THE HERD – HOUR 2 – Curt Cignetti is Babe Ruth of CFB, Top 10 NFL QBs

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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. Hour number two on the herd. We've got Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood stopping by shortly.

Saw he was working out with Joe Burrow this offseason. This is where I would insert the eyes emoji. Oh, okay. All right.

Big boy Bryce Underwood in Michigan. They return all their starters, new coach. Michigan's going to be fascinating. Before we get to Bryce Underwood,

I do want to talk to you about just this fascinating story in college football. So Big Ten media days are happening right now. And obviously the big story in the Big Ten is Indiana and what they've done in the last two years.

This is crazy. So P.J. Fleck, Big Ten coach at Minnesota, comes out and has an amazing quote yesterday. he said that signetti called his own shot like babe ruth babe ruth pretty good baseball player

and i put kurt signetti right up there with babe ruth because he did the same thing but that was just a home run that wasn't a grand slam in the world series in game seven to win it and and i you know i this is this is bizarre so kurt signetti's 65 years old guys i don't know if you're aware of this. I was just looking into his resume. It truly is fascinating. For about 20 plus years,

Kurt Signetti was a position coach, bouncing around college football as a position coach. 20 years. Most people at that point are like, all right, I'm not going to make it, you know, as a head coach, let me just move on, sell cars, whatever, insurance, stable. I don't have to move my family around. One of those deals.

Kurt Cignetti said no. And then he got a little fortunate. He got into the Nick Saban world. And from there, boom, he starts getting little head coaching jobs, Elon, JMU, shout out to JMU second time this week. And then Kurt Cignetti lands at Indiana. And in year one, they go 11 and two. And it was like, oh, that's a nice story. Indiana, usually a doormat in college football.

That's a great story. It was fun. And then Notre Dame kicks in their teeth in the college football playoff, covered the spread easily, no sweat.

Then year two, people were still kind of dubious of Indiana. There wasn't like, okay, here come the Hoosiers. And Signetti, obviously, with Fernando Mendoza at the helm, leads them to the title undefeated season.

It's just an unbelievable story. Look at their rankings since hiring Signetti, 27-2. They're dominant in basically every category that matters. They are an offensive machine.

And some people in our morning meeting, we've got some ravenous TV guys. And they were like, basically, who at 65 years old makes it as a dominant head coach? And there's the story of Bryan Cranston, who, you know, was a bit guy. He had a role on Seinfeld.

You remember the dentist episode classic stuff? And then he was the dad on Malcolm in the Middle. Now, that was not a show I watched a lot of, but he did well on Malcolm in the Middle. He never broke through as a leading man.

And then somebody had the vision. I think Kurt Cignetti could be a leading man. Let's create the show called Breaking Bad. And then Bryan Cranston makes the leap.