It’s Cignetti….
- Thread starter Bligedy
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I don’t think it’s remotely close. Smaller alumni base. Less TV revenue. Smaller football fan base. Smaller basketball fan base in terms of tickets sold. I would bet that. We are significantly better off financially then they are.
But private vs public as far as who you have to answer to, in order to spend. Seems easier when private.
Looking out my window I can see the big screen at the north end of the stadium is lit up with a Welcome Cignetti graphic.
We got a guy who spent 4 years watching and helping Saban build Bama into a power (2007-2010). Was the recruiting coordinator and WR coach at Bama.
He then took that experience watching how one of the best college coaches of all time did it for 4 years, and went to several different places and had success.
His first stop was fixing a program at IUP where his dad was a legend, and his father's replacement went 1-6 in conference. He went 12-2 his second year and won PSAC Coach of the Year (2012).
He then jumped to Elon and inherited a team that had 6 straight losing seasons. He won CAA Coach of the Year (2017) and took them to the playoffs twice (they hadn't been the prior 8 years). He beat James Madison ending their 22 game CAA winning streak, which caused JMU to hire him.
He got the JMU job and maintained their high level of success at the FCS level, then transitioned to FBS and won Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2023).
This is a head coach. Not a recruiter, not a coordinator, a head coach. Neither of our last 2 hires had even been head coaches past the high school level.
He then took that experience watching how one of the best college coaches of all time did it for 4 years, and went to several different places and had success.
His first stop was fixing a program at IUP where his dad was a legend, and his father's replacement went 1-6 in conference. He went 12-2 his second year and won PSAC Coach of the Year (2012).
He then jumped to Elon and inherited a team that had 6 straight losing seasons. He won CAA Coach of the Year (2017) and took them to the playoffs twice (they hadn't been the prior 8 years). He beat James Madison ending their 22 game CAA winning streak, which caused JMU to hire him.
He got the JMU job and maintained their high level of success at the FCS level, then transitioned to FBS and won Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2023).
This is a head coach. Not a recruiter, not a coordinator, a head coach. Neither of our last 2 hires had even been head coaches past the high school level.
Are you joking? IU isn’t a bad school, but it ain’t Notre Dame.
Those two years of high school French classes came in handy!!
