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  1. I kind of hope IU systematically pounds them into the dirt.
  2. It's widely reputed that IU/Cignetti uses less than the allotted practice time and their practice schedule is quite moderate. They were saying earlier that his assistants love him because they go home at night.
  3. He may well be able to use the portal to keep it going for a while. Probably easier to actually find good culture fits that way.
  4. Well, we've always said, or have said about us, that being recruited by Texas is worth an extra star all by itself. There's a lot of truth to that. It's going to be harder for Cignetti to find those "lunch pail" guys and keep them away from other programs and keep them on the roster. IU is big-time now. Anyone they recruit is going to become big-time in pretty short order.
  5. Why the "Eeyore" and "Debbie Downer"? I'm just interested in why coaches succeed. Cignetti has some great characteristics of a coach, no question. But he's also kind of "curated" his environment and I think very intentionally. Probably because he sees some of these problems.
  6. Like I said, he could very well continue to whip ass. But he's in a pretty different environment now and it is changing even as we speak. Curt Cignetti is officially big-time now. And it's only going to get bigger-time with an NC.
  7. Cignetti is currently "getting by" with a goodly number of JMU transfers and native IU recruits. He's certainly done well with some targeted acquisitions like Coogan. What's going to be interesting is when he continues to target certain 3 and 4 stars that are instantly going to become high 4s and 5s when recruited by IU. And then their interest list broadens. And they start to think highly of themselves, and so do their agents. It's gonna be a lot harder to keep those guys around than a bunch of dudes that signed with IU and JMU from 2021-2023. Development efforts are going to go to waste, culture will deteriorate, etc. I think Cignetti may understand this and that's why he took the IU job rather than some higher-profile job and has stayed low-profile most of his career.
  8. Getting in the portal is one thing and if you're a good evaluator a fairly easy thing. Having 1/3 of your team run away is another thing entirely and something he hasn't really had to deal with.
  9. Yeah, he may continue to completely kick ass. But the world has changed since he was Saban's RC (and Saban ran away from it) and Cignetti has been able to avoid the worst aspects of it for the last couple of years. For one thing, he's probably not going to continue to have 2-3 years of quality, developed depth for much longer.
  10. We'll see. JMU and pre-Cignetti IU are probably about as prima-donna proof as you can get. Will he be able to avoid 5-stars? Will the players he gets stay put the way they have at JMU/IU?
  11. Not very wrinkled or timeworn looking, which is a thing with long time HFC. And I think part of the non-hack-dye-job is letting some gray through, which Cignetti really doesn't. And you'd think his colorist might do something other than the crew cut, but who knows.
  12. Well, I think it's highly calculated. He's a good evaluator as is his staff, good developer also. But he's gonna have to start dealing with NIL and the portal and prima donna players in earnest.
  13. Cignetti looks amazingly young for his age. Hardly gray at all and no Ryan Day dye job.
  14. Cignetti's first HC job after Alabama, IUP, where his Dad coached.
  15. Truth is, he brought his program damn near intact. It may get interesting the further removed he gets from JMU.
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