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It must have seemed like a joke on Dec. 17 when athletic director Rick Greenspan placed a rose on the podium to symbolize his goal for newly hired head coach Terry Hoeppner.

The Hoosiers in Pasadena? Won't we see Bobby Knight and Myles Brand sharing a smoothie first?

While a Rose Bowl berth appears overly ambitious, Greenspan certainly put Indiana football back on the road to respectability by landing Hoeppner, an Indiana native who spent 19 seasons at Miami (Ohio), the last six as head coach. Hoeppner won a smattering of national coaching honors in 2003 after steering the RedHawks to a 13-1 record and a GMAC Bowl victory. Miami followed that up with an 8-5 campaign last fall, culminating in an Independence Bowl appearance that garnered the largest bowl payout in MAC history.

With a .657 winning percentage that matches Texas A&M's Dennis Franchione for eighth nationally among active coaches, Hoeppner aims to re-energize a program that floundered to an 8-27 mark the last three seasons under Gerry DiNardo. That included a 3-21 record in Big Ten action, something too dismal to stomach even for a school that hasn't had a winning season since 1994.

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