“Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033”

[BobPSU92]

Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033

After leading Indiana to the national title, coach Curt Cignetti has finalized a contract with the school that will pay him an average of $13.2 million through the 2033 season, a source confirmed to ESPN.

www.espn.com

 

[Blair10]

Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033

After leading Indiana to the national title, coach Curt Cignetti has finalized a contract with the school that will pay him an average of $13.2 million through the 2033 season, a source confirmed to ESPN.

www.espn.com

Cignetti earned it.

Cignetti didn’t use absurd excuses like having a small airport, not enough 5 star players, sub standard facilities, not enough NIL money, lack of football tradition, being located in a cold and drab weather environment, small stadium, etc.

Cignetti just went out and did it the old fashion way. The man deserves a medal.

 

[ClarkstonMark]

best investment a mid program has ever made

 

[UncleRoyBiggins]

This is what we are up against

 

[LionsAndBears]

Indiana needs to be careful not to overplay their hand. Once Cignettiis gone, what will IU look like?

 

[Chumboshifko1]

He did it the old fashioned way. By cheating. John Giulgud would gag.

 

[Warlerski]

Source: Cignetti's salary now averages $13.2M through 2033

After leading Indiana to the national title, coach Curt Cignetti has finalized a contract with the school that will pay him an average of $13.2 million through the 2033 season, a source confirmed to ESPN.

www.espn.com

Indiana appears to have gone the route of a number of schools. A huge football program with a university attached.

 

[BobPSU92]

best investment a mid program has ever made

They aren’t so mid now. Us, on the other hand…

 

[Ludd]

Cignetti earned it.

Cignetti didn’t use absurd excuses like having a small airport, not enough 5 star players, sub standard facilities, not enough NIL money, lack of football tradition, being located in a cold and drab weather environment, small stadium, etc.

Cignetti just went out and did it the old fashion way. The man deserves a medal.

Old fashioned way????

 

[BiochemPSU]

After you enjoyed watching multi-millionaire football players and coaches for four years, you can start to pay back your student loans for the next 30 years, with interest, peasants.

 

[Nitt1300]

Cignetti earned it.

Cignetti didn’t use absurd excuses like having a small airport, not enough 5 star players, sub standard facilities, not enough NIL money, lack of football tradition, being located in a cold and drab weather environment, small stadium, etc.

Cignetti just went out and did it the old fashion way. The man deserves a medal.

no football coach deserves a medal, that's absurd

 

[LB99]

Old fashioned way????

40+ portal players and paying them millions of dollars?

 

[Nittering Nabob]

IU is going to struggle once one or both of Cignetti's coordinators get hired as HC's

 

[Chumboshifko1]

🏌️

 

[rigi19040]

Cignetti earned it.

Cignetti didn’t use absurd excuses like having a small airport, not enough 5 star players, sub standard facilities, not enough NIL money, lack of football tradition, being located in a cold and drab weather environment, small stadium, etc.

Cignetti just went out and did it the old fashion way. The man deserves a medal.

What has Campbell won?

 

[WVilleLion23]

Indiana needs to be careful not to overplay their hand. Once Cignettiis gone, what will IU look like?

Well they have been bragging rights over us until we ever win another FB natty. I mean we are 40 years removed from one.

 

[84lion]

Indiana needs to be careful not to overplay their hand. Once Cignettiis gone, what will IU look like?

Probably a lot like Clemson looks right now - but they will have credibility. Winning a natty is a significant achievement.

As far as Cignetti is concerned, he's earned every penny of that money.

 

[LionsAndBears]

Well they have been bragging rights over us until we ever win another FB natty. I mean we are 40 years removed from one.

Facts. However, all of their success is tied to 1 man and he's not a spring chicken. Outside of that 1 man, they're the losingest Power 4 Program all-time.

It could be really bad if they commit a lot of future funds to a program that goes back to being a doormat after the coach leaves.

 

[RolexKong]

What has Campbell won?

Your preoccupation, Monsewer Dumass.

 

[katatonic2]

best investment a mid program has ever made

Prior to Cig, weren't close to even being mid...

40+ portal players and paying them millions of dollars?

1st year, didn't spend that much on transfers and even this past season, many programs (including a no in the B1G) spent more.

IU is going to struggle once one or both of Cignetti's coordinators get hired as HC's

Wouldn't be too sure of that.

Cig has lost coordinators (the Miami DC used to be the DC for Cig) and kept on chugging.

He not only has an eye for football talent, but coaching talent as well.

Plus, the system they run on O is his.

