We need to take a hard look at what Curt Cignetti has done: coaching style, portal, recruiting, everything. He is said to be a perfectionist and a nitpicker. In last week's game vs UCLA, an IU db got an interception and had a little celebration on the field. Cignetti gave him a public arse-chewing when he got to the sideline.
IU is 4-0 for the first time in the school's history and has a first-year head coach.
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Just goes to show how quickly the right coach can turn things around.
I’m pretty sure IU was 4-0 in 2020 although you could put an * on that since it was that quirky COVID year.
UCLA is the only decent team they've beat. UNC Charlotte is a below average Sun Belt team, and the others are also not great. I'll be curious to see how IU does against real Big 10 competition. I'm not necessarily knocking Cignetti, but let's give things a little more time.
It’s the first time a 1st year IU head coach has started a season 4-0, not first in school history ever. Although I can’t imagine we’ve got a ton of them.
Will probably still end up in the 6-6 or 7-5 area but that's still massive improvement.
UCLA's only win is beating Haiwi by 3 points, they aren't decent.
They can’t be too much worse than Oregon State tho, right ?
Did I say we were good?
Oregon State is a little harder to judge as the only team they've played is Oregon, but probably pretty close to IU, which doesn't bode well for us.
And during the next weeks press conference, coach Cignetti made the comment that players on championship team don't celebrate a play like that.
First year at IU.
By "decent," I meant a P4 team other than us or maybe Mississippi State. Even Vandy challenged Missouri.
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