Winning tends to smooth over doubts in college football. For the Indiana Hoosiers, victories have done more than lift spirits. They have opened wallets.
Curt Cignetti has turned Indiana into a college football powerhouse, and the university is making sure he sticks around.
The Hoosiers head coach just locked in his third contract extension in a little over two years, and this one’s a monster.
Indiana won its first national championship in January, capping off a season that seemed impossible just a few years ago when Cignetti first took over. The program went from irrelevant to elite under his watch, and now, the school is paying him like it.
Indiana, Curt Cignetti agree to massive new contract
According to IndyStar on Friday, Cignetti agreed to yet another deal, paying him an average of $13.2M annually through 2033. That figure now sits among the richest publicly known salaries in the sport.
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