Curt Cignetti contract, highest paid college coaches, buyout, Indiana football

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana is a football school now . Adjust accordingly.

Of the many things Curt Cignetti ’s new eight-year, $93 million contract signaled when it broke abruptly Thursday afternoon, understand that first. And recognize it as most important.

This place that has been for so long synonymous with basketball — so smitten with the game it learned to love during the cold, dark winter between harvest and planting — is now all in on football at a level there’s really no going back from.