Kentucky assistant trolls first-year Illinois coach Bret Bielema
Bret Bielema may be a solid coach but his failures to attract enough high-end talent to keep up with the rest of the SEC West doomed his tenure at Arkansas.
Now that he’s back in college football, Bielema was named the head coach at Illinois this offseason following several seasons serving as an NFL assistant coach, one of his key tasks is to upgrade the level of talent he and his coaching staff have to work in Champaign.
While Bielema may no longer be in the meat grinder that is the Southeastern Conference, one Kentucky assistant made sure to remind the first-year Illinois coach not to look too far south for talent to join the Illinois program.
If you aren’t already following Vince Marrow on Twitter, you are running your social media life wrong.
Kentucky’s best recruiter took notice when a fan asked Bielema which member of the Illinois coaching staff would be covering southwest Ohio on the recruiting trail.
Marrow’s response?
“Vince Marrow lol,” the Kentucky assistant joked.
Check out the exchange below.
Anyone that refers to Bielema as a solid coach needs to do some research and rethinking. I dont know if Illinois will fail because of Bielema or if Bielema will fail because its Illinois, but no matter because the results will be the same either way.
The Illinois Athletic Director must have been totally out of candidate to have hired Bret Bielema. The guy like to eat more than he likes to coach.
He done a great job at Wisconsin but the Big 10 is not the SEC as he found out.
Wisconsin was not, just a great Big 10 team, in the BB years. But that formula needed absolute dedication and I think BB wandered too much. At Arkansas he also went for a non Wisconsin formula but i don’t think he went for something else
by choice. Arkansas’s best historical image probably is not scoring an average of 20 points and allowing an average of 10 points. I don’t know if BB would have ever been great at Arkansas. I can tell you that at Illinois he has a chance to get the old formula back and make it work. I think he will get back to the top 3rd of the Big 10 in 4 years. After that, I’m not sure he can hire the right OC.