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****Since we are leaving soon, we are going to Turn Back the Clock a little bit on some of our best posts. Here is Paine's post after the passing on former IU Head Football Coach Terry Hoeppner, which ran on June 20th, 2007.
My father only has one son, and like many sons, I will one day have to eulogize him. It isn't something I want to do, and it isn't something I look forward to. I dread it. I feel that way today. It was a situation we at the Cobra Brigade had been avoiding for quite a while. I never wanted to write about it. It was so sad, so hurtful. But the health of Terry Hoeppner was scuttlebutt around the town and we couldn't avoid talking about it any longer. When we posted the article "Big Ten Football Program in Big Trouble" it was motivated by the sentiment that we needed to weigh in and lend our support before the situation evolved into something else. When it was written we were blessed with tremendous support for the opinions in it and we are thankful to those who chimed in. We received over 100 emails supporting Hep and his family and had 30 or so posts about it on the page. We also received six emails from people that could claim with certainty that Coach Hep would not be returning to the program. This was June 11, four days before Indiana University held a press conference to announce that Coach Hoeppner would not be returning to the head coaching position for the 2007 season. The Herald-Times claimed that overwhelming support for Hep on the Internet had led IU to the decision to announce. While I don't claim that the Cobra Brigade was responsible for this, the above mentioned article did receive nearly 10,000 hits on that first day thanks primarily to Hot Tub, a loyal reader, linking it onto IU's rivals.com site and some good response from Deadspin. The Herald-Times also has a sports site that is a great stop, the Hoosier Scoop. The two lead writers, Doug Wilson and Chris Korman, have been doing yeoman's work in keeping the support for Hep and IU Football going.
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In every draft there are a couple of fellows who sneak up a little higher than you would expect or who go low and then turn out to be diamonds in the rough. In this post I will give you...
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The NFL is arguably the most successful of the big three sports establishments in the nation. But it, is not a perfect entity. The signing of Jake Long by the Miami Dolphins as the first pick in this year's draft...
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