What's in a name? Lovie Smith

Illinois football coach Lovie Smith stands outside The Esquire in downtown Champaign after appearing on Monday's edition of The News-Gazette Sports Page radio show.Plenty of Illinois football greats are known by their last names alone: Butkus, Grange, Leman, Grabowski. Some even gained a following with their first name, like Juice and Simeon.

The UI's new football coach falls into that first-name category. Lovie Smith was named the program's 25th head coach on Monday, and not long after, his first name became a popular hashtag on Twitter.

Before he was born in 1958, Smith's parents thought they were having a girl and planned to name her after her great aunt Lavana. Despite having a boy, they…