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JMU's Curt Cignetti on Montana

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Found only a couple of clips on Twitter of JMU's head coach Curt Cignetti discussing Montana.

Curt Cignetti is 32-4 overall at JMU, looking for his 100th career coaching win on Friday (99-30).

https://twitter.com/TJEck_TV/status/1468294745831129098?s=20

https://twitter.com/TJEck_TV/status/1468286050200170498?s=20

https://twitter.com/TJEck_TV/status/1468272659595206663?s=20

Clip discussing JMU's QB Cole Johnson

https://twitter.com/TJEck_TV/status/1468283879203254275?s=20
 
Full presser below


https://twitter.com/SkylineSportsMT/status/1468363487827038208

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_JfpEJVhto&t=55s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeN9808SQ6g&t=192s
 
Thanks for the links!

You gotta respect Cignettis respect for us. Not like a certain coach from the meth lab capital of the United States.
 
yeah, Coach Cig is old-school. He's a no-nonsense coach, from a coaching family. His resume is interesting too.....son of a coach who is in the college football hall of fame for coaching at West Virginia and D2 Indiana PA. Cig's brother is a coach in the NFL too.

Cig came up under Chuck Amato at NC State where he coached QBs and was recruiting coordinator. Notable guys he recruited/coached there: Phillip Rivers and Russell Wilson. After that he joined Nick Saban at Alabama where he was WRs and Recruiting coordinator. Those teams he recruited are legendary....29 straight wins. 8 first rounders from the 2008 class, including Julio Jones, Dont'a Hightower, and Mark Ingram.

He leaves Alabama because he's not getting a shot at being a head coach. So he bets on himself, takes a huge pay-cut, and goes back to D2 Indiana PA, where his dad coached for ~20 years. He takes over a team that finished 4-10, and his last 3 years there his teams have go 12-2, 9-2, and 10-2. Then he goes to Elon, turns them around, and then comes to JMU.

His credits Saban for his philosophy on how football should be played: Run the ball, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. (obviously we can't run the ball this year, but mostly because of injuries/unexpected departures). It's a philosophy that has worked well for all of the successful teams up north (y'all, NDSU, SDSU), and now it's working well for us. But he's also flexible enough to pivot to a team's strengths.

Overall, we like Cig. Because he's a little older, we don't think he's viewing JMU as a stepping stone in the same way Houston and Withers did. I suspect that unless a dream job comes calling (low-level ACC, SEC), he'll be at JMU for the remainder of his career.
 
ChicagoDuke said:
yeah, Coach Cig is old-school. He's a no-nonsense coach, from a coaching family. His resume is interesting too.....son of a coach who is in the college football hall of fame for coaching at West Virginia and D2 Indiana PA. Cig's brother is a coach in the NFL too.

Cig came up under Chuck Amato at NC State where he coached QBs and was recruiting coordinator. Notable guys he recruited/coached there: Phillip Rivers and Russell Wilson. After that he joined Nick Saban at Alabama where he was WRs and Recruiting coordinator. Those teams he recruited are legendary....29 straight wins. 8 first rounders from the 2008 class, including Julio Jones, Dont'a Hightower, and Mark Ingram.

He leaves Alabama because he's not getting a shot at being a head coach. So he bets on himself, takes a huge pay-cut, and goes back to D2 Indiana PA, where his dad coached for ~20 years. He takes over a team that finished 4-10, and his last 3 years there his teams have go 12-2, 9-2, and 10-2. Then he goes to Elon, turns them around, and then comes to JMU.

His credits Saban for his philosophy on how football should be played: Run the ball, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. (obviously we can't run the ball this year, but mostly because of injuries/unexpected departures). It's a philosophy that has worked well for all of the successful teams up north (y'all, NDSU, SDSU), and now it's working well for us. But he's also flexible enough to pivot to a team's strengths.

Overall, we like Cig. Because he's a little older, we don't think he's viewing JMU as a stepping stone in the same way Houston and Withers did. I suspect that unless a dream job comes calling (low-level ACC, SEC), he'll be at JMU for the remainder of his career.

Interesting story, and pedigree. His record at JMU alone, speaks for itself. I for one am not crying myself to sleep every night that they are leaving the FCS. :)
 
ChicagoDuke said:
yeah, Coach Cig is old-school. He's a no-nonsense coach, from a coaching family. His resume is interesting too.....son of a coach who is in the college football hall of fame for coaching at West Virginia and D2 Indiana PA. Cig's brother is a coach in the NFL too.

Cig came up under Chuck Amato at NC State where he coached QBs and was recruiting coordinator. Notable guys he recruited/coached there: Phillip Rivers and Russell Wilson. After that he joined Nick Saban at Alabama where he was WRs and Recruiting coordinator. Those teams he recruited are legendary....29 straight wins. 8 first rounders from the 2008 class, including Julio Jones, Dont'a Hightower, and Mark Ingram.

He leaves Alabama because he's not getting a shot at being a head coach. So he bets on himself, takes a huge pay-cut, and goes back to D2 Indiana PA, where his dad coached for ~20 years. He takes over a team that finished 4-10, and his last 3 years there his teams have go 12-2, 9-2, and 10-2. Then he goes to Elon, turns them around, and then comes to JMU.

His credits Saban for his philosophy on how football should be played: Run the ball, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. (obviously we can't run the ball this year, but mostly because of injuries/unexpected departures). It's a philosophy that has worked well for all of the successful teams up north (y'all, NDSU, SDSU), and now it's working well for us. But he's also flexible enough to pivot to a team's strengths.

Overall, we like Cig. Because he's a little older, we don't think he's viewing JMU as a stepping stone in the same way Houston and Withers did. I suspect that unless a dream job comes calling (low-level ACC, SEC), he'll be at JMU for the remainder of his career.

You should be so lucky, very rare now days.
 
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