Herm Edwards: "If your family has a young child, he's a football player and Lovie Smith is recruiting him, send him to Illinois."
— Jeremy Werner (@JWernerScout) March 8, 2016Huge first day of the #Lovie era! Almost 1400 new @IlliniFootball season tix sold in 24 hours. @IlliniAthletics pic.twitter.com/morluZMzpF
— Jason Heggemeyer (@B1GTicket) March 8, 2016
"Illinois just struck gold." - @espngolic on Lovie as #Illini HC. pic.twitter.com/c8CIR5Ce6v
— Illini Football (@IlliniFootball) March 8, 2016
Trustees, others: It's about time UI had a black coach https://t.