Despite all of the excitement in Champaign that accompanied his hiring, it didn't take long for the elephant in the room to make an appearance during Lovie Smith's introductory press conference as Illinois' new head coach on Monday.
Smith wasn't on Twitter—at least not yet.
And in the college football world in 2016, that's a problem for the Fighting Illini head coach, who now must use publicity—and not his team owner's checkbook—as his primary recruiting tool.
"It's a misnomer that I'm some old guy that doesn't know what's going on," Smith asserted.
While it didn't take long for the 57-year-old to send his first tweet, it wasn't hard to figure out what his message will be.