosters and see that the most linebackers and d-line personnel come from the SEC. 

We've had great athletes that could have been great college players, but you refused to play them because you like to play "your guys".  Think of some of the speed we could have played and used.  Even Nick Saban realized long ago that he needed to put more speed on the field.  This year we saw glimpses of capability of highly touted, highly successful athletes that have sat on your roster and gotten no reps – think of Will Gragg and TJ Hammonds.  You continually trot out your guys who are NOT the best athletes.  Slow tight ends, tight ends that run end-zone routes out of bounds, or completely wiff on their assignments leading to disastrous consequences.

You threw a kid under the bus for missing field goals that would not have won a game.  You had a spring and fall camp to find the right kicker, and you did not do that until after throwing a person that actually tried – under the bus.  Character from the Head Coach is what will teach the team, yet you take credit for things that finally happen versus what should have happened.  TJ Hammonds had an awesome game, then he's had basically 7 touches since.  Gragg and Martin are two examples of studs that you don't make sure are involved in the game.  As the Head Coach you should make sure that YOUR Coordinators are ensuring that THE players with success should be "game-planned" into the game plan.  Watch Saban, he makes sure that his studs are in the game.

How many coaches have you hired and how many have left.  How many of the ones that left have gone to resurrect their success after leaving and how many did you not fire that you should have?  Why do you keep coaches that cannot perform.  Why would you have coaches that are poor examples for the young men that you are supposed to be making "uncommon".   Pittman, Cheney, Smith, Chaney, Ash, Partridge, Shannon, Johnson, Segrest are a few names that come to mind.  Maybe we see the Anderson's and Scott's come over because your reputation at both Wisconsin and Arkansas precedes you.

Your obsession with walk-ons is admirable but there is a reason they are walk-ons.  When you start a true freshman over a highly touted, 4-star player that you recruited – either your talent assessment is poor by selecting the 4-star or your talent assessment is flawed because you are playing a walk-on over someone that had 30 offers by programs rated ahead of Arkansas.

Your game management is reprehensible.  How many times have you lost a game that you were leading in the first half?  What adjustments did you ever make in the second half to win a game?  How many times have you been blown out in the second half?  What is your success rate in managing 4th downs?  Are you overruling your offensive coordinator?  In some press conferences you say "I made the call to...." and in some press conferences you say "...he told me we needed to..."  Give me 5 examples of an adjustment you made against an SEC or Power 5 school that you made that led to a turn around that resulted in a win.

You're sloppy.  You're The Head Coach of a Major Division One, SEC Conference Football program yet you parade around in flip flops, shirts that look like parachutes, unshaven, overweight and overall not professional.  This might be part of the discipline that is lacking in the program.  The Bret Bielema show is a joke, done on the field immediately after the loss, no preparation whatsoever, no breakdown of something the team is trying to do, no explanation of a strategy, just you giving a press-conference-like set of comments.  Broyles, Hatfield, Nutt and Petrino all prepared and broke down things the other team was trying to do, or things the team was trying to do, and two things happened as a result:  (1)  Fans felt like they knew what they were talking about.  They were more often blown away with the level of detail and it reaffirmed that those Head Ball Coaches knew what they doing (2)  Recruits saw that kind of coaching and were inspired and awed by knowledge.  High school studs are studs because they are athletes that want to win.  They all know that at the SEC level there are an immense amount of athletes and that the difference in winning and losing is the coaching.  They watch your show and go "wow, don't know what to think".  The other thing is that you think people don't see around town...think about this... because you're pretty visible in a pretty small town. 

No Bret, I don't think you've earned the right to come back another year.  We don't think that playing favorites, an SEC team with 10 Fayetteville kids on their roster (I bet that no other SEC team has so many players from the same high school on their roster), who makes the same coaching mistakes you make and has such a losing record against true Power 5 teams deserves a spot leading the Arkansas Razorbacks.  You have set this program backwards.  Please take this all as input, if you do take it, and course correct – you can be a better coach, but if you go unchanged, I'm afraid you will continue to fail.

[Piggage]

He knows he's gone. At this point he's just an actor playing a role. No need to take his words at face value and give counterpoints.

[RedRazorHog]

He knows he's gone. At this point he's just an actor playing a role. No need to take his words at face value and give counterpoints.

It is therapeutic though!

[pigz]

It is therapeutic though!

I liked it.

[woo.pig]

He tried, but failed. He's a good guy. I sure nobody hates his failure more than him. His ego/pride has taken a hit. Would not be surprised to see him go from here and be successful.

