Coaching salaries are absurd, but hats off to Indiana…

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SGMVols said:
$8 million a year is not going to keep anyone from poaching him
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Even so, you have to make the poison as painful as possible when big money comes calling. This is IU's biggest commitment to football ever. They are investing in winning.
He is a winner. I googled him. Good players will come to play for him.
It wouldn't be impossible to elevate IU up to the elite level of the B1G. It is the perfect conference to win 8-9 games with a breakout 10 win season from time to time. That would put them parallel with PennSt.
 
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SpookyAction said:
Even so, you have to make the poison as painful as possible when big money comes calling. This is IU's biggest commitment to football ever. They are investing in winning.
He is a winner. I googled him. Good players will come to play for him.
It wouldn't be impossible to elevate IU up to the elite level of the B1G. It is the perfect conference to win 8-9 games with a breakout 10 win season from time to time. That would put them parallel with PennSt.
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I’ll have to see Cignetti stay long term to believe it. IU’s football history makes Vanderbilt look like Alabama.
 
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I find it interesting when coaches get a new contract before they play their toughest game of the season.
Hard to justify after a drubbing..😉
 
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8 mil a year might keep Cignetti in place for another year or two, but SEC programs will easily be able to top that price. It's just the buyout would be overwhelming. But in two or three years if he keeps it up he can prove himself worth the cost.
 
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vavolfan6 said:
8 mil a year might keep Cignetti in place for another year or two, but SEC programs will easily be able to top that price. It's just the buyout would be overwhelming. But in two or three years if he keeps it up he can prove himself worth the cost.
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Dude is already pushing 60.

If he's gonna go somewhere with the intention of building something he better go ASAP (or just stay where he is)
 
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IndyVol46 said:
You know they play in the BiG 10 right?
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What happens when they have to play PSU and OSU in one season? What if Michigan becomes Michigan again, or Fickell gets things rolling at Wiscy? They have dodged Iowa, Oregon, Penn State, and USC. They got Washington and Michigan at home.

Next year in a five game span, they have to play Wisconsin at home and then go to Iowa and Maryland followed by games in Autzen and Happy Valley. They won’t match this year’s win total for quite some time.
 
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SGMVols said:
I’ll have to see Cignetti stay long term to believe it. IU’s football history makes Vanderbilt look like Alabama.
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IU is making this move as an investment to survive the culling that will eventually come for the low profit football programs left in the major 2 conferences. They will be replaced by the most profitable football programs from the BigXII and ACC in the next round of television rights deals.
 
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vavolfan6 said:
8 mil a year might keep Cignetti in place for another year or two, but SEC programs will easily be able to top that price. It's just the buyout would be overwhelming. But in two or three years if he keeps it up he can prove himself worth the cost.
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He’s going on 64 years old and isn’t going anywhere. Men in their 60s don’t have to feed their egos by chasing money & prestige. He’ll finish his career in Bloomington.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
What happens when they have to play PSU and OSU in one season? What if Michigan becomes Michigan again, or Fickell gets things rolling at Wiscy? They have dodged Iowa, Oregon, Penn State, and USC. They got Washington and Michigan at home.

Next year in a five game span, they have to play Wisconsin at home and then go to Iowa and Maryland followed by games in Autzen and Happy Valley. They won’t match this year’s win total for quite some time.
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So your counter is...what ifs?

Lol...6-4 Iowa and 5-5 USC? You have no reason to assume they'd lose either of those games. Penn St. has only played Illinois and had Ohio St. at home and went 1-1, so not sure by your own logic why you're pumping them so much higher.

And sure they dodged Oregon, what's your point? We dodged Texas, in these super conferences the chances of you playing every best team in the conference will be lower than in the past.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
So your counter is...what ifs?

Lol...6-4 Iowa and 5-5 USC? You have no reason to assume they'd lose either of those games. Penn St. has only played Illinois and had Ohio St. at home and went 1-1, so not sure by your own logic why you're pumping them so much higher.

And sure they dodged Oregon, what's your point? We dodged Texas, in these super conferences the chances of you playing every best team in the conference will be lower than in the past.
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They have played the equivalent of a group of 5 schedule so far. That won’t always be the case. I’m not sure why that’s difficult to understand, or why you’re carrying water for them.
 
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Vol in Buckeye Land said:
They have played the equivalent of a group of 5 schedule so far. That won’t always be the case. I’m not sure why that’s difficult to understand, or why you’re carrying water for them.
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So disregard the stupidity of pumping Iowa and USC this year, probably because you haven't paid attention enough to know they are both .500 level teams and instead just repeat back what you said before.

There's nothing "difficult to understand" because you didn't say anything that required much intelligence, nor is anyone "carrying water". You on the other hand seemed damned determine to s*** on them because apparently they're just making you so so mad. Go touch grass buddy.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
So disregard the stupidity of pumping Iowa and USC this year, probably because you haven't paid attention enough to know they are both .500 level teams and instead just repeat back what you said before.

There's nothing "difficult to understand" because you didn't say anything that required much intelligence, nor is anyone "carrying water". You on the other hand seemed damned determine to s*** on them because apparently they're just making you so so mad. Go touch grass buddy.
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I wasn’t pumping Iowa or USC this year. The point in question was the fact that this year’s schedule is unusually easy compared to what Cignetti will likely face there in the future. Iowa is a perennial second tier team in that conference. Flying across two timezones for a game in the Coliseum will be a tough out for these Midwest teams; ask Penn State. USC’s 5 losses are by an average of less than 4 points, and the largest was by 7.

Indiana will play one team that is currently in the top 7 of the Big Ten standings, Ohio State. Meanwhile they have played 5 of the bottom six and will play the team in dead last (Purdue) in two weeks. Meanwhile, their OOC schedule has consisted of 3-7 FIU, 3-8 Western Illinois, and 3-7 Charlotte. You need not be an IU hater to acknowledge that it is a fantastically weak schedule. They could easily be a better team in coming years and have a worse record.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
This…unless his buyout is crazy unreasonable, $8M isn’t that difficult to outbid these days.
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If Cignetti resigns prior to the end of his contract — say, for instance, if he is hired by another school –– he would pay the university the following as liquidated damages:

  • Between Dec. 1, 2023 – Nov. 30, 2024: $8 million
  • Between Dec. 1, 2024 – Nov. 30, 2025: $6 million
  • Between Dec. 1, 2025 – Nov. 30, 2026: $4 million
  • Between Dec. 1, 2026 – Nov. 30, 2027: $2 million
  • Between Dec. 1, 2027 – Nov. 30, 2028: $1 million
  • Between Dec. 1, 2028 – Nov. 30, 2029: $1 million
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Neither his current salary or what he'd owe the school is going to prohibit him from leaving.

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Bonus Tracker: Here's What Indiana Coach Curt Cignetti Has Earned So Far, Plus Future Bonuses To Come

Here are the details on the six-year contract Curt Cignetti signed to become Indiana's football coach.
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brockytop said:
and the commitment they just made to Curt Cignetti and the football program. $8 mil a year for eight years plus $1 mil annual retention bonus.

Guessing folks at IU believe this is their only shot to be a big time program for an extended period.
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Indiana trying to get ahead of the inevitable Cignetti coaching rumors in this hiring cycle.
 
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