DePaul now 1-7 on the year and about to start BigEast schedule. I think they still have a game with Chicago State coming up. Other than that, they might very well finish with 2 wins this year. I'll give them 3 total with some unexpected miracle win over a BigEast school who is taking a nap.

Chicago St isn't an auto win this year for them.

They're going to end up stealing Valentine from my Ramblers, aren't they?

Really? Isn't Loyola a much better job at this point? What does DePaul have going for it other than the increasingly irrelevant memory of Ray Meyer?

Really? Isn't Loyola a much better job at this point? What does DePaul have going for it other than the increasingly irrelevant memory of Ray Meyer?

money and conference

Valentine will have options after this season. De Paul may not be his best but it's possible he likes the city.

I hope he continues to grow as a coach at Loyola. He has matured quite a bit this season.

Depaul is still a better job than Loyola. Unfortunately you'd never know it by the moves that the ADs happen to make. It's almost as if they don't want to be big time.

money and conference

Valentine will have options after this season. De Paul may not be his best but it's possible he likes the city.

I hope he continues to grow as a coach at Loyola. He has matured quite a bit this season.

I'm guessing he doesn't move until Izzo announces his retirement even if Izzo is going to coach one more year. He may not be the next coach there but the other options to replace Izzo are all struggling.

money and conference

Valentine will have options after this season. De Paul may not be his best but it's possible he likes the city.

I hope he continues to grow as a coach at Loyola. He has matured quite a bit this season.

It's a different Valentine.

How do you like the development of Rubin? I was concerned about his ability on this level after your assessments from the off season. There is still a lot of room to grow but he has been very good on defense from the beginning.

DePaul is maybe half a step better than Loyola at this point. If Valentine is looking to move up and is capable of doing so, he can find some place where he can at least take a full step up.

Jon Scheyer wanted Depaul bad when he was an assistant at Duke and believed that he had it. I doubt that he would even consider Loyola's job if it were available at the time.

You're saying DePaul picked Stubblefield over Scheyer? Wow.

The other context is that he supposedly also was considering UNLV and two months later he magically was named the coach-in-waiting at Duke. It was very likely Scheyer putting pressure on Duke to pay him more and make him contractually the next head coach.

Thanks for the contextual information.

My question is this: If a head coaching candidate had to choose between two roughly equal offers, one from Loyola and the other from DePaul, would he really pick DePaul over Loyola?

Loyola is a better job. DePaul is in a better conference which could lead to getting better players in theory. My guess is DePaul NIL is close to non existent so your not getting better players no matter the conference.

Thanks for the contextual information.

My question is this: If a head coaching candidate had to choose between two roughly equal offers, one from Loyola and the other from DePaul, would he really pick DePaul over Loyola?

Hasn't Ponsetto all but said that DePaul men's basketball just exists to leech off Big East money and fund everything else without being competitive? Even got a publicly funded arena out of it, too.