There’s officially nine openings for head coaching positions in the NFL as of January 17, almost a third of the league will have a new head coach next season.
Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti, who’s led
the Hoosiers all the way from the losingest program in the history of college football to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, had plenty of buzz around his name for some of said openings. One of them is even in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Plenty of teams would be interested in bringing a coach of Cignetti’s caliber to the professional ranks.
But he isn’t all that interested, he said as much on Saturday afternoon during a media availability ahead of the national championship.
“I’m not an NFL guy,” Cignetti said. “I made that decision a long time ago. I’ve always been a college football guy.”
The lack of interest isn’t surprising given how much enjoyment Cignetti takes in running a program, duties he’d likely have to cede to a general manager if he were to take a job in the NFL. One of Cignetti’s coaching mentors, Nick Saban, rather notably returned to the college ranks after a few seasons with the Miami Dolphins, finding immense success at Alabama.
