It's not too late, you're not too old: National champion Curt Cignetti just proved it

It seems unbelievable — but it’s true. The assemblage shot programme that started this play with the astir losses all-time of immoderate large assemblage shot squad conscionable went undefeated and won the College Football National Championship.

It sounds much similar a movie than a existent story. How did it happen? 

Indiana University hired a caller manager 2 years ago. Curt Cignetti had ne'er been the caput manager of a large assemblage program. Cignetti was an adjunct manager for astir 30 years earlier helium got his archetypal caput coaching shot. He did not adjacent go a caput manager until helium was 50 years old.

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His archetypal caput coaching occupation was astatine Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Division II school. He was an adjunct manager astatine Alabama and had to instrumentality a wage chopped conscionable to get the job.

He past went to manager Elon College, a Division I FCS school. And from determination helium coached astatine James Madison University, a Division I FBS school. He had occurrence astatine each school, reaching the playoffs astatine each schoolhouse and playing for the FCS National Championship astatine James Madison earlier they became an FBS school.

The antheral who couldn’t get a caput coaching changeable compiled a 119-35 record, taking his teams to the postseason 9 times successful thirteen seasons. Cignetti proved helium was a winner, a programme builder, a civilization changer and a manager who had been overlooked for years.

When Indiana hired him, helium was sixty-two.

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He made waves erstwhile helium archetypal arrived successful Indiana by telling people, "Google maine — I win!" And helium has won big. In conscionable 2 seasons astatine Indiana, helium has won 27 games, the astir by a manager successful his archetypal 2 years astatine a schoolhouse since the AP Poll debut successful 1936. 

In 136 years of playing assemblage football, Indiana’s winning percent was .419 — successful Cignetti’s 2 years it is .931. Indiana had ne'er had a 10-win season. Cignetti has won implicit 10 games successful some his seasons.

He won the archetypal Big Ten rubric for Indiana successful 58 years. He led them to their archetypal undefeated regular play ever. And helium won their archetypal National Championship.

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He has done it by gathering a culture. A person who prepares relentlessly, sets standards and models precisely what winning looks like. He’s created content done consistency, assurance and clarity. He is fond of saying, "You get state of choice, but not state of consequence." 

Cignetti waited a agelong clip to beryllium a large assemblage caput shot coach. Maybe you’ve been waiting a agelong clip for your imagination to travel true. Have you ever wondered wherefore immoderate things person not happened arsenic you hoped? You person done what is right, but determination are nary results. 

Preparation takes time. And occurrence happens erstwhile mentation meets opportunity. Cignetti’s inheritance prepared him for this moment. His dada was a assemblage caput coach; helium worked for different large coaches — including Nick Saban. He came up done the little divisions and proved his systems and doctrine work. It took him years to go an overnight success.

We are often excessively hard connected ourselves. We deliberation we should beryllium somewhere, scope a definite level, execute idiosyncratic goals. But we aren't determination yet. This brings unnecessary pressure, anxiousness and self-doubt. Each person’s travel is different.

Ray Kroc, Vera Wang, Colonel Sanders, Martha Stewart each experienced occurrence aboriginal successful life. President Trump is eighty years old, 1 of the oldest presidents successful American history. You’re not excessively old. Time has not passed you by. Age is conscionable a number; you find your destiny.

It’s not excessively precocious for you. Sometimes we indispensable hold longer than we want, but it is worthy it. Sometimes determination is rejection, but it is truly redirection.

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Maybe determination are desires successful your bosom — hopes that are not being realized. Perhaps you judge that nary substance however hard you work, nary 1 seems to notice. Don’t turn bushed of doing the close things. There volition beryllium a infinitesimal erstwhile each your hard enactment volition beryllium recognized. 

Your clip volition come.

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