The Skinny (lol) on Bret Bienima and his Assssistant Coaches

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B1G 2012 // Wisconsin’s Smartest Guys in the Room

by mikjones24 on Jun 26, 2012 7:00 AM CDT in Wisconsin, www.OffTackleEmpire.com

 

Head Coach -- Bret Bielema

 

The Skinny (LOL):

 

Bret Bielema wasn't always the ultra successful head Badger Brah on the sideline. In fact, he used to be a Hawkeye. Wait, scratch that. He'll always be a Hawkeye. A native of Prophetstown, Illinois, Bielema walked on to the University of Iowa football team and earned a scholarship after his first year. Always ambitious, he was a starter at nose-tackle by his junior season and named team co-captain his senior year. After a brief professional career Bielema joined Hayden Fry & Company back at Iowa as a graduate assistant in 1994 and was named linebackers coach in 1996. He stuck with the Hawkeyes until they appeared to be turning a corner in 2001 and then migrated to Manhattan, Kansas to become Bill Snyder's co-defensive coordinator. . . .

 

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Offensive Coordinator -- Matt Canada

 

What do you think of when you think of Wisconsin? The accents. I suppose that's why someone with a name like Canada fits right in with the Badgers. A graduate of Indiana University, Canada took his first coaching job as a student coach for the Hoosiers in 1992 and bounced around to Butler and Northern Illinois before returning to Indiana...and then leaving for NIU again. Hey, it's not Matt's fault that Indiana is a tire fire. Is it? . . .

 

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Defensive Coordinator(s) -- Chris Ash/Charlie Partridge

 

Wisconsin enters their second season of using a dual-headed monster at defensive coordinator. Ash, a native Iowan and graduate of Drake University (GO BULLDOGS), coached at his alma mater with ex-defensive coordinator Dave Doeren and current partner Charlie Partridge in the late 1990's before joining Dan McCarney at Iowa State in 2000. Following McCarney's "retirement" in 2006, Ash spent a couple seasons with Chuck Long at SDSU and Paul Rhoads at Iowa State before finally settling down at Wisconsin in 2010 as their defensive backs coach.

 

Charlie Partridge, also a graduate of Drake University, followed a similar path as Ash. He started out at Drake, joined McCarney at Iowa State and ended up with Walt Harris at Pitt in 2003.

 

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OffTackleEmpire looks at Bret and his new crop of assistant coaches.

[Danimal]

I wonder if Biliema will end-up regretting not promoting Rudolph. Not saying Canada isn't a good OC but Rudolph knows their offense and was the guy coaching-up the O-line that has been the backbone of that program.