NorthKCHawk
Well-Known Member
Oh my god, Cignetti has just ruined football for sane fan bases. Let me clearly state this one more time: what Cig did was absolute and pure voodoo laden mystycism conjured up from the dark magic arts and sewn with the seeds of limitless cash from a billionaire. Any fan base that looks at that and says "we should keep firing coaches until we replicate what Cig did at Indiana" should just go ahead and set its football stadium on fire right now and save the agony. Cig is an evil genius. What he did was beyond unprecedented. The likes of what he did will not be seen again.
Given that Iowa does not have a billionaire patron, Cig's vision, leadership and unreplicable coaching prowess, nor generational alignment of the stars over Bloomington; perhaps we should focus on KF maximizing what Iowa does have: culture, tradition, identity, development, fundamentals, and good (not great) cash available. With those assets, targeting 3-4 star high school kids that have high ceilings but are affordable, and supplementing them with transfers from lower levels of college football that have outplayed their current situations and yet are also affordable, is a sensible approach for building a playoff caliber program at Iowa.
Frankly, KF's successful transition into the NIL era, given his age and conservative approach, is actually rather remarkable. This will be another 8-11 win team in '26.
