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This is not the first time, after all, that Bielema has been in this position as a head coach; this is not the first time that he has dipped into the coaching pool to fill voids after losing assistants. A year ago, he had to replace defensive coordi-
nator Dave Doeren, who took over the Northern Illinois program, and running backs coach John Settle, who left for the NFL and the Carolina Panthers
In both cases, he sensed an initial and natural
anxiety because of the losses. Doeren and Settle were quality coaches. So he replaced them with quality coaches, Dave Huxtable and Thomas Hammock. "I'm going to do the same exact thing for all of our positions,'' he said. Huxtable, who coached the linebackers, just happens to be one of those UW coaches who have left, along with offensive assistants Paul Chryst,
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"Transition is the key to suc- cess,'' Bielema said. "If you have good coaches, you can't keep them for long. On the same account, I welcome new ideas, and personalities and new ways of thinking.''
Bob Bostad, Joe Rudolph and DelVaughn Alex- ander.
Chryst, the new head coach Pittsburgh, hired Bostad, Rudolph and Huxtable to join the Pan- thers' staff. Alexander is headed for Arizona State to work under former Pitt coach Todd Gra- ham.
