Curt Cignetti Jokes About Most of Indiana's Money Going to Darian DeVries' Roster

When Darian DeVries took over the head coaching job at West Virginia a year ago, he had to rebuild the entire roster, except for Ofri Naveh, who redshirted and did not appear in a single game.

Rebuilding a large portion of your roster is nothing new in today's world of college athletics, but you have to have money to land quality recruits. Despite a strong first season at West Virginia and very obvious support from WVU's administration to increase the basketball team's spending budget, DeVries felt like he still didn't have enough to compete nationally, so he bolted for Indiana.

Being that Indiana is a basketball blueblood and hasn't been very serious in football with the exception of last year, DeVries will likely get whatever he wants to build his roster. Unfortunately, that means Curt Cignetti will have a difficult time sustaining success with the football program.

In a recent interview with the media, Cignetti joked about most of Indiana's money going to DeVries' roster.

“I’d like to have signed a few more, but when we hired Darian and he lost his whole roster, money got a little tight because he had to put a team together, and I felt the pinch.”