Curt Cignetti Shatters Another Record, This Time For "Most Expensive Coach's Headset Sold at Auction"

Take that Belichick. Another record shattered by the best hire in college football history the history of the world in any profession ever. Add "most expensive coach's headset sold at auction" to Curt Cignetti's list of accomplishments. That's another $112,500 in NIL for the Indiana Football Hoosiers. That's 3-star wide receiver money. Maybe even 4-star (I'm not sure what the market is these days). Indiana owes a great big thank you to usernames @rawles2002key and @rogowild. On Sunday night, while everybody else was watching the Super Bowl, they were exchanging haymakers on bisondrop.com.

If Indiana is making $112,500 on Cignetti's headset, they're not auctioning off nearly enough game worn Cignetti gear. Curt Cignetti's wardrobe throughout the College Football Playoffs could singlehandedly put together a pretty formidable MAC squad. Indiana could beat Purdue with the money raised by this pair of glasses alone. 

Indiana is such a funny case when it comes to football money. They have the biggest alumni base in the United States. An alumni base who's gone their entire lives without ever having a reason to spend money on football. But in the blink of an eye, that all changed. Unlike Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, etc., who's fans have all spent irresponsible amounts of money on football before, Indiana fans had money saved up. Combine that with a National Championship game in Miami, vs the Miami Hurricanes, and that's how you wind up with a National Championship get-in price that exceeds the Super Bowl.

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If Curt Cignetti plans on sticking around Bloomington for a while, Hoosiers fans might have to get a little more frugal with their spending. Or maybe not. If the 805,000 University of Indiana alumni just keep betting the Hoosiers, they might be printing money for the remainder of his career.