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This is the story of how a visionary president, an astute athletic director, and a genius head coach assembled a group of misfit players-and turned the losingest program in college football history into champions. For more than a century, the Indiana University Hoosiers lived at the bottom of the college football world-outmatched, overlooked, and resigned to history. Then Curt Cignetti arrived and told anyone who would listen that Indiana would win. Not someday. Soon. What followed wasn't a miracle. It was a standard. Never Daunted chronicles the most improbable rise in modern sports history: how a program without recruiting clout, tradition, or margin for error built a national champion through discipline, belief, and relentless execution. Eschewing hype and shortcuts, Cignetti installed a Process rooted in habits, accountability, and playing every snap as if it mattered-because it did. Through unforgettable game analysis, behind-the-scenes insight, and the voices of the people who lived it, this book reveals how Indiana didn't just beat college football's giants-it out-prepared them, out-finished them, and outlasted them. This is the story of a team that proved excellence isn't about stars or swagger. It's about standards. And once Indiana set theirs, everything changed.

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Eric Robert Morse is an entrepreneur and author of several books, which include a political commentary on the Trump years (Tearing at the Seams) a critique on Behavioral Economics (Psychonomics), a theory of political economy (Juggernaut), an history of Feminism (The Economic Theory of Sex), a psychology of storytelling (The 90-Minute Effect), and two novels (Monaco and Ricky Wills It).

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