When Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti left the field after the Hoosiers’ first on-site practice ahead of the Rose Bowl game he did so feeling less than satisfied with how things had gone.
It wasn’t
a horrible practice, he said during a press conference Wednesday, but it wasn’t up to the program’s standards.
“The last two days have been fairly disruptive, with the travel day and then a first practice on site,” Cignetti said. “So, as the leader, the head coach, I feel there’s a lot of loose ends we’ve got to tie together today.”
This isn’t something Cignetti hasn’t encountered before. His teams haven’t really had good practices during their first days at the site of a postseason game. As he said, the travel schedule disrupts the usual routine and can lead to some bumps in the road.
But he has Wednesday to get the No. 1-seed Hoosiers right ahead of Thursday afternoon’s matchup against No. 9-seed Alabama.
“So that’s why I feel the sense of urgency, like, to get it right today, to get everybody thinking the way we want them to think,” Cignetti said.
