The viral quote for Curt Cignetti picks up comprehensive messages in Big Ten Media Days

LAS VEGAS — On this same stage at this same event last summer, only a few months into his tenure as Indiana’s new head coach, Curt Cignetti announced himself to the college football world with an impassioned opening statement that dripped with jaw-dropping confidence for someone leading a power-conference program for the first time. 

Cignetti admonished the media members in attendance for picking the Hoosiers to finish 17th in the newly expanded Big Ten. And five months later, after rolling through the greatest regular season in program history, Cignetti proved he could walk the walk by leading Indiana to the College Football Playoff. 

One year and one hefty contract extension later, Cignetti opened Big Ten Media Days with another headline-making display, firing a shot across the SEC’s bow when asked why the Hoosiers recently agreed to pay $500,000 to extricate themselves from a home-and-home scheduling agreement with Virginia and replace those games with likely blowouts against Kennesaw State in 2027 and Austin Peay in 2028. More than five years will pass between now and the next time Indiana kicks off against a high-level, non-conference opponent. 

“We figured we would just adopt SEC scheduling philosophy, you know?” Cignetti said on Tuesday afternoon. “Some people don’t like it. I’m more focused on those nine conference games. Not only do we want to play nine conference games, OK, and have the [revised] Qualifiers format [with automatic qualifiers]We want to get play games to determine who plays in these qualifiers. “

Although it is wrapped around Barb is clear in the continuous power struggle between the ten adults and SEC, the prominent football conferences in the college, the CIGNETTI resembled the whip was accurately seized on the comprehensive message from Commissioner Tony Betty and the first wave of scheduling that it can wander next year-and accompany it next year-and accompany it next year-and accompany it next year. Conversation topics.

The league gathered about Betty’s preference for the 4-4-2-2-1 model, which depends heavily on the automatic qualifiers more than the marina in the parties, and thus, the Supreme Education Council challenged to adopt a normal season schedule that would match the commitment of the ten adults to settle the conference games nine games to alleviate their comparisons during the selection of the match.

What kind of tone will Betty use during its opening notes on Tuesday that were of widespread importance for the energy generation in sports in the amid season that witnessed the other three energy conferences-the Supreme Education Council, 12 BIG and ACC- gathering around the format of various proposals. Despite his long preference by BIG 12 and ACC, two patrols that are struggling to keep pace with this sport, the “5+11” framework recently appeared as a SEC option, as the explicit commissioner Greg Sankey beat this drum at the media days event in the league in Atlanta earlier this month. Sankey coaches and SEC coach believe their conference and the strength of the timeline positively on a model with more sites needed to seize.

Such a global view clashes with the automatic qualifying system that Betty prefers and its components. The 4-4-2-2-1 will customize four bids for Big Ten and SEC, two and two to Big 12 and ACC, and one for a group higher than six heroes, with three beans in a proposed field of 16 teams. As a natural result, Petitti also suggested that the league Big Ten Play games during the weekend that stimulates the teams from outside the first positions in the conference arrangement against each other to get an automatic place in the qualifiers, an idea that his coaches seem to support widely-even if SEC does not shout.

“It is clear that we are not in the same place in these discussions.” “I think there are a lot of ideas. I think the goal is to return people together, and to have a conversation about what we think is working from there. I will say, every time we meet with tournaments – we still have our presidents and our collective consultative meeting – good things happened.”

One of the reasons why Petitti prefers a heavy model on the automatic qualifiers is that he feels that he will compensate for the contradiction between Big Ten, which plays nine conference games every year, and SEC, which only plays eight. Betty believes that the additional difficulty represented in the presence of an additional discount for conferences can leave the Big Ten teams that were exposed during the selection process for a matchless match with great bids.

This is especially true if SEC continues to achieve victories against the lower level opponents in exchange for playing a lesser match in the league. Many SEC schools are the FCS discount late this season to dismantle the hard conference grinding, but all guarantee themselves an unbalanced victory in this process. This year’s OLE MISS menu includes hosting the castle on November 8, hosting Tennesse Tech on November 15, hosting Alabama to Illinois on November 22, among others, giving Cignetti’s ammunition about Quip about Indiana copying SEC scheduling by adding lower games.

Cignetti said: “We need to unify the schedule in all fields if we want to obtain objective criteria for whom it should be in the qualifiers and who should not.” “We need to take off decision -making outside the committee to some extent.”

“I feel that there is a continuity between the conferences,” said Ryan Day, a coach of Ohio State. [automatic] The qualifiers have an expanded set of difference. Because when nine conference matches play, this is not the same person who plays eight conference games. Thus, if you are being compared, this is not the same. “

“I just think that all tournaments should play the same amount of conference games,” said Matt Roll, coach of the Nebraska team.

All of this is dripping into a real discussion of the chicken or eggs of Petitti, which is believed to be issues of scheduling conferences and the process of choosing CFP “walking side by side.” He does not want to adhere to coordinating a separate match without knowing the number of conference games played by each league. He insists that the number of conference games played by each league must affect the criteria of the choice committee to include in the field of qualifiers. For this reason, Petitti and Big Ten Coaches will continue to dig their heels regarding automatic sounds unless SEC adds the ninth conference game.

To date, it may be good in time, the stalemate between the best football conferences in football has been strengthened to facing high risk.

Betty said: “All my role will decide what they think is the best schedule for the conference for them,” Betty said.

Michael Cohen covers university football and university basketball for Fox Sports. Follow it in @michael_cohen13.

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