Yeah, there may be a season with bumps in the road as a new coordinator gets up to speed, but in all likelihood, that future coordinator is already on his staff.

But off the field, endowment contributions have jumped, as have applications, including that of out of state students who pay full fare.

 

[LB99]

Prior to Cig, weren't close to even being mid...




1st year, didn't spend that much on transfers and even this past season, many programs (including a no in the B1G) spent more.




Wouldn't be too sure of that.

Cig has lost coordinators (the Miami DC used to be the DC for Cig) and kept on chugging.

He not only has an eye for football talent, but coaching talent as well.

Plus, the system they run on O is his.

Yeah, there may be a season with bumps in the road as a new coordinator gets up to speed, but in all likelihood, that future coordinator is already on his staff.

But off the field, endowment contributions have jumped, as have applications, including that of out of state students who pay full fare.

Yet, every media outlet interviewed Mark Cuban for putting up major funds for Indiana NIL including telling Cig he would pay whatever he needed to go get Mendoza.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Your preoccupation, Monsewer Dumass.

Talk about preoccupation. Gee I thought he was merely raising a valid question in response to yet another post taking a shot at Franklin.

 

[RolexKong]

Talk about preoccupation. Gee I thought he was merely raising a valid question in response to yet another post taking a shot at Franklin.

Here's your pair:

But you're going to have to wait your turn because Monsewer Dumass likes to take his time.

 

[Chumboshifko1]

Cig found an angle like Boise, minus the weeping. Like Boise, it won't last.

 

[LB99]

Prior to Cig, weren't close to even being mid...




1st year, didn't spend that much on transfers and even this past season, many programs (including a no in the B1G) spent more.




Wouldn't be too sure of that.

Cig has lost coordinators (the Miami DC used to be the DC for Cig) and kept on chugging.

He not only has an eye for football talent, but coaching talent as well.

Plus, the system they run on O is his.

Yeah, there may be a season with bumps in the road as a new coordinator gets up to speed, but in all likelihood, that future coordinator is already on his staff.

But off the field, endowment contributions have jumped, as have applications, including that of out of state students who pay full fare.

Haines has been with Cig for 11 years. Shanahan 10.

 

[Ludd]

Here's your pair:

But you're going to have to wait your turn because Monsewer Dumass likes to take his time.

So it’s ok to support and post positive things about any previous PSU coach including BOB who bailed on us after two years and Micah Shrewsberry who also bailed on us after two years, but not a guy who came in at the heart of the sanctions and stayed 11 years? Good to know.

 

[Warlerski]

Cig found an angle like Boise, minus the weeping. Like Boise, it won't last.

Correct. Players in the portal who are 22 on up are the new hot commodity. They have an inherent advantage playing against kids who are 18-20.

 

[LB99]

So it’s ok to support and post positive things about any previous PSU coach including BOB who bailed on us after two years and Micah Shrewsberry who also bailed on us after two years, but not a guy who came in at the heart of the sanctions and stayed 11 years? Good to know.

Good points. There are some here that will dislike every coach because he isn’t Joe. The same ones that claim to dislike BOB because he left, dislike Franklin also, and will find any reason to dislike Campbell as well. Many of them have been silent so far for Campbell, but just wait until the first game thread when the team struggles and they will come out of the woodwork and proclaim Joe never had a team that looked unprepared or overmatched. You will never change their mind.

 

[RolexKong]

So it’s ok to support and post positive things about any previous PSU coach including BOB who bailed on us after two years and Micah Shrewsberry who also bailed on us after two years, but not a guy who came in at the heart of the sanctions and stayed 11 years? Good to know.

Of course it's okay to post positive things about former PSU coaches. I don't recall criticizing anyone for doing that. What I dislike is incessantly thrashing the incumbent who has yet to coach a game at Penn State. And if you haven't noticed a particular someone doing that, there are plenty of these to go around:

 

[WPB_lion]

Facts. However, all of their success is tied to 1 man and he's not a spring chicken. Outside of that 1 man, they're the losingest Power 4 Program all-time.

It could be really bad if they commit a lot of future funds to a program that goes back to being a doormat after the coach leaves.

Don't underestimate the commitment of a billionaire to their program. As long as Cuban is engaged, they are not going to be the "losingest" Power 4 Program moving forward. In the absence of Cuban's commitment, Indiana probably loses Cignetti and probably wouldn't have been able to pay the players that ignited this run for the championship.

