When Bret Bielema heard of Matt Shaughnessy’s situation, the University of Wisconsin football coach felt he had to do everything he possibly could, because he had experienced a similar situation before.
Shaughnessy — Wisconsin’s starting defensive end — is currently back home in Norwich, Conn., to be by his seriously ill brother’s side….
The situation reminded Bielema of what he went through during his junior year in 1991 as a defensive lineman at Iowa when his sister was killed in a horseback accident.