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Started by Mike Irwin, July 15, 2017, 09:39:33 pm

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Wildhog

Bielema also won 21 games his first two years at UW.  To question his job security after winning 7 in year 3 after those first two years was absurd.  Much different scenario here.
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caveman

I want  Houston Nutt back here, we fired the guy  with a 10 win season, we  used to be ranked in the top 10. Under Nutt we played for the SEC championship, we knocked off some biggies under his watch. This team is going nowhere just like it has the last 5 yrs. Ranked #4 in the west, we cant beat nobody


PorkRinds

Quote from: caveman on July 15, 2017, 10:54:08 pm
I want  Houston Nutt back here, we fired the guy  with a 10 win season, we  used to be ranked in the top 10. Under Nutt we played for the SEC championship, we knocked off some biggies under his watch. This team is going nowhere just like it has the last 5 yrs. Ranked #4 in the west, we cant beat nobody


Oh lawd.

PorkRinds

Quote from: The ColonelHog on July 15, 2017, 11:00:33 pm
How can you say oh Lawd?  Nutt accomplished much more at UA than BB has thus far.  The numbers are the numbers!  Justify Oh Lawd......

Im gonna pass.

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Quote from: caveman on July 15, 2017, 10:54:08 pm
I want  Houston Nutt back here, we fired the guy  with a 10 win season, we  used to be ranked in the top 10. Under Nutt we played for the SEC championship, we knocked off some biggies under his watch. This team is going nowhere just like it has the last 5 yrs. Ranked #4 in the west, we cant beat nobody

How many two year passes did Houston ask for again?

TNRazorbacker

Quote from: caveman on July 15, 2017, 10:54:08 pm
I want  Houston Nutt back here, we fired the guy  with a 10 win season, we  used to be ranked in the top 10. Under Nutt we played for the SEC championship, we knocked off some biggies under his watch. This team is going nowhere just like it has the last 5 yrs. Ranked #4 in the west, we cant beat nobody

I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.

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nchogg

Coaching in the SEC is different now than it was during the Nutt years. Different Coaches and different offensive schemes.

Hawghiggs

July 16, 2017, 07:15:55 am #10 Last Edit: July 16, 2017, 08:07:02 am by Hawghiggs
 So, Bielema kept up with the career of a nameless young reporter who asked him a unfavorable question? That's not petty at all. We don't need to hire Houston Nutt. We seem to have HN 2.0 already.  I now have no doubt that the Razorbacks will win 9 or 10 games this season. That's straight from the Hootie playbook. Give them hope an ask for more money. I think I see Nebraska's plane circling. 

Hawghiggs

Quote from: nchogg on July 16, 2017, 07:06:05 am
Coaching in the SEC is different now than it was during the Nutt years. Different Coaches and different offensive schemes.

Not really. Ever year new coaches are added to ever program. New schemes are developed to give them a edge.

Pork Ranger

Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.

Gonna have to agree

 

Mike_e

Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.

What you actually want is Danny Ford back.  Without him hdn wouldn't have made it past year 4.  Period.  Ford recruited players that could play in the SEC and were tough as nails because of him.  Everybody that remembers those first two years of hdn is remembering the ghost of Danny Ford.  DMac was great but hdn wouldn't have been able to do much with him had he still been there because the program would have imploded by then and there wouldn't have been anybody really to block for him (yeah DMac was great but he also had a pretty salty OLine blocking for him)

Maybe CBB is an incarnation of CDF in that he's bringing in some pretty good talent.  And maybe he's doing it for the next guy But at least he's running more than 4 plays and is comfortable with the forward pass.

HDN's teams at least played defense you say?  Did you ever actually see the way he ran his sidelines?  Mass confusion.  There's no way he'd make it against a no huddle team. Heck, it's doubtful that he could have gotten 11 players out there before the snap.  More like 9 or 12 or 13.

I am NOT a Gus fan but the one thing he actually did while he was here was to instill some sideline discipline.  HDN was a walking, talking disaster area.  Let him stay in his nice ole house in oxford or where ever the hexx it is down there.

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Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.

Here's a fact for you. The SEC in general and the West in particular, wasn't anywhere near as strong as it is today. With as poor of a recruiter as Nutt was (a lot of talent fell into his lap) and as poor of a tactician, he would get his arse eaten alive in the SEC West at Arkansas today.
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southeasthog

Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time.
Win totals for Nutt in his first 4 seasons here. 9, 8, 6, and 7. How is that accomplishing significantly more than Beliema's first 4 years?
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Quote from: Mike_e on July 16, 2017, 09:38:55 am
What you actually want is Danny Ford back.  Without him hdn wouldn't have made it past year 4.  Period.  Ford recruited players that could play in the SEC and were tough as nails because of him.  Everybody that remembers those first two years of hdn is remembering the ghost of Danny Ford.  DMac was great but hdn wouldn't have been able to do much with him had he still been there because the program would have imploded by then and there wouldn't have been anybody really to block for him (yeah DMac was great but he also had a pretty salty OLine blocking for him)

Maybe CBB is an incarnation of CDF in that he's bringing in some pretty good talent.  And maybe he's doing it for the next guy But at least he's running more than 4 plays and is comfortable with the forward pass.

