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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti isn’t going to take a back seat to anybody.
While sandwiched between powerhouse programs like Oregon and Michigan, Cignetti stole the show at Lucas Oil Stadium on Thursday.
Cignetti along with the players he handpicked to represent the program — linebacker Aiden Fisher, running back Justice Ellison and offensive lineman Mike Katic — closed out Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis on the event’s third and final day.
The Hoosiers first-year coach boasted about his impressive resume, gave reporters a history lesson on the last time he was picked to finish second-to-last in the conference standings and outlined his guiding principle of not having self-imposed limitations in life.
He was bold, brash and entertaining; and that was just in his introductory statement.
“I’ve kind of had to speak a big game taking over a job like this because we had to wake some people up and create some excitement, and after all, this is the entertainment business too,” Cignetti said, with a wide grin from the main stage.
Cignetti proceeded to touch on a wide-range of topics with his trademark self-assuredness and blunt style.
Here are the moments that stood out:
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Indiana coach Curt Cignetti speaks with reporters during Big Ten Media Days at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on July 25, 2024.
Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti on the program’s outgoing transfers
“I knew when we came in when we started interviewing the old players that we needed a lot of new faces and fortunately they did me a favor by leaving.”
This isn’t necessarily a new sentiment.
Cignetti expressed something similar when he spoke to local reporters in June at a NIL-related event about getting rid of “dead wood” after taking…
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Publish date : 2024-07-25 22:13:39
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