‘We’re learning.’ Curt Cignetti IU football era begins with first spring practice:

BLOOMINGTON – A day of new beginnings for Curt Cignetti started with some navigation.

Cignetti’s first Indiana team began spring practice Thursday, one of 13 the Hoosiers will complete between now and their spring game next month. There are question marks at nearly every position — such is the nature of the modern coaching change — and new faces to put to names after a busy winter in the transfer portal.

But first, Cignetti needed to complete a much more basic task: He needed to determine the shortest route from A to B for the first time.

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“This was new for everybody today,” he told reporters after practice. “It was new for me to go out on the field and practice. Like, how do I even get to the field from my office, and I figured that out and found the shortest way.”

Indiana Head Coach Curt Cignetti during Indiana football spring practice at Memorial Stadium on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Not everyone found their feet right away — Cignetti walked onto the field for the first time, he said, to find his offensive position groups’ things misarranged — but for day one it went well.

It’s Cignetti’s job to worry about all the days after.

He has a quarterback competition to sort through. On Thursday, Ohio transfer Kurtis Rourke started with the No. 1 offense, returning redshirt sophomore Tayven Jackson worked with the No. 2s, and early enrollee freshman Tyler Cherry (lately of Center Grove) steered the third string.

Cignetti might keep it that way for a while. He might shuffle it tomorrow. A 13-year head coach who tutored QBs in his stops as an assistant before that (and played the position before that) has seen it handled just about every way…

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Publish date : 2024-03-21 19:03:02

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