Bret Bielema tried to cancel an official visit to Ohio State for best 2015 Arky recruit

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After taking his official visit to Arkansas, Hill was scheduled to visit Ohio State officially leading up to National Signing Day. The week of the visit, Zach Smith (disgraced former Ohio State receivers coach Zach Smith, the guy that has been accused of domestic violence against his ex-wife that eventually led to Meyer being suspended last season? Well, he’s back after being fired at Ohio State and he’s started up a podcast. Incredibly, it’s titled “Menace 2 Society") claims Bielema tried to cancel Hill’s visit without his knowledge.

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Holy frick. There had to be a better way to write all that out. The part in parenthesis is longer than the rest of the sentence.

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Holy frick. There had to be a better way to write all that out. The part in parenthesis is longer than the rest of the sentence.

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I added the parentheses part from a different part of the article so people knew who the source was

Bert was awesome. That guy gave zero fricks.

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Bret Bielema

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Who? I don't know anyone by that name. Knew a Bert once.

Bert was a disiater at Arkansas. He had no idea how recruiting worked and he simply gave up after getting a giant extension and buyout (we ended up paying nearly $12 million to go away after torpedoing an already fragile team.

He blew more 2nd half and 4th qtr double digit leads than I can count and lost to more G5 schools in 5 years than we had in history. He was simply overwhelmed by the SEC and would not adapt.

Losing Hill as a recruit was only the half of it. He did l not believe in offering more than a handful of kids and every year, inevitably when a recruit did not pan out, the staff was scrambling for scraps to even fill out a class, and often did not sign the full allotment.

He also had the worst strength and conditioning program I've ever seen. He literary did not care about speed and would rather have size... Like it was 1973. And even when he did have huge guys, they were in horrendous shape and gassed out every 4th qtr.

I can't say how much he set back the program back, all while collecting a top 10 coach type salary. That's basically the fault of the cuck AD though, who gave him a giant contract extension after he won 6 games and beat a simpleton, Charlie Strong Texas team in a shitty bowl.... Mind you, he had about 10-15 nfl level players on that squad and still only won 6 games and a bowl.

People always liked Bert as a person, but he was extremely spiteful on weird matters just like the KJ Hill thing. He openly went to a Texas coaches convention and basically said their HS spread concepts were weak, virtually destroying all relationships in the state that should have been, and is historically, the lifeblood of Arkansas recruiting.

Only after hiring a former HS coach from there is the program back in the state. Bert had one of the biggest talent pools in the country (Dallas metroplex) 5 hrs away from campus and he never exploited it.

I'm rambling, but folks should know how utterly Clueless he was in the league. It also pains me that he has a SB ring. Although I love the Pats. It does though bring me solice that he was not named the DC for NE.

He belongs as a line coach in the nfl. This recruiting thing ain't for him...

Crazy that Bert made three straight "grandeddy of them alls" and won ten games 4 different times in that shite conference. The joke ain't Bert. It's the big 10.

Saban has surely done worse. I bet that dude would get TSA to stop a recruit from visiting somewhere.

that’s fricking awesome. Good for Kilff

Amazingly, Bert's only strengths were his ability to beat LSU and Ole Miss. I think he went winless against Miss State, yet got probably half of his conference wins from those two schools alone... Both of whom had markedly better teams in paper. I think he only lost yo LSU twice and Ole Miss once.

Only after he lost to both teams his last year did he finally get the Axe.

In that same period, he also lost to Toledo and Rutgers