Illinois head coach Bret Bielema is the latest to put names to numbers, showing just what he and Luke Fickell are up against on the recruiting trail. In an interview with Sirius XM's College ...

With a huge leap this past season that saw Illinois clinch its first 10-win year since 2001, coach Bret Bielema has begun recognizing how eye-opening the NIL space has become. In an exclusive ...

Bret Bielema has completely turned the Illinois Fighting Illini football program around, and he's been rewarded for his efforts with a new lucrative contract extension. On Tuesday night ...

Bret Bielema is now 14 weeks away (including this upcoming weekend) from beginning his fifth season in Champaign. Five years ago, given where the program was, making it to his fifth season would ...

A Big Ten football coach has signed a contract extension. Bret Bielema and Illinois have agreed to a six-year extension. The new contract will run through 2031 and will increase Bielema's salary ...

Illinois head coach Bret Bielema opens up about NIL’s chaotic rise, revealing staggering roster budgets and the urgent need for reform. As the NIL era turns college football into a financial ...

An inability to sustain success has dogged the program since the late 1950s, which is precisely what Bret Bielema was brought in to fix ahead of the 2021 season. Big Ten post-spring power rankings ...

Illinois coach Bret Bielema has had one heckuva week. After receiving a contract extension on Tuesday, Bielema landed three-star recruit Parker Crim on Wednesday. Not to mention the weather in ...

Illinois' Bret Bielema is the second Big Ten coach in the last month to sound the alarms on exorbitant NIL spending in college football, and he echoed the estimates that some rosters could measure ...

Illinois HC Bret Bielema Bielema also said he believes the volume spending is happening because schools see an end to the "Wild West" era of NIL coming soon. With political interest and a House ...