Arkansas Coach Bret Bielema met with the media on Sunday night to talk the bowl game, football practices and more.

Here's the highlights of what he said.

I am very, very excited to be in the bowl game. With the proximity I expect to have a good crowd over there. A lot of neat things about Kansas State. Coach Snyder is relentless.

We have had three practices. We practiced Friday, Saturday and today. We will have some good work kind of like a bye week.

From injury standpoint. J_Will had a good week last week. He is going to the NFL. Keon Hatcher looks better and we expect him to be back for senior year.

Jonathan Williams will not play in the bowl game.

I am excited this is a good draw for the SEC. Last year came out of left field for us to go to Texas. I have heard a lot of the Liberty Bowl.

For me, it is going to be cool to see Coach Snyder in New York. During a tough stretch I called him when we hadn't won in awhile.

He is a big QB guru.

Barry Alvarez and Bob Stoops told me to go to Kansas State with Coach Snyder from Iowa. I was a grad assistant at Iowa. It was a lot of fun at Iowa. I thought for me to grow I needed to get out of my comfort zone. I learned so much under Coach Snyder.

Coach Michael Smith and I are both scared of that man Bielema said of Snyder smiling.

Coach Snyder is cool for two years he trained me.

Kirby Smart called me this morning and I told him Coach Dan Enos has a non-compete SEC clause in his contract.

The football coaching in me make it exciting to get 17 bowl practices.

I like we are the only game on that day.

I have gotten feelers on coaches this year. When you have good coaches people will come after them. These coaches have families and I think they all love it here it will be exciting to see if we can keep them together.

I held Dominique Reed, Drew Morgan and Keon Hatcher out of practice and same thing with Kody Walker. They all will play except for Keon.