BTN.com staff, December 9, 2011

Tim Beckman of Toledo is the new football coach at Illinois and he says he is a high-energy coach who will "will work tirelessly in building the football program to compete for Big Ten and national championships, and be a source of pride for Fighting Illini fans across the nation." Read the full AP story here and read BTN.com senior writer Tom Dienhart's history of Beckman here.

Read the full release at FightingIllini.com.