Indiana winning is good for college football.
Congrats Hoosiers !
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Cignetti Wrecked JMUâs roster and brought most of his best players to Indiana. That is not âprogram buildingâ. it is robbery.
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JMU still made the playoffs and Tulane made the playoffs also.
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Now that the JMU players will move on and the Heisman QB will graduate, will Cignetti be able to reload and continue to win? Two lossâs in two years in quite remarkable. When will Indiana lose?
That game and several others could have gone either way, I think they will remain good, but not undefeated. There is just too much luck involved and they will have to break in a new QB. I could see a 2-3 loss season next year. They get Michigan, Nebraska and Washington on the road and Ohio State and USC at home, and at some point someone is going to find a _____ in the armor. In this world of transfer portal and NIL I donât think we will see another Alabama level dynasty ever again.
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Two yards more on that last pass and Miami is the NC. Great game.
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I think soon. Very soon.
But you never know how good a guy is for 2-3 years. It used to be 4-5 but the portal changed everything.
He was at JMU for five years; the fact that he was able to recruit players there that would go on to help him win a national championship at Indiana is a feat in itself, even if they were wearing different uniforms in the end.
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Does that mean if Cignetti leaves for a different job it will be OK if he takes 1/3 of the roster with him, because heâs a great recruiter and program builder? I am just saying I am uncomfortable with all this change where coaches take âtheirâ players with them. I thought the players commitment to a school was to the school?
One thing about Indiana.
The Hoosiers are now BOTH the last undefeated menâs basketball national champion (1976; 32-0), AND the last undefeated football national champion (2025; 16-0).
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Not in todayâs college football game. If Cignetti built a relationship and recruited the players then itâs understandable why the players would follow him.
Nowadays, with NIL and the transfer portal, a commitment to a school means very little.
This is why I donât get attached to players anymore. Kids leave all the time for various reasons. It can sting for fans but thatâs the way it is in college football today.
I think this will have to change.
This will be a FUBAR mess until there is some control and regulation.
The dilemma will be who controls what?
It wonât be a knock on him as a program builder if he does. Contrast him with Joey McGuire, who just had Cody Campbell go buy him a playoff-level team. (and still couldnât do anything with it!)
I donât actually disagree with you that players should be more firmly committed to their school. It isnât lost on me that UH isnât exactly at the top of the food chain. But Cignettiâs good at playing the game, as it stands today.
I have to admit, Indiana was a remarkable story, seemed like a movie.
I donât think that applies as much today since these are pro players now playing for pay.