It’s crazy to think Miami could have their sixth national championship in the last four decades (far more than USC, Tennessee, Notre Dame, Texas, A&M, Oklahoma, Nebraska, LSU, etc. in that time period) and you often see their stadium look like this during games: A small group of well-heeled boosters have really gotten an incredible amount of bang for their buck, potentially six f’n national titles, and the rest of the city/alumni are like:
FWIW, very few people under the age of 30 likely remember Miami being a superpower. They've been a completely inconsequential program since the legendary teams of the early 2000's. They were always a bandwagon "cool factor" program even at their peak.
Oregon is their own worst enemy, however this Indiana squad is a well oiled machine. Play design and execution is crazy.
They also gave both coordinators extensions while Oregon is losing both. IU only has eight 4* and 5* players total while the other three semifinal schools have at least 40 each. This is so beautiful.
I would run through proverbial walls for that guy “There’s a lot of times I am happy. I just don’t show I’m happy,” Cignetti said Thursday at a joint news conference with Oregon coach Dan Lanning at the College Football Hall of Fame. "If I’m going to ask my players to play the first game, first play to play [No.] 150 the same, regardless of competitive circumstances, then I can’t be seen on the sideline high-fiving people and celebrating, or what’s going to happen, right? What’s the effect going to be? “So that’s why I am like I am during games.” The 64-year-old coach added: “I do smile, and I am happy, at times.” “I’ll smile and celebrate later in the coaches room with the coaches, you know, maybe have a beer,” he said.
The Cignetti story really is impressive. He coached for 25 years and was going nowhere, so he bet on himself and took a head coaching job at an absolute nothing school.
He was a QB coach for a quarter of a century, nobody was willing to promote him to anything more. He said f**k it went wherever he could be a HC, a school I've literally never ever heard of.
He's won at every (all 4) schools he's coached over the past 15 years, not sure what we're arguing about. It's not like he was coaching at Nowhere Tech: his last job as an assistant was 4 years at Alabama under Saban and he won a couple of rings. IU hiring him from James Madison, after he built them up (he's the reason JM is a good program), was a brilliant move. Him recruiting and coaching those players at James Madison (the best followed him to IU) was all on him.
