Arkansas' Bielema disagrees with Rosen on football-school balance

UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen raised more than a few eyebrows Tuesday with his comments on the balance of school and football for a college athlete. However, Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema doesn't see an issue in his program.

In fact, Bielema sees benefits on the field when his players succeed in the classroom.

"I saw the feedback yesterday when a quarterback on the West Coast made a couple comments about academics and football don’t fit," Bielema told reporters, according to Trent Shadid of SEC Country. "For wherever they’re at, that might work. For me, it’s a premium. There’s so many times where maybe a kid doesn’t have academic success and he’s a mediocre player, but all of the sudden great academic success correlates to great athletic success and vice versa. It`s one of the greatest things we have going in this world is college athletics."

Bielema also preached the importance of academics earlier this offseason when asked if he was on the hot seat, saying "we're high as we've ever been" academically.

Rosen told Bleacher Report's Matt Hayes football and school don't mix.

"Look, football and school don't go together," Rosen said. "They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs. There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes and then the product on the field suffers."