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By Dame Ellen Terry Hutchens

Hoosier State University announced today that Bill Lynch have signed a contract to function as the IU football game game manager through the end of the 2011 season.

Indiana University caput football manager Bill Lynch (left) and athletic manager Crick Greenspan talking to newsmen today at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington. - flatness KRYGER / The Star

The new four-year contract gives Lynch, who was the Big Ten's lowest-paid coach this season, a alkali wage of about $250,000 asset $300,000 for promotional activities. The trade will officially run through July 1, 2012.

Lynch led IU to a 7-5 record, which is expected to be capped by its first bowl visual aspect since the 1993 season. The seven triumphs were two more than than Hoosier State had won in any season since 1994.

Lynch, 53, had been hired in June to fill up in for late IU manager Dame Ellen Terry Hoeppner for the 2007 season. Hoeppner died June 19 from the complications of encephalon cancer.

In a fourth estate release sent out by the university early today, both athletic manager Crick Greenspan and IU president Michael McRobbie said Lynch had earned the extension.

"It's been an unbelievable twelvemonth filled with unbelievable unhappiness and sorrow, joyousness and happiness," athletic manager Crick Greenspan said. "It started when we had the groundbreaking for our new installation on the twenty-four hours that Dame Ellen Terry died, and from that twenty-four hours forward, Jane Hoeppner as well as Bill Lynch and our managers and participants kept looking forward."

IU president Michael McRobbie, who is in China, echoed Greenspan's words.

"Our football game squad this twelvemonth was more than than competitory and generated more enthusiasm and fan support than in any twelvemonth since I have got been at IU,'' McRobbie said a statement. "I am extremely proud of our participants and of the occupation Bill Lynch have done under very hard circumstances. He have got earned the statute title of caput manager and I am confident that he will have the full support of all Indianan fans.''Lynch had an 81-67-3 record in 14 seasons as manager at Ball State, Butler and DePauw and helped manager the Hoosiers signal callers in 1993 and 1994. He returned to Hoosier State after Hoeppner was hired.