Indiana Football Head Coach Curt Cignetti joins Adam Breneman on today's episode of Next Up. In this exclusive interview, Curt Cignetti discusses his coaching journey at length and how he plans to build Indiana Football into a Big 10 contender. Coach Cignetti also shares some of the lessons he learned coaching under Nick Saban, what it takes to build a winning formula in today's college football landscape, the value of production vs. potential in evaluating players, and much much more. 

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Next Up is hosted by Adam Breneman and is presented by The College Sports Company. On Next Up, Adam Breneman sits down with the biggest names in sports and lets them tell their stories, unfiltered. Adam is a former All-American and Penn State alum, media personality, college football analyst for ESPN, and co-founder of The College Sports Company (@TheCollegeSportsCo).

CHAPTERS

00:00-Intro

01:33-Catching Up

01:47-Why Indiana 

05:21-First Few Weeks on the Job

08:58-Winning Formula

14:39-Recruiting Strategy 

15:32-Roster Building

18:02-Nick Saban

18:53-Changing Culture

19:58-Evaluation Process

23:12-NIL

24:26-Evaluating Coaches

25:10-Best Piece of Advice

25:30-Lessons Learned Throughout Coaching Journey

26:43-Indiana’s Future 

27:50-Kurtis Rourke

28:24-Evaluating QB’s

29:06-Overcoming Adversity

30:21-Curt’s Why