Bret Bielema

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567 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 12 Jun

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Pardon My Take · Knicks With The Greatest Comeback Ever, Spencer Hawes Talking Game 5, Illini Head Coach Bret Bielema In Studio, Preseason Mt Rushmore With Hank's Dad + Fyre Fest of The week · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

And a donor sent me, a big Iowa fan sent me a $100 bill.

I'd never seen a $100 bill in my life.

I literally took it in and turned it in the compliance office because I was afraid I was going to get in trouble.

I could have done so much with that $100 bill.

And now I tell guys as coming in as high school players, I'm like, hey, we're going to pay $100,000.

And, like, it took me 10 years of coaching before I got paid $100,000.

I was a good football coach.

And now these kids are getting this money coming in, which is awesome.

I love it.

But I think we're setting them up for failure.

Right?

So, like, one of these kids that, you know, makes $100,000 his first year, $150,000 his second year, $350,000, and then his senior year he makes $1.5 million.

Right?

And maybe he makes it in the NFL, maybe he doesn't, and then he's got to go to work for a national rental car for $85,000, and he can't process it.

That's the thing that's coming, right?

And so I think that's the part for me as a coach.

Hey, it's just relative to the moment we're in.

I think the other thing that kind of misleads people right now is there's a lot of people that are paying kids to be great.

I don't think that's the right approach.

I think you pay kids that have been great.

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