Unfortunately for him it's time to move on.

[hehawg]

recap of every post in the last month

[Peter Porker]

*proofread

[Sed76]

You should hand write it out and send it to him since he loves hand written notes.

[The OTR]

I love these hot headed diatribes to the coaches or people who will never read them. 

This place is almost unbearable at this point and yet I can't keep reading garbage like this.

I don't know or particularly care who the next coach is but I do hope we hire someone with a name we can all spell...first and last name. CBB was a double whammy.  Gus is easy enough.  Malzahn would be spelled wrong half the time on here. 

[cjack]

I love these hot headed diatribes to the coaches or people who will never read them. 

This place is almost unbearable at this point and yet I can't keep reading garbage like this.

I don't know or particularly care who the next coach is but I do hope we hire someone with a name we can all spell...first and last name. CBB was a double whammy.  Gus is easy enough.  Malzahn would be spelled wrong half the time on here. 

I would've thought garbage and pro wrestling fit well together.

[PorkRinds]

TLDNR.

[BearsBisonsBoars]

[RedRazorHog]

TLDNR.

I'll alert the media that it was too long for you to read

[Oklahawg]

I love these hot headed diatribes to the coaches or people who will never read them. 

This place is almost unbearable at this point and yet I can't keep reading garbage like this.

I don't know or particularly care who the next coach is but I do hope we hire someone with a name we can all spell...first and last name. CBB was a double whammy.  Gus is easy enough.  Malzahn would be spelled wrong half the time on here. 

He should send it to Jimmy Sexton. That ought to be worth another half-million a year to put up with the #4 (with a bullet, might be higher now) lunatic fanbase in the country.

[Seebs]

Write a letter yourself and read it to yourself in the mirror.  Now headbutt the mirror. Now headbutt the floor.

Now you know how people feel after reading your post.

Love,
Brettttt

[Razorbackers]

This is one of those letters you're supposed to write but not send or let anyone else see.

[Athog]

Just watched the presser.  To hear Brett talking about all the programs coming back up after a down year, and what's coming back and so forth, well it just bothers me to hear him say he should come back.  Sorry for the long post, but I needed some therapy so I wrote much of it out here.  So here is what I would say to him:


Bret,

Why you think you should come back is appalling to me.  I've heard you things "what it was like when we got here" or "what we've had to clean up" or "we've had these injuries" or "what they did at Mississippi State or Notre Dame or Michigan State" and I have to ask you "what have you really done"?

You hitched your wagon to the Allen boys at QB.  You made that decision to start them and live and die with them.  You could have made different decisions there.  In an act of desperation, you even switched your core this year by going to a QB that runs and operates primarily from the gun.  You could say that shows you are adapting, but it could also show that you just don't know what to do.  You have had a couple of other solid athletes that could have played from the gun or run, but you refused to play them.  Duwop comes to mind. 

You claimed that you would build a road grader offensive line, but the Arkansas Line was terrible by most all accounts over the past few years.  I can remember seeing Brandon Allen trying to play against Missouri a few years ago and the guy looked as frail as Abe Vigoda out there, because he had been beaten down with bad line play.  We all saw the graphic about Austin Allen being hit more than any quarterback in all of college football.  More importantly, he was hit that much by SEC level defenses.  I think you can check the NFL rosters and see that the most linebackers and d-line personnel come from the SEC. 

We've had great athletes that could have been great college players, but you refused to play them because you like to play "your guys".  Think of some of the speed we could have played and used.  Even Nick Saban realized long ago that he needed to put more speed on the field.  This year we saw glimpses of capability of highly touted, highly successful athletes that have sat on your roster and gotten no reps – think of Will Gragg and TJ Hammonds.  You continually trot out your guys who are NOT the best athletes.  Slow tight ends, tight ends that run end-zone routes out of bounds, or completely wiff on their assignments leading to disastrous consequences.

You threw a kid under the bus for missing field goals that would not have won a game.  You had a spring and fall camp to find the right kicker, and you did not do that until after throwing a person that actually tried – under the bus.  Character from the Head Coach is what will teach the team, yet you take credit for things that finally happen versus what should have happened.  TJ Hammonds had an awesome game, then he's had basically 7 touches since.  Gragg and Martin are two examples of studs that you don't make sure are involved in the game.  As the Head Coach you should make sure that YOUR Coordinators are ensuring that THE players with success should be "game-planned" into the game plan.  Watch Saban, he makes sure that his studs are in the game.

