{"id":310394,"date":"2025-10-17T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310394\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:39:09","slug":"indiana-curt-cignetti-agree-on-eight-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310394\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana, Curt Cignetti agree on eight-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indiana<\/a><\/strong> head coach Curt Cignetti<\/a><\/strong> has agreed<\/a><\/strong> to a new eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of approximately $11.6 million. The contract will run through Nov. 30, 2033.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Indiana University, we are committed to performing at the highest levels in everything we do, and no one has exemplified that more than Coach Cignetti,\u201d said<\/a><\/strong> Indiana University President Pamela Whitten. \u201cPut simply, Cig is a winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom last year\u2019s College Football Playoff appearance to this year\u2019s top-3 national ranking, the IU Football program\u2019s success has been tremendous. Curt and Manette Cignetti are home in Indiana and we are delighted that the Cignetti family will be Hoosiers for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cignetti is currently in his second season as Indiana\u2019s head coach. In his debut campaign at the helm of the Hoosiers, he led the program to an 11-2 overall record, an 8-1 mark in conference play and its first ever College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong> appearance.<\/p>\n

Cignetti hasn\u2019t slowed down this season. Indiana is 6-0 and ranked No. 3 in the country. Most recently, the Hoosiers defeated the Oregon Ducks<\/a><\/strong> on their home turf. It\u2019s been a stunning turnaround for the Hoosiers, who posted a 3-9 record the season prior to Cignetti\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n

Before agreeing to a new contract with the school, Cignetti was earning $8.3 million this season, without bonuses included. The figure ranked 18th in college football and No. 7 in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

Cignetti\u2019s new salary of $11.6 million will be the third-highest<\/a><\/strong> in the country, only trailing Ohio State<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s Ryan Day<\/a><\/strong> and Georgia<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s Kirby Smart<\/a><\/strong>. Indiana likely felt pressure to secure Cignetti\u2019s long-term future with lucrative jobs at programs like Penn State<\/a><\/strong> and Arkansas<\/a><\/strong> becoming available.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, FOX Sports\u2019 Mark Ingram implored Penn State to go after Cignetti. Meanwhile, other prominent voices, such as former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer, believe Cignetti doesn\u2019t need to go elsewhere to win national titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommon sense would say no. But, I mean, as a football coach studying it, listen closely \u2014 absolutely, yes, they can [win it all] when you watch them play. Absolutely, yes!\u201d Meyer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0said on\u00a0The Triple Option\u00a0podcast<\/a>. \u201cThey have good enough players and they\u2019re as well-coached (of a) team (as there is) in the United States of America. How about that? We\u2019ve got to get there, Big Noon (Kickoff) has to get (to Bloomington).\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Indiana will look to continue its dominant run when it squares off against Michigan State at 3:30 p.m. ET. The game will air live on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti has agreed to a new eight-year contract with an average annual compensation of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":310395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[151068,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-310394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-curt-cignetti","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}