Don’t count on Arkansas coach Bret Bielema getting sucked into college football’s spread phenomenon.

Gus Malzahn, Hugh Freeze and Kevin Sumlin can all keep their sexy spread-em-out offenses; Bielema’s content being a dinosaur.

Bielema jumped on Jim Rome’s radio show Monday to discuss some aspects of his team, Russell Wilson and college football.

Here’s Bielema talking about how the spread offense isn’t anything new to college football, and really, he was faced with preparing for it 10-15 years ago.

“When I first started coaching, back 10 years ago to head coach, the spread was the in thing, the fad and the thing to do and a lot of people have evolved to it,” said Bielema. “I look at our conference schedule now and the 12 game slate we have in front of us offensively, we’re the only pro-style offense that kind of does it the way we do it and with that being said, when you’re playing a spread team, a lot of times they don’t even have the personnel to kind of duplicate us during practice which makes it a very difficult preparation. The same things that we went through 10-15 years ago with defending the spread. It’s kind of nice to be a dinosaur in today’s world. I think it is going to be something that will continue to play out over here over the next couple years unless there’s a big change in the rules that govern our game that we love so much.”

Bielema’s long been known for being a solid developer along the line of scrimmage and for building a physically tough team.

Last Thursday night, Arkansas held a late-night squat session in Razorback Stadium, and the athletic department put together “When the lights go up, the freaks come out” hype video. Arkansas’ line of scrimmage play is among the most physically punishing units in all of college football.

Does Bielema think his team is the toughest?

“If we’re not, we definitely want our guys to believe it,” said Bielema. “We have big, little, in-between, we have the kind of chemistry to us that our kids just really believe in the principles we’ve set up as coaches. It’s the same principles of a lot of NFL championships have been won off of as well as college and it’s taken a couple years to mold it in.”

Will Arkansas surprise the SEC West this season? Kirk Herbstreit thinks they can, and we certainly think there’s a chance.

Even if the Hogs fall short of their goals, Arkansas will be one of the most interesting programs to watch over the coming years.