Here's what we know: Lovie Smith and Illinois have agreed to a two-year contract extension.
Here's what we don't know: everything else.
We need details. Lots and lots of details.
Illinois currently owes its football coach $12 million for the final three seasons of his original deal.
Smith's first contract was back-loaded, the assumption being that the team would be on a roll by the time it had to pay big bucks.
#WEWILLWIN has morphed into #WEWILLWAIT.
Nobody ever said building a program in the powerful Big Ten would be easy. But the degree of difficulty got pushed up a peg or two by the hiring of a coach who hadn't worked in college for more than two decades.