Cignetti’s Shameless Bid for Extra Notre Dame Home Games
Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti, fresh off a 27–2 run and a national championship in just two seasons, publicly lamented the cancellation of his team’s series with Notre Dame. During a Big Ten Network feature, Cignetti proposed that Notre Dame should “come to our place twice, and we’ll go there once,” pointing to the Fighting Irish’s independent status as justification for the lopsided home-and-home setup. Though his program has itself dropped series with Virginia and Louisville, Cignetti framed the request as a fair shake for a newly ascendant Hoosiers team eager to face marquee opponents before Big Ten play.
In a move that screams “desperation meets delusion,” Cignetti has levitated college football’s negotiation table into thin air and decided that reality might just catch up later. Why negotiate a balanced schedule when you can draft your own Monopoly rules? Clearly, the man who turned Indiana into a powerhouse overnight knows that the best way to fuel a fanbase is by dangling impossible dreams—like Notre Dame showing up to Bloomington twice—then blaming conference politics when it fails. Next week: demanding USC host the Rose Bowl at Indiana Stadium because, hey, they lost to Alabama anyway, right?
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