Following the bye week, Indiana head football coach Curt Cignetti met with the media on Monday. The Hoosiers are preparing for a Saturday showdown with the Nebraska Cornhuskers from Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana.
Indiana will enter the game with a record of 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the Big Ten Conference. The Huskers are 5-1 on the season and 2-1 in the league.
Curt Cigentti is in his first season in Bloomington after spending the last five seasons at James Madison. He’s also been a head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Elon.
The first-year head coach was asked about the current state of Nebraska football, the rebuild job by Matt Rhule, and the development of quarterback Dylan Raiola.
Nebraska will play the Indiana Hoosiers on Saturday, Oct. 19, in Bloomington. The game will kick off at 11:00 a.m. CT and can be seen on Fox.
On the Nebraska Cornhuskers
On what his bye week looked like
On having guys stay level-headed with the attention on the program
Well, you’ve got to eliminate the noise and clutter and focus in on what’s going to help you prepare so you can be your best on Saturday. We have enough maturity and leadership and experience on this football team, I’m confident that we can handle that. But that’s my job, too, to make sure if I see an area that’s maybe not quite where it needs to be, to push the right buttons and get it where it needs to be.
On if that (the level-headed messaging) is something that he sends to the team daily
Yeah, I send a message to the assistant coaches, they send to the players, I’ll send it to the team. But we also don’t want to create a self-fulfilling prophecy, either. I’m highly confident our team will prepare the way it needs to prepare for this upcoming game.
On having success after the bye week
Yeah, I just think we have a way we do things, and we have a way we do things during bye weeks, and then we have a way that we do things the week after a bye week. It really doesn’t change very much. It’s not quite as intense during the bye week, but we still have a structured routine.
When you’ve got good players, you have a better chance of being successful.
On what the most valuable piece of information he has learned to this point in the season is
I think what I’ve learned up to this point is that we have unlimited potential as an institution and football program, that if you commit daily and do the things you need to do to be successful, there’s no imposed limitations on what you can achieve.
On his popularity around Bloomington, especially with the student body
You know, I made a couple comments when I first got hired, I was out there on a limb a little bit, felt like that’s what I needed to do. I think it’s more of a reflection on how the team has played and the success that they’ve had on the field that’s gotten people excited, and this is just a byproduct of that.
This article originally appeared on Cornhuskers Wire: What Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti said about Nebraska football, Matt Rhule and Dylan Raiola
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