Coach Curt Cignetti to INDIANA... Forever and Ever, Amen!

[Pudman]

My wife grew up in rural Oklahoma in the late 80’s, where high school football players are gods and untouchable. Her high school even produced a heisman winner. But the culture around it and her community was toxic. That culture turned her off not only from football, but from sports until recently. I’ve always been a sports fan, and it’s really been my thing. But, it’s now our thing, and I love it. It started with Teri and IUWBB. She loved watching her coach during the games, and listening to her post games interviews and her approach to coaching and leadership. And now, it’s the same with football. She loves coach Cig not for the fact that we are winning, which is a plus of course, but for the leadership and culture that he is building. She now sends me Cig interviews. We talk about his perspective to leadership and development and how we can employ it in our approach to teaching and working with our students as faculty at IU. And, we now plan our Saturday’s around every game :)

[AZ Hoosier]

30 minutes ago, Pudman said:

My wife grew up in rural Oklahoma in the late 80’s, where high school football players are gods and untouchable. Her high school even produced a heisman winner. But the culture around it and her community was toxic. That culture turned her off not only from football, but from sports until recently. I’ve always been a sports fan, and it’s really been my thing. But, it’s now our thing, and I love it. It started with Teri and IUWBB. She loved watching her coach during the games, and listening to her post games interviews and her approach to coaching and leadership. And now, it’s the same with football. She loves coach Cig not for the fact that we are winning, which is a plus of course, but for the leadership and culture that he is building. She now sends me Cig interviews. We talk about his perspective to leadership and development and how we can employ it in our approach to teaching and working with our students as faculty at IU. And, we now plan our Saturday’s around every game :)

Now if we only had a men's BB coach that she could admire... #sigh

[steubenhoosier]

5 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Now if we only had a men's BB coach that she could admire... #sigh

Oh f#*!.
Give it a rest.

[Brass Cannon]

Can anybody even remotely tell me a more successful coaching turnaround?   Coach has already matched our win total for the last 3 seasons combined.  And doubled our conference wins from that time span. 
 

I’ve been racking my head trying to think of a comparable analogue to this.  And I can’t. 

[Alford Bailey]

Don’t even want to think about the amount of $$ that’s gonna be thrown at him

[rcbowla]

Just now, Alford Bailey said:

Don’t even want to think about the amount of $$ that’s gonna be thrown at him

$13M and it better come from IU

[TheWatShot]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Can anybody even remotely tell me a more successful coaching turnaround?   Coach has already matched our win total for the last 3 seasons combined.  And doubled our conference wins from that time span. 
 

I’ve been racking my head trying to think of a comparable analogue to this.  And I can’t. 

Think of all the restless fans of other programs who will be unhappy with how their coach's first season is going and point to what Cignetti has done here. We're setting a standard that will be just about impossible to replicate. 

 

We're probably also going to prompt Purdue to fire Walters pretty soon, which annoys me not only because I like Purdue being awful way more than them being good, but because I was hoping they'd make the mistake we've made many times of thinking just giving a bad coach more time will fix things. 

[southsidehoosier]

7 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

$13M and it better come from IU

Can Dolson just hand him one of those an oversized checks at halftime of the Purdue game

[rcbowla]

Just now, southsidehoosier said:

Can Dolson just hand him one of those an oversized checks at halftime of the Purdue game

He needed to do it after Nebraska. I'm confident in saying that if Cig leaves it won't be because we wouldn't offer him enough $. And that terrifies me.

[Josh]

11 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

We're probably also going to prompt Purdue to fire Walters pretty soon, which annoys me not only because I like Purdue being awful way more than them being good, but because I was hoping they'd make the mistake we've made many times of thinking just giving a bad coach more time will fix things. 

I've always known the Purdumpsters to be really slow learners.  I bet they stay firm

[Brass Cannon]

22 minutes ago, southsidehoosier said:

Can Dolson just hand him one of those an oversized checks at halftime of the Purdue game

Do it at the start of the game and each time we score a touchdown bring out a check with more on it 

[AZ Hoosier]

24 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Do it at the start of the game and each time we score a touchdown bring out a check with more on it 

Each TD adds a zero...

[Brass Cannon]

3 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Each TD adds a zero...

Could get really risky 

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Could get really risky 

Look, if he beats Ohio State, he deserves a statue.

[DChoosier]

17 hours ago, rcbowla said:

He needed to do it after Nebraska. I'm confident in saying that if Cig leaves it won't be because we wouldn't offer him enough $. And that terrifies me.

I don’t think he will leave because we won’t offer him enough money but am worried he might be tempted by a traditional  power/80k+ stadium/football school/get in playoff with 2 losses/unlimited NIL type of place. Hope we don’t lose him.

[Brass Cannon]

20 minutes ago, IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy said:

Look, if he beats Ohio State, he deserves a statue.

True.  God imagine the embarrassment to Purdue losing to us allowing us to go 12-0 

[8bucks]

Stopped at a restaurant while in Denver tonight and found 3 other tables with IU grads. Small place but great to see so many other grads/fans out repping IU. 

[HoosierTrav]

On 10/26/2024 at 7:39 PM, RoadRage said:

The guy was an assistant coach for 15 years, he doesn't strike me as the gunslinger type, I say if the school offers him a competitive contract and promises to improve the facilities, add seats, and make the football program top notch....he would have no reason to leave! But Shanahan is probably gone at the end of the season! Just my opinion of course, I have no idea what Cignetti wants or maybe more importantly what Mrs. Cignetti wants!

He needs golden handcuffs. Expand the Rock. Make him a stakeholder. Something. This dude may win a ******* natty in his first year here. It’s not THAT far fetched. 

[Hardwood83]

17 hours ago, IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy said:

Look, if he beats Ohio State, he deserves a statue.

In some thread on here I said if he goes 8-4 and wins a bowl he should get a statue. I stand by that statement.

[Hoosier Roots]

Just give him 10% of the athletic department revenue. Let cig decide how much he wants to get paid.