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Terry Hoeppner

Followed Gerry DiNardo. Terry Hoeppner held Indiana at Regional Program III for 2 seasons.

Peak, then fade
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1999–2006 · 2 stints
Miami (OH)Indiana
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerMIAMI (OH)INDIANANational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelMiami (OH), 1999: 7-4, National Program III1999Miami (OH), 2000: 6-5, National Program III2000Miami (OH), 2001: 7-5, National Program III2001Miami (OH), 2002: 7-5, Regional Program I2002Miami (OH), 2003: 13-1, National Program II2003Miami (OH), 2004: 8-5, National Program II2004+2.8Indiana, 2005: 4-7, Regional Program III2005Indiana, 2006: 5-7, Regional Program III2006+0.6One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached National Program in his 1st career season — faster than 41% of the 675 FBS coaches who have ever reached National Program (rank #1 of 675 by seasons-to-arrival).

Miami (OH), 6 seasons
+2.8
National Program III → National Program II.
Indiana, 2 seasons
+0.6
Regional Program III → Regional Program III.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

8–6 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Lloyd Carr.

Rivalry record
8–6
57.1% · 3 rivals
One-score games
19–11
63.3% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–6
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
Cincinnati3–350%
Ohio5–183%
Purdue0–20%
The toughest matchup
vs. Lloyd Carr0–4
4 meetings, 2001–2006
’01 L’04 L’05 L’06 L
0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–6 0.0%
Power Program
1–14 6.7%
National Program
7–7 50.0%
Regional Program
46–11 80.7%

Coaching career

2005–2006
Indianacaretaker
Regional Program III → Regional Program III
Terry Hoeppner held Indiana at Regional Program III for 2 seasons.

15th-best Indiana tenure of 16 by the numbers.

Followed Gerry DiNardo (2002–2004) · succeeded by Bill Lynch (2007–2010).

3 NFL Draft picks: Courtney Roby (2005), Isaac Sowells (2006), Victor Adeyanju (2006)

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1999–2004
Miami (OH)caretaker
National Program III → National Program II
Terry Hoeppner moved Miami (OH) from National Program III to National Program II in 6 seasons.

5th-best Miami (OH) tenure of 14 by the numbers.

Followed Randy Walker (1990–1998) · succeeded by Shane Montgomery (2005–2008).

8 NFL Draft picks: Paris Johnson (1999), Jojuan Armour (1999), Travis Prentice (2000), Trevor Gaylor (2000), Alex Sulfsted (2001), Ben Roethlisberger (2004), Jacob Bell (2004), Alphonso Hodge (2005)

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