Which BTen coach would be your first choice to hang out with and have a beer?

[Grady]

Bret Bielema would be my first choice. The Washington coach a close 2nd -- he seems like a cool dude.
Couldn't pay me to hang with Fleck.

 

[FloridaHawks]

Kirk - and i'd spend that time talking about how great retirement would be.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Of course it would be KF so we could talk Iowa and I could meet the legend. But, I think the question is just a personality thing, not team specific. Even so, KF would be high on my list. He is a real dude.

I would go with Dan Lanning from Oregon with Coach Cig and Indiana a close second. If I am having a beer with a coach, I want them to be intense winners who can tell war stories.

 

[SCHawkeye2]

Bielema

 

[Hawkboys]

Brian Ferentz.

Oh wait he wasn't made coach in waiting after all.

 

[Grady]

Of course it would be KF so we could talk Iowa and I could meet the legend. But, I think the question is just a personality thing, not team specific. Even so, KF would be high on my list. He is a real dude.

I would go with Dan Lanning from Oregon with Coach Cig and Indiana a close second. If I am having a beer with a coach, I want them to be intense winners who can tell war stories.

I have to admit, Coach Cig jumped up my ladder quite a bit with his response to a typical softball question lobbed by BTen network hosts during BTen media days. When asked "At this point in your coaching career, what brings you the most satisfaction?" Expecting a predictable "Seeing youngsters grow into young men during my time with them", or something like that, instead he replied, "Beatin' somebody's ass...then goin' into the locker room and singin' the fight song."
Cracked me up. That dude isn't taking a back seat to anybody. Listening to how he's had the same coaches with him since they were at DII, then James Madison, and now Indiana, another coach's journey to the BTen came to mind: Hayden Fry. I see a lot of similarities.

 

[thedukeofearl]

Hayden Fry