Greatest Coaching Job Ever? Joel Klatt Says Curt Cignetti’s Title Defies History

In just two years, Curt Cignetti has done the unimaginable at Indiana, leading the Hoosiers to a national championship on Monday night. Not only did the win cement Cignetti's performance at Indiana as the greatest coaching job in the history of college football in Joel Klatt's eyes, but he also thinks it might be the greatest coaching job we've seen in the history of sports. 

"We have never seen anything like what we have seen from Curt Cignetti," Klatt said on his podcast, "The Joel Klatt Show." "There is no perspective to give, other than this is the greatest single coaching job in the history of college football. I think you have to go outside college football to start finding at least other examples of coaches that have done something that is even remotely like this."

Obviously, Indiana isn't the first team to go from rags to riches and win a title. But as Klatt pondered which other coaching jobs might have been this impressive in sports history, there is one thing that he thinks helps Cignetti's claim in this argument. 

"Is [Cignetti's performance] similar to Herb Brooks in the ‘Miracle on Ice?’ I don't know, that was a couple of weeks for one tournament," Klatt said, referring to the United States men's ice hockey team's upset win over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics. "Maybe them as an underdog, yes, over the Soviets and winning that hockey game, albeit in the semifinals, and ultimately winning the gold medal. Maybe it's that. Is it Rollie Massimino and Villanova winning the NCAA Tournament? Is it Jim Valvano and North Carolina State winning the NCAA Tournament? I don't know, that's one pocket with one tournament.

"This guy, in two years, goes 27-2 with the losingest program in the history of the