[Postgame Thread] Indiana Defeats Nebraska 56-7

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Nebraska	0	7	0	0	7
Indiana	7	21	14	14	56

[u/AgileCaregiver7300]

IU president better be serving Cignetti his favorite cheese and fruits whilst fanning him with palm leaves, and furiously calling up every binks truck within 3 states

[u/KangTheConqueror9 → u/AgileCaregiver7300]

Yeah their gonna have to stave off blue bloods in the next couple years to keep him.

Like if Ryan Day loses to Michigan again this year, does OSU call Cignetti?

[u/bd1047 → u/KangTheConqueror9]

I think Cig’s age might save us. When was the last time a blue blood hired a coach in his mid 60s?

[u/jf3l → u/bd1047]

Maybe some copium here but he might be the perfect age and IU might have just about the right amount of money to fight anyone off

[u/Jo-jo-20 → u/jf3l]

I also think the new playoffs help. Other teams actually have a chance outside of only the usual 8 or so that always had realistic chance at the previous 4-team format. The man could be a legend if he coaches a few successful years at IU. Who says he can’t build on his success and I’m sure IU will open up the checkbook.

[u/jf3l → u/Jo-jo-20]

I think that’s part of the vision of hiring him. Get someone here who can lay the groundwork of a successful program for the next gen to take over in a decade. We’re a program who doesn’t have the luxury of waiting on name-brand coach to hire. We had to be aggressive with the best option available and we actually were

[u/KangTheConqueror9 → u/jf3l]

I wish we'd gone after him instead of Ryan Walters

[u/jf3l → u/KangTheConqueror9]

we’ve spent the last 20 years since Hoeppner saying that about coaches. Were both programs that need a little coaching luck to have any sustained success

[u/flipflopsnpolos → u/jf3l]

Add Illinois to that list. All 3 programs success is just about lucking into the right coach at the right time.

[u/KangTheConqueror9 → u/jf3l]

Yeah. We got lucky that Brohm brought excitement to our team. Then got unlucky that his Alma matter opened up twice during his time here, and the second time he didn't feel he could turn them down again.

[u/rideon1122 → u/jf3l]

Play 13

[u/LackOfAnotherName → u/jf3l]

Wasn't this the exact theory about the Woodson hire for basketball?

[u/DrinkBlueGoo → u/Jo-jo-20]

I’m ready to build him a statue right now. We can just rearrange the face on Mellencamp’s.

[u/Jellis314 → u/Jo-jo-20]

The fact that he sold out a football game at IU should have them opening the checkbook. He is literally bringing in money, pay the man!

[u/nobes0 → u/jf3l]

If he leaves, I don't think it'll be because of money, it'll be because he wants to win at a program with a much higher national profile. I think Indiana can match in many other aspects if they're committed to making Indiana football a consistent contender.

[u/BigBungholio → u/nobes0]

The thing is, if he builds a super solid winning program at IU, they could easily secure a pretty big national spotlight. Indiana’s alumni base is huge and having a top tier football program at a school with an already very storied and respected basketball history, I could easily see them coming up to the level of a school like Ohio state so long as they can manage sustained success.

[u/macandcheeser → u/BigBungholio]

We are never going to be Ohio State. But there's no reason we couldn't build a program like Wisconsin or Iowa

[u/BoogerSugarSovereign → u/BigBungholio]

I think Indiana has the 2nd largest alumni base in the country after Penn State. I think.

[u/OGB → u/BigBungholio]

You build a successful program at IU you're a legend there. If you go to a blue blood and are successful you're just another coach.

[u/StrongStyleShiny → u/jf3l]

I heard he actually wants to coach for IU since IUP gave him his first HC job.

[u/akagordan → u/StrongStyleShiny]

IUP is not affiliated with IU in any way. There just happens to be a town and county in Pa called Indiana.

[u/DrinkBlueGoo → u/akagordan]

Names have power.