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

[Home Jersey]

Thought experiment, based on nothing but speculation and very unlikely to occur, but curious what others would think...

Say Bama decides to bring Cig home? An offer he can't refuse...

Would you be willing to accept that if we then hired DeBoer in a de facto trade?

I would not take that as a straight up trade, but under the hypothetical condition where CCC is 100% gone, this scenario would very obviously cement Cig's legacy in terms of elevating the program.

After just one year! It would be hard to be mad at him. But please don't leave CCC...

Just for the sake of conversation

DeBoer is no slouch (to put it lightly) and still just 50. Say they lose to LSU and/or Auburn and their boosters get antsy... if you squint, you can sort of see it. I feel like Texas, Bama and UGA would be the only three schools that could truly pull whoever they want no matter how good of a fight the current school puts up.

Brian Kelly left ND for LSU and hasn't had any better luck down there. CCC specifically referenced BK as another coach who came up through D2, so I think he does take notice of that sort of thing and may have an appreciation for the grass not always being greener... Call it sunshine or cope, I think at a certain age most people recognize there is something to be said about being a big fish in a small pond/creating the culture/setting the expectation vs. stepping into the higher profile, higher intensity, more volatile role. 

[cthomas]

Sometimes when you get older and move up to a higher level, you want to enjoy the fruits of your labor and not move on just to start over. Money only means so much, especially if you don't need more. CCC is a hero here. He is the embodiment of the Hoosier work ethic. The pressure at a higher profile place, after what he has done here, would be astronomical. Sometimes being comfortable in a position is important, especially after you have proven you can succeed.

[Hoosierfan2017]

16 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

I was somewhat surprised that Indiana is now rated in the top ten.  Usually, a team has to beat a highly ranked team to get up there.  Indiana has not.

 

Maybe the best opponent yet is Washington which does have a winning record.  Barely.  5 - 4, 3 - 3.  And Nebraska also has a winning record but is on life support.  5 - 4, 2 - 4.

 

Wow.   Has Michigan fallen off the pace, or what?!  No surprise, but ouch.

 

Indiana hosts Michigan, then runs into reality at OSU and then hosts Purdon't.

 

I am very pro Indiana.  But please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance against a not really too tough schedule.    

 

Cignetti is superb.  But the big boys are too.  Heady stuff.

The same thing could be said about many top teams this season. Who has Texas beat? Penn State? What about Miami? They beat 4-4 (0-4) Cal by 1 point and 5-4 Virginia Tech by 4 points. 

IU isn’t a fluke. We’ve trailed in only 1 of our 9 games, and we responded by scoring 47 unanswered points in that one. Our closest game was 14 points, and that was without our quarterback. We are one of the big boys this season. The only reason people are skeptical about IU is the program’s history, but that has absolutely 0 impact on this team’s abilities. 

[Hovadipo]

16 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

But please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance against a not really too tough schedule.

Or simply look at all the metrics which paint the picture that the team is actually really good.

[go iu bb]

16 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

I was somewhat surprised that Indiana is now rated in the top ten.  Usually, a team has to beat a highly ranked team to get up there.  Indiana has not.

 

Maybe the best opponent yet is Washington which does have a winning record.  Barely.  5 - 4, 3 - 3.  And Nebraska also has a winning record but is on life support.  5 - 4, 2 - 4.

 

Wow.   Has Michigan fallen off the pace, or what?!  No surprise, but ouch.

 

Indiana hosts Michigan, then runs into reality at OSU and then hosts Purdon't.

 

I am very pro Indiana.  But please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance against a not really too tough schedule.    

 

Cignetti is superb.  But the big boys are too.  Heady stuff.

I get what you're saying but IU has absolutely destroyed all those teams. That is what a good team does.

[HoosierTrav]

16 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

I was somewhat surprised that Indiana is now rated in the top ten.  Usually, a team has to beat a highly ranked team to get up there.  Indiana has not.

 

Maybe the best opponent yet is Washington which does have a winning record.  Barely.  5 - 4, 3 - 3.  And Nebraska also has a winning record but is on life support.  5 - 4, 2 - 4.

 

Wow.   Has Michigan fallen off the pace, or what?!  No surprise, but ouch.

 

Indiana hosts Michigan, then runs into reality at OSU and then hosts Purdon't.

 

I am very pro Indiana.  But please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance against a not really too tough schedule.    

 

Cignetti is superb.  But the big boys are too.  Heady stuff.

