Better story: Cignetti or Orgeron?

One coach who betted on himself and left a dynasty program and coach to head up a tiny school in a lower division. All he did was win, even when he took a better job at an after thought school. Again: all he did was win.

Finally he gets an opportunity to coach at the highest level of CFB, a P4 school. Prestigious right? It's the worst team in history.

Doesn't matter. They wanted him when nobody else did. They saw in him what he believed in himself: he was a winner.

He won.

The other?


Nobody would ever claim that all he did was win. In fact, it was the opposite. When he was given his first chance at leading a program, all he did was lose. He became the worst coach in the history of the conference.

A joke. Ridiculed by all. Complete and utter failure.

Most people would have given up after a failure such as that.

Instead of giving up, he used it. He studied the failure. What did he do wrong? why didn't this work? What should he change?

To fail so spectacularly, and to not give up, but persevere and improve? That's an ability most think they have, but few possess.

And when finally given the chance, he proved to everyone that he wasn't defined by failure, all while people were ridiculing him and laughing in his face.



While I love the underdog story of proving to everyone that you deserve to be there, I prefer the story of picking yourself up off the matt and finding a way to keep moving forward more.