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Todd Miller will be the active general manager and owner of the team.
University of Illinois trustees have approved a contract that could pay new football coach Lovie Smith as much as $29 million over six years.
The University of Illinois is spending tens of millions of dollars to hire its new football coach.
Lovie Smith was the first African American coach for the Chicago Bears, and now he’s the first African American football coach of the Fighting Illini.
Cubit fired Friday, Lovie hired Monday.
New Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman has fired first-year football coach Bill Cubit, saying the program needs a new coach to work toward long-term success.
University of Illinois trustees have approved the hiring of Josh Whitman as athletic director at the Urbana-Champaign campus.
Leron Black also indefinitely suspended.
Authorities say Illinois basketball player Leron Black has been jailed on suspicion of threatening a campus-bar bouncer with a knife.
New Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman believes the school’s teams have lost some of their identity over the past year of problems.
