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‘Rising star’ Bielema goes from heir to new era

The first notion that Bret Bielema wants to dispel as the anointed successor to the man who resurrected the University of Wisconsin football program is that coaching is a young man’s game.

“I don’t believe that. I really don’t,” he said, fully aware that come January, by becoming a first-time head coach at the ripe old age of 35, he will be the youngest coach in the Big Ten Conference and one of the youngest ever at the Division I level.