Did Curt Cignetti play football? Revisiting college playing career at West Virginia with Oliver Luck

Key Highlights

• His father is Frank Cignetti Sr., who, when Curt was born, was an assistant coach at Leechburg High School in Pennsylvania. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe elder Cignetti continued coaching while Curt was growing up.
• He became an assistant at Pittsburgh and Princeton before landing at West Virginia in 1970. Frank was with the Mountaineers for five years before becoming the head coach in 1976.
• Curt had taken to football and played quarterback.
• The younger Cignetti joined his father at West Virginia and technically played for him for one year before Frank was fired amidst a battle with cancer. Here is more on Cignetti’s college football playing career. MORE: Where did Curt Cignetti coach before Indiana?
• Did Curt Cignetti play football?Yes, along with becoming one of the best coaches in college football, Cignetti himself did play college football.