The partnership between Illinois athletics director and Illinois head football coach Bret Bielema has contractual plans to be together for the better part of the next decade.
By Matt Stevens - IlliniGuys Football Writer/Analyst
May 29, 2025
(Cover photo courtesy Illinois Athletics)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — With this third new contract of his five-year tenure, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Bret Bielema have never been more professionally married.
This new contract details the fact that the Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman and Bret Arnold Bielema intend to be a professional marriage for, at least, the better part of . . .
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