HDN's teams at least played defense you say?  Did you ever actually see the way he ran his sidelines?  Mass confusion.  There's no way he'd make it against a no huddle team. Heck, it's doubtful that he could have gotten 11 players out there before the snap.  More like 9 or 12 or 13.

I am NOT a Gus fan but the one thing he actually did while he was here was to instill some sideline discipline.  HDN was a walking, talking disaster area.  Let him stay in his nice ole house in oxford or where ever the hexx it is down there.

R/O

It's rare someone gets it. Great post

We fans and HDN owe Danny ford a lot.


In two years if CBB is let go some other schmuck will come in and win with his players just like HDN. History repeats

Hogtimes

July 16, 2017, 01:54:15 pm #18 Last Edit: July 16, 2017, 04:15:31 pm by Hogtimes
I guess he thought that was a smart put down of  the reporter.  Personally, I would prefer that Bielema concentrate on coaching the team and quit the media scuffling by talking  about a 10 year old grudge.

TNhawgfan

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Wildhog

"...and that guy's no longer in the business. So good luck to you."

Thought this was a little uncalled for.
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Großer Kriegschwein

Quote from: Wildhog on July 16, 2017, 03:15:06 pm
"...and that guy's no longer in the business. So good luck to you."

Thought this was a little uncalled for.

Yeah. Wonder how he would have acted during the Florida Gators-Petrino-hat-ass-chewing Hatgate incident.

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Quote from: Großer Kriegschwein on July 16, 2017, 04:06:14 pm
Yeah. Wonder how he would have acted during the Florida Gators-Petrino-hat-ass-chewing Hatgate incident.

Oh, Bobby was quite dickish.
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BallHog1

July 16, 2017, 05:09:55 pm #23 Last Edit: July 17, 2017, 08:18:57 am by BallHog1
Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.
Houston inherited Ford's team that was ready to go.
BB inherited Bobby and Smiley's mess.

 

BallHog1

Quote from: MuskogeeHogFan on July 16, 2017, 09:40:48 am
Here's a fact for you. The SEC in general and the West in particular, wasn't anywhere near as strong as it is today. With as poor of a recruiter as Nutt was (a lot of talent fell into his lap) and as poor of a tactician, he would get his arse eaten alive in the SEC West at Arkansas today.
This, wasn't Shula at Bama then?

3kgthog

Having a ridiculous buyout and an AD that doesn't put a high value on winning sure do make it easy for BB to be mouthy.

I suspect deep down there's a grade A jack wagon inside of him. He's just good at hiding it publicly most of the time. It might explain his super high assistant turnover.

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Quote from: jkstock04 on July 16, 2017, 07:38:30 pm
Boy he loves to bring up those Wisconsin days.
Yep, he;s grabbing at every available straw.   " All our opponents had a off week before we played em"  winey excuses :puke:

caveman

So Danny Ford recruited players who could play in the SEC, how about a few Nutt recruited, like for instance Bat Man Carrol, Felix Jones, Darren McFadden and Peyton Hillis, Cedric Cobb, Matt Jones. When we went to Texas in 2003, Texas was  ranked in the top 10, Jones and company ran over them like Jr High kids. We weren't even ranked in the top 20. Also we beat a Tenn team ranked in the top 5 in Nutts 1st yr.

factchecker

Quote from: caveman on July 16, 2017, 10:35:05 pm
Also we beat a Tenn team ranked in the top 5 in Nutts 1st yr.

We lost to Tennessee in Nutt's first year.
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Quote from: factchecker on July 16, 2017, 11:12:43 pm
We lost to Tennessee in Nutt's first year.

Yeah, and in an epically bad way.  Hard to believe he forgot that.

moses_007

Hell, if we're going to bring somebody back, bring back Lou Holtz.  He was our real winner.

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Quote from: TNRazorbacker on July 16, 2017, 05:56:27 am
I'm not going to argue for HN back but there's some logic in this that's undeniable. HN had accomplished significantly more than BB in the same amount of time. HNs Achilles heal was inconsistency, at the same time we rarely played a game that I felt we didn't have a shot in. His spastic tendencies, as frustrating as they were, tended to make him dangerous, and even then I don't recall him dropping games to non-P5 schools.

