Head coach Bret Bielema said while taping a TV interview today that Ball — who suffered a concussion and facial injuries after being attacked by a group of men in Madison on Saturday — will most likely not practice when the team opens drills on Monday.
“I’m fairly confident he won’t be with us for the first part of fall camp,” Bielema said.
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They also represented two of the sport’s better bargains.
Bielema and Dantonio ranked No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in salary among Big Ten coaches in 2011. Both men have since been bumped down a notch after Ohio State hired Urban Meyer at $4 million per season.
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If the last year or so at Penn State and Ohio State taught us anything, no college football coach is above a career-crushing scandal, no legend’s job truly and completely safe.
But, with the late Joe Paterno and Jim Tressel no longer perched atop their respective programs in Happy Valley and Columbus, Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio has to be considered among the Big Ten football coaches furthest from worry.
Continue Reading: Mark Dantonio, Brady Hoke and Bret Bielema rated as Big Ten’s safest coaches by CBSSports.com; Danny Hope, Jerry Kill …
If the last year or so at Penn State and Ohio State taught us anything, no college football coach is above a career-crushing scandal, no legend’s job truly and completely safe.
But, with the late Joe Paterno and Jim Tressel no longer perched atop their respective programs in Happy Valley and Columbus, Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio has to be considered among the Big Ten football coaches furthest from worry.
Continue Reading: Mark Dantonio, Brady Hoke and Bret Bielema rated as Big Ten’s safest coaches by CBSSports.com; Danny Hope, Jerry Kill …
In the two months following his hiring by Ohio State, Urban Meyer took what was shaping up to be a middle-of-the-road recruiting class and turned it into a consensus top-five group by the time National Signing Day 2012 had been put to bed.
In getting to as high as No. 3 in the Scout.com rankings, Meyer and his coaching staff flipped several highly-touted recruits, including some who had been verbally committed to other Big Ten schools. Penn State, Wisconsin and Michigan State all felt the Meyer Effect in one way or the other on the recruiting trail, and it was the latter two programs that have not been shy about expressing their “displeasure” with the recruiting tactics that have brought to the conference.
Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema told reporters that he had prior concerns over what he considered recruiting tactics on the part of the new OSU regime that were — his word — illegal. As a result, Bielema claims to have spoken to Meyer about the situation and resolved whatever issue there was.
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Wisconsin sophomore wide receiver Manasseh Garner will miss three to four weeks because of a hernia.
Garner, projected to be the Badgers’ No. 3 receiver, will undergo surgery Wednesday, coach Bret Bielema told reporters after Tuesday’s practice. He’ll miss Wisconsin’s season opener Sept. 1 against UNLV but should be back for a Sept. 10 game against Oregon State.
The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Garner, who can play wide receiver or tight end, appeared in 10 games last season, mostly on special teams. He was credited with 10 tackles but did not have any receptions.
Wisconsin, which lacks proven depth at receiver behind top options Nick Toon and Jared Abbrederis, was already down a receiver. Bielema said redshirt freshman wideout Chase Hammond will miss four to six weeks following ankle surgery.
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