How Bielema s Long Friendship With High School Coach Led to Illini RB Signee
Bret Bielema may want you to believe it was fate that landed him 3-star tailback Josh McCray. McCray s high school coach knows Bielema s personal commitment to know different.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Don’t let
Bret Bielema fool you into thinking it was fate that led him to the opportunity to recruit and sign running back
Josh McCray into his 2021 recruiting class at Illinois.
One of McCray’s high school coaches certainly doesn’t see it that way at all.
In announcing one of his two February signees for the 2021 class, Bielema suggested in his Zoom media conference with media that it just so happens that a longstanding relationship with longtime Wisconsin high school football head coach Jed Kennedy resulted in a quick recruitment of McCray, a three-star tailback prospect from Enterprise, Ala., to Illinois.