Curt Cignetti’s national title-winning staff is getting paid. What we know.
Indiana football's assistant coach salary pool will be more than $10 million in 2026 after all the returning assistants received new deals:
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana athletics has finalized fresh deals for the football team’s on-field staff. The athletic department signed both of IU's coordinators to lucrative new deals in December, but waited until after the season to lock up the rest of Curt Cignetti’s staff. According to memorandums of understanding (MOU) obtained by The Herald-Times, Indiana's assistant salary pool for 2026 will be $10.
4 million with all seven returning on-field coaches getting pay raises. More: Projecting Indiana football's 2026 offensive depth chart Indiana offensive line coach Bob Bostad remained the highest paid member of the staff behind both coordinators with an annual salary of $1. 15 million.
He received a $250,000 pay increase from his previous deal. Rod Ojong, IU’s cornerbacks coach, also received a $250,000 raise for 2026. He will make $800,000 in the first year of his deal and $850,000 in year two.
Three other assistants — defensive tackles coach Pat Kuntz, tight ends and special teams coordinator Grant Cain and running backs coach John Miller — also received six-figure raises. This is the second straight year that Cignetti’s entire staff received new contracts. The football team’s salary pool for the on-field assistants at the start of his tenure was $5.