New Indiana Coach Curt Cignetti Predicts Indiana Football Will Play For The Big Ten Championship Game NEXT SEASON

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Yeah, good luck with that. If you’re looking for a prime example of how Fugazi so much of the 2020 Covid season was, look no further than the University of Indiana, who the entire world was coerced into believing was a legitimate program after their 6–2 campaign. Tom Allen was the toast of the town. Maybe my memory is fuzzy because of the Covid fog, but wasn’t he getting linked to SEC jobs? They ended their storybook campaign and drove straight into a wall. Michael Penix blew his knee out and got the fuck out of Bloomington. The program was never the same after that. 

I do think this is a legitimately great hire for Indiana. I mean, it’s Indiana football. I don’t know what their ceiling is. With conference expansion, the best they could hope for is eight seasons every few years, but Cignetti seems like a coach capable of doing that. James Madison was one of the stories of the college football season this year. That doesn’t happen without a coach who knows what he’s doing. 

I haven’t seen the clip of this. Perhaps Cignetti was being tongue in cheek, but when you’re a program that is as, how do I put this, subpar as Indiana, the less bulletin board material, the better.. What’s always made Indiana annoying, in my experience, is that they’re never good, but they’re always scrappy. They completely dominated Michigan in the first quarter this year to the point where I almost got a little bit concerned. That’s what they can be. They can be the Big 10 team that increases your heart rate on weekends when you think you have an automatic W., but Indy? Dawg, that ain’t happening. 

It’s been pointed out before, but I feel like every college football fan should take a step back and acknowledge that after this weekend, everything‘s changed. The idea of a program like Indiana having any real hope of being elite or winning a Big Ten championship was always a far-fetched notion. Still, it’s essentially dead with what the landscape of the Big Ten will be now. I mean, I don’t really care. I’m a Michigan fan. I don’t know if people know this, but we’re undefeated. Times are definitely changing. Good luck in Bloomington.