Indiana soccer coach Curt Cignetti shouldn’t be seeking to parlay his wildly profitable season into an NFL teaching gig.
The undefeated and top-ranked Hoosiers (15-0) will look to finish an ideal season beneath Cignetti once they face No.10 Miami (13-2) or the nationwide championship of the Faculty Soccer Playoff on Monday night time at Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla.
The 64-year-old Cignetti signed an eight-year contract extension with Indiana in October, and he reiterated Saturday that he isn’t seeking to go elsewhere.
“I’m not an NFL man. I made that call a very long time in the past,” Cignetti advised reporters in Miami.
“I’ve at all times been a university soccer man.”
The 64-year-old Cignetti is in his second season in Bloomington following a five-year stint teaching at James Madison.
The Pittsburgh native seemingly can be thought of a sizzling commodity at each the collegiate {and professional} ranges, and his hometown Steelers all of the sudden have a gap following the resignation earlier this month of longtime head coach Mike Tomlin.
There additionally has been hypothesis relating to whether or not the Raiders, who personal the No. 1 decide, might pursue him to pair with Indiana quarterback and anticipated No. 1 decide Fernando Mendoza.
Penn State additionally not too long ago modified coaches, firing James Franklin in October and changing him with former Iowa State coach Matt Campbell.
Cignetti’s father, Frank Cignetti Sr., is a member of the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame after a 30-year profession as a head coach at West Virginia and Indiana College of Pennsylvania.
The elder Cignetti died in 2022.
