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

[Lebowski]

Not gonna lie, the current focus in this thread is just dumb. IUFB is in a position the vast majority of us IUFB faithful have never experienced and you're focused on the off-season? Rat poison. 

 

Enjoy this ride and focus on the present. 

[Lebowski]

 

[Napleshoosier]

Simply the best!  Better than all the rest!  

[go iu bb]

2 hours ago, Lebowski said:

 

Man, that's a terrible picture of Triple C.

[HoosierX]

On 10/27/2024 at 12:14 AM, OKHOOSIER said:

Millions of dollars and 75 years of history? Common dude. 
 

https://badgerofhonor.com/posts/ranking-big-ten-head-coach-salaries-where-does-luke-fickell-stand-01hx2qs4mg2b

He’s next to last in pay. Indiana opening the wallet to hire him slightly above dead last in pay. If you think money isn’t important you’re being obtuse on purpose. We gave him more money for assistants and more money than any IU coach ever and we still are at the bottom of the B1G. He will get offered huge money this offseason, I hope he declines but we are going to have to push the salary to top levels or he’s gone. It’s simply reality. 

 

We will have to pay him that's for sure, but I don't think it's that simple.

One thing that I don't think people are fully appreciating is that no SEC school is going to let him bring his whole staff with him. They are going to require him to hire people with recruiting ties in the South. And I think he is very loyal to his staff.

[southsidehoosier]

 

[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.