{"id":1894,"date":"2025-06-21T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1894\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:50:13","slug":"bret-bielema-addresses-where-his-relationship-with-shane-beamer-stands-after-bowl-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1894\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Bielema addresses where his relationship with Shane Beamer stands after bowl spat"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the addition of the 12-team College Football Playoff, it seems as if non-Playoff bowl games have lost a bit of luster. But not all of them fall in that category.<\/p>\n

Last season\u2019s Citrus Bowl was anything but boring, as Illinois head coach Bret Bielema and South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer got embroiled in a bit of a confrontation in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Bielema appeared to taunt Beamer by walking toward a South Carolina<\/strong> huddle and gesturing by extending his arms wide like a plane. That alluded back to a kick return earlier in the game in which Gamecock return man\u00a0Juju McDowell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0extended his arms wide on the return to fake a catch while\u00a0Nyck Harbor<\/a><\/strong> caught the kick.<\/p>\n

When the South Carolina<\/strong> coach saw it, he lost it. Then, the two went back and forth.<\/p>\n

Bielema addressed his current relationship with Beamer, six months later. He was asked where the two stand on the June 20 edition of \u201cPardon My Take<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got caught up in the moment, you know, and that one was kind of more a little moment in the game,\u201d Bielema said. \u201cSo I literally called him. There was later in January a coaches convention and I knew his dad [Frank Beamer<\/a><\/strong>] was getting an award so I probably knew he was gonna be there. I was gonna try and make it to the event but couldn\u2019t do it so I called him and had a conversation and it was very cordial. I think you\u2019ve just gotta get past those moments. That ended up being a rule change, so for the good of the game that was actually a good thing that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bielema\/Beamer spat led to \u2018fair catch\u2019 rule change<\/p>\n

The rule change he is referring to was passed back in February. The new rule states that any player on a kickoff return team who makes a \u201cT\u201d signal with his arms during a kick will result in the play being whistled dead as a fair catch signal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think his issue was when we threw the throw-back kickoff return, our kickoff returner did this (extends arms out), which most teams, that\u2019s a signal that it\u2019s a touchback and we\u2019re not going to return the kick,\u201d Beamer said following the Citrus Bowl. \u201cYou\u2019re allowed to do that, as long as you don\u2019t do a waving motion. It\u2019s no different than on a punt. If the punt returner comes pointing to the ball that\u2019s bouncing on the ground, he\u2019s allowed to return it. If you\u2019re doing this (waving) you\u2019re not allowed to return it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no waving of the arms, and I cleared it with the Big 12 officials before the game. I told them we were going to do it, making sure they were good with it, and they said, \u2018Yeah, just as long as he doesn\u2019t wave the arms.\u2019 So I think he had an issue with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although competitive spirits boiled over in the moment, it appears as if the coaches have smoothed things over since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the addition of the 12-team College Football Playoff, it seems as if non-Playoff bowl games have lost…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2619,1318,1317,1315,1316,2620,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bret-bielema-89-prophetstown","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-shane-beamer-95-blacksburg","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720500963062968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}