Cignetti has unlocked the new “Code” for College Football

[Basil Shabazz]

The average age of the Hoosier football team is 23 years old!

Coach has figured out that a 22 old 3 star out performs an 18 year old 5 star in almost all instances. There are a very select few 5 stars every year that contradict what I’m saying. But, Cignetti knew he wasn’t getting any of those elite 5 stars to come to Bloomington.

Let these kids go to another school and work out their growing pains, their maturity issues, etc.

Then you have more data, film, and actual performance to measure them on. Then you recruit a 20+ year old with two plus years of college football experience under their belt. This is a much more known commodity than an 18 year old lottery ticket.

[Rvrartst]

It's playing the hand you're dealt. The transfer portal and big bucks is the reality in college football and basketball now. But it brings up some serious questions for the future. Who is going to recruit those three star kids out of high school? Group of five and D-2 schools? Is this going to limit the opportunities for the lower rated kids and drop the kids that used to get recruited by the lower tier schools completely out of the picture? The three star that used to be recruited by Mizzou...will now be recruited by Southeast MO State, and the kid who didn't get an offer from Mizzou but got one from SEMO...is left on the outside looking in. And meanwhile college ball has become ALL about the money, with zero school loyalty or continuity. Sure, we all love rooting for our favorite school teams, but at what point will we cease to care as much when we know the school is simply renting players for a year or two at most, and with a school like Mizzou, always with the danger that unless they can come up with the bucks, the guy with two years eligibility is going to be lured away from Mizzou after one good year when we become invested in pulling for him.

So, yup, coaches are going to use the transfer portal to get proven players, and maybe for a while college football will continue to be wildly popular under the new paradigm. But I wonder if it's sustainable.

[hdhntr148]

This was Eli's montra last year and this. Production over potential which is smart business. Kids will still get recruited as 2 and 3 stars on Power 5 as well as lower divisions. So the system is evolving into a farm system for the power 5 teams where they get more of the kids who have shown they are ready for the next step up.

what cignetti is doing is becoming the next Saban. Took his Process and installed it at IU with great success. Make few mistakes, tough practices and is NOT the players buddy, hard taskmaster. Huge focus on trenches both sides.

IS biggest reason Deboer will never be accepted in AL. He is the opposite of Saban and is NOT from the area and fans have turned on him bigtime.

[jcgmoi]

Saban is a long way off but Cignetti has his own process that's been foolproof so far.

DeBoer has turned Alabama into one of his later UW teams, a down-field passing game and not much else.