Bill Lynch will not return as the Indiana Hoosiers' coach, per Bloomington Herald Times.
by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Nov 28, 2010 3:18 PM EST
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Very interesting
Didn’t all of those lose their first game against Purdue except Lynch?
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Yes. Corso and Mallory each lost their first three and Cam lost his first four. All told, Corso was 4-6 against Purdue, Mal was 7-6, Cam was 1-4, Dinardo was 0-3, Hep was 0-2, and Lynch was 2-2.
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by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Nov 29, 2010 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
Lynch
Is another example why I’m not a fan of giving interim coaches the full-time gig. Usually they win their last couple of games and the school/team gives them the full-time job, even though they’re not prepared for that job.
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This situation is not a good example
When you think about it, Lynch was made interim coach in the middle of the summer when the head coach’s brain cancer diagnosis was such that he could not coach the team that season, and then he promptly died. Interim coach goes out and has the program’s first winning season in over a decade, goes to a bowl game, and beats Purdue (for only the second time in the last decade). You can argue that he won with Hep’s players, etc. But he won that year. There was not much more you could have asked him to do. I agree now that Lynch was a good man but not a good Big Ten coach. And I agree that firing him now was the best thing to do. I do not quibble, though, with the decision to give him the job then.
by hoosierdaddynow on Nov 29, 2010 7:38 AM EST up reply actions
I agree. I think the ending was entirely foreseeable, but it still probably was the right decision to retain him in 2007. The folly in hiring Mike Davis was that an assistant with no HC experience was way below what IU could have obtained for one of the most prestigious jobs in college basketball. Lynch, while his I-A record wasn’t good, had many years of HC experience and was given the reins of one of the least attractive programs in college football. Hiring Lynch probably was no bigger a gamble than hiring whoever the MAC flavor of the month was in 2007.
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by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Nov 29, 2010 9:38 AM EST up reply actions
Fare thee well, Bill
If my son decides to play football and is good enough to play in college, I would love for him to play for Bill Lynch. At Butler, or Depauw, or Anderson. I am glad that Glass pulled the trigger. The two Bucket wins are fantastic, but the “body of work” was just not good. Credit where credit is due: the program is in better condition now than when he took over (and light years beyond where it was when Hep took over). That’s true in part because of facilities. But there’s also some talent on the roster for the next coach to work with, some good recruits in the pipeline, and more depth in the program than there has been for awhile now.
Also, and perhaps most significantly, the win on Saturday said more about Purdue’s coaching staff than it did about Indiana’s. Unlike John, I could probably live with going 1-7 in the Big Ten every year, so long as that “1” was a victory over Purdue. Bring in the right guy now and you may have a chance to have the upper hand in that relationship for the next several years.
by hoosierdaddynow on Nov 29, 2010 7:44 AM EST reply actions
Best of luck to Bill Lynch and the staff
I’m in agreement with about everything here. Bill leaves the program in better shape than the other coaches we fired did. Recruiting has been decent, for Indiana, though still near the bottom of the conference. With the new facilities, we may be poised to attract a coach who can win some B10 games. Fingers crossed…..
So I'll beg the question
Who’s next. Brady Hoke? Whoever is coaching at Miami of Ohio (since that’s always where we go to get our coaches). Who’s the coach at Northern Illinois?
Also, let’s put an end to this before it even starts: not Mike Leach. Not that I have anything against him, and I think he’d be great. But this University still has some fresh wounds from a loose-cannon-renegade-egomaniac coach (see Knight, Robert M.). I seriously doubt that it will go down that path again any time soon.
by hoosierdaddynow on Nov 29, 2010 10:35 AM EST reply actions
I agree with you re: leach on both counts. I plan to post sometime, hopefully tonight, discussing the various candidates, although I certainly have no inside info. Hoke is intriguing, but I still think his resume is a bit thin.
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by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Nov 29, 2010 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
As an SDSU grad (who is now at IU for grad school), if Hoke doesn’t stay at SDSU, I would like to see him here. It’s hard not to picture that he’d want to be a bigger stage than the MWC (especially with TCU leaving) and Bloomington isn’t too a far of departure from Ball State. However, only one year doesn’t make a stellar coach, and SDSU has only beaten a single team with a winning record…
We’ll see where he goes, but I think he may be holding out for more (ie Michigan).
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