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Let's turn it over to Yahoo Sports' Pat Forde, who appears to have broken the news:
In a stunning coup, Arkansas will hire Wisconsin's Bret Bielema as its next football coach, Yahoo! Sports has learned.
Bielema, who has taken the Badgers to three straight Rose Bowls, was nowhere on the radar amid months of speculation over who Arkansas would hire.
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*deep breath*
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Oh, man.
And there's this...
Wisconsin's Bret Bielema takes Arkansas job, but wants to coach Badgers in Rose Bowl @mark_schlabach reports
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) December 4, 2012
Better make sure that Arkansas contract is ironclad before you head out to Pasedena to get destroyed by Stanford first. Can't the Rose Bowl step in here and tell UW that they don't want that to happen so, y'know, Wisconsin fans don't spend the whole game booing Bielema?
How about some words from Every Day Should Be Saturday's Spencer Hall?
Oh, and he'll be playing a much tougher schedule than he did at Wisconsin, will face Les Miles and Nick Saban every year for the foreseeable future, and has no idea how nice and reasonable Badgers fans will seem in comparison to the deranged embrace of hardcore Razorbacks fans.
Whoopsies.
And what's this?
Bret Bielema last winter: "We at the Big Ten don’t want to be like the SEC—in any way, shape or form."
— Adam Hoge (@AdamHogeCBS) December 4, 2012
Except for the paychecks. And the locations.
And speaking of locations, I'll send you out on yesterday's Bomani & Jones. It dealt with the concept of lots of schools and their fans thinking that Jon Gruden might be interested in their job, but the section starting at the 1:03 mark seems particularly relevant right now.