Sometimes facts are hard to swallow but that doesn't make them any less true.
It felt the same way in 2014/2015. Last year was a sucker punch though
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Quote from: Wildhog on July 16, 2017, 03:15:06 pm
"...and that guy's no longer in the business. So good luck to you."

Thought this was a little uncalled for.

Yeah.....for all we know that reporter could now be a Vice-President at CBS or what ever.

hogcard1964

Nutt's not coming back here, nor is Petrino.  Let it go.

This is pretty pathetic.  I can understand missing Petrino, but Nutt?  While he (Nutt) may have been a better coach than Bielema, is that the type of program you really want back?  Unless folks are forgetting, Nutt was also a miserable underperformer.

GuvHog

Quote from: Wildhog on July 16, 2017, 04:09:24 pm
Oh, Bobby was quite dickish.

Yeah Bobby was a class "A" jerk but he was a winner. He wasn't hired to kiss babies or be a glad hander, he was hired to WIN.

CBB on the other hand, is a class act but just hasn't gotten it done.
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Quote from: The ColonelHog on July 15, 2017, 11:00:33 pm
How can you say oh Lawd?  Nutt accomplished much more at UA than BB has thus far.  The numbers are the numbers!  Justify Oh Lawd......

Bret and his Big 10 team beat one of our best roster's in school history because we had HDN as a coach.
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MamaHogFan

Go back and watch the last Ole Miss vs Vandy game. I watched it with great delight because Vandy destroyed Ole Miss and all HDN could do was bite his nails.

factchecker

Quote from: MamaHogFan on July 20, 2017, 11:25:13 pm
Go back and watch the last Ole Miss vs Vandy game. I watched it with great delight because Vandy destroyed Ole Miss and all HDN could do was bite his nails.

or the game vs. Jacksonville State (with Jack Crowe at head coach) -

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Quote from: TNhawgfan on July 16, 2017, 02:16:06 pm
It's all talk until it isn't. I'll reserve judgement on how different it will be this year until after the aggies

If BB doesn't beat the aggies this year, well, lets just say that is a must win game for the big guy
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Quote from: GuvHog on July 18, 2017, 04:21:26 pm
Yeah Bobby was a class "A" jerk but he was a winner. He wasn't hired to kiss babies or be a glad hander, he was hired to WIN.

CBB on the other hand, is a class act but just hasn't gotten it done.

One has the "it factor" the other's factor rhymes with "it"
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Quote from: caveman on July 15, 2017, 10:54:08 pm
I want  Houston Nutt back here, we fired the guy  with a 10 win season, we  used to be ranked in the top 10. Under Nutt we played for the SEC championship, we knocked off some biggies under his watch. This team is going nowhere just like it has the last 5 yrs. Ranked #4 in the west, we cant beat nobody



Amazingly hilarious...

A post only a caveman could make.

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Quote from: factchecker on July 20, 2017, 11:28:12 pm
or the game vs. Jacksonville State (with Jack Crowe at head coach) -



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Quote from: JOKERHOG on July 22, 2017, 05:39:51 pm
If BB doesn't beat the aggies this year, well, lets just say that is a must win game for the big guy

Lol

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hawgon

Read this article from a Wisconsin guy when Bielema left.  It isn't all negative, in fact it is generally positive overall.  Just read it with four years of Bielema under our belts and tell me if it isn't the complete Bret Bielema experience encapsulated.

https://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2012/12/6/3734422/farewell-bret-bielema-arkansas-wisconsin-good-bad-ugly

RME

July 24, 2017, 11:11:53 am #46 Last Edit: July 24, 2017, 12:46:05 pm by RyanMallettsEgo
Quote from: hawgon on July 24, 2017, 11:06:07 am
Read this article from a Wisconsin guy when Bielema left.  It isn't all negative, in fact it is generally positive overall.  Just read it with four years of Bielema under our belts and tell me if it isn't the complete Bret Bielema experience encapsulated.

https://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2012/12/6/3734422/farewell-bret-bielema-arkansas-wisconsin-good-bad-ugly

That was frighteningly spot on.

EDIT: That wasn't a knock^. I like Bielema. That article was, from what I've seen and how I interpret things, just pretty accurate.

Sed76

That article was great. Loved the part about the vacant stare when things are going wrong. Can't tell you how many times I've screamed at the TV whenever it shows him standing there looking clueless as to what is happening.

Buff

Quote from: MuskogeeHogFan on July 16, 2017, 09:40:48 am
Here's a fact for you. The SEC in general and the West in particular, wasn't anywhere near as strong as it is today. With as poor of a recruiter as Nutt was (a lot of talent fell into his lap) and as poor of a tactician, he would get his arse eaten alive in the SEC West at Arkansas today.

It's like people don't remember his last 2 seasons at Ole Miss

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