Inside Curt Cignetti’s first 3 months as IU football coach: ‘We totally redid the roster.’

BLOOMINGTON – As he passes three months in his new job, IU football coach Curt Cignetti’s North End Zone office remains relatively spartan.

The walls are largely barren. Couches left in their previous arrangement provide seating in front of his desk. A framed jersey from his hiring news conference waits to be hung on the wall. The whole room bears out aesthetically the focus Cignetti has given his new job, worrying first and most about details ranging from the transfer portal to the pregame sound system inside Memorial Stadium.

There’s one key request, however, Cignetti made immediately.

Every time Curt Cignetti’s taken a new head-coaching job, dating back to his first days at the first Indiana he coached — the one in Pennsylvania — he’s logged the same ask for his office. Even this time around, waste deep in the portal and facing, as he put it later, “20 days of 4th-and-1” trying to reassemble his roster, IU’s new coach still made sure he got one key request in:

A film projector, mounted to the ceiling and beamed onto the wall for Cignetti to watch from his desk.

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“I’m a film junkie. This thing’s on 98% of the time when I’m in the office,” Cignetti told IndyStar. “It’s the first thing, every time I take a job, that they have to install, because nobody ever has one, a big screen, an overhead (projector). There’s nothing I like better than watching offensive tape, trends and who’s doing a good job, opponents.”

Nebraska’s 2023 loss against Colorado was cued up and paused when Cignetti gestured to the image beamed out of the ceiling-mounted projector. This represents a comforting change of pace for Cignetti.

BLOOMINGTON, IN – January 13, 2024 – Curt Cignetti at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, IN.

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Publish date : 2024-03-06 10:15:12

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