Don’t let him fool you with niceties Coach!

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What Curt Cignetti Said About 'Phenom' Oregon Coach Dan L...

The No. 3 Oregon Ducks are preparing for a top-10 showdown vs. the No. 7 Indiana Hoosiers in a game with massive Big Ten and College Football Playoff implicatio

CIG's team is smokin' and he's nobody's fool.

0-47 - The Hoosiers' record in road games versus Top 5 opponents. 🤪

PUT OUT THAT CIG!

He's no fool. He's not giving anything for Lanning to use against him.

Listening to Cignetti bluster...

1 hour ago, Solar said:

He's no fool. He's not giving anything for Lanning to use against him.

A guy who paid his dues before getting a P4 HC gig at the P4 school with the most losses in CFB. CFB fans, 2024 was not a schedule-induced Indiana one-off.

Cignetti was the recruiting coordinator for Nick Saban at Bama. His Dad was the HC at West Virginia for years and is in the CFB Hall of Fame. The Cignettis' ties with Saban go back to Saint Nick's roots, West Virginia.

Cignetti was making $200,000.00 a year working at Bama. To his wife's chagrin, and his daughter's, who was a student at Bama, he took a $125,000.00 pay cut to become the HC with the University of Indiana, Pennsylvania Crimson Hawks, not Crimson Tide. The same school his Dad coached for before moving up to West Virginia. Then it was on to D2 Elon and then on to FCS James Madison, where he moved up with the Dukes to the FBS and success in the Sun Belt.

Danno's career is the antithesis of Cignetti's. In his own sardonic way, Curt has gone out of his way to emphasize the success Dan Lanning has had a a 'young coach.'😁

Curt now makes $8 million + a year. In 14 seasons as an HC, Cignetti has never had a losing season. The impact of his hire on Hoosiers' football is right there with Prime Time, except for more wins.

One reason I believed Indiana could be this season's Indiana was the manner in which Gig acknowledged his 2024 team LOS problems, addressed the same in the portal, as well as bringing in a likely 1st round draft pick at QB, and Maryland's best RB.

OBD wins on Saturday, and it will be Cig's 3rd loss at Indiana, where Indiana used to have three losses or more in every season's first four games.

His two losses. At the 2024 National Champion, Ohio State, and at the 2024 PO runner-up, Notre Dame.

OBD has the better roster, no doubt. But I'm not sure there is a coach in CFB who would have his team better prepared than Gignetti for Saturday's visit to The Autzen Zoo.

I think an OBD cover will happen, a cover of a line now bet down to:

Autzen Zoo

Mysterious movement in the betting line, odds for Indiana...

Something weird is happening with the betting numbers ahead of Oregon's home game against Indiana.

As noted in the article, this could be due to PSU's face plant in LA and OBD not having a win vs. a Top 25 opponent. The only Top 25 and Top 25 wins that matter will be revealed by the PO committee on 12/7/25.

HOSE THE HOOSIERS! PUT OUT THEM CIGS!

Without a doubt, Cignetti is playing games with DL. He is smart to not add bulletin board material or pour fuel on the fire. I just doubt his true sincerity!

In one article he said that Oregon is a great team and that his Hoosiers are a very good team. I doubt DL, staff and players are buying that!

Last season the Hoosiers struggled against elite opponents. Especially in the trenches. Cignetti worked to fix that during the off season. Those fixes will be put to the test against the Ducks.

The Hoosiers are well coached and will bring their best effort this Saturday. However, no sugar coated talk will help them in the rain on Saturday.

This Duck squad is bigger, stronger, faster and deeper. Extremely talented players working together to become elite. Cinderella's fantasy ball should land with a thud in Autzen.

While i think PSU will rebound and return to the rankings by seasons end, the Hoosiers may be the last top ranked team the Ducks face until the title game.

That fact is not lost on DL and this team. As UCLA proved that upsets can happen in any game, I just dont see that happening this Saturday

Go Ducks!