Arkansas football coach Bret Bielema has always loved recruiting Florida, whether he was an assistant at Iowa or a head coach at both Wisconsin and Arkansas.
But he had to convince former Iowa coach Hayden Fry that it was a good idea by actually putting together an extensive report before he was allowed to head to the Sunshine State.
"One of the great things that I remember in my career, I had to beg coach Fry to let me go down and recruit south Florida," Bielema said. "I had to put together a comparative study in our league, in the Big Ten at the time, about players that were playing from that state.