HOEPPNER OUT FOR 2007 SEASON
The worst fears of Indiana football fans are confirmed: coach Terry Hoeppner will miss the entire 2007 season due to ongoing treatments for brain cancer. The statement from Judy Hoeppner, Terry’s wife:
“For the past several months, Terry has received chemotherapy and radiation treatments. This battle requires us to focus our energy and attention on aiding his recovery in every way we can…These comments would be incomplete without Hep’s ultimate statement to all of you - DON’T QUIT!”
Bill Lynch, former Ball State head coach and offensive assistant under Hoeppner, will head the Hoosiers program for the 2007 season. We wish Hoeppner the best, but the news makes the skin crawl for all the wrong reasons. We’re unsure of the exact type of cancer Hoeppner has, but the numbers sound horrible: the general survival rate for a nervous system cancer in men age 60 (Hoeppner’s age) is approximately thirteen percent. (HT: DevilGrad)
Hoeppner: out for 2007.
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#24, bad news gets ultimately worse…
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=3526
Comment by Geaux Irish — June 19, 2007 @ 8:27 am
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Coach Hep,
All things are possible.
Comment by MCab — June 15, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
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Be the Rock.
Best wishes.
Comment by NewAZTiger — June 15, 2007 @ 9:38 pm
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There’s not a shred of evidence that anyone other than random folks on the internets have taken offense to Greenspan’s comments, or any evidence of anything but a cordial relationship between Greenspan, Hep, and his family. If IU fans (who have had the chance to observe Greenspan for three years and aren’t focusing on a couple of isolated sentences in one lousy interview) and Hoeppner’s family don’t think the AD is out of line, why is everyone else so worried about it? So he made a couple of inartfully worded statements in the course of an interview. When looking at the whole situation, from the time Hep was first sick in early 2006 through today, it seems to me that he has handled it just fine.
Comment by John M — June 15, 2007 @ 4:41 pm
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True. I heard that everyone involved with the football program was completely pissed off by the weekly Letterman segments back then, but most alums and fans found them hilarious, and laughing was a good remedy for that losing streak.
Plus, it led to the “Biff Henderson at Ball State Homecoming” segment the following year, which was just outstanding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2g1_Mdyhig
Comment by Papa Lou BSU — June 15, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
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On the plus side, Lynch’s Cards did make national news when the losing streak ended at Miami in 2000.
Comment by Chuck — June 15, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
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Wow. That’s the only thing worse than having your coach drop dead in June.
Comment by PJ from NU in SF — June 15, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
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I wouldn’t agree with the assessment that Lynch “got screwed” in Muncie.
Yes, he suffered from a lot of broken promises from the athletic department (the stadium renovation that was on the board for oh, *20 years* is finally being completed this summer) and some dog-food budgets that really hampered his recruiting.
But the guy followed up a 1-10 season in ‘98 with an 0-11 campaign in ‘99… *and was allowed to keep his job for another three years*, none of which produced a winning season. He’d been head coach for eight seasons at that point, and had the luxury of a new training facility for the last two… how much longer was Ball State realistically supposed to wait for him to turn it around?
All that aside, Lynch is a very caring family man, and I can think of few coaches better suited to deal with the delicate off-the-field issues that Indiana will be dealing with this year…
Comment by Papa Lou BSU — June 15, 2007 @ 1:02 pm
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Get better Hep.
Bill Lynch is as good guy and will handle the situation as best as possible. He kinda got screwed when he was here in Muncie, but I don’t know, it doesn’t look good.
Comment by The New Math: 86=1 — June 15, 2007 @ 12:05 pm
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Best wishes to Coach Hep. He’s certainly in for a long fight.
BTW…in order to properly interpret those survivability statistics on CNS tumors, you need to know what the primary tumor was.
Most of those listed (astrocytomas, GBM, etc) are cancerous.
There are other types of non-malignant CNS primaries (meningioma, neuroma, etc) that are present as well.
Many of the non-malignant tumors are very survivable, although, for a CNS primary, the vast majority of them are GBM, which carries a uniformly crappy prognosis.
Comment by Brian — June 15, 2007 @ 11:43 am