Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti previews Iowa football, taunts Illinois after blowout

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

I hope he is right. From article:

Heading into the matchup against Iowa, Cignetti managed to compliment Iowa, while also taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini in the same sentence, after the Hoosiers beat Illinois 63-10 last weekend.

"A more difficult challenge than the last one for sure," Cignetti said when asked about traveling to Iowa to play in the always-hostile Kinnick Stadium.

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti previews Iowa football, taunts Illinois after blowout

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti offered a two-sided comment about preparing for the Iowa Hawkeyes while taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini.

hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com

 

[NCHawker]

I hope he is right. From article:

Heading into the matchup against Iowa, Cignetti managed to compliment Iowa, while also taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini in the same sentence, after the Hoosiers beat Illinois 63-10 last weekend.

"A more difficult challenge than the last one for sure," Cignetti said when asked about traveling to Iowa to play in the always-hostile Kinnick Stadium.

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti previews Iowa football, taunts Illinois after blowout

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti offered a two-sided comment about preparing for the Iowa Hawkeyes while taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini.

hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com

i noticed that and at first I thought it was a jab. But how can you call that game a challenge. It seemed to come easy for them. They expected more of a fight

 

[Fryowa]

I hope he is right. From article:

Heading into the matchup against Iowa, Cignetti managed to compliment Iowa, while also taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini in the same sentence, after the Hoosiers beat Illinois 63-10 last weekend.

"A more difficult challenge than the last one for sure," Cignetti said when asked about traveling to Iowa to play in the always-hostile Kinnick Stadium.

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti previews Iowa football, taunts Illinois after blowout

Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti offered a two-sided comment about preparing for the Iowa Hawkeyes while taking a jab at the Illinois Fighting Illini.

hawkeyeswire.usatoday.com

i noticed that and at first I thought it was a jab. But how can you call that game a challenge. It seemed to come easy for them. They expected more of a fight

Illinois is total fake news. Tell me a single reason they should be ranked, and why they shouldn't have lost to Indiana by 53 points...

This year Illinois has beaten Western Illinois (non-major), Duke, and Western Michigan. What about them ever said, "9th best football team in the country?" Last year they had ONE decent win against Michigan, and even that has a few asterisks.

Here's their wins last year...

Kansas - losing record in '24 and also fake news
Central Michigan
nebraska - duh...
Purdue - terrible team and Purdue only lost by 1 point
Michigan - ended up 5-4 in B1G play
Michigan State - LOLZ
Northwestern
South Carolina - their 3 best players opted out.

Rankings mean dick. Nada. And they mean even less at the beginning of the season after 3 JV schools. To be honest they shouldn't even put rankings out until like week 6. Indiana isn't as good as they're being made out to be and Illinois is terrible. Not saying the Hawks are going to win, but this bullshit being spewed by the media about how Indiana's the 2nd coming of Alabama is dumb.

Illinois according to a bullshit poll was a "top ten team" (heavy air quotes there). I'm asking a question of anyone on this board...what's the reason? The "reason" is they beat a popular blue blood school who was barely in the top 25 at the end of the year and they won their bowl game against a depleted team. Cignetti has made a good football culture in a short turn-around time and has a really good team, but they aren't what they're being made out to be. Coming into Kinnick isn't a friendly confine for any team...ask Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, James Franklin...all of them have said numerous times what a hell hole it is for a visitor. This will be a much bigger test for them than than playing in front of the best home environment in Indiana hostory.

 

[NorthKCHawk]

Illinois is total fake news. Tell me a single reason they should be ranked, and why they shouldn't have lost to Indiana by 53 points...

This year Illinois has beaten Western Illinois (non-major), Duke, and Western Michigan. What about them ever said, "9th best football team in the country?" Last year they had ONE decent win against Michigan, and even that has a few asterisks.

Here's their wins last year...

Kansas - losing record in '24 and also fake news
Central Michigan
nebraska - duh...
Purdue - terrible team and Purdue only lost by 1 point
Michigan - ended up 5-4 in B1G play
Michigan State - LOLZ
Northwestern
South Carolina - their 3 best players opted out.

Rankings mean dick. Nada. And they mean even less at the beginning of the season after 3 JV schools. To be honest they shouldn't even put rankings out until like week 6. Indiana isn't as good as they're being made out to be and Illinois is terrible. Not saying the Hawks are going to win, but this bullshit being spewed by the media about how Indiana's the 2nd coming of Alabama is dumb.

Illinois according to a bullshit poll was a "top ten team" (heavy air quotes there). I'm asking a question of anyone on this board...what's the reason? The "reason" is they beat a popular blue blood school who was barely in the top 25 at the end of the year and they won their bowl game against a depleted team. Cignetti has made a good football culture in a short turn-around time and has a really good team, but they aren't what they're being made out to be. Coming into Kinnick isn't a friendly confine for any team...ask Urban Meyer, Jim Harbaugh, James Franklin...all of them have said numerous times what a hell hole it is for a visitor. This will be a much bigger test for them than than playing in front of the best home environment in Indiana hostory.

A little harsh. They went 10-3 last season and returned a lot of starters, including an experienced QB. Yes, they had some cupcakes last year, but 10 wins is 10 wins. Its still the Big 10. I agree that they were overrated going into the Indiana game, but there was not a pundit or a better or a fan anywhere that predicted that Indiana would just boatrace Illinois like that. Bert's teams have always been solid and fundamental. So yes, early season rankings is a very imprecise science and yes, it is now abundantly clear that Illinois is nowhere near a Top 10 team, but you needed to get this take out there before the Indiana beat down if you wanted credit for it. Retrospective hot takes are easy enough to put out there.

 

[Fryowa]

A little harsh. They went 10-3 last season and returned a lot of starters, including an experienced QB. Yes, they had some cupcakes last year, but 10 wins is 10 wins. Its still the Big 10. I agree that they were overrated going into the Indiana game, but there was not a pundit or a better or a fan anywhere that predicted that Indiana would just boatrace Illinois like that. Bert's teams have always been solid and fundamental. So yes, early season rankings is a very imprecise science and yes, it is now abundantly clear that Illinois is nowhere near a Top 10 team, but you needed to get this take out there before the Indiana beat down if you wanted credit for it. Retrospective hot takes are easy enough to put out there.

More of an editorial on how meaningless AP rankings are. They're 100% bs. 0% relevant. Mathematical RPI however is very relevant, and even that isn't reliable until halfway through conference play.

I did also say Indiana is a good team, but that boatracing proved nothing other than that the AP rankings are as useful as hen shit on a pump handle.