Bret Bielema, head coach at Illinois, wrote a petty tweet about the Miami Hurricanes and Mario Cristobal responded.
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00:00 Illinois head coach Brett Bielema sends out this tweet actually during the Super Bowl yesterday or
00:06 right before the Super Bowl maybe. So I could forgive you in case you missed it because there
00:11 was a lot going on with you know Taylor Swift's boyfriend playing in the big game and all that
00:14 stuff. So Brett Bielema who's clearly salty about Miami's NIL situation sends this out yesterday.
00:22 He's responding to this tweet from the Canes Connection NIL Collective which is the official
00:27 NIL Collective of Miami. They yesterday welcomed Marquise Lightfoot, five-star defensive end out
00:35 of the state of Illinois who I guess just signed his NIL deal this weekend. So Canes Connection
00:40 sent out the welcome for Lightfoot and Brett Bielema the coach of the fighting Illini writes
00:46 yes please send me a brochure would love to see how this works with a couple of shrug emojis
00:53 and football emojis and to me this is this is classless on multiple levels from Bielema.
01:00 It's very petty it's very salty first of all yeah Illinois on the field was pretty bad last year's
01:08 five and seven season for Illinois. They've had problems with player turnover with turnover on
01:13 his coaching staff which makes me feel like he should be looking in the mirror and maybe focusing
01:18 on his own house and okay so the Miami Hurricanes I guess Bielema is salty blue because the Hurricanes
01:24 landed the two top players in the state of Illinois which is insane for a team in Miami to land the
01:31 two top players in Illinois. Justin Scott the five-star defensive tackle top recruit out of
01:35 Illinois and the aforementioned Marquise Lightfoot five-star edge rusher was the number two player in
01:41 Illinois and Bielema's complaining about it but blue here's and I've even seen some Illinois fans
01:47 telling Bielema to shut his mouth because how petty this tweet looks it's not as if either of
01:52 those players would have gone to Illinois if they didn't go to Miami. Both of those players would
01:57 have gone to Ohio State if not Miami. Ohio State clearly came in second place for Marquise Lightfoot
02:03 and obviously came in second place for Justin Scott because he was committed to Ohio State
02:08 before he flipped to Miami so and the other thing blue is why Bielema looks so bad here
02:15 the fact that he's calling out a tweet that mentions you know a kid he's an early enrollee
02:21 he should still be in high school Marquise Lightfoot you're calling out a kid in your tweet
02:26 which is you know putting out his financial business unnecessarily that can't be a good
02:31 thing for Bielema as a recruiter long term when he's putting kids on blast. Well first of all
02:37 Bielema never cared about Miami before when they were four and seven or five and seven
02:44 all of a sudden because they're getting kids now they you know they're they become a centerpiece
02:49 but as you said Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State why not go after your own conference who are doing
02:58 what Miami has done and probably tenfold so it doesn't matter what he says because of the fact
03:05 that no one listens. He'll be out of a job after this coming year so no one's going to listen to
03:12 him. I mean this is a guy that told me and I just told you when he was an assistant at Kansas
03:17 that a certain three-time all-pro from South Florida would never play a down of football
03:24 at Oklahoma and he was a four-year starter and a three-time all-academic all-american as well as
03:30 being a first-round draft pick. I don't listen to him. I don't you know he's irrelevant but
03:37 the thing that does pique my interest and kind of like you said why is he going after a kid?
03:44 I mean that to me if I'm his parents I'm not liking that a grown-up.