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Bielema's stance on player safety during kickoffs has evolved since 2006.
On Tuesday, he was irked about South Carolina faking a "t bar" on a kickoff return and then running a throwback play.
Bielema brought up how kickoffs have the highest injury incidence and that the "t-bar" typically signals to players that the ball won't be returned, allowing them to decelerate and avoid "massive collisions", as he termed it. Fair points.
The problem: While coach at Wisconsin, Bielema exploited a loophole in the kickoff rule that purposely took the number of live, full-speed kickoffs from one to three before the end of a half.
With less than 25 seconds left in the first half in a game against Penn State in 2006, Bielema wanted to deny the other team the chance to run a play before the clock expired.
At the time, the rulebook stated that the game clock started after the ball was kicked.
Bielema instructed his players to be offsides during each kickoff, so that Wisconsin would have to rekick.
With multiple flagged kicks, they would be able to run out the clock.
The plan worked perfectly (Bielema noted they had practiced it).
Wisconsin kicked, the players were offsides as instructed, and the play was flagged. The kickoff itself took place as usual with full-speed coverage, collisions, and a tackle.
Then the next, with Bielema's team repeating the deilberate offsides. Another live kickoff with full-speed collisions.
The clock finally expired after the third kickoff, which was also live, before the end of the half.
"I don't necessarily agree with the rule the way that it's written," Bielema said after the game. "But I knew the rule, and I wanted to maximize it. I have to put my team in a position to have success."
I'm still not totally clear on if Bielema was upset with South Carolina's Citrus Bowl play because of "player safety", or just because he had "never seen it any level of football," like he said on Tuesday.
Either way, he doesn't have a great argument, given the above.
You can watch the three kickoffs here. https://t.co/IjIj8VDsbw
Here's a story on it from 2006: https://t.co/BWTv8js4AR
#playersafety #ethics #unwrittenphilosophy #thestandard #happynewyear
Hold on … so Clemson jumped up 5 spots from 17 to 12 last week in the CFB playoff rankings after beating THE CITADEL … but this week South Carolina jumps up ONLY 1 spot…after beating Clemson??
It gets better tho…Alabama jumped 2 spots after beating a 5 win auburn team..Not to mention Alabama got to jump 3 spots after beating MERCER.. before getting their ass spanked by a 5 win Oklahoma team!!??
All this happened in November down the stretch where wins and losses matter the most and South Carolina gets screwed in the rankings … goes back to when Sourh Carolina destroyed Oklahoma on the road then beat a 1 loss 10th ranked Texas A&M team and they still didnt wanna rank our ass before we beat Vandy 28-7 .. who beat ALABAMA… haha wow
If BAMA had lost to SC by two and then SC limped to a 9-3 finish losing to TWO mediocre teams while BAMA won 6 in a row with the hottest player in the country leading them, BAMA would ONE BILLION PERCENT leap frog SC for the at large.
This is not even debatable to me.
"THE BUILDING IS LITERALLY SHAKING.
It felt like an earthquake when he got in!"
SOUTH CAROLINA REGAINS THE LEAD WITH 15 SECONDS TO PLAY 🚨
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Through 44 games at SC:
Spurrier 26-18
5-10 vs ranked teams
1-6 vs Top 10
1-2 vs cLemson
Beamer 23-21
3-14 vs ranked teams
2-4 vs Top 10
1-2 vs cLemson
In fact, over the next 19 games for Spurrier, USC was 9-10.
Spurrier was 35-28 before the run.
Give Shane time.
“It’s easy to change a climate. You just change a uniform, talk a little game, dance around, put on some stupid sunglasses”
Since that statement at SEC Media Days in 2022, the Gamecocks have beat UK three straight years.