How many coaches have you hired and how many have left.  How many of the ones that left have gone to resurrect their success after leaving and how many did you not fire that you should have?  Why do you keep coaches that cannot perform.  Why would you have coaches that are poor examples for the young men that you are supposed to be making "uncommon".   Pittman, Cheney, Smith, Chaney, Ash, Partridge, Shannon, Johnson, Segrest are a few names that come to mind.  Maybe we see the Anderson's and Scott's come over because your reputation at both Wisconsin and Arkansas precedes you.

Your obsession with walk-ons is admirable but there is a reason they are walk-ons.  When you start a true freshman over a highly touted, 4-star player that you recruited – either your talent assessment is poor by selecting the 4-star or your talent assessment is flawed because you are playing a walk-on over someone that had 30 offers by programs rated ahead of Arkansas.

Your game management is reprehensible.  How many times have you lost a game that you were leading in the first half?  What adjustments did you ever make in the second half to win a game?  How many times have you been blown out in the second half?  What is your success rate in managing 4th downs?  Are you overruling your offensive coordinator?  In some press conferences you say "I made the call to...." and in some press conferences you say "...he told me we needed to..."  Give me 5 examples of an adjustment you made against an SEC or Power 5 school that you made that led to a turn around that resulted in a win.

You're sloppy.  You're The Head Coach of a Major Division One, SEC Conference Football program yet you parade around in flip flops, shirts that look like parachutes, unshaven, overweight and overall not professional.  This might be part of the discipline that is lacking in the program.  The Bret Bielema show is a joke, done on the field immediately after the loss, no preparation whatsoever, no breakdown of something the team is trying to do, no explanation of a strategy, just you giving a press-conference-like set of comments.  Broyles, Hatfield, Nutt and Petrino all prepared and broke down things the other team was trying to do, or things the team was trying to do, and two things happened as a result:  (1)  Fans felt like they knew what they were talking about.  They were more often blown away with the level of detail and it reaffirmed that those Head Ball Coaches knew what they doing (2)  Recruits saw that kind of coaching and were inspired and awed by knowledge.  High school studs are studs because they are athletes that want to win.  They all know that at the SEC level there are an immense amount of athletes and that the difference in winning and losing is the coaching.  They watch your show and go "wow, don't know what to think".  The other thing is that you think people don't see around town...think about this... because you're pretty visible in a pretty small town. 

No Bret, I don't think you've earned the right to come back another year.  We don't think that playing favorites, an SEC team with 10 Fayetteville kids on their roster (I bet that no other SEC team has so many players from the same high school on their roster), who makes the same coaching mistakes you make and has such a losing record against true Power 5 teams deserves a spot leading the Arkansas Razorbacks.  You have set this program backwards.  Please take this all as input, if you do take it, and course correct – you can be a better coach, but if you go unchanged, I'm afraid you will continue to fail.

LOL .. why don't you just go tell him that to his face?? That way you go know he got the message and know you sent it. Would you be willing to do that?
Beats wasting all the time on here where you get much attention but know he never sees it!

[Poker_hog]

He knows he's gone. At this point he's just an actor playing a role. No need to take his words at face value and give counterpoints.

Yep.  He's got to go through the motions so that he is not fired with cause and forfeit his buyout.

[HF#1]

Print it off and send it fella. You do YOU

[East Clintwood]

I love these hot headed diatribes to the coaches or people who will never read them. 

This place is almost unbearable at this point and yet I can't keep reading garbage like this.

I don't know or particularly care who the next coach is but I do hope we hire someone with a name we can all spell...first and last name. CBB was a double whammy.  Gus is easy enough.  Malzahn would be spelled wrong half the time on here. 

Hear, here.

Speiling isf impotent!

[Sundog]

Very nice summary; and spot on!

👍 OP

[HeyHogs]

I just the love the passion to take the time and write a letter to someone when you know deep down..

1. They will not see it and will not read it.
2. The target of the letter does not listen to or respect your opinion.

At this point how mean do people have to be with this man?

[arkansasbred]

Write a letter yourself and read it to yourself in the mirror.  Now headbutt the mirror. Now headbutt the floor.

Now you know how people feel after reading your post.

Love,
Brettttt

Agreed.

[trippigs]

blowhard

[carolinahogger]

I love these hot headed diatribes to the coaches or people who will never read them. 

This place is almost unbearable at this point and yet I can't keep reading garbage like this.

Agreed, except I didn't read it.  OP, if you want to send a letter to Bielema why not use the USPS?

