Bill Lynch

All you want to know about Bill Lynch

Bill Lynch
Title Head Coach
College Indiana
Sport Football
Team record 3-8
Career highlights
Overall 91-81-3
Coaching stats
College Football DataWarehouse
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985-1989
1990-1992
1993-1994
1995-2002
2004
2005-2007
2007-Present
 Butler
Ball State (Off. Coordinator)
Indiana (Quarterbacks)
Ball State
DePauw
Indiana (Asst Head Coach)
Indiana

Bill Lynch is the head coach for the Indiana Hoosiers football team. He has spent 31 years coaching football, with 30 of those years coming in Indiana, where he was born and raised. He is a 2005 inductee into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.


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High school and college

Lynch graduated from Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis in 1972. He moved on to Butler University where was a four year letterwinner as the quarterback for the football squad and a captain of the basketball team. He quarterbacked the football team to a 28-12 record, led the nation in pass percentage in 1975, and often jokes that he "held" Larry Bird to 42 points in his final college basketball game.

Coaching career

Lynch's first head coaching position was at his alma mater, where four of his five teams finished in the Top 20 Division II Poll.

Lynch was hired to lead the Ball State Cardinals after two years as an assistant under Bill Mallory at Indiana. He would hold this position for eight seasons until 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 played in the Las Vegas Bowl.

After a year off, Lynch was hired to coach the 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, 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.[1] The offensive record books were rewritten under Lynch, as the Hoosiers scored the most points since 2001 and Kellen Lewis enjoyed one of the best freshman seasons in school history.

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, Lynch was named interim head coach for the 2007 season. Four days after this announcement, 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 record, the best for any Hoosier head coach in his first year since 1905, not to mention the best record for an Indiana football team since 1993. This also solidified the Hoosiers first bowl birth since 1993 with an invitation to the Insight Bowl to play Oklahoma State.

After much speculation, Lynch signed a contract extension to coach the Hoosiers through 2012[2]. One of his sons, Billy, is the wide receivers coach at Indiana University, and another son, Joey, is the offensive coordinator at Ashland University. All three of Lynch's sons played collegiate football.

Head Coaching Record

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl Coaches# AP°
Butler (Horizon League) (1985–1989)
1985 Butler 8-2-0
1986 Butler 5-5-0
1987 Butler 8-1-1
1988 Butler 8-2-1
1989 Butler 7-2-1
Butler: 36-12-3
Ball State (Mid-American Conference) (1995–2002)
1995 Ball State 7-4-0 6-2 T-3rd
1996 Ball State 8-4-0 7-1 1st L, 15-18 Las Vegas
1997 Ball State 5-6-0 4-4 T-3rd
1998 Ball State 1-10-0 1-7 6th
1999 Ball State 0-11-0 0-8 6th
2000 Ball State 5-6-0 4-4 T-3rd
2001 Ball State 5-6-0 4-4 T-2nd
2002 Ball State 6-6-0 4-4 4th
Ball State: 37-53-0
DePauw (Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) (2004–2004)
2004 DePauw 8-2-0 5-1
DePauw: 8-2-0
Indiana (Big Ten) (2007–Present)
2007 Indiana 7-6 3-5 T-6th L, 33-49 Insight
2008 Indiana 3-8 1-6
Indiana: 10-14
Total: 91-81-3
      National Championship         Conference Title         Conference Division Title
†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season.

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Preceded by
Paul Schudel		 Ball State Cardinals Head Football Coaches
1995-2002		 Succeeded by
Brady Hoke
Preceded by
Terry Hoeppner		 Indiana University Head Football Coaches
2007-Present		 Succeeded by
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