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Bret Bielema (born January 13, 1970 in Prophetstown, Illinois) is currently the Head Coach of the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team. The former University of Wisconsin head coach and Current athletic director, Barry Alvarez, will take over the sole responsibility of athletic director in 2006, and has selected Bielema to take over the head coaching position for the Badgers during the 2006 football season.

Coach Bielema played college football at the University of Iowa from 1989-1992, where he earned four letters. He went on to play for the Milwaukee Mustangs, a team in the Arena Football League. Bielema was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa from 1993-2001. He then moved on to become the co-defensive coordinator for Kansas State University from 2002-2003. Bielema moved on to his current position of defensive coordinator for the University of Wisconsin in 2004.

Bielema received his bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Iowa in 1992.

From his days as a football player at Iowa, he has a two-inch tattoo of a Tiger Hawk (Iowa's mascot) on his calf, which he has stated he will not remove, despite being the coach of the Big Ten-rival Wisconsin Badgers.

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