VIDEO: BIELEMA PREVIEWS 2012 SEASON
can't show up and play good football on Saturdays. You have to prepare yourself to play well in prac- tices and that isn't an easy thing.'' Especially in August. "Hopefully it will be 100 degrees a couple of days to make it tougher,'' said Bielema, adding that he wants his players "to ap- preciate it (camp) and respect the game.'' A common practice at this level. Interestingly,
one of the books that Bielema read this summer was "Uncommon: Finding your Path to Signifi- cance'' authored by Tony Dungy, the former coach of the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Bucca- neers and now a color analyst on NBC. The book title relates to a quote from Cal Stoll, who coached Dungy at the University of Minnesota. "Success is uncommon,'' Stoll said. "Therefore, not to be en- joyed by the common man.
"I'm looking for uncommon people.'' When Dungy was a 17-year-old freshman, he
said that Stoll gathered the class together and preached that those who succeeded — and not all would — "are going to do it with uncommon ef- fort.'' Dungy elaborated, "They're going to do it with uncommon drive. And you can't be average.
You can't desire to be average, to go with the crowd. Those people are going to fall by the wayside.'' Greatness doesn't just happen and talent is not
the only measuring stick. "You can be faster, big- ger, stronger and throw farther but that's only go- ing to be one percent of the world,'' Dungy said. Expanding on the central theme, Dungy con- cluded, "Most people have to be uncommon by having the desire to do things that everybody else could, but doesn't.'' That really falls into line with the developmen-
tal aspect of the UW program. "Four weeks from now,'' Bielema said of his wish list for camp, "I want our good players to have survived. You have to have a little bit of luck in the injury category and everything that goes into it. "I also want to know at the end of four weeks
who that core group is — the 70 players that we'll take on the road — that will help us win games on the road as well as at home. "We've probably got 50 (identified). It's those
other 20 that we have to find. Whether they're freshmen, whether they're guys who have been in reserve roles in the past, we've got to find them.''
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