Curt Cignetti, Indiana: Meet The 2024 New Head Coaches
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Curt Cignetti, Indiana
Indiana's newly announced head coach of football Curt Cignetti speaks to the media on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023.
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Previous Life: A dominant force head coach at James Madison, he went 52-9 in five seasons, taking the program from the FCS and transitioning it into a Sun Belt power in the FBS. … Played quarterback at West Virginia, and became a star QB coach at several spots before coaching the receivers at Alabama in the late 2000s. … A head coach at three different schools, he never had a losing season in 13 years.
Top Line of the Resumé: Three straight seasons at James Madison ranked in the top three with three from 2019 to 2021.
Realistic Year One Expectations: Get Indiana to a bowl game. Cignetti is coming in breathing fire and cranking up the expectations, but getting six wins with this schedule would be amazing.
Realistic Expectations Over The Next Five Years: Get to a bowl game in three of the next five seasons and come up with at least one shocking win a season. Make Indiana as nasty on defense as James Madison was.
What Will Happen? He’ll have his first losing season as a head coach. No, he’s not going to put Indiana up there with the Ohio States, Michigans, and USCs of the Big Ten, but his teams will grow into a weekly problem - toughness won’t be a problem.
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