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Indiana Hoosiers

Curt Cignetti

Current head coach

The numbers

Total pay

$8.30M

$8,300,000

USA TODAY salary database, FY2025

School pay

$8.30M

$8,300,000

USA TODAY salary database, FY2025

Max bonus

$3.30M

$3,300,000

USA TODAY salary database, FY2025

Buyout

$56.70M

$56,700,000

USA TODAY salary database, FY2025

These are school-reported contract terms, not realized compensation, and the buyout is a contractual maximum rather than money paid. Source ↗

The fine print

Aircraft

Reported at 75 hours of private jet travel a year, added in his revised 2024 deal.

his revised deal signed last year... includes 75 hours of private jet travel per year

Reported by media; primary document not held. This figure has not been read off a contract we hold.

Every clause here is quoted from the document it cites. A clause that cannot be re-checked against the scan is not published.

The flights

Contract grants 75 personal flight hours a year (reported) → Published reporting on Indiana Hoosiers aircraft during this tenure:

Indiana Hoosiers Team Charter Matched a Football Travel WindowSep 27, 2025 · N38417
read the report →
Indiana Paid $8,512 for President Whitten's South Bend Campus VisitMar 27, 2024 · N188HA
read the report →
Indiana Paid $13,555 for Chairman Buckner's New Orleans CharterMar 1, 2024 · N47HA
read the report →

A jet clause is eligibility; a tracked flight is evidence; the join is presented as contract-next-to-reporting, never as proof the coach was aboard.

How this page is sourced

Where a contract for this coach is in the corpus, the headline figures are read off that document at the page each card cites, and USA TODAY's figure runs alongside as a cross-check. Where no contract is held, the figures are school-reported contract terms from USA TODAY's coaches salary database for the most recent fiscal year on file. Neither is W-2 compensation, and neither is comparable to Form 990 totals for private schools.

Clause text is transcribed verbatim from the cited document at the cited page. Where a term is attributed to published reporting rather than a document we hold, the card says so explicitly.

Flight reports linked here are attributed to the program and the date, not to a passenger. Nothing on this page claims a coach exercised a clause or was aboard an aircraft.