Frank Cignetti: coaching record and career

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

0-4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Joe Paterno.

Rivalry record

0-4

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

10-7

58.8% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-1

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Pittsburgh0-40%

The toughest matchup

vs. Joe Paterno0-4

4 meetings, 1976–1979

’76 L’77 L’78 L’79 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0-1 0.0%

Power Program

2-12 14.3%

National Program

5-11 31.2%

Regional Program

10-3 76.9%

Building the roster

One numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1976-1979) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.