IU247 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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madmax Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 This is exactly what we should want out of coach. Coach Wilson had this edge to him, but wasn’t affable enough to sell it to the masses(though it’s clear to me that he raised the bar at IU, regardless of his record). I love it. I love the confidence. IU will never be anything other than a doormat with any other attitude than this! Let’s go!!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC2345 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Sounds like Cig is bringing his strength coaches too. Kuntz it doesn’t sound like be part of the Indiana staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 8 hours ago, DC2345 said: Sounds like Cig is bringing his strength coaches too. Kuntz it doesn’t sound like be part of the Indiana staff. Any chance they keep Wilt/Randolph for that gig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victobmyboy Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 22 minutes ago, btownqb said: Any chance they keep Wilt/Randolph for that gig? I saw that he’s bringing his strength guys from JMU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Just now, Victobmyboy said: I saw that he’s bringing his strength guys from JMU. Yes. That will replace Wellman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DC2345 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 3 hours ago, btownqb said: Any chance they keep Wilt/Randolph for that gig? Most of the staff is out. However it sounds like Bostad will be kept. 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Just now, DC2345 said: Most of the staff is out. However it sounds like Bostad will be kept. Hey hey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 27 minutes ago, IU247 said: Sad day. Understandable, but these are people and Teegardin seems like a top notch dude. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU247 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 12 minutes ago, DC2345 said: Most of the staff is out. However it sounds like Bostad will be kept. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledies22 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 1 minute ago, IU247 said: Absolutely love this. He is the first guy I thought of that should be retained. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cbp4IU Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 Bostad was the only coach I wanted to retain. Now let’s start regrouping our OL. Get a QB and a few Wrs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 (edited) Coach Cig is already out extending offers. Top 300 24 Athlete Jah Jah Boyd with the early offer from our new staff. Apparently he was JMU's highest ever commit. One to keep an eye on for us. Edited December 2, 2023 by Seeking6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierFan997 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: Coach Cig is already out extending offers. Top 300 24 Athlete Jah Jah Boyd with the early offer from our new staff. Former JMU commit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobSaccamanno Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 46 minutes ago, IU247 said: Continuity at that position group may be a plus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 29 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: Coach Cig is already out extending offers. Top 300 24 Athlete Jah Jah Boyd with the early offer from our new staff. Apparently he was JMU's highest ever commit. One to keep an eye on for us. Has he reached out to Arch Manning? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, rico said: Has he reached out to Arch Manning? No but we just offered the #1 recruit, a QB, in the 2026 class. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IU247 Posted December 2, 2023 Report Share Posted December 2, 2023 27 minutes ago, JSHoosier said: Too bad it's behind a pay wall. Quote BLOOMINGTON – The furious pace of his search for a new football coach, driven by his own self-imposed timeline, wore IU athletic director Scott Dolson down over the last week. At one point, so tired from the relentless march of interviews, phone calls and meetings, Dolson found relief in a phone call from former IU basketball player and current trustee Quinn Buckner. "I’m not going to ask you anything about the search," Buckner said according Dolson, "I just want to make sure you’re doing OK." But there was one moment when Dolson felt particularly energized. So enthusiastic was Indiana’s fourth-year athletic director following his first phone call with James Madison coach Curt Cignetti, Dolson hopped over from his office to tell Deputy Athletics Director Mattie White about it. “This guy’s different,” Dolson told White. “I think he can win here.” Thus began the process that eventually resulted in Cignetti replacing the “James Madison” in his title with “Indiana,” and culminated in a Friday news conference announcing Cignetti’s hiring as the Hoosiers’ new football coach. “It’s a challenge that really got my juices flowing,” Cignetti told reporters. “I left a great job that I could’ve retired in, with a contract through 2030, and won a lot of football games, but sometimes you’ve got to make hard decisions in life. This was a hard decision for me. Quote “You’ve got to be uncomfortable to grow, and I’m too young to stop growing. This is an exciting opportunity at a prestigious university in the top conference in the country. There’s no reason why we can’t be successful, pack the stadium and be a source of pride to the entire town of Bloomington and state of Indiana.” Quote That, like so much else Cignetti said to Dolson through this week’s search, will have been music to the ears of an athletic director who, in his early days as a fundraising officer with IU’s Varsity Club, used to drive to golf outings with Bill Mallory. A student manager on Bob Knight’s 1987 national championship team, Dolson knows most people attach him to IU’s basketball team first and foremost. But Dolson has fond memories of those road trips with Mallory to booster and fundraising events, picking the brain of the winningest coach in Indiana history about what it took for Mallory to build a consistent