 

[CSP]

16 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

I was somewhat surprised that Indiana is now rated in the top ten.  Usually, a team has to beat a highly ranked team to get up there.  Indiana has not.

 

Maybe the best opponent yet is Washington which does have a winning record.  Barely.  5 - 4, 3 - 3.  And Nebraska also has a winning record but is on life support.  5 - 4, 2 - 4.

 

Wow.   Has Michigan fallen off the pace, or what?!  No surprise, but ouch.

 

Indiana hosts Michigan, then runs into reality at OSU and then hosts Purdon't.

 

I am very pro Indiana.  But please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance against a not really too tough schedule.    

 

Cignetti is superb.  But the big boys are too.  Heady stuff.

Tennessee- looked like poop all year

PSU- when comparing our results vs. theirs... there really isn't a comparison. ours have been significantly better

 

Through 9 weeks.... it's pretty clear we should be ranked T10, and actually more like 6th, at the lowest. If you are a great team.... you don't get beat @Ark, if you are a great team you don't only beat Bowling Green by 7 at home. 

 

Tennessee and PSU have handled NO ONE. 

"please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance" No. We have lost 1 quarter all year. 1. Call it what it is... Indiana is a T10 team. They've shown that for 9 weeks. 

[IUHoosierJoe]

1 hour ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Tennessee- looked like poop all year

PSU- when comparing our results vs. theirs... there really isn't a comparison. ours have been significantly better

 

Through 9 weeks.... it's pretty clear we should be ranked T10, and actually more like 6th, at the lowest. If you are a great team.... you don't get beat @Ark, if you are a great team you don't only beat Bowling Green by 7 at home. 

 

Tennessee and PSU have handled NO ONE. 

"please be somewhat conservative in assessing IU's performance" No. We have lost 1 quarter all year. 1. Call it what it is... Indiana is a T10 team. They've shown that for 9 weeks. 

Agree….although I do think Tennessee has a great defense.  I feel like I’ve been pretty conservative and unbiased, as IU has won by a bigger margin than I’ve predicted in 7 of the 9 games.  And that’s with me thinking IU is about #5 right now.

[CSP]

29 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

Agree….although I do think Tennessee has a great defense.  I feel like I’ve been pretty conservative and unbiased, as IU has won by a bigger margin than I’ve predicted in 7 of the 9 games.  And that’s with me thinking IU is about #5 right now.

Tennessee's DL is disgustingly good. Literally winning games for them right now. 

Wanna know what neutralizes a great DL? ....a tremendous RPO game

[Demo]

https://x.com/CBSSportsCFB/status/1854580293228789964/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1854580293228789964&currentTweetUser=CBSSportsCFB
 

You can’t pay for this level of fawning. It’s like the school produced it.

[go iu bb]

Let's get to the B1G Championship game and show them.

 

[LamarCheeks]

Not sure if this is true -- but it's kinda funny! 

He shoulda got a lot more! 

[LIHoosier]

5 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Not sure if this is true -- but it's kinda funny! 

He shoulda got a lot more! 

I'm surprised the entire state of Ohio didn't vote for Ryan Day just to get him the hell outta there.

[southsidehoosier]

SIAP

 

[Demo]

 

Freaking. Awesome.

[Alford Bailey]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

 

Freaking. Awesome.

Yea I was in Alabama two weeks ago and had 4-5 conversations about Cig and the football team when folks found out I was from Indiana. Our coach is a household name.

[Demo]

14 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Yea I was in Alabama two weeks ago and had 4-5 conversations about Cig and the football team when folks found out I was from Indiana. Our coach is a household name.

The idea that the hottest rock star HC in the country is a slightly cranky 63yo 1st time power conference guy at the losingest program in history takes the term “counterintuitive” to whole new heights. Beyond awesome.

[johnsoniu]

4 minutes ago, Demo said:

The idea that the hottest rock star HC in the country is a slightly cranky 63yo 1st time power conference guy at the losingest program in history takes the term “counterintuitive” to whole new heights. Beyond awesome.

This is quite possibly the greatest post in the 30 years I have been on message boards.

[steubenhoosier]

Was listening to a Joel Klatt interview earlier today. He said that he is constantly getting texted from coaches around the country, and they're all talking about Cig. 

[JSHoosier]

I was on a Teams meeting during work and the boss asked if anyone had anything worth talking about, a guy from Louisville said Indiana's football coach is worth talking about.