Ya'll got him "flinching"

[snoot hoggy hog]

"We can take this next week to really take an inventory on everything: Offense, defense, special teams," Bielema said. "Personnel. The close of recruiting. Staff. What we're asking our guys to do and the offseason program, as well as build character for the season itself."

https://www.seccountry.com/arkansas/arkansas-football-bret-bielema-belk-bowl

[The Boar War]

“We can take this next week to really take an inventory on everything: Offense, defense, special teams,” Bielema said. “Personnel. The close of recruiting. Staff. What we’re asking our guys to do and the offseason program, as well as build character for the season itself.”

https://www.seccountry.com/arkansas/arkansas-football-bret-bielema-belk-bowl

True.  But then he's always said what I wanted to hear.  Now I need to actually see it.

[Inhogswetrust]

True.  But then he's always said what I wanted to hear.  Now I need to actually see it.

Exactly...Seeing is believing. He has lost credibility with a lot of fans. He can talk until he's blue in the face. It's time for him to put up or shut up. Actually it was time for him to shut up on some things a long time ago.

[Torqued pork]

They certainly accomplished a lot after the learning experience at Mizzou. Next season can't get here fast enough. Bielema is so FOS.

[havok]

Yea.. He promised that the team was not going to have a 2nd Half Meltdown too.. I suppose now we have to wait to see it before believing it.

[island hog]

Michigan's defense had TEN seniors starting on it last night ... They had team leadership from those seniors. We have had very little player leadership on our team this year, in my opinion, which was a huge issue.  When those who you would expect to step up and take over the locker room, when things are going south, are shop lifting and spitting in other's faces ... This is what you get. We need team leadership from the players... The coaches can't force that.

[lutherheggs]

We have heard all his crap before.  Time to stfu and show the fans some results.  All this pos does is talk a good game.  He is like Nutt...but Nutt was at least an Arkansas boy and did love the Hogs.  Did anyone watch Michigan last night?  They lost... but if our losses looked like that I could get Behind the coach.  His teams don't play with that passion for the game refuse to lose. That is why I am done with Beliema.

Funny I am seeing more and more referencing similarities to Nutt. I guess that is natural when you talk a good game but generally get Nutt-like results. And fact is, Bielema is not even up to the level of Nutt. Nutt certainly did better than Bielema has done or is on track to do. Based on recruits coming in and players returning, I do not see how this team will be measurably better next year...and SEC was down this year. Watch Bama lose to Washington today.

[PorkRinds]

Funny I am seeing more and more referencing similarities to Nutt. I guess that is natural when you talk a good game but generally get Nutt-like results. And fact is, Bielema is not even up to the level of Nutt. Nutt certainly did better than Bielema has done or is on track to do. Based on recruits coming in and players returning, I do not see how this team will be measurably better next year...and SEC was down this year. Watch Bama lose to Washington today.

Another that struggles with the fact vs opinion concept.

[(notOM)Rebel123]

"We can take this next week to really take an inventory on everything: Offense, defense, special teams," Bielema said. "Personnel. The close of recruiting. Staff. What we're asking our guys to do and the offseason program, as well as build character for the season itself."

https://www.seccountry.com/arkansas/arkansas-football-bret-bielema-belk-bowl

So ya' think CBB was thinking, "dang, I bet they are melting down on Hogville. I better come up with something, and fast" ?

[lutherheggs]

Another that struggles with the fact vs opinion concept.

Fact is, Bielema has a losing overall record in 4 full seasons. Fact is, he is 10-22 in SEC play in 4 seasons. You are what your record says you are. No excuses.

[lefty08]

Michigan's defense had TEN seniors starting on it last night ... They had team leadership from those seniors. We have had very little player leadership on our team this year, in my opinion, which was a huge issue.  When those who you would expect to step up and take over the locker room, when things are going south, are shop lifting and spitting in other's faces ... This is what you get. We need team leadership from the players... The coaches can't force that.

In hind sight, I think this was a huge deal for this team.  I expected our seniors to be better leaders than that fornsure

[a0ashle]

Fact is, Bielema has a losing overall record in 4 full seasons. Fact is, he is 10-22 in SEC play in 4 seasons. You are what your record says you are. No excuses.

You still can't help it..."you are what your record says you are. No excuses" is an opinion, not fact.

[a0ashle]

In hind sight, I think this was a huge deal for this team.  I expected our seniors to be better leaders than that fornsure

The last two years the team handled adversity so much better. We needed a Tretola on the team this year. A vocal leader. We had the non-vocal leaders, but you need both. Morgan tried hard, but I don't think it carried enough weight.

[uconnhog]

Bielema may have lost this team

[rude1]

"We will play a 4 quarter game, I can guarantee you that".......Enough said, if there is one thing he has excelled at since he swaggered through the door is talking.......