[The OTR]

Red razor just shoved all his chips to the center of the table with this post.  Honestly I've never noticed anything he's ever written before.  In fact that's the case for most folks on here. Less than 20 posters here catch my attention whatsoever.  Most I don't even know who they are. 

But now this guy razor...let's just say I'm keeping a eye peeled on him for a while.  I like anyone who blows his stack like this and misspells Bret's name first rattle out of the cage.  In fact that is what hogville is all about.

[Dark Helmet Hog]

Just drive by his house, stick your head out the window and yell you suck.

[TNRazorbacker]

You could have just written, Dear Brett, I'm clinically insane and have a ton of time on my hands. Same message, much easier to read.

[HogPharmer]

LOL .. why don't you just go tell him that to his face?? That way you go know he got the message and know you sent it. Would you be willing to do that?
Beats wasting all the time on here where you get much attention but know he never sees it!

[Seebs]

I wrote a Letter to Bret:

Bret,

It didn't work out. You have more money than I ever will. take a few years off and enjoy that baby and do your level best to make about five more. Find a job you will enjoy.

We will finish behind Saban with or without you. Enjoy being affluent.

Regards,

Just a fan

[FrankCourtneyNicodemus]

The internet trifecta
(1) Spelling error of topic subject
(2) TLDR
(3) Drivel

Nice

[buldozer]

Just watched the presser.  To hear Brett talking about all the programs coming back up after a down year, and what's coming back and so forth

I watched it also..... I think he has stopped drinking and started smoking something

[Peter Porker]

When the idea first popped into your head to post a "Letter to Bret", or as you were typing the letter, or when you decided to post, did the thought that this is really dumb ever cross your mind?

[The OTR]

When the idea first popped into your head to post a "Letter to Bret", or as you were typing the letter, or when you decided to post, did the thought that this is really dumb ever cross your mind?

Come on now...he had me at hitching your wagon to the Allen boys at QB.

[3kgthog]

You could just show up at his house and hang out by the gate. When the cops arrive tell them you thought you'd be nice and help him pack.

[Snouty]

Just watched the presser.  To hear Brett talking about all the programs coming back up after a down year, and what's coming back and so forth, well it just bothers me to hear him say he should come back.  Sorry for the long post, but I needed some therapy so I wrote much of it out here.  So here is what I would say to him:


Bret,

Why you think you should come back is appalling to me.  I’ve heard you things “what it was like when we got here” or “what we’ve had to clean up” or “we’ve had these injuries” or “what they did at Mississippi State or Notre Dame or Michigan State” and I have to ask you “what have you really done”?

You hitched your wagon to the Allen boys at QB.  You made that decision to start them and live and die with them.  You could have made different decisions there.  In an act of desperation, you even switched your core this year by going to a QB that runs and operates primarily from the gun.  You could say that shows you are adapting, but it could also show that you just don’t know what to do.  You have had a couple of other solid athletes that could have played from the gun or run, but you refused to play them.  Duwop comes to mind. 

You claimed that you would build a road grader offensive line, but the Arkansas Line was terrible by most all accounts over the past few years.  I can remember seeing Brandon Allen trying to play against Missouri a few years ago and the guy looked as frail as Abe Vigoda out there, because he had been beaten down with bad line play.  We all saw the graphic about Austin Allen being hit more than any quarterback in all of college football.  More importantly, he was hit that much by SEC level defenses.  I think you can check the NFL rosters and see that the most linebackers and d-line personnel come from the SEC. 

We’ve had great athletes that could have been great college players, but you refused to play them because you like to play “your guys”.  Think of some of the speed we could have played and used.  Even Nick Saban realized long ago that he needed to put more speed on the field.  This year we saw glimpses of capability of highly touted, highly successful athletes that have sat on your roster and gotten no reps – think of Will Gragg and TJ Hammonds.  You continually trot out your guys who are NOT the best athletes.  Slow tight ends, tight ends that run end-zone routes out of bounds, or completely wiff on their assignments leading to disastrous consequences.

You threw a kid under the bus for missing field goals that would not have won a game.  You had a spring and fall camp to find the right kicker, and you did not do that until after throwing a person that actually tried – under the bus.  Character from the Head Coach is what will teach the team, yet you take credit for things that finally happen versus what should have happened.  TJ Hammonds had an awesome game, then he’s had basically 7 touches since.  Gragg and Martin are two examples of studs that you don’t make sure are involved in the game.  As the Head Coach you should make sure that YOUR Coordinators are ensuring that THE players with success should be “game-planned” into the game plan.  Watch Saban, he makes sure that his studs are in the game.

