Monshun Sales becomes the highest-rated recruit in Indiana football history and Curt Cignetti's first-ever five-star commit as a head coach.
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He explained why the Indiana Hoosiers landed on this list, and why they will be on the top end of college football again after winning the national championship with Curt Cignetti at the helm.won a Big Ten title, captured a national championship and guided the Indiana freaking Hoosiers to an undefeated 16-0 season. Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti speaks to the media during the Big Ten NCAA college football media days at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
July 22, 2025. I say"pretty much everything," though, because for all of his otherworldly accomplishments in just two short seasons, there is one, relatively arbitrary thing missing from coach Cig's resume. He hasn't exactly been able to amass blue-chip talent, at least in the traditional sense, and while it almost adds to his mythos and abilities as a head coach, it has been perplexing not to see more high-level four-stars and five-stars busting down the doors of Cig's office.
DON'T BURY TEXAS TECH JUST YET: RED RAIDERS SHOULD STILL BE CFP CONTENDERS, EVEN WITHOUT BRENDAN SORSBY Yes, yes, I am well aware of the old standbys of"don't celebrate until the ink is dry" or"we're a long way from signing day," but I doubt a five-star wideout from Indianapolis picked the Hoosiers without being absolutely sure that's where he wants to end up. Crazier things have certainly happened, but if NIL dollars are all similar between programs, I'd put money on the kid ending up in red and white come December.
President Donald Trump jokes with Head Coach Curt Cignetti during an event celebrating the 2026 Football National Champion Indiana Hoosiers on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. , on May 11, 2026. Sales becomes simultaneously Cignetti's first five-star commit as a head coach and the highest rated recruit to pick Indiana in program history.
Not bad for a random Friday in July, but it means something a little more for coach Cig than just adding a talented chess piece to his board. My point from above comes back into play here: if Curt Cignetti was able to go 16-0 and win a national championship with a bunch of three-stars and Moneyball-esque castoffs, imagine what he can do with top-100 prospects littering his two-deep.
I know it's"just one five-star," but I have no reason to believe Sales will be the only one during Cignetti's tenure, and if that's the case, the rest of the country needs to be on high alert. Cignetti's squad ranked 72nd in the 247Sports talent composite heading into the 2025 season and were dead-last in the Big Ten in a similar metric, yet they looked unstoppable through much of the year.
It defies all logic, and many were wondering if it was even sustainable, but if Indiana keeps landing recruits like Sales, we may not have to find out the answer to that question. Indiana Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti looks on after the Indiana Hoosiers versus the Miami Hurricanes College Football Playoff National Championship Game Presented by AT&T on January 19, 2026, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
The Hoosiers still have plenty of work to do, even in this year's recruiting class, which sits somewhere in the upper 20s to low 30s depending on which site you use, but the journey of a thousand top-ten classes begins with a single first five-star, or whatever Laozi said. My point is, you can brush this off as a fluke or a hometown discount from Sales, but the same people who doubted Cignetti's coaching acumen would be wise to view this as a harbinger of things to come from Cig on the recruiting trail.
Heed the warning signs, my fellow college football fans. I am once again here to tell you, Cignetti isn't going anywhere.
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