Cignetti gets new 8-yr., $93M deal at Indiana

Indiana has reached a caller eight-year declaration with Curt Cignetti, which volition marque him 1 of the highest-paid shot coaches successful the FBS with an yearly mean wage of astir $11.6 million, the assemblage announced Thursday.

Cignetti guided the Hoosiers to a 10-2 grounds and a astonishing College Football Playoff quality successful his archetypal play astatine the schoolhouse successful 2024. This season, the No. 3 Hoosiers are 6-0 heading into Saturday's crippled against Michigan State.

Cignetti, 64, was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year and National Coach of the Year by respective organizations successful 2024. The Hoosiers are 17-2 nether Cignetti, including an 11-1 grounds against Big Ten opponents.

On Oct. 11, the Hoosiers stunned then-No. 3 Oregon 30-20 connected the road. It was Indiana's archetypal triumph against a top-five hostile since upsetting then-No. 3 Purdue 19-14 successful 1967.

The caller woody with Cignetti goes done the 2033 regular season.

"At Indiana University, we are committed to performing astatine the highest levels successful everything we do, and nary 1 has exemplified that much than Coach Cignetti," Indiana University President Pamela Whitten said successful a statement. "Put simply, Cig is simply a winner. From past year's College Football Playoff quality to this year's top-three nationalist ranking, the IU shot program's occurrence has been tremendous."

Cignetti, who antecedently coached astatine James Madison, Elon and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was expected to beryllium 1 of the hottest commodities connected the marketplace earlier signing an hold with the Hoosiers.

"We are committed to investing successful IU shot successful specified a mode that we tin vie astatine a title level, and the No. 1 precedence successful doing that is ensuring that Coach Cignetti is the person of our program," Indiana athletics manager Scott Dolson said successful a statement. "His accomplishments during the past play and a fractional person been thing abbreviated of remarkable. As overmuch arsenic anyone, helium believed successful what was imaginable with our program, and he's turned that content into reality."

Utilizing the transportation portal, Cignetti has transformed the once-woebegone Hoosiers into a Big Ten rubric contender. Indiana had ne'er won 10 games successful a play earlier his accomplishment successful the 127-year past of the program. The Hoosiers hadn't had a winning grounds since going 6-2 successful the 2020 season, which was delayed due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hoosiers went 9-27 successful 3 seasons nether Tom Allen earlier Cignetti's hiring.