00:00Looked like for the first half yesterday in the national championship game between Indiana and
00:03Miami that maybe there's going to be a runaway Hoosiers. 10-0 at the break. Indiana got the
00:07football. Things weren't going Miami's way. And that changed quickly. Mark Fletcher struck like
00:12a lightning bolt on a 57-yard touchdown run. And we had a game. But you might be thinking to yourself,
00:17how did we even get Indiana and Miami lined up in this football game for the national
00:21championship, Joe? And this is what we want to go back to. Kurt Signetti was a very good hire
00:25for Indiana. But not a lot of people knew who Kurt Signetti was. Here's him from signing day back in
00:3023. Hey, Kurt. Todd Golan with CNHI Indiana. When it comes to that culture, you were just talking
00:36about, you know, meshing the recruits you're getting and some of the guys you kept. Where
00:43does that process start? I mean, what do you mean? I don't get the question. Well, when you recruit
00:49them, you know, how do you sell your vision of your culture? Who are you talking about? The high
00:53school guys that transfers? Who? All of the above. I mean, how do you? It's pretty, yeah, it's pretty
01:00simple. I win. Google me. This is so good for college football. And usually, Joe, it's the young
01:1129, 31-year-old head coach that thinks he's the next, you know, coming of Jesus. And now you take a
01:16look at a guy who's in his 60s basically telling you, I win. Maybe I'm not the brightest head coach
01:21right now, the brightest bulb, which is saying, like, you are a rock star, which he is now. But
01:25he laid down the law when he went to Indiana with the press, with his team, and on the football field.
01:32Listen, Donnie, the guy is just the greatest thing to happen at college football since Nick
01:37Saban. I mean, he is a, he's a walking meme. The guy is, the clips are just endless. The facial
01:44expressions are over the top good. And listen, in an era of NIL and players chasing the bag,
01:53the fact that he's done it his way is, and now runs the table, goes 16-0, wins a national
02:00championship. I mean, it's one of the greatest rags to riches story we have ever seen in any
02:06college sport for that matter. I mean, truly unbelievable how you go from a program that is
02:13the losingest college football program in the history of college football to national champion
02:19and back-to-back playoff appearances. And you know what? It's a copycat league, but, you
02:25know, coaching matters, Donnie, in football, doesn't it? And that guy played to win, not
02:32to just, you know, not to not lose. He played to win, and he trusted his players to get it
02:37done. And that's exactly what they did.
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