Indiana's Football Resurgence Under Cignetti's Leadership

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00:00And then I see Cignetti get the job in Bloomington and they have a wretched football program

00:09and it has always been wretched and it's been terrible.

00:12The only time they ever went to the Rose Bowl was 67 until they went last Saturday and kicked

00:16UCLA's ass.

00:17Now he's got a guy in Cignetti at Indiana who in two games is scoring like the New Orleans

00:23Saints and they have a quarterback and that guy's been there five minutes and he's doing

00:28a better job than Luke Thickel.

00:31Well first of all he has done a significant job of energizing the program.

00:36He used the transfer portal really well, brought in or brought with him I guess is a better

00:41way to phrase it.

00:42A lot of James Madison players who were very successful there brought them to the Big Ten.

00:47The schedule to this point has been advantageous.

00:51What we need to see over the course of the next month or so, they have a home game coming

00:56up against Maryland at the end of the month, at the end of this month, and then early next

01:00month they have Nebraska coming in.

01:02Those are the games that will define Indiana's football season.

01:07If they can split them, they're going to have a really nice year.

01:10If they can win them both, they're going to have a phenomenal year and might even be competitive

01:15for one of the last spots in the college football playoff.

01:19If they don't win either, then it's, hey, it's year one, we're just getting started

01:24with this, we're going to be good in time.

01:26But those are the three designations for those three games.

01:30As long as they don't stumble, Charlotte, there's no reason why they should stumble,

01:35and then they have a Northwestern trip as well packed into the next month.

01:39But those two games in particular are the ones that are going to define the Hoosiers.