winner out of a historic also-ran. Quote As chair of the Big Ten’s athletics directors group, Dolson is keenly aware of the value and importance of football. At a time when so much else in his department stands on even footing or better, Dolson found himself frustrated in recent months the Hoosiers could not find a competitive level of relevance in the richest conference’s most-lucrative sport. When he fired Tom Allen last Sunday, Dolson did so intending to find a coach he was confident held a formula similar to the one his old golfing partner used to deliver six bowl berths in eight years across the prime of his tenure in Bloomington. “We put together a profile,” Dolson said. “What do we need right now? What is exactly what we're looking for? If this goes well, what would a coach look like? What would they be all about?” Dolson highlighted three key areas. First, IU wanted a coach with extensive success running his own program, with ability to recruit and develop players consistently and, perhaps most pointedly, a history of working with quarterbacks. Quote Second, the Hoosiers needed to be comfortable their choice would embrace and could thrive in the fluid and competitive NIL marketplace, name, image and likeness concerns only growing in importance in college football. Indiana’s partner collectives are prepared to arm Cignetti with $3 million-plus in NIL resources — IU needed to be sure anyone in his chair would have a clear-eyed plan for deploying them. And lastly, Dolson wanted a winner. A coach with, as he put it, “some swagger.” “We went quickly, Dolson said, “but we scoured the country, and fairly quickly, Curt identified himself as someone who was really different.” The process moved as swiftly as Dolson had initially hoped. Interest in the job exceeded Indiana’s expectations. Working with well-regarded search firm TurnkeyZRG, Dolson narrowed his focus to a list of roughly 10 coaches with whom he wanted to speak at least informally. There were a handful of assistants among them — IndyStar understands both IU alum/Ohio State offensive coach Justin Frye and Michigan running backs coach Mike Hart got a nod — but Dolson’s focus on coaches with an established track record running their own programs never seriously wavered. Quote As with any coaching search, there was a fair bit of public speculation that did not match private fact. Toledo coach Jason Candle and former Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst emerged as serious candidates. Jon Gruden, whose support came from a small corner of the program’s booster base, was never under consideration. Dolson began with phone calls and Zoom sitdowns, covering a lot of ground in a short space of time through more informal conversations. Cignetti began to separate himself then. Working hand-in-hand with Indiana University President Pam Whitten — who Dolson said is available for help and guidance “anything I need, anything” — Dolson also consulted a small group of trusted confidants, across both the university and the Big Ten. “I had her absolute, full attention,” Dolson said of Whitten. “There's absolutely no way we could have gotten this done without her.” From those initial interviews, Dolson narrowed his focus to a small group of finalists, perhaps no more than three. Each received a much lengthier in-person interview. Quote It was through that last step Cignetti established himself as IU’s favorite. No one impressed decisionmakers more, and despite James Madison having offered him a fresh contract with improved terms before Indiana’s interest became serious, once the Hoosiers made their financial commitment — including an improved pool of money for staffing — clear, negotiations were never a major concern. A private plane belonging to a major Indiana booster made multiple trips to the airport serving Harrisonburg, Va., on Wednesday morning and afternoon. By Wednesday night, Dolson and Whitten had arrived at a clear and present first choice. The following afternoon, Cignetti was announced as IU’s 30th head football coach. “He is an excellent recruiter, player developer, certainly evaluator,” Dolson said. “And the final thing with Curt, which was really the final piece of this, is that he's the type of person that will fit here. He's a great person. He's got an incredible work ethic, and he's got high character. For us, he was a perfect fit." Quote As with any coaching change, a lot is happening in a short space of time. A lot already has. From Sunday morning to Friday afternoon, Dolson toiled to find a man he believed could deliver the kind of success he dreams of, the level of which Indiana fans have been starved for much of the last 50 years. He went home Friday night believing he had. During her opening remarks, Whitten repeated an answer Cignetti gave during one of their discussions. Asked how he managed to win everywhere he’d been, Cignetti answered, by waging a tenacious battle against complacency. The answer stuck with Whitten. When she finished her remarks, Whitten closed by turning to IU’s new football coach, and telling him, “You were born to be a Hoosier, sir. Born to be a Hoosier.” To which Cignetti, smiling, said simply: “Agreed.” https://web.archive.org/web/20231202233123/https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2023/12/01/indiana-football-how-curt-cignetti-became-the-coach-in-96-hours/71762935007/ 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted December 3, 2023 Report Share Posted December 3, 2023 What was the role of the search firm we hired? Doesn't sound like they did much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13th&Jackson Posted December 3, 2023 Report Share Posted December 3, 2023 16 minutes ago, Reacher said: What was the role of the search firm we hired? Doesn't sound like they did much Provided coffee and donuts for the interviews 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted December 3, 2023 Report Share Posted December 3, 2023 59 minutes ago, Reacher said: What was the role of the search firm we hired? Doesn't sound like they did much Probably did the job they do like doing back ground checks. They also probably have been in contact with the coaches representative the last few weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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