BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana has fired football coach Bill Lynch after four seasons.
Athletic director Fred Glass made the announcement one day after Lynch became the first Indiana coach to win at Purdue since 1996.
Lynch took over as Indiana’s interim coach after the late Terry Hoeppner died in June 2007. In his first season, he took Indiana to its first bowl game since 1993.
Since then, though, the Hoosiers have had three straight losing seasons.
Lynch had one year left on his contract and the pressure on Lynch heated up after an embarrassing 83-20 loss at Wisconsin. Indiana lost the following week against Penn State, again taking it out of bowl contention. Even Saturday’s win over Purdue wasn’t enough to save Lynch’s job.
