Glass will keep Bill Lynch as IU football coach

[David Burkart]

Throughout the IU football team's horrendous 3-9 season, fans' tone of voice calling for Lynch's removal from the program has only gotten angrier and louder.

The Hoosier Scoop caught up with IU's next AD to confirm that Lynch will not be replaced next year. Check it out:

Incoming IU athletic director Fred Glass said Friday that Bill Lynch will remain Indiana’s football coach.

Glass wasn’t initially planning to talk about Lynch and his football program until starting the athletic director job on Jan. 2. But in consultation with university President Michael McRobbie, he changed his plan because competing schools have been trying to exploit in recruiting the uncertainty created by a change in athletic directors and a losing football season.

“I just think it’s very important to be very clear that Bill Lynch is and will be the football coach at Indiana University,” Glass said.

Glass said that with IU having entered into a four-year agreement with Lynch that promised a chance to build IU’s football program, the university isn’t going to cut that opportunity short after just one year.

“I think contracts need to mean something at Indiana University,” he said.

He may have a point. But what about extending an interim coach's contract - shouldn't that hold some weight too?

It's clear, Glass doesn't want to wound the program any further by getting rid of another main player. Instead, he'll be keeping close tabs on Lynch. Will it be effective? Who knows.

Looks like we're in for another rough one, folks...

[calley9]

it's okay, i think things are gonna ease over a lil better than everyone thinks,

keep yo head up!

[IUAlum07]

A few weeks ago, I heard from a close friend of Lynch's that he has a set # of wins that he must get this season to remain head coach. After this terrible Iowa game, I can tell you that he is out! 2-3 winnable games in a row Michigan/NW/Iowa and IU fails! Will it ever end for IU football!?!?!
What do they need to do? Yea they've upgraded their facilities, but has that brought any better recruits in? They need to show that they can WIN on national TV against top-tier teams, and haven't even come close yet.

I do think they need to look really hard in finding a coach that knows how to turn programs around! they should go after someone like Pete carrol from USC!(Offer him Millions of dollars if they have to) It would be tough to leave an outstanding program in USC, but could he go for the challenge in trying to bring our program out of the gutter to a top ranked program? He's a coach that can bringg in any recruit from around the country and not just the midwest! IU needs to do something dramatic, or else they will be the laughingstock of college football!!!