[a0ashle]

Bielema may have lost this team

Dramatic much

[lefty08]

Bielema may have lost this team

Teams like that don't get up 24-0 on quality teams

[zebradynasty]

To not blow large leads or play poorly in second halves, you have to have leadership on the field. There has to be a handful of players that hate losing so much that their pride won't let them accept blowing a 24pt lead. This team's mental state has been shaky all year. Those of us on the outside are just guessing why. CBB and the team...they know why or who, what is causing them not to be mentally tough. It's one of those things that need to stay in the locker room, which is fine as long as they (players, coaches, staff) address it and fix it!

[Al Boarland]

Michigan's defense had TEN seniors starting on it last night ... They had team leadership from those seniors. We have had very little player leadership on our team this year, in my opinion, which was a huge issue.  When those who you would expect to step up and take over the locker room, when things are going south, are shop lifting and spitting in other's faces ... This is what you get. We need team leadership from the players... The coaches can't force that.

Those seniors were CBB's guys. He recruited them. He developed them on and off the field.

[hogcard1964]

You still can't help it..."you are what your record says you are. No excuses" is an opinion, not fact.

No, unfortunately statistics are factual.  Statistically he's a horrible coach.  You could have said that his numbers may have been an anomaly based on a few games, but he's been here a long time now.  He's statistically one of the worst coaches we've ever had.  And the style he loses in is also a concern.  His teams flat out quit.

[longpig]

We have heard all his crap before.  Time to stfu and show the fans some results.  All this pos does is talk a good game.  He is like Nutt...but Nutt was at least an Arkansas boy and did love the Hogs.  Did anyone watch Michigan last night?  They lost... but if our losses looked like that I could get Behind the coach.  His teams don't play with that passion for the game refuse to lose. That is why I am done with Beliema.

Only thing I didn't like about that Michigan loss was it being a Jimbo Fisher win.

[zebradynasty]

Those seniors were CBB's guys. He recruited them. He developed them on and off the field.

Doesn't matter who recruited them didn't Nutt finish 9-4 with Ford's players. You are right the coach is supposed to foster an environment for leaders to step forward. Somehow that didn't get done this season...WHY?

[longpig]

In hind sight, I think this was a huge deal for this team.  I expected our seniors to be better leaders than that fornsure

I hope you're right.  Another rebuild after 2 more seasons of .500 is unthinkable. 

[elksnort]

Teams like that don't get up 24-0 on quality teams

This is why the final results are so puzzling.

[Iwastherein1969]

There's a time to fight for your team as a coach by arguing with the refs (like taking a tech in basketball to fire the players up) and then there's a time when you just STFU. We had one of those "should have STFU" moments in the second quarter in the Belk Bowl. When Bielema spent a full 10 minutes arguing the holding penalty when we punted. Yes, we won the battle right there, but lost the war. For it was at that moment that the game turned on a dime. The Hokie defense took it personally and their fans got fired up and yes, they didn't score off of the Bielema filibuster as they missed a FG before half. But their defense came out with fire in their eyes in the second half and we started giving up points in droves. Every now and then, maybe just maybe when you are 24 up and all is going well, there comes a time to leave well enough alone. IMO, the whole game changed on the play in which Bielema spent a good 10 minutes on the field arguing with the referees.

[longpig]

That and the Morgan goal line fumble.  Which could have been 7 points and snuffed out their momentum.

[farmhawg]

Michigan's defense had TEN seniors starting on it last night ... They had team leadership from those seniors. We have had very little player leadership on our team this year, in my opinion, which was a huge issue.  When those who you would expect to step up and take over the locker room, when things are going south, are shop lifting and spitting in other's faces ... This is what you get. We need team leadership from the players... The coaches can't force that.

He can recruit it though and hasn't.

[PorkRinds]

We now have people faulting the coach for winning an argument with the refs and getting possession back. And citing that as why we lost the game. It's like the twilight zone up in here.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

When I hear him talk now all I hear is the Charlie Brown teacher "wah, wah, wah, wah, wah ".

Don't tell me, show me.

[greenEGnHAWGS]

Those seniors were CBB's guys. He recruited them. He developed them on and off the field.

I'm sorry but you can't teach leadership.

[lefty08]

He can recruit it though and hasn't.

Most ever player playing P5 football was a "leader" in high school. Every team dynamic is different, sometimes even with the same returning core. It's not predictable

[lefty08]

When I hear him talk now all I hear is the Charlie Brown teacher "wah, wah, wah, wah, wah ".

Don't tell me, show me.

He's in a press conference........

[greenEGnHAWGS]

When I hear him talk now all I hear is the Charlie Brown teacher "wah, wah, wah, wah, wah ".

Don't tell me, show me.

At which part of the press conference should he "show you" instead of talking as the head coach of football team?

[(notOM)Rebel123]

We now have people faulting the coach for winning an argument with the refs and getting possession back. And citing that as why we lost the game. It's like the twilight zone up in here.

