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Hoeppner continues to inspire Indiana on and off the field

By Bruce Hooley
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

They'll meet before kickoff Saturday at midfield and talk for awhile, just like countless other coaches before countless other games across the country, yet unlike all the rest. No two coaches anywhere else will have the same conversation as Indiana's Bill Lynch and Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald. No two coaches could, and no two coaches want to. Lynch and Fitzgerald didn't choose the circumstances that bond them, yet they are inextricably linked because only they know the path the other has ...

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