I don’t think it has been brought up yet.
Has anyone had time to consider comparing Cignetti to Rhule?
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One of them can talk a good game that's for sure, I wonder who that is? What's the line, All Hat and No Cattle.
And for the love of God please use the term Unicorn!!
Can you compare Raeville Ne, to Chicago Illinois? Or how about comparing Jamarcus Russell to Tom Brady.
I'm waiting for some colleges to raid Confetti's coaching staff. If this guy is some sage of coaching brilliance, then programs should take that coaching staff apart.
If you watched the game, they talked about the coaching staff and how loyal they are to Cignetti. They were coaching with him at the first stop, and were making like minimum wage and were on food stamps and he brought them with him to every stop along the way. They aren't leaving that man. It is one thing to be a coach at a small school earning your way up, it is quite another to go from food stamps to $3 mil a year in short order.
I mean, they will eventually leave, so they can go from 3 million to 7 million a year. But they will stay for awhile.
Quite honestly, that’s ridiculous…compare any coach to Cignetti. He and his team are a generational (and quite honestly, a multigenerational) phenomenon. There’s zero precedent for what’s happening/has happened with that team…I mean find me an apt comparison in college football.
Ironically, it’s the football equivalent of the movie Hoosiers.
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Ironically, it’s the football equivalent of the movie Hoosiers.
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That would be as rare as Cigaretti's quick success. Guys on that staff should be offered promotions and be able to work their way up. But it does happen that some guys stay with a coach. Osborne had his staff of loyalists, but that was a different era too.
Osborn's staff was already at Nebraska. These guys were at IUPUI and Elon making peanuts, now making $3million per.
Rhule is just waiting until after Indiana’s final game to announce his new DL coach, Curt Cignetti
Both are coaches of college football teams in the Big 10. Thus the have more in common than a potato and a carrot.
And so was Osborne, but anyway I think only one of the assistants would be making $3 million. Sure the others are loyal and will get huge increases, but since college football has completely lost it's mind I figure someone will want to offer a head job or coordinator job to someone. Just look at Mike Shanahan's coaching tree. Some of the top offensive minds and QB developers are on the list. And their latest QB transfer has a 4,000 yard passing season in his resume. Gee, wonder how he'll do?
I'm not arguing with you that the staff aren't loyal, I'm just saying that it's surprising that the mega wealthy programs haven't raided that staff yet. Maybe the perception is that it's all Cignetti and Shanahan?
Cig,Cig,CIg! Indiana U has the largest living alumni base in the US. UNL has somewhere around 1/4 of their base. Follow the money. CFB sucks worse than ever due to the uneven playing field. It's hard to even care anymore. I'll turn on the "national championship game," but, I probably won't watch much. Both teams have advantages that I'm afraid NU will never be able to overcome. Stinks; and, I'm sick of backing a team that just can't win.
Get the Huskers to move to the MAC. I personally don't think Matt the Hat will win any more games, but the Huskers should be able to compete if that is all you care about.
I thought hiring your buddies was bad, guess it just depends doesn't it
We have a significant level of HDS in this thread.
I think I kinda understand:
1. a. cig came from a easier conference, had alot of loyal coaching buddies all working on the same page
b. rhule came from the nfl like urban and saben, and had to peice together a staff on the fly
2. a. cig figured out how to use the transfer portal by just getting players already developed where their average age is 23
b. rhule started to figure that out this year
3. a. cig took over a indiana program that wasn't setting the world on fire, probably not a fishbowl either
b. rhule dived into a fishbowl with teams wanting to make a name for themself beating NU, who also hasn't set the world on fire for decades.
4. a. cig has a freind who feels like he should give back and does so with big money in a pay for play system
b. rhule deals with big wigs who feel reducing the surplus population and gathering treasures on earth is the goal
5. a. cig did'nt allow black or pink uniforms
b. if rhule makes them rainbow I'm done, heavy weight boxing will be the only sport left.
1. a. cig came from a easier conference, had alot of loyal coaching buddies all working on the same page
b. rhule came from the nfl like urban and saben, and had to peice together a staff on the fly
2. a. cig figured out how to use the transfer portal by just getting players already developed where their average age is 23
b. rhule started to figure that out this year
3. a. cig took over a indiana program that wasn't setting the world on fire, probably not a fishbowl either
b. rhule dived into a fishbowl with teams wanting to make a name for themself beating NU, who also hasn't set the world on fire for decades.
4. a. cig has a freind who feels like he should give back and does so with big money in a pay for play system
b. rhule deals with big wigs who feel reducing the surplus population and gathering treasures on earth is the goal
5. a. cig did'nt allow black or pink uniforms
b. if rhule makes them rainbow I'm done, heavy weight boxing will be the only sport left.
I don't get it. You're one of the guys always busting other posters' balls for bashing Rhule. Then you post this highly ironic/satirical/sarcastic post bashing Rhule? Make up you mind.
Indiana OC Mike Shanahan and DC Bryant Haines are both paid VERY well. They're both in the tops of their fields in terms of salary. Both have been with Cignetti for a decade. Good luck. Plus, I could imagine at least one of them, if not both, are competing for the "who gets to replace the soon to be 65-year old Curt Cignetti" position in a few years.
Yeah, one is either next or hopes he is next to take over that job. Plus, Cigs will clearly get to pick his replacement. He owns IU right now and can do what he wants.
I'm not calling for fire everyone/coaching overturn...I lil constructive criticism is ok, there's a difference