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Indiana Hoosiers (your shinebox, go f'n get it)

$9 mil a year at IU with long-term job security is better than $12 mil and being on the hot seat after 1 or 2 disappointing years
Oh I agree fully with you. But let's not act like coaches haven't bet on themself to chase bags before. I can think of Fickell at the top of my head. He made $5mil/yr at UC and left to make $7mil/yr at Wiscy
 
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Cignetti is a narcissist. Yeah, he can go to Florida and maybe make $3 mill more, but he's also 65 years old in less than a year. He'll want that house near a beach in Florida, which won't be to cool if you take it and fail to turn that around and lose the job. Florida is full of windbags from the Midwest and he can flaunt around every winter with them, celebrating his storied career. Having people tell him he's wonderful is far more important to him than money. His narcissistic side wants legacy. A stadium named after him. Recognition and fawning over him in supermarkets. The Bear Bryant of central Indiana. Think otherwise? Google him! :)
 
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Cignetti is a narcissist. Yeah, he can go to Florida and maybe make $3 mill more, but he's also 65 years old in less than a year. He'll want that house near a beach in Florida, which won't be to cool if you take it and fail to turn that around and lose the job. Florida is full of windbags from the Midwest and he can flaunt around every winter with them, celebrating his storied career. Having people tell him he's wonderful is far more important to him than money. His narcissistic side wants legacy. A stadium named after him. Recognition and fawning over him in supermarkets. The Bear Bryant of central Indiana. Think otherwise? Google him! :)
I think it will depend on what he thinks the ceiling at IU is. If he actually thinks he can win a natty there, I think he’ll stay. If not, he’ll leave. Let’s see how close he gets this year. If he ever does actually win a natty at IU, no amount of ego is unjustified.
 
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Carmel is nice as hell.

Carmel isn’t Bloomington.

Not by the longest of shots
 
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Cignetti is a narcissist. Yeah, he can go to Florida and maybe make $3 mill more, but he's also 65 years old in less than a year. He'll want that house near a beach in Florida, which won't be to cool if you take it and fail to turn that around and lose the job. Florida is full of windbags from the Midwest and he can flaunt around every winter with them, celebrating his storied career. Having people tell him he's wonderful is far more important to him than money. His narcissistic side wants legacy. A stadium named after him. Recognition and fawning over him in supermarkets. The Bear Bryant of central Indiana. Think otherwise? Google him! :)
Envy.
 
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Armed with Mark Cuban donations and Curt Cignetti's brash approach, Indiana sets up for sustained success

The Hoosiers have strategically planned to ensure this program is more than just a blip on the radar​

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Mark Cuban enters the financial chat

Indiana football isn't one billionaire's plaything; it's an example of how the rev share era unlocks different ways for a properly-aligned and properly-coached institution, no matter their history, to become a reliable playoff contender.

However, having a billionaire around sure helps, and Indiana does in 1981 graduate Mark Cuban. Cuban has donated to his alma mater before, whether it's the $5 million gift to create a sports media and technology center or $6 million to IU's club rugby team.

But he had never donated directly to IU athletics until that Friday night in South Bend last December.

"I gave some to sports this year for the first time ever," Cuban told CBS Sports. "Typically, I was the exact opposite. I'm not a fan of anything that I believe raises tuition in the least bit. But after getting to talk to Cig and seeing what was going on, they kinda talked me into it.

Cuban declined to say how much he donated, but did say it was "a big number," and he didn't specify where the donation should go within the athletic department. Cuban has a close relationship with athletic director Scott Dolson, as he did Dolson's predecessor Fred Glass, but it was the kinship with Cignetti that pushed him to give. They originally met at a fundraiser for the singer John Mellencamp. There, they figured out both were born in the same Pittsburgh area hospital and are only three years apart in age.
 
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