Here's a closer look at Cignetti's background and family, including his coaching father and brother. Curt Cignetti is not the first in his family to coach football, as his father, Frank Cignetti Sr., is in the College Football Hall of Fame for his 20 seasons as the head coach at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP).

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Cignetti was born in Pittsburgh, PA on June 2, 1961. At the time, his father, Frank Cignetti Sr., was an assistant football coach at Leechburg High School in Pennsylvania. Cignetti Sr. became an assistant at Pittsburgh in 1966 and then at Princeton in 1969. He returned in 1970 as an assistant at West Virginia University, prompting a family move.