Indiana football coordinator Mike Shanahan agrees to new 3-year deal
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BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan has agreed to a new three-year deal with the school, per a source familiar with the situation.
The financial terms of the contract were not immediately available, but the athletic director Scott Dolson and coach Curt Cignetti have moved aggressively to lock both coordinators in the wake of the program earning the top seed in the College Football Playoff and its first Big Ten title since 1967.
Defensive coordinator Bryant Haines just received a three-year deal that will make him the school’s first $3 million assistant coach.
Shanahan, who received a raise last year that increased his annual salary to $1.15 million for this past season, has been working with coach Curt Cignetti since joining his staff at IUP as a receivers coach. He took over as offensive coordinator and assumed play calling duties for Cignetti in 2021.
The Hoosiers ranked in the top 10 in scoring offense (41.9 points per game) for a second straight season and go into the Rose Bowl averaging 472.8 yards per game (No. 8 in the FBS). Quarterback Fernando Mendoza swept the national offensive player of the year awards and was program’s first ever Heisman Trophy winner.
Shanahan was part of a large contingent of IU coaches and players who traveled to New York to support Mendoza. He attended the ceremony alongside Cignetti and quarterbacks coach Chandler Whitmer.
Cignetti has applauded Shanahan’s play-calling efforts throughout the season and his ability to bring the offensive coaching staff together to help build an effective game plan.
“Mike’s demeanor is such, he’s such a likable guy,” Cignetti said. “He doesn’t really have an ego. He does a great job coaching receivers. Has done a great job as coordinator.”
He’s been the architect of one of the most dangerous receiving corps in the Big Ten as well as the group’s position coach. Elijah Sarratt and Omar Cooper Jr. earned second team All-Big Ten honors from the media and coaches this season after finishing among the top 12 receivers in the conference in receptions, yards and touchdowns.
Sarratt led the league with 12 touchdowns and Cooper was tied for second with 11.
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.
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