How many coaches have you hired and how many have left.  How many of the ones that left have gone to resurrect their success after leaving and how many did you not fire that you should have?  Why do you keep coaches that cannot perform.  Why would you have coaches that are poor examples for the young men that you are supposed to be making “uncommon”.   Pittman, Cheney, Smith, Chaney, Ash, Partridge, Shannon, Johnson, Segrest are a few names that come to mind.  Maybe we see the Anderson’s and Scott’s come over because your reputation at both Wisconsin and Arkansas precedes you.

Your obsession with walk-ons is admirable but there is a reason they are walk-ons.  When you start a true freshman over a highly touted, 4-star player that you recruited – either your talent assessment is poor by selecting the 4-star or your talent assessment is flawed because you are playing a walk-on over someone that had 30 offers by programs rated ahead of Arkansas.

Your game management is reprehensible.  How many times have you lost a game that you were leading in the first half?  What adjustments did you ever make in the second half to win a game?  How many times have you been blown out in the second half?  What is your success rate in managing 4th downs?  Are you overruling your offensive coordinator?  In some press conferences you say “I made the call to….” and in some press conferences you say “…he told me we needed to…”  Give me 5 examples of an adjustment you made against an SEC or Power 5 school that you made that led to a turn around that resulted in a win.

You’re sloppy.  You’re The Head Coach of a Major Division One, SEC Conference Football program yet you parade around in flip flops, shirts that look like parachutes, unshaven, overweight and overall not professional.  This might be part of the discipline that is lacking in the program.  The Bret Bielema show is a joke, done on the field immediately after the loss, no preparation whatsoever, no breakdown of something the team is trying to do, no explanation of a strategy, just you giving a press-conference-like set of comments.  Broyles, Hatfield, Nutt and Petrino all prepared and broke down things the other team was trying to do, or things the team was trying to do, and two things happened as a result:  (1)  Fans felt like they knew what they were talking about.  They were more often blown away with the level of detail and it reaffirmed that those Head Ball Coaches knew what they doing (2)  Recruits saw that kind of coaching and were inspired and awed by knowledge.  High school studs are studs because they are athletes that want to win.  They all know that at the SEC level there are an immense amount of athletes and that the difference in winning and losing is the coaching.  They watch your show and go “wow, don’t know what to think”.  The other thing is that you think people don’t see around town…think about this… because you’re pretty visible in a pretty small town. 

No Bret, I don’t think you’ve earned the right to come back another year.  We don’t think that playing favorites, an SEC team with 10 Fayetteville kids on their roster (I bet that no other SEC team has so many players from the same high school on their roster), who makes the same coaching mistakes you make and has such a losing record against true Power 5 teams deserves a spot leading the Arkansas Razorbacks.  You have set this program backwards.  Please take this all as input, if you do take it, and course correct – you can be a better coach, but if you go unchanged, I’m afraid you will continue to fail.

May you should have written the letter, kept it overnight, and torn it up the next day. 

[hogginbama]

When the idea first popped into your head to post a "Letter to Bret", or as you were typing the letter, or when you decided to post, did the thought that this is really dumb ever cross your mind?

Naw, I am sure that thought never crossed his mind. He was yelling "honey, thanks for getting me this new flip phone through straight talk at Walmart. I can show them bastages on Hogville that I am an internet tough guy. Ain't you proud of me?".

[King Kong]

The Allens weren't his problem.

[Hogimus Prime]

After reading that I hope CBB comes back as the head coach of the Razorbacks

[RagingHawgOn]

I needed some therapy

Self-awareness is a good thing.

[Jimbob111]

He tried, but failed. He's a good guy. I sure nobody hates his failure more than him. His ego/pride has taken a hit. Would not be surprised to see him go from here and be successful.

Unfortunately for him it's time to move on.

I still don't get why everyone thinks he's a "good guy"...he's a blowhard [CENSORED] who can't back up his mouth...

[pigz]

I still don't get why everyone thinks he's a "good guy"...he's a blowhard [CENSORED] who can't back up his mouth...

How do you really feel?

[wonderboys]

Bret*

He gained a "T" since he got here

[Seebs]

I still don't get why everyone thinks he's a "good guy"...he's a blowhard [CENSORED] who can't back up his mouth...

You seem like a nice guy too. Hogville kind of nice.

[Wildhog]

The dude's gone.  He's not coming back.  No need for walls of text.

[pigz]

The dude's gone.  He's not coming back.  No need for walls of text.