Indiana’s newly introduced head coach of soccer Curt Cignetti speaks to the media on Friday, Dec. 1, 2023.
Opened: Nov. 26
Stuffed: Nov. 30 (Curt Cignetti)
After a 3rd straight dropping season, the Hoosiers have had sufficient of Tom Allen and pays him greater than $15 million to go away Bloomington, Indiana. The Hoosiers loved an eight-win season underneath Allen in 2019 – a high-water mark Indiana hadn’t hit since 1993 – and a 6-2 12 months the shortened 2020 pandemic season, however the buzz wore off because the Hoosiers went 9-27 over the previous three seasons.
That is the third Massive Ten job to open this season, however the first for football-only causes. Michigan State and Northwestern have already made hires – with one faculty retaining an interim and one other poaching a coach from a Energy 5 faculty.
Indiana crammed this place quite shortly, saying the rent of Curt Cignetti simply 4 days after firing Allen. Cignetti, 62, has been extremely profitable in 5 seasons at James Madison, going 52-9 total with an look within the FCS Nationwide Championship and a 19-4 mark in FBS play over the previous two years.
Cignetti is a Pittsburgh native, a former West Virginia quarterback, and a former Nick Saban assistant who had earlier head teaching stints at Division II IUP and FCS Elon. Throughout all ranges of faculty soccer, he’s 119-35 as a head coach. Indiana hopes he can maintain profitable.
