West Virginia
Football: W.Va. coaches look to learn from Cignetti's title run
The former Morgantown High and WVU quarterback led long-woebegone Indiana to the College Football Playoff national championship on Monday night.
Cignetti’s was one of the most impressive building jobs in the history of American sports. The Hoosiers went 3-9 two seasons ago. And until this past November, when they were passed by Northwestern, they were the losingest team in major college history.
Then Cignetti, only a decade removed from leading Indiana (Pennsylvania) to a playoff victory over Charleston at UC Stadium at Laidley Field, arrived on the scene at a bigger but historically worse Indiana.
And he told those unfamiliar with his work in his introductory news conference, “It’s pretty simple: I win. Google me.”
Cignetti did, and so did Indiana – big. And improbably.