This week, Indiana University decided to make its football coach the third-highest paid coach in the country.

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Indiana University decided to make its football coach the third-highest paid coach in the country?

Yes. You read that right.

On Thursday, the school announced that Curt Cignetti agreed to terms on a new eight-year contract that keeps him in Bloomington through the 2033 season. Cignetti will make an average of $11.6 million per year, which would rank third nationally, behind Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Ohio State’s Ryan Day, in 2025. The new contract marks a massive commitment to both Cignetti and the sport from a school best known for its basketball bona fides — and it comes less than a week after Penn State fired James Franklin , creating a potentially in

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