It is the next morning, and the Illinois football win over South Carolina on Tuesday still feels sweet.
This is a great way to head into the offseason. The Illini managed to win their 10th game of the season, and on top of that, the Gamecocks continue to give me and the rest of the Illinois fan base content by the hour.
After the loss to the Orange and Blue last night, South Carolina fans were not happy. The crazy part is, I can’t put it in to words, so I will just let them speak for themselves.
In social media posts, South Carolina fans vented about how they didn’t get their way and how Illinois played a down Gamecocks program. The fanbase was unhinged, and I clipped some of the more interesting posts from the night.
Here are the top unhinged South Carolina fan posts in the wake of their loss in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl
If South Carolina played that game the way Illinois did, they would be on the receiving end of national scrutiny
— boong (@masterboong) January 1, 2025
This is one of my favorite posts of the night. Who wants to let this guy know? Psst, if South Carolina played that game the way Illinois did, they would have won the game. Do you know why? Because Illinois won the game.
Illinois needs national hate. Fake injuries, taunting, late substitutions, just the most bullshit ball club in the country
— Timbo (@GamecockTim69) December 31, 2024
Timbo has a laundry list of complaints. I had to squint but still couldn’t find it. Where among these complaints is the fact a four and five-star-laden South Carolina squad couldn’t beat Illinois?
New Years fucking sucks. Hate everything pic.twitter.com/VvHPiNBSQt
— Barstool Gamecocks (@Barstool_Cocks) December 31, 2024
The New Year has started pretty well over here…
Beliema walked over to the Gamecocks sideline to personally taunt Beamer during a timeout 😐.
— Bryan Barley (@BryanBarley) December 31, 2024
I just went from knowing nothing about Illinois football to disliking them more than Clemson.
Good, you shouldn’t like a team that you have never beaten in the history of the South Carolina program.
Bielema just mad because he couldn’t make it in the SEC.
— Chris Sherbert (@csherbert1) December 31, 2024
Bret Bielema couldn’t make it in the SEC, while he just took down one of the best SEC teams. So, that means Shane Beamer can’t make it in the SEC too, right?
Yeah and ZERO HOLDING CALLS
— ATLChopOn (@ATLChopOn) December 31, 2024
Do you want some French Cries with that Waa-burger?
Illinois is a 3 loss team, and their best win of the year by far is against a South Carolina team who half-assed the game
— CockyToppy (@EDGlabs) January 1, 2025
Illinois’ best win is against a team that a lot of people in the country thought should have been in the College Football Playoff? Sure, I’ll take that. I don’t think that is the dig you think it is…
How those fake injuries treating y’all? I guess all Big 10 teams need an asterisk next to their wins columns nowadays
— Dick Harpootlian (Is Gay) (@HomoHarpootlian) January 1, 2025
Oh, you know what a win column is? Shocked. Here is a win column stat; wins Illinois 10, South Carolina 9.
I am all about good competition and some good trash talking back n forth.
— ☈ Chris Jackson ☈ (@ChrisJacksonSC) December 31, 2024
But for Bielema to come out and taunt Beamer in the middle of an injury timeout to his own player with this substitution bush league tactic is below the belt for me. That’s disrespectful to the game. Bro…
A post about how Bret Bielema is disrespectful to the game of football. False. Also, I vaguely remember Shane Beamer having to be restrained by his coaching staff as he went at refs on multiple occasions. That is just good old-fashioned trash talk, amirite?!