The Lovie Effect

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, 2016

Huge 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.co/Hq78fHzq8P

— Ryan Baker (@RyanBakerMedia) March 8, 2016