On Saturday, new Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman surprised a lot of people when, just hours after "clocking in" his first official day on the job, he dismissed coach Bill Cubit. You just don't see schools firing their football coach in March all that often.
A few hours later, a second surprise began to leak: Illinois already had Cubit's replacement lined up, and it was former Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Lovie Smith who would be taking the job.
On Monday morning, Whitman turned the rumors and reports into reality when he sent out this tweet.