On the first weekend after National Signing Day in February, a months-long, non-stop grind finally over — for a minute, anyway — Illinois football coach Bret Bielema flew with his wife and daughters to Florida for a celebration.
Because that’s what it was — a celebration of life — as they rented a boat and spread the ashes of Bielema’s father-in-law, who died the day before last Thanksgiving, at sea.
