Lovie Smith Named Illinois Football Coach

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miggytorres

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Just a completely outstanding hire. At a minimum, his teams will have rock-solid D/special teams and we will contend in the B1G West every year. Certainly a ton of national exposure.

I will go out on a limb and say that within 5 years, Smith will put together a D that will rival Tepper's greats from the mid-90's that featured Holocek, Howard, Hardy and Rice.:shield:
 
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I can hardly contain myself these Nebraska people just dropped there shoulders , love it instead of smith and Wesson it should be smith and Whitman. Go illini
 
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Chambana13

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ivwilsoniv said:
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Lovie meeting the team. This right here gets me pumped.

P.S. Does the bad spacing between "TO" and "WIN" bother anyone else? #OCD
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thats the first thing i looked at lol
 
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lstewart53x3 said:
If my math is correct, that's $3.5 million per year over 6 years.
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Wonder how much the Tampa 2 years impacted that...basically the first 2 years don't matter to Tubby since Tampa is paying the difference to 10 million... gives it an incentive to back load the contract, if there weren't any clauses in the Tampa deal, I would have asked for $1/year for first 2 years & give me the rest of the 4 million in year 3+
 
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Trakis

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It's 9am here in Chicago, and I've already had 8 or 9 coworkers come up to me and mention how huge of a move this is. None of them went to Illinois.

Everyone is talking about this. It's just amazing.
 
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miggytorres

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illinifan1961 said:
Lovie to be on Mike & Mike tomorrow
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Dan or anyone who is good at this technology stuff, can we have a posting on the home page or thread that is links to audio/video interviews with Lovie this week? I have to imagine there will be a healthy list:

The 2pm presser, M&M, ESPN1000 (Chicago), Champaign radio, 670 the Score (chicago), many others????

When is the last time an Illinois coach was on this many radio spots? 2005 during NC weekend in St. Louis?
 
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ILL in IA

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chief9 said:
I would bet that Expect to Win was there from Beckman...just the way it is put up there
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Can anyone else see Beckman getting assistance at Kinkos trying to get the banner printed out?
 
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orangeswarm76 said:
I can hardly contain myself these Nebraska people just dropped there shoulders , love it instead of smith and Wesson it should be smith and Whitman. Go illini
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i bet the gameday store will create a shirt like this...
 
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miggytorres said:
Dan or anyone who is good at this technology stuff, can we have a posting on the home page or thread that is links to audio/video interviews with Lovie this week? I have to imagine there will be a healthy list:

The 2pm presser, M&M, ESPN1000 (Chicago), Champaign radio, 670 the Score (chicago), many others????

When is the last time an Illinois coach was on this many radio spots? 2005 during NC weekend in St. Louis?
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If your looking for something quick. Howard Griffith was on 670 today around 8 am and shortly after that JFW was on as well. Lovie will be on 670 tomorrow morning they said.
 
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ivwilsoniv said:
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Lovie meeting the team. This right here gets me pumped.

P.S. Does the bad spacing between "TO" and "WIN" bother anyone else? #OCD
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That slogan has Beckman written all over it. (The first thing that popped into my mind was "Expect Two Wins," but I digress). I imagine it will take a few weeks to exorcise the place of that stuff. It's another, perhaps minor plus of hiring Lovie, for me at least -- whatever else he is, Lovie is not into all that goofball schtick. No wristbands with the B1G title game date on it. No strained acronyms that can't be explained using human language. What he lacks in on-camera charisma he makes up for in not generating memes and deadspin hit pieces.
 
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Buster

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Great move for the program. I'm pumped��
 
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Anybody notice Whitman looks a lot like Jon Hamm?? Can we get some gifs in here please!
 
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If he talks about lasagna in the press conference, does Whitman come in and give him the axe immediately? Which is probably what MT should have done with Beckman.
 
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Try not to cry in the office.

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The way I look at it, it's $17 million 4 years. The first two don't count, because Tempa is still paying him, and we got a discount.

ivwilsoniv said:
Correct. 6 years, $21 million. Less than Jason Heyward AND no opt out clause.
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