In an interview with Sporting News, Bret Bielema revealed he still hasn't spoken personally to Barry Alvarez since December 2012, when he abruptly spurned Wisconsin for Arkansas.
The fact that the relationship between Bret Bielema and Barry Alvarez remains frayed isn't necessarily surprising, but nearly three years after Bielema's departure from Wisconsin, one would think time had aged this storyline.
Alas, in an interview with Sporting News' Matt Hayes, Bielema said he has not spoken in person to Alvarez since he left the Badgers for the Razorbacks in December 2012. The two, whose mentor-pupil relationship was well known even before Bielema's surprising decision to leave Wisconsin before the 2013 Rose Bowl, did exchange texts after Wisconsin defeated Auburn in last season's Outback Bowl and after the Badgers basketball team reached the Final Four, Bielema said.