It's downright mindboggling.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

He's in a press conference........

And your point is?

I've seen Belicheck and other coaches not say crap in a press conference after terrible team performances.

Regardless it's a figure of speech nitwit, but I'm tired of him polishing a turd.

It's a turd, he knows it and we know it, time to fix it or flush it.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

At which part of the press conference should he "show you" instead of talking as the head coach of football team?

You guys are dense.

Figure of speech.

You know like "he's dumb as a box of hammers", which I'm sure you've heard a lot.

But I doubt anyone is actually comparing your I.Q. to an inanimate object, at least not right away anyway.

[greenEGnHAWGS]

And your point is?

I've seen Belicheck and other coaches not say crap in a press conference after terrible team performances.

Regardless it's a figure of speech nitwit, but I'm tired of him polishing a turd.

It's a turd, he knows it and we know it, time to fix it or flush it.

You really need a dose of HV reality. Can you even imagine the uproat on HV if he went to a press confrench and deferred every question?

Holy crap...the outcry would be unbelievable and the CBB haters would fine every way to mock and ridicule with every question deferred.

I get being upset and blaming, but the "stfu" crew is getting pretty annoying when the man is in a press conference.

[farmhawg]

We now have people faulting the coach for winning an argument with the refs and getting possession back. And citing that as why we lost the game. It's like the twilight zone up in here.

So it's normal!

[Redhogs]

"We can take this next week to really take an inventory on everything: Offense, defense, special teams," Bielema said. "Personnel. The close of recruiting. Staff. What we're asking our guys to do and the offseason program, as well as build character for the season itself."

https://www.seccountry.com/arkansas/arkansas-football-bret-bielema-belk-bowl

It took 4 freaking years to do this?  Incompetent  windbag.

[lefty08]

It took 4 freaking years to do this?  Incompetent  windbag.

No, he does that every year, every coach in the country does......

[farmhawg]

It took 4 freaking years to do this?  Incompetent  windbag.

Its a ten year rebuild, so we are not even halfway there yet.

[greenEGnHAWGS]

You guys are dense.

Figure of speech.

You know like "he's dumb as a box of hammers", which I'm sure you've heard a lot.

But I doubt anyone is actually comparing your I.Q. to an inanimate object, at least not right away anyway.

Figures of speech usual have some correlation to the topic of a matter. Telling someone to stfu during a press conference is not a well applied reference.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

You really need a dose of HV reality. Can you even imagine the uproat on HV if he went to a press confrench and deferred every question?

Holy crap...the outcry would be unbelievable and the CBB haters would fine every way to mock and ridicule with every question deferred.

I get being upset and blaming, but the "stfu" crew is getting pretty annoying when the man is in a press conference.

Again it's a figure of speech, Good Lord!

He can say whatever he wants but he needs to actually back it up because not many people are buying his schtick anymore.

[lefty08]

Again it's a figure of speech, Good Lord!

He can say whatever he wants but he needs to actually back it up because not many people are buying his schtick anymore.

What is his schtick?

[Calling All Hogs]

"We can take this next week to really take an inventory on everything: Offense, defense, special teams," Bielema said. "Personnel. The close of recruiting. Staff. What we're asking our guys to do and the offseason program, as well as build character for the season itself."

https://www.seccountry.com/arkansas/arkansas-football-bret-bielema-belk-bowl

Comforting to know he still doesn't have a clue what happened even after the Missouri game. I guess if problems don't magically go away you have to do ya one of them inventories to make such you got all your parts including that character thingamajig. 

[PonderinHog]

You guys are dense.

Figure of speech.

You know like "he's dumb as a box of hammers", which I'm sure you've heard a lot.

But I doubt anyone is actually comparing your I.Q. to an inanimate object, at least not right away anyway.

My box of dumb hammers can beat up your box of honor hammers.   

[Hogsmo Kramer]

Figures of speech usual have some correlation to the topic of a matter. Telling someone to stfu during a press conference is not a well applied reference.

Never said to STFU but if I were him I'd be pretty cautious about saying or promising things he can't deliver.

That's part of what's gotten him here in the first place. Ever heard of "under promise, over deliver"?

[lefty08]

Never said to STFU but if I were him I'd be pretty cautious about saying or promising things he can't deliver.

That's part of what's gotten him here in the first place. Ever heard of "under promise, over deliver"?

Yeah its horrible when a new hire in major college football proclaims he's here to win the conference. He should have said he was here to make a bowl game every year, I'm sure the mental midgets would have loved that

[PonderinHog]

Never said to STFU but if I were him I'd be pretty cautious about saying or promising things he can't deliver.

That's part of what's gotten him here in the first place. Ever heard of "under promise, over deliver"?

Or speak softly and carry a big hammer...

[Hogsmo Kramer]

What is his schtick?

Alright grammar nazi I fat fingered it.

Shtick.

Better?