Curt Cignetti

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Some Day...Maybe said:
That is one of the greatest stories in sports history. It’s the greatest coaching job, and greatest turnaround in college football history. As Urban Meyer said, and there’s not a close 2nd. One of the greatest in all of sports. It’s unbelievable.
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I reject this. Wholecloth.

Spending a bunch of money to go buy a bunch of players ... is not interesting or noteworthy.

It's a unique thing to college football, and degrades it in my eyes.
 

If Cignetti was some genius, then he would have accomplished much more, much earlier in his career.

Not a single one of his worshippers has been able to address this point.

He's the luckiest guy on Earth in college football, at the moment. Good for him.



Any school (including Minnesota) can upjump itself if you go spend a bunch of money for great players, including the Heisman winner.

DUH!
 

GopherGrit said:
I reject this. Wholecloth.

Spending a bunch of money to go buy a bunch of players ... is not interesting or noteworthy.

It's a unique thing to college football, and degrades it in my eyes.
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You have officially overtaken some guy as the King Of Bad Takes.

I'm almost convinced you're a bit, not an actual poster. It's difficult to believe a single person can be as spectacularly wrong as consistently as you.
 

GopherGrit said:
I reject this. Wholecloth.

Spending a bunch of money to go buy a bunch of players ... is not interesting or noteworthy.

It's a unique thing to college football, and degrades it in my eyes.
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I mean it’s no coincidence “the greatest turnaround” happens as soon as NIL and the transfer rules were changed.
 

GopherGrit said:
I reject this. Wholecloth.

Spending a bunch of money to go buy a bunch of players ... is not interesting or noteworthy.

It's a unique thing to college football, and degrades it in my eyes.
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Indiana isn't doing it with money. If you're going by recruiting rankings, Indiana is the least talented team in the B1G this season.
 



GopherGrit said:
If Cignetti was some genius, then he would have accomplished much more, much earlier in his career.

Not a single one of his worshippers has been able to address this point.

He's the luckiest guy on Earth in college football, at the moment. Good for him.



Any school (including Minnesota) can upjump itself if you go spend a bunch of money for great players, including the Heisman winner.

DUH!
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He's won everywhere. Google him.
 

Why are none of you capable of answering this:

then why did it take until 2025, at the age of 64, with a purchased Heisman QB ... for Cignetti's genius to finally be realized??
 






The Cig-obo's will not be denied the version of history they want to believe in.


Time for me to put down the keyboard. I've said what I've wanted to say, many times over.

Carry on
 

btowngopher said:
I mean it’s no coincidence “the greatest turnaround” happens as soon as NIL and the transfer rules were changed.
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They just invented the blueprint on how to do it. I wish it was the Gophers who figured it out so fast.
Someone was bound to get there first and it was Indiana.
 



GopherGrit said:
Why are none of you capable of answering this:

then why did it take until 2025, at the age of 64, with a purchased Heisman QB ... for Cignetti's genius to finally be realized??
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He's been a really good head coach since 2011. The 3 years prior to that he worked under Saban.

Maybe he learned a few things under Saban and worked his way up to the top after. Like many people do in this world.
 


Cignetti has been elite at identifying talent and roster construction. I think Scott Drew winning a championship at Baylor is one of the ultimate modern turnarounds.
 


I remember watching his speech when they introduced him at a Hoosier basketball game right after he was hired. I thought this dude's a giant asshat, he's gonna get fired for shooting his mouth off before too long, and here we are.
If he doesn't win the Natty does he go back to giant asshat status?
Not in my book. The body of work is undeniable.
 

btowngopher said:
Cignetti has been elite at identifying talent and roster construction. I think Scott Drew winning a championship at Baylor is one of the ultimate modern turnarounds.
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That was a hell of a turnaround too but Drew didn't have his first winning season until year 5, and it took him 18 years to win a championship.
 

MonikerSchmoniker45 said:
Elon was a dumpster fire for years and he turned them around.
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I will post once more to correct this factual inaccuracy.

Cignetti did worse his 2nd year at Elon, going 6-5. That's turning them around?

Pete Lembo did better at Elon in the mid to late 2000's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Lembo#Head_coaching_record


Genius is genius. If he knows how to do something in college football that no one else knows how to do, then it should work anywhere.

Therefore, it is proven either that he does not possess such magical ability (that's my belief) or it could be argued that he didn't figure it out until after Elon (to which I roll my eyes).
 




GopherGrit said:
I will post once more to correct this factual inaccuracy.

Cignetti did worse his 2nd year at Elon, going 6-5. That's turning them around?

Pete Lembo did better at Elon in the mid to late 2000's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Lembo#Head_coaching_record


Genius is genius. If he knows how to do something in college football that no one else knows how to do, then it should work anywhere.

Therefore, it is proven either that he does not possess such magical ability (that's my belief) or it could be argued that he didn't figure it out until after Elon (to which I roll my eyes).
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Elon was 2-9 the year before Cignetti took over. His second year team actually finished with a higher ranking than his first year team despite fewer wins.

Speaking of geniuses, you are definitely not one. Keep going with this moronic take though. It's getting laughably dumber with every post.
 

GopherGrit said:
It proves he doesn't have some magical ability.

Didn't have it there. Didn't have it at JMU. Doesn't have it at Indiana.
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Who said he was magic?

You just don't want to give him some credit for his success.

Got you all butthurt!!!
Bwahahahaha!!!
 


I don’t think anyone here was hoping that PJ would have Cignetti at Indiana results. Nobody at Indiana could have seen that coming. I’d trade his personality and way going about things in a heartbeat for our guy. He’s way more focused on football without the other nonsense.
 

GopherGrit said:
It proves he doesn't have some magical ability.

Didn't have it there. Didn't have it at JMU. Doesn't have it at Indiana.
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Careful, now. You are directly challenging conventional thinking.

People will disagree, and some of those folks won't be remotely interested in discussing the points you've made. They'll just attack you personally.
 

GopherGrit said:
Why are none of you capable of answering this:

then why did it take until 2025, at the age of 64, with a purchased Heisman QB ... for Cignetti's genius to finally be realized??
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He didn’t have a horseshoe wedged up his ass like PJ who had no business getting the Gopher job when he did. His FU type personality didn’t help probably and maybe he was like Caruso at St. Thomas just chose to stay at the lower level.
 

It seems like there's a lot of revisionist history with the extent to which Cignetti had some bizarrely elite roster purchased by an outrageous NIL infusion. If that is actually what happened, we should be able to look back at all the preseason articles telling us about what a wildly stacked roster Indiana had and how they were likely to run the table and win the B1G. But I dont remember that being a common take after we saw the roster Indiana was starting the season with.

It feels like in college sports, everyone likes the idea of a team coming out of nowhere to upset the established order and give hope to everyone else waiting for their home run hire to take them to the promised land. But then when it actually happens, everyone looks for ways to invalidate it.
 

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