IU Coach Terry Hoeppner

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Originally Posted by Dryden

Hoep could have Indiana in a bowl game for the first time in 13 years and kicked a tumors ass in his spare time.

With that kind of resume he could give Chuck Norris a run for his money!

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IU signs Hoeppner to 2-year extension

By Steve Warden

The Journal Gazette


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In leading Indiana University?s football program to more wins in two years than it had accumulated in the previous three, coach Terry Hoeppner will receive a two-year extension to his contract, an announcement that will be made official later this week.
The extension will take Hoeppner, the Woodburn native who has led IU to a 5-7 record this past season and 4-7 in his first year in 2005, through the 2011 season. Terms were not disclosed.
Hoeppner let the news slip when he told the IU Radio Network about his extension during a halftime interview during the Indiana-Charlotte basketball game Saturday.
Indiana observers believe that the Hoosiers are on the edge of turning around their football misfortunes. Under Hoeppner?s predecessor Gerry DiNardo, Indiana won only eight games in three seasons.
Starting several freshmen this past season, including redshirt freshman Kellen Lewis who was named the team?s most valuable player at its end-of-season banquet, and playing several more freshmen and sophomores, Indiana came within one victory from claiming its first bowl berth since 1993.
After starting the season with victories over Western Michigan and Ball State, IU was thrown for a setback when Hoeppner announced that he was to go in for his second brain surgery within a nine-month period.
Hoeppner missed two games, both of which Indiana lost. They would turn out to be costly losses to Division I-AA Southern Illinois and Connecticut.
While Hoeppner recovered, so did IU, winning three of its next four. With a 5-4 record, Indiana needed one win from its last three games to become bowl eligible, but the Hoosiers lost their last three to Minnesota, Michigan and Purdue.
?Did we accomplish everything that we could have? No,? Hoeppner said at his season-ending press conference. ?But we?ve affected a lot of people. We?ve laid a foundation, and the spirit is great, not only with the team, but within the Hoosier Nation. I will return next year, and for as long as they?ll keep me around here.?
Indiana?s schedule will be helped considerably for the next two seasons because the Hoosiers will not play either Ohio State or Michigan until 2009.

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Health forces Indiana's Hoeppner to skip spring practice

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Indiana coach Terry Hoeppner, who has had brain surgery twice in the last 15 months, will skip spring practice for health reasons.

Athletic director Rick Greenspan said in a statement Sunday night Hoeppner had indicated a desire to regain his strength and energy after a rigorous recruiting campaign. Assistant head coach Bill Lynch will be in a charge of the team when it begins practice on Tuesday.

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Indiana's Hoeppner still recovering from brain surgery

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner is still undergoing medical treatment and remains intent on returning to the sideline this fall.

Athletic department officials released a short statement from Hoeppner on Tuesday, the first update on Hoeppner's health since an announcement nearly two months ago that he would not coach spring practice to recuperate from brain surgery.

"I continue to receive medical treatment and remain inspired to return to coaching when my health permits," Hoeppner said. "I love Indiana University and Indiana football and will make decisions in the best interest of the program, as I have always attempted to do."

Hoeppner had brain surgery twice in a 10-month span and has now left the team three times since December 2005.

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No decision by Indiana on Hoeppner's continued absence

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) ? Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan won't speculate what action he might take should ailing football coach Terry Hoeppner be unable to return to the team in time for preseason practice this summer.

Hoeppner, still undergoing treatment in his recuperation from brain surgery, made his last major public appearance in late February at an NCAA luncheon in Indianapolis. He skipped spring practice and did not attend the annual spring game in mid-April.

Assistant Bill Lynch, a former head coach at Butler, Ball State and DePauw, guided the team in Hoeppner's absence.

Greenspan said Thursday he is pleased with the work by Lynch and the rest of the staff, but he's not ready to say what he would do if Hoeppner is still out through the summer and fall.

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Very tough situation. Wish Terry a full recovery and a long life.