This is the time of year, Bret Bielema usually makes a phone call to his former coach at Iowa, Hayden Fry.
Bielema, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville head football coach, told Little Rock Touchdown Club members Monday that he calls Fry every August to talk about the upcoming season.
This year, he told a soldout Embassy suites luncheon crowd of 500 the phone call was different.
Bielema said he was on his way to Frank Broyles' home to visit on Aug. 12 in Fayetteville when he called Fry, 88, a quarterbacks and running backs coach for Broyles at Arkansas in 1961 before he became head coach at SMU (1962-1972) and North Texas (1973-1978).