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Tractorman

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posted this in another thread, but, it belongs here:

Cignetti will retire at IU. He was right when he said all I do is win, google me. He didn't get a head coaching job until he was 50 at IUP. He has turned every program around in year 1 including Indiana last year. The most games the Hoosiers have ever won is 9, twice, in 1967 and 1945. He won 11 his first year and may do better in year 2. He even had great success as an assistant at NC ST (recruited Russell Wilson and Philip Rivers) and Alabama (12-0 in '08 14-0 in '09. That dude is a beast.

Elon hired Cignetti in 2017, MS State hired Joe Moorhead in 2017.
 
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Tractorman said:
posted this in another thread, but, it belongs here:

Cignetti will retire at IU. He was right when he said all I do is win, google me. He didn't get a head coaching job until he was 50 at IUP. He has turned every program around in year 1 including Indiana last year. The most games the Hoosiers have ever won is 9, twice, in 1967 and 1945. He won 11 his first year and may do better in year 2. He even had great success as an assistant at NC ST (recruited Russell Wilson and Philip Rivers) and Alabama (12-0 in '08 14-0 in '09. That dude is a beast.

Elon hired Cignetti in 2017, MS State hired Joe Moorhead in 2017.
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Lot of people on here disagree but i think this is the route we should go on most coaching hires if we can't get a no doubter.

I don't mean Cignetti i mean the IUP, Elon, James Madison route. Winning track record at multiple smaller schools.
 
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L4Dawg said:
What is the buy out?
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THe only thing that really matters.

Also, the AD at James Madison should get a boost out of this. He hired the dude after two seasons at Elon when he went 8-4 and 6-5. I assume Elon must be considered a terrible program for that to get you poached. He then finished first or tied for first in his division in the CAA for three years, and then the Sunbelt for 2 years, before going to Indiana where he dropped all the way to 2nd in his division his first year.
 
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johnson86-1 said:
THe only thing that really matters.

Also, the AD at James Madison should get a boost out of this. He hired the dude after two seasons at Elon when he went 8-4 and 6-5. I assume Elon must be considered a terrible program for that to get you poached. He then finished first or tied for first in his division in the CAA for three years, and then the Sunbelt for 2 years, before going to Indiana where he dropped all the way to 2nd in his division his first year.
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Jeff Bourne retired last year after an outstanding 25-year run as AD there…
 
onewoof

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puts him at #3 behind Smart and Day. Indiana may be a perennial playoff team now.
 
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johnson86-1 said:
THe only thing that really matters.

Also, the AD at James Madison should get a boost out of this. He hired the dude after two seasons at Elon when he went 8-4 and 6-5. I assume Elon must be considered a terrible program for that to get you poached. He then finished first or tied for first in his division in the CAA for three years, and then the Sunbelt for 2 years, before going to Indiana where he dropped all the way to 2nd in his division his first year.
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This got him the JMU job.

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Last-Minute Touchdown Lifts #10 Elon Past #2 JMU, 27-24 - James Madison University Athletics

Elon scored a touchdown with just over a minute to play to earn its first win in the series against JMU.
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olblue

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ckDOG said:
Craziness. I like this guy a lot but I also hate misaligned incentives. Even if he doesn't think it impacts his work ethic, it has to at least at a deep unconscious level.
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These severance clauses obviously dis-incentivizes winning from a business perspective. You have to hope you hired a competitive SOB
 
onewoof

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"If there is one thing we know, these lifetime forever home contracts always work out" - John Calipari
 
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onewoof said:
"If there is one thing we know, these lifetime forever home contracts always work out" - John Calipari
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Calipari is actually a counterpoint though, right? Didn’t he save UK a bunch of money by pursuing the Arkansas job? Lots of coaches would have waited for UK to fire him at that age and then taken it to the bouse
 
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