 

[Ludd]

Of course it's okay to post positive things about former PSU coaches. I don't recall criticizing anyone for doing that. What I dislike is incessantly thrashing the incumbent who has yet to coach a game at Penn State. And if you haven't noticed a particular someone doing that, there are plenty of these to go around:

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So anyone who is not sold on Campbell is automatically a Franklin supporter….again, good to know.

 

[RolexKong]

So anyone who is not sold on Campbell is automatically a Franklin supporter….again, good to know.

Glad I was able to oblige in pointing out what should be obvious to even a casual observer.

 

[LMTLION]

Indiana needs to be careful not to overplay their hand. Once Cignettiis gone, what will IU look like?

They could go back to mediocrity in 2026, and would still be fully satisfied because they won a national championship, something we haven’t done in decades. But I think they will be OK long-term regardless of Cignetti. They have Uncle Mark now funding the program. Look what uncle Phil has done for Oregon.

 

[Bvillebaron]

Here's your pair:

But you're going to have to wait your turn because Monsewer Dumass likes to take his time.

I don’t understand your special kind of stupid but I do admire your total commitment to it. I have repeatedly said that I am totally fine with the Franklin firing and fully support Campbell. On the other hand, the continued trashing of Franklin long after he has been fired and juvenile responses like this one to any comment that points that out is beyond pathetic. But hey you proved again that having any objectivity and functioning gray matter is not a prerequisite to posting here.

 

[Ludd]

Glad I was able to oblige in pointing out what should be obvious to even a casual observer.

But it’s not…there are people who don’t support Campbell who also didn’t support Franklin. There are many who won’t support anyone other than Joe. You must not read this board much.

 

[RolexKong]

I don’t understand your special kind of stupid but I do admire your total commitment to it. I have repeatedly said that I am totally fine with the Franklin firing and fully support Campbell. On the other hand, the continued trashing of Franklin long after he has been fired and juvenile responses like this one to any comment that points that out is beyond pathetic. But hey you proved again that having any objectivity and functioning gray matter is not a prerequisite to posting here.

Make it a double.

 

[RolexKong]

But it’s not…there are people who don’t support Campbell who also didn’t support Franklin. There are many who won’t support anyone other than Joe. You must not read this board much.

My perspective is not as broad as yours. Helps to avoid generalizations.

 

[Ludd]

My perspective is not as broad as yours. Helps to avoid generalizations.

Not a generalization….a generalization would be if I said everyone, but I said people and there are people that think that way.

 

[LB99]

My perspective is not as broad as yours. Helps to avoid generalizations.

He’s not wrong.

 

[katatonic2]

Yet, every media outlet interviewed Mark Cuban for putting up major funds for Indiana NIL including telling Cig he would pay whatever he needed to go get Mendoza.

Cuban contributed a bit, but really didn't up his funding until during the course of this season, where the benefits are still to bear fruit.

Regardless, there are still programs spending more $ than IU (some like UT and TT, a good bit more).

At a reported $1.6 mil, Mendoza wasn't even in the top 10 for QB NIL comp for 2025, and nowhere close to what the former Dook (now Miami) QB got ($4 mil) from the school; find it humorous that IU is getting so much flack when if anything, Miami spent more $, including for their QB, and they've only upped that figure with Mensah (both he and Leavitt reportedly getting around $6 million for next season.

Btw, Allar got $3 million, as did a couple more B1G qbs.

Mendoza was seen as a nice QB at Cal, but hardly seen as being someone who would win the Heisman.

Mendoza during the stretch run of the regular season and throughout the playoffs was a very different QB than during his first 4-5 games at IU - that's a testament to coaching and development.

Haines has been with Cig for 11 years. Shanahan 10.

Except Haines was only promoted to DC by Cig starting in '22, so only 4 years running the D.

For 3 years prior, served as co-DC (when Miami's DC was the DC for Cig) and before that, as position coach (including one year at UC Davis).

LIikewisr, Shanahan wasn't promoted to OC until '21; and make no mistake, the man behind what they do on O is Cig, even if he doesn't call the plays.

Correct. Players in the portal who are 22 on up are the new hot commodity. They have an inherent advantage playing against kids who are 18-20.

Miami had an older starting lineup than IU.

And this is hardly anything new.

Big part of why UM and dOSU won titles (and why PSU was seen as a favorite heading into 2025) was because they had so many players opting to return instead of heading to the draft.

It's not like IU seemingly had unlimited resources/NiL $, which is why they had to seek value (it's not like they were getting blue chip transfers like say dOSU was with a number of high profile transfers from 'Bama alone).

Going forward, they will have more resources, but again, it's not like what Texas, TAMU, LSU, Miami, TTech, etc. are throwing at players.