New DC hired

[NSECTA4]

Cignetti didn't lack experience. My fucking goodness people, quit recreating history to fit a narrative.

6 or 7 years at NC State; Phillip Rivers & Russell Wilson ring a bell?

5 seasons (+/-) at Alabama under Nick Saban, WR coach and as recruiting coordinator.

13 years as a head coach. Multiple playoff appearances, including 2 semi-finals and a title game appearance. Transitioned JMU from FCS to FBS and in year 2 they won 10+ games. Finished ranked in 10 of 13 seasons.

Cignetti had winner written all over him.

All excellent points. Yet, there still would have been some who would bitch and moan about it.

 

[Frogsker30]

We found our Pete Golding

Our last decent dc was a coke addict! Now this is just what we need

 

[Mavsker]

Cignetti didn't lack experience. My fucking goodness people, quit recreating history to fit a narrative.

6 or 7 years at NC State; Phillip Rivers & Russell Wilson ring a bell?

5 seasons (+/-) at Alabama under Nick Saban, WR coach and as recruiting coordinator.

13 years as a head coach. Multiple playoff appearances, including 2 semi-finals and a title game appearance. Transitioned JMU from FCS to FBS and in year 2 they won 10+ games. Finished ranked in 10 of 13 seasons.

Cignetti had winner written all over him.

And it's a dumb argument even if it were true, since for every 1 Curt Cignetti there are 500 not Curt Cignetti's

You can be jealous of a team that took a big gamble and won, while also not wanting to take the same gamble yourself

 

[Toe]

I have seen so many posts about needing coaches with Big Ten experience or P5 experience...none of which Cignetti had.

(Cignetti had coached at power conference level from 1993-2010, just as a position coach, not coordinator or HC. Maybe most notable was that he was Saban's recruiting coordinator for his first four years at Bama - he could identify and land top-level recruits.)

 

[TampaBaySkers]

Cignetti didn't lack experience. My fucking goodness people, quit recreating history to fit a narrative.

6 or 7 years at NC State; Phillip Rivers & Russell Wilson ring a bell?

5 seasons (+/-) at Alabama under Nick Saban, WR coach and as recruiting coordinator.

13 years as a head coach. Multiple playoff appearances, including 2 semi-finals and a title game appearance. Transitioned JMU from FCS to FBS and in year 2 they won 10+ games. Finished ranked in 10 of 13 seasons.

Cignetti had winner written all over him.

He would of had a lot more P4 hc opportunities prior to Indiana if he wasn’t such a prick

 

[nja13]

Not sure on the number but There 3 posters who I think could hold the title *all of dirtmans accounts, ducky boi and I can’t remember the last guy

… leaving open the possibility that it could be any one of us. 🤔

 

[djw004]

Spent more than a few nights tossing them back at Grandma's. Even buzzed up to Duluth with a buddy from St. Paul one fine NYE knowing there'd be overpoured cougars looking for fit younger breeding stock. We were correct. Did not encounter any future DC's that I recall, but I'd been knocking a few back myself that evening. C'est la vie.

To be fair, you probably had a long conversation with DC Aurich - he just looks like, literally every hoss in Duluth, so you'd never recall.

 

[wildcat_husker]

Cignetti didn't lack experience. My fucking goodness people, quit recreating history to fit a narrative.

6 or 7 years at NC State; Phillip Rivers & Russell Wilson ring a bell?

5 seasons (+/-) at Alabama under Nick Saban, WR coach and as recruiting coordinator.

13 years as a head coach. Multiple playoff appearances, including 2 semi-finals and a title game appearance. Transitioned JMU from FCS to FBS and in year 2 they won 10+ games. Finished ranked in 10 of 13 seasons.

Cignetti had winner written all over him.

I understood it more as fan reaction. I think the overall sentiment if Cignetti was hired would be pretty negative from our fanbase. He's accomplished but our fanbase would not see it that way.

It's more of an insult to our fanbase than what each respective coach has accomplished.

 

[Sous Chef]

And it's a dumb argument even if it were true, since for every 1 Curt Cignetti there are 500 not Curt Cignetti's

You can be jealous of a team that took a big gamble and won, while also not wanting to take the same gamble yourself

Did Indiana really take a gamble? What I mean is it gambling when you have nothing to lose?

 

[Carm]

Did Indiana really take a gamble? What I mean is it gambling when you have nothing to lose?

"freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose"

 

[PonyBoy]

I have seen so many posts about needing coaches with Big Ten experience or P5 experience...none of which Cignetti had. I guarantee there would have been a lot of people not happy if he was out hire originally. That's the only point I'm trying to make. People have these weird boxes that they need to have checked (I can fall into this too). But, as you pointed out, Cignetti's resume was pretty solid in reality.

Preference, yes. Required, no.

There have been multiple lower level coaches that have failed in the P5. There have been multiple P5 coaches switching to another P5 and failed. So on and so on.

This forum is pretty special, and much different from others. Higher level of understanding, with details. The minority is fun to mock...

Cignetti's resume stands on its own.

 

[Mavsker]

Did Indiana really take a gamble? What I mean is it gambling when you have nothing to lose?

Kind of besides the point

You can be jealous of a team that made a certain hire that paid off big, while also acknowledging your team shouldn't make the same hire with the information known at the time

Example, in retrospect, Alabama probably should have hired Curt Cignetti. At the time though, they probably shouldn't have, because they had perceived lower risk/same or higher ceiling candidates interested in the job.

 

[Kinish]

 

[Toe]

 

[NorthWillRiseAgain]

Cal didn’t look like it did much to establish a running game there.

Looks like SDSU tackles well, fills gaps and has a nose for the ball.

Also looks like their weakest point was over the top big plays.

 

[Bootleg11]

 

[Huskers633]

I can just hear Daen......right now "This is a tremendous hire and Rhule is doing what he needs to do to get a young motivating coach." Three years later if he fails "Yeah, the writing was on the wall when he was hired and I had my doubts the whole time when hiring a guy with that little experience."

It's funny to watch how often he does this. I get that they're a business and they're "journalists" but the sunshine pumping and fluff pieces constantly put out are awful.

Late spring early summer they put out an article about Jacob Bower, how he could be a diamond in the rough, he was running with the 2s, could push for a starting spot, and was someone to watch. Fast forward to October, in the weekly chat, someone asked about Bower. Dean responded and said Bower isn't in the mix and he wasn't ever going to be.

 

[SlumpBuster]

I don't have time to read through the entire thread, who won? Sandy Vaginas or Happy Endings?

 

[Woodguy79]

We found our Pete Golding

Sounds perfect for a DC!

 

[djw004]

Cal didn’t look like it did much to establish a running game there.

Looks like SDSU tackles well, fills gaps and has a nose for the ball.

Also looks like their weakest point was over the top big plays.

Don't worry - when our issue is protecting against chunk pass plays, we will bring Butler back and then get gashed on the ground again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.