BREAKING DOWN THE OFFENSE
As another qualifier, Bielema quickly added, "But I love watch- ing him. He has three daughters and a son. You can see when he interacts with his son … the hu- man side of him."
Would Bostad use the word "angry" to describe himself? "No, I think it's more of a
sense of urgency," he said. "Be- lieve me, I just think that's foot- ball; that's the difference be- tween this (sport) and a lot of other things. "What we're doing is not ex- actly fun sometimes. It's like driving a horse up the hill; it's not just work, it's hard work and it hurts and it doesn't feel good and you're beat up.
"You know what? Who cares? "My job is to push them. If I sat there and gave them an ex- cuse for every single thing, 'Well, that guy is just having a hard day …'
"You know what? Nobody
cares." Bob Bostad definitely cares about his players, and the de- tails.
"The thing that separates Bo is details," Bielema said. "He's really exceptional about details." A few years ago, Bielema went around the room and gave each assistant one topic to talk about. Bostad had been a college line- backer, so he wanted to know why he wanted to coach the O- line.
"And he basically refer- enced how he believes that it's
"What we're doing is not exactly fun sometimes. It's like driving a horse up the hill," Bostad said. "It's not just work, it's hard work and it hurts and it doesn't feel good and you're beat up."
the foundation of what a good program should be all about," Bielema said. "It starts with of- fensive line play."
Bielema suggested that Bos- tad trains his linemen to be physically and mentally tough.
"It's a way of thinking," Bielema said. That discipline can be counter to the thinking of a lot of coach- es.
"When it's really hot weath- er," Bielema said, "I'm always
