Any takes for Rich Rod or Bert Bielema?

Well both have done worse without. Can you really go home?

Bert has gotten so fat that he is starting to affect the sun's gravitational pull on the earth.

Bert isn't coming back to Madison.


Some crazy shite has gone on, I never thought Chryst would get canned this year (let alone in season), but that's just too crazy.

Isn't there some lingering bad blood between WVU and Rich Rod?

Bert is in a perfect spot at Illinois. Expectations aren't crazy and he has already given Wisconsin and the SEC a shot. I could see him building the Illini into a consistent bowl team and hanging around there for a while.

He doesn't even need to consistently win 8 games a year. Just consistently make bowl games with 8 or 9 wins every few years

There is some bad blood. But WVU is desperate to get butts in seats and Neal Brown is awful.

The problem is our shite for brains AD gave him a massive guaranteed contract when he thought Auburn would actually consider hiring him in 2019 after 2 losing seasons at WVU.

It's not a good situation in Morgantown and fans are desperate for some excitement which Rich would bring. He'd also come at a reasonable price.

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Bret making the jump back to UW.

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Doubt either side wants each other + the Wisconsin job is pointing straight at Jimmy Leonhard. No one at the university wants to look further than that. As an aside, it's easy to forget that Bret Bielema was winning conference championships during a time when Ohio State was on probation, Penn State was being blasted by the Sandusky scandal, and Michigan was in the Rich Rod and Brady Hoke era. The B1G was nowhere near what it is today.

At Illinois, Bret Bielema is ahead of schedule because Wisconsin is at its worst since 2008. Going to get even more difficult for Illinois once the B1G reconfigures in 2024 - Bielema should build Illinois into a consistent bowl contender and be happy with the job security.