{"id":413503,"date":"2026-01-17T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413503\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:23:08","slug":"curt-cignetti-im-not-an-nfl-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413503\/","title":{"rendered":"Curt Cignetti: I&#8217;m not an NFL guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Cignetti has engineered a remarkable turnaround as head coach of Indiana, with the program set to play for the CFP national championship on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t expect Cignetti to potentially do something similar in the pros. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if he would consider an NFL job on Saturday, Cignetti dismissed the idea. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brett_McMurphy\/status\/2012557593542091175?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019m not an NFL guy<\/a>,\u201d Cignetti said, via Brett McMurphy of On3.com. \u201cI made that decision a long time ago. I\u2019ve always been a college football guy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cignetti has been a coach at the college level for decades and he\u2019s won everywhere he\u2019s been, most notably at James Madison from 2019-2023 and now at Indiana over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>While money can talk, it doesn\u2019t seem like Cignetti has any interest in trying to translate his success to the pros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curt Cignetti has engineered a remarkable turnaround as head coach of Indiana, with the program set to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-413503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}