Everywhere you look in college football, there is another high-profile coach or assistant rumored to be leaving.
Is Kenny Dillingham going to Michigan? What about Kalen DeBoer? If DeBoer goes to Michigan, does that open the door for Dan Lanning to leave Oregon for Alabama? Then does the offensive coordinator here go there, and then he goes there, and so on and so forth.
The No. 1 team in the nation, the Indiana Hoosiers, does not have this problem.
Head coach Curt Cignetti, who turned the losingest school in college football history into the top team in the country, had those rumors around him before Indiana signed him to a deal until 2033 that will pay him approximately $11.6 million per season.
The next man up would be defensive coordinator Bryant Haines, who has transformed the Indiana defense into one of the toughest in the country. Haines’ defense was the main reason the Hoosiers entered the College Football Playoff as the overall top seed, as it stymied what was considered a possibly generational offense from the defending champions, Ohio State.
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A week before the tournament begins and two before Indiana begins its journey for a national title in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl, the Hoosiers shut down any sort of conversations about where Haines will be going. He will continue his partnership with Cignetti, becoming one of the highest-paid assistants in the country as Indiana looks to build for success in the present and future.
Per CBS Sports, Haines has agreed to continue his tenure at Indiana even though he had the potential to be a head coach elsewhere.
The AFCA FBS assistant coach of the year, Haines, and the undefeated Hoosiers can sit back and watch as the rest of the coaching carousel around the nation continues to turn, knowing Bloomington is well protected.
