Cignetti quote on winning now
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Yep, and nobody's going to poach him as some have suggested - not with a 27 million dollar 6 year deal!
What he has accomplished is astounding, other coaches can learn something from this. But where is it leading? You have to win in the first 15 seconds after you take over as a coach? It's almost a sickness to place winning immediately over having a good program, why can't you have a good program that wins (like Wisconsin, or Northwestern, which was the case for a time). After all not everyone is perfect or immediately successful, nor should they be. Time, as we know it, is our enemy. TV revenues foster this. It has become an insane vicious circle. College football is becoming yet another commercial venture based on profits at all cost, when in it's origins it was about winning over one's rival for the glory of your university. Insane competition eventually leads to warfare, destruction, and a possibly new order. Can't we get to the new order without the cataclysm? Probably not.
82 on September 8th, so a bit younger. Please don't tell anyone, they might think we are geezers, even though we still cheer for the Cats like we are 20. And take on the detractors.
No problem. You are a bit of a young snot, though, and the next time we hook-up at a football game I'll be counting on you to help me up the steps to my seat!
Why would they have to buy out that contract??? School has to buy out contract if they want to get rid of him but since if he leaves they don't have to pay him, what is there to buy out? There might be some cost to him if he cancels the contract but it is likely pretty minor by comparison to the contract
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That is just over $4 million per year. If they are willing to pay $5 million for a QB, I could see them wanting to go after him.
No problem, I'll help No Chores to his seat, but I doubt that will be necessary. At this point, it could well be the reverse. Main thing it to get to a seat and cheer. Okay, all you young studs, this is what your NU fan future looks like, if you stick with it like we have. The future is bright.
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Cig is the third lowest paid Coach in the B1G. He would have to pay Indiana $6M to exit the contract. Maybe FSU or Florida kick the tires.
That's chump change if some desperate SEC program thinks he can be their messiah.
Maybe, but I doubt it will ever happen. If he stays at Indiana for the term of his contract, he'll retire a rich man and won't have to go through all of the b.s. that is football recruiting ever again.
I hear you but when I watch this guy get interviewed, I saw a very big ego. This guy is not looking for security, he is looking for adulation. That only comes on the biggest stage and Indiana football does not provide that.
