"We're a real team," quarterback Fernando Mendoza said. "We're not just a one-hit wonder."
When Cignetti finally made his way to the locker room it was time for his own players to chant his name and begin the celebration in earnest.
"We want Cig! We want Cig!"
[Has any PSU player, much less the ENTIRE TEAM, ever chanted "We want James"?]
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"We're primed for games like this," linebacker Aiden Fisher said. "This is why we play this game, that's why you come to Indiana."
[I guarantee, no one has ever said "that's why you come to Indiana"! 😂]
Even though Cignetti said Saturday that the vociferous approach he used to defend his team's place among the sport's best last season has evolved into something more reserved, his players are still quick to credit him for their conviction.
"You wanna play for someone like Coach Cig who is so confident in himself that it flows to his players," Fisher said. "A lot of people ask 'why [did] you follow Cignetti [from James Madison]?' This is why. Nothing but complete trust in him. He's better than anyone in the country. That's why people want to play for him."
[Psycological. The power of BELIEF. The players at Penn State, whose motto has been for decades, "WE ARE PENN STATE!"don't know who they are, don't have that belief in James Franklin. "That's why you come to Indiana."
