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Do these comments from the fired Wisconsin offensive line coach ring a bell, Iowa fans?
Mike Hlas Sep. 11, 2012 4:47 pm
Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema fired offensive line coach Mike Markuson Sunday, after Markuson's second game with the Badgers.
On Monday, Markuson spoke on Siriux/XM's College Football Nation. Here are some of his remarks:
"The mainstay of that program has been the running game and the offensive line, but you still got to be able to throw it. That box was loaded up on us last week at Oregon State (a 10-7 Wisconsin loss in which the Badgers gained just 201 total yards). They were fired up. There weren't many creases in there. You have to play-action pass. You've got to be able to spread the field, you got to get the ball out quick, and get first downs.
"I think they've got to continue to do what they do well. There's a great back there in Montee Ball and those other kids are good backs, but you've got to be able to throw it."
Markuson said this about Wisconsin's receiving corps:
"Not any blazers."
Last season, Wisconsin had Russell Wilson playing quarterback. That was last season.
I first saw those comments in this story at CoachingSearch.com.
Maybe Wisconsin and Iowa will be able to do the first-downs thing with success. The blazers, though, that could be a problem.
Beleaguered Bielema (AP photo)

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