Kurt Cignetti Stays With Indiana Hoosiers Until 2032

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00:00I'm really pleased that Cignetti is staying with the Indiana Hoosiers and basically, uh,

00:10I think we'll finish his career there.

00:12Um, he's, isn't he like 63 years old or something like that?

00:16And now he's going to be there until he's 70 and he's making 8 million a year at Indiana.

00:23I mean, do they even pay Mike Woodson anywhere near that?

00:27I don't think so.

00:28I really don't think Mike Woodson makes $8 million.

00:30I could be wrong, but, uh, you know, let's face facts.

00:35This guy's done a better job than Mike Woodson.

00:38As you know, uh, even when you're a basketball school, quote unquote, uh, if your football

00:44team ever gets good, football is king, uh, in big time college athletics.

00:49Uh, so that is part of the reason, and you're right, he is 63 Cignetti, uh, contract extension

00:55will put them through 2032, uh, at $8 million per year.

01:00I believe it makes him the fourth or fifth highest coach, uh, paid in the big 10.

01:05Now, we talked about this.

01:07What was that a week or two ago where we were like, what's going to happen if he like makes

01:11the playoff and he goes, is somebody going to come and poach him away?

01:14Uh, and Indiana decided to get ahead of that, uh, before it actually happens.

01:19Here is Kurt Cignetti.

01:21Uh, Indiana was the only place for him.

01:24I'm excited about our future.

01:26Uh, we've done a lot of good things.

01:28We've got a lot of people behind us and, uh, this is where I wanted to be.

01:33I played the what if game with my wife and my agent three weeks ago, four weeks ago,

01:40and it all pointed to where I'm at right now.

01:44So, uh, I'm glad we have that behind us and now we can focus on, you know, what we should

01:52be focused on this time of year.

01:54Winning, winning games and going to the playoff and doing something, you know, it'd be okay

02:00if they went and, uh, lost, they had an incredible year, but if they win a game and then let's

02:08say lose or something and you know, they go 13 and one, I mean, you know, I have a twice

02:15Miami went 13 and one and they won national championships of the five times that canes

02:20have won it.

02:21They've done that twice.

02:23Can you imagine going 13 to one and you don't win it?

02:25Like that's like the stories I've told you about mafia and I go and undefeated and in

02:30basketball and losing in the title game.

02:32It happened four times to us.

02:33It sucks, but I don't really see Indiana winning the college football championship.

02:38I don't, but if they went and won a game or two, honestly, I will be arrested for running

02:44naked in times square by the NYPD.

02:47It will happen.

02:48Well, we have a little bit of a ways to go before we can get there and we don't want

02:54to see that happen to you, but we do have a top five matchup in Columbus this Saturday

03:01that we have to see where this is going to be a real, a first time.

03:04We're going to really measure Indiana up here with one of these other heavies in college

03:08football.

03:09Now this was 10 and a half on Friday when you left for Pittsburgh.

03:13It has now gotten to 12 and a half.

03:1513 and a half, I got it at today.

03:18I saw a 13, yep, I saw a 13 and a half as well floating around out there.

03:2352 and a half is the total.

03:27I'm a believer.

03:28I don't know if they're going to win this game.

03:31We know, let's be honest, it's a very tough place to play.

03:33It's very few people and very few teams in the last 10 years go to the horseshoe and

03:38beat Ohio state, but I think they can hang in that number.

03:41I think Indiana can absolutely hang in that number 12, 13 and a half, 12 and a half, wherever

03:46you want to get it.

03:47I will keel over if, I honestly, I'll have a stroke if Indiana beats Ohio state in Columbus.

03:55I'll literally, I'll have numbing in the left shoulder area.

04:01I'll start, you know, having vertigo and I think I'll keel over and have a stroke and

04:07I'm not even being facetious.

04:09I'll have a stroke if Indiana beats Ohio state in Columbus, because that's never happened

04:14ever.

04:16And remember, Indiana was what, what was it like?

04:20They won 11 times in their history against Michigan.

04:23That's it.

04:2411 times.

04:25They've only played Michigan about a hundred times.

04:27They beat them 11 times.

04:29So beating Ohio state, it's never happened.

04:32I don't think, I could be wrong, but I don't ever remember them winning in Columbus ever.

04:37I'm sure I'm wrong and I, you know, cause I really, I never cared about Indiana football

04:41the whole time I was there.

04:42I went there for five years and never, I never went to one game because I was there for basketball.

04:48When I was there, Indiana basketball and Bob Knight were all that mattered at Bloomington,

04:53Indiana until they fired Knight.

04:55It was all about Knight and all about Indiana basketball.

04:59And let's face facts.

05:02They've never sniffed a title, including 2002 when they lost to Maryland with Bob Knight's

05:07team, by the way, that Mike Davis coached.

05:11They have never sniffed the NCAA title or final four, in my opinion, because when they

05:18went and lost to Maryland, that was Bob Knight's team.

05:21They had fired him.

05:22They said he, you know, zero tolerance, you know, zero tolerance doesn't ever go well

05:29for guys like me and Bob Knight.

05:31I have been under the guise of zero tolerance before.

05:36And I can tell you that it never ends well with guys like me that have a zero tolerance

05:43label slapped on him.

05:45We're not going to put up with your nonsense anymore, mister.

05:49You have got, and listen to me clearly, a zero tolerance mandate now placed on your

05:54forehead around here, mister.

05:57One more incident from you and you're done.

05:59And then the incident would be within a week, like three, four days later, it'd be, it'd

06:03be coming like lightning out of the sky in Florida at four o'clock in the afternoon.

06:10Bob Knight, zero tolerance that Bob Knight wasn't going to light someone up again in

06:13Bloomington, but Indiana football, if they win in Columbus, do you know if they ever

06:18won there?

06:19I, I, they've never, they've never beaten them period anywhere.

06:25Ohio State is 30, 0 and 1 against Indiana.

06:30They tied in 1989 or 1990.

06:34They tied them that year, 27 apiece, but they have, uh, uh, I believe so I could get that

06:39back up.

06:40Uh, that game was in Bloomington.

06:42They tied them 27, 27, uh, October of 1990.

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