MadBird
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Was cleaning out the "archives" a couple weeks ago, and tossed out many many old Pantagraph stories and columns from Lefty and even Jim Barnhardt. But one interesting one included speculation on the new FB coach back in 1995 - the final three candidates were FBS assistants Pete Hoener from TCU, Todd Berry from E.Carolina, and Larry Korpitz from Wyoming.
Hoener is now 67 and an assistant for the Carolina Panthers. Peoria native and BU grad. Had been an ISU assistant for a year in late seventies. At that point in his career, had been at InSU for 6 years as OC, couple years as TE coach with St. Louis Cardinals, an OL assistant with Illinois and Purdue - was at TCU as OL assistant and OC in 95. Stayed on at TCU a couple more years and then continued coaching odyssey thru college and pros as mostly OL or TE assistant.
Korpitz sadly passed away about two years later from brain cancer. Oddly enough, he was a Joe Tiller assistant at Wyoming, who moved on to Purdue with Tiller and then passed away shortly thereafter. He was OC and QB coach at Wyoming when he applied at ISU. Can't find much else about his background (other than that he was from Evergreen Park and attended Brother Rice HS>).
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Hoener is now 67 and an assistant for the Carolina Panthers. Peoria native and BU grad. Had been an ISU assistant for a year in late seventies. At that point in his career, had been at InSU for 6 years as OC, couple years as TE coach with St. Louis Cardinals, an OL assistant with Illinois and Purdue - was at TCU as OL assistant and OC in 95. Stayed on at TCU a couple more years and then continued coaching odyssey thru college and pros as mostly OL or TE assistant.
Korpitz sadly passed away about two years later from brain cancer. Oddly enough, he was a Joe Tiller assistant at Wyoming, who moved on to Purdue with Tiller and then passed away shortly thereafter. He was OC and QB coach at Wyoming when he applied at ISU. Can't find much else about his background (other than that he was from Evergreen Park and attended Brother Rice HS>).
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