He's tense, terse and to the point. Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti never issues bulletin board material, calls them as he sees them and aims to get off the podium as quickly as possible.
Ahead of Indiana's 12:30 p.m. game at Oregon on Saturday, he was all-business and characteristically succinct in evaluating the matchup of the No. 7 Hoosiers against the No. 3 Ducks in Autzen Stadium.
Cignetti kept the word count down. You're never going to get a Mike Gundy-level inflammatory quote out of the 64-year-old (google him: he wins) former Division II head coach.
Talking about Dan Lanning he said, "Probably one of the most impressive young coaching phenoms to come around in a while I would say.