MIAMI GARDENS, FL – Do not allow yourself to slip into the trap of believing Curt Cignetti awakened a sleeping giant.
That’s a misnomer.
No football giant ever existed in the basketball country known as Bloomington, Indiana, before the Hoosiers hired a Yinzer old enough to retire but determined enough to achieve the unthinkable.
Cignetti brought life into Indiana’s corpse of a program.
In two years, he turned a doormat into royalty.
