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 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Terry Hoeppner won nine games as Indiana's coach, but he will always be remembered as the program's rock. The man hired to revive Indiana's foundering football program in 2004 — and had a 3-ton limestone boulder placed in the north end zone of Memorial Stadium — died of complications of a brain tumor Tuesday morning at Bloomington Hospital with his family at his side. He was 59.
Hoeppner waged his personal battle with the same zeal that made him a popular coach.
"I think if you measure the man strictly by wins and losses, I think you're underselling a lot of attributes," athletic director Rick Greenspan said Tuesday. "He has really touched a lot of people, inspired a lot of people, and his memory will live on in these players and other people for a long time."
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