Cignetti, 75, received the news A look at the play of the defense against the Orange. Since then, he has held several offensive coordinator positions at the collegiate level and jobs as a quarterbacks coach in the NFL. Cignetti has James Madison back where the school believes it belongs after taking over for fiery Mike Houston, who parlayed three good seasons and one national championship into a gig at FBS East Carolina. Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images. And I had a blueprint. The second was in the Division II championship game in Florence, Ala., in early December. Cignetti comes to JMU with eight years of head-coaching experience. I had great respect for what they had accomplished here in the past. At each step of his career he has had success improving the passing game, most notably working with Sam Bradford of the St. Louis Rams and helping him to his most productive season with 3,702 passing yards in 2012. "I hope we have a different result than he had," Curt said. Frank Cignetti Sr. (born October 8, 1937) is a former American football player and coach. There'll be a chance for revenge, if you can call a game 30 years later a chance for revenge, when Frank's son leads James Madison against NDSU at Toyota Stadium in what promises to be a better contest than the one at Braly Municipal Stadium. So with Charlie Weiss going to Kansas... tell me gators who do you want to be your OC now with Muschampy? The Dukes, 14-1, are seeking their second in four years. The son, then an assistant at Temple University, was in Florence, Ala., for the game. Frank's son, Curt, is coached James Madison in this year's Football Championship Subdivision title game against the Bison. “I talk to him every day, just as I have for 15 years,” GM Mickey Loomis said. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (via Twitter), Hackett is instead heading to Jacksonville, where it is believed he’ll become the Jaguars’ new quarterbacks coach. Frank's 1990 team had the grand misfortune of meeting NDSU twice in one season. As we wait to see how Kelly’s staff shakes out, here are a few more coaching-related updates from around the NFL: The Rams have become the latest team to fire an offensive coordinator, announcing today that they’ve parted ways with OC Frank Cignetti (Twitter link via Myles Simmons of STLouisRams.com). Boras will lead the running game, in addition to coaching the tight ends, and receives a new assistant head coach title. The latest coaching staff-related news from around the NFL: New 49ers head coach Chip Kelly hasn’t been formally introduced by the team yet, and hasn’t made any announcements on his coaching staff, but it appears a handful of Eagles assistant coaches will be following him to San Francisco, writes Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee. Adam Henry (WRs coach), Patrick Graham (DL coach), Jeff Zgonina (assistant DL coach), Bill McGovern (LBs coach), Dwayne Stukes (assistant special teams coach), and Aaron Wellman (strength and conditioning) round out the group of new coaches. So, why did people vote for Donald Trump? As Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News tweets, the Eagles assistants remain under contract through 2016, so Philadelphia could block some of them from heading to the Niners if Doug Pederson wants to keep them, but the Eagles’ new head coach is likely to hire many of his own assistants as well. Images, posts & videos related to "Frank Cignetti Sr.". “When I sat down with everybody on the staff, that was one thing I wanted to make clear. A formal announcement should come sometime next week. Instead, Houston's public job search clearly led to internal friction on the Dukes and they lost a second-round playoff game to Colgate of the decidedly unpowerful Patriot League. But I think it's a testament to their program to dominate at that level and then move up a level and dominate. And Boston College fans can breathe a sigh of relief, as he will bring an offense that should look markedly different than the ground and pound philosophy that Steve Addazio implemented. There are no real surprises on the staff, which features 12 coaches from Tom Coughlin‘s staff, though McAdoo stressed that “this is a new staff.”, “Nobody was retained, there were no holdovers; everyone was hired,” McAdoo said.