Bill Lynch

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Name = Bill Lynch


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Sport = Football
College = Indiana
Title = Head Coach
CurrentRecord = 2-0
Record at School = 9-6
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CoachYears = 1985-1989
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CoachTeams = Butler
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Indiana (Quarterbacks)
Ball State
DePauw
Indiana (Asst Head Coach)
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Bill Lynch is the college football head coach for the Indiana Hoosiers.

Lynch graduated from Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis in 1972.

Lynch was hired to coach the Ball State Cardinals football team in1995 after two years as an assistant under Bill Mallory at Indiana. He would hold this position until 2002 when he was let go as head coach. His most successful year in Muncie was arguably in 1996 when Lynch's Cardinals went 8-4, won the Mid-American Conference title and participated in the Las Vegas Bowl where they lost to Nevada 18-15. His overall record at Ball State would finish at 37 - 53 (.411).

After a year off, in 2004, Lynch was hired to coach the Division III DePauw Tigers. He led the Tigers football team to an 8-2 record and was named co-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in his only season as head coach.

Following his 2004 campaign as coach of DePauw, Lynch resigned his duties as head coach to join long-time friend Terry Hoeppner who had recently been hired as head coach of Indiana Hoosiers. At Indiana he assumed the position of Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator/Tight Ends Coach. [http://www.depauw.edu/ath/news.asp?id=15286]

In the Spring of 2007, when Hoeppner took a leave of absence to attend to personal health issues, Lynch took over spring practices and the daily work of head coach indefinitely. As Hep's illness became worse, and his return date all the more unclear, on June 15, 2007, Indiana Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan named Lynch head coach for the 2007 season. Shortly after this, on June 19th, Hoeppner died from complications of brain cancer.

In his first season as head coach, Lynch led the Hoosiers to a 7-5 (3-5) record, the best for any Hoosier head coach in his first year, not to mention, the best record for an Indiana Football team since 1993. This also solidified the Hoosiers first bowl birth since 1993 and the Independence Bowl with an invitation to the 19th Insight Bowl to play Oklahoma State from the Big 12 Conference on December 31, 2007.

After much speculation, at the end of the season, Bill Lynch signed a contract extension to coach the Hoosiers through 2012 [http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112607aaa.html] .

Head Coaching Record

CFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 1985
name = Butler
overall = 8-2-0

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year = 1986
name = Butler
overall = 5-5-0

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year = 1987
name = Butler
overall = 8-1-1

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year = 1988
name = Butler
overall = 8-2-1

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year = 1989
name = Butler
overall = 7-2-1

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year = 1995
name = Ball State
overall = 7-4-0
conference = 6-2
confstanding = T-3rd
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year = 1996
name = Ball State
overall = 8-4-0
conference = 7-1
confstanding = 1st
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bowloutcome = L, 15-18
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year = 1997
name = Ball State
overall = 5-6-0
conference = 4-4
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year = 1998
name = Ball State
overall = 1-10-0
conference = 1-7
confstanding = 6th
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year = 1999
name = Ball State
overall = 0-11-0
conference = 0-8
confstanding = 6th
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year = 2000
name = Ball State
overall = 5-6-0
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year = 2001
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overall = 5-6-0
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year = 2002
name = Ball State
overall = 6-6-0
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confstanding = 4th
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year = 2004
name = DePauw
overall = 8-2-0

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year = 2007
name = Indiana
overall = 7-6

conference = 3-5
confstanding = T-6
bowlname = Insight
bowloutcome = L, 33-49
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CFB Yearly Record Entry
year = 2008
name = Indiana
overall = 2-0

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References

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* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/sports/ncaafootball/21indiana.html?_r=1&oref=slogin NYTimes - Out of Uncertainty, A Coach Brings Success]

External links

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* [http://www.depauw.edu/ath/football/ Official DePauw University football web site]
* [http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/lynch_bill00.html Indiana University biography]