Kleinschmidt would like a job on the staff.

Kleinschmidt would like a job on the staff.

Rod has a degree - he earned it in 2013 from Northeastern Illinois. He is an assistant at USF.

The DePaul move would be to hire Kleinschmidt.

DePaul has no facilities, no real student body (commuter school) and a middling academic reputation.

There's really not much to sell to head coaching candidates.

DePaul is going to be irrelevant for at least another decade.

I think there's more on campus housing than ever. It doesn't really mean anything if the games are being played many miles away though.

I doubt DePaul will ever be a power again, but they were at a lower point in the early 70s than they are now and we all know what happened then.

yea, what JORR said. There's lots of students on campus these days. Been like that for 20 years.

The ONLY issue is the arena.

Sorry, but you simply don't know what you're talking about. Over 80% of De Paul students commute.

So again, the problems for DePaul's basketball program are many: no arena, no resident student body, no real workout facilities.

DePaul's total enrollment is somewhere around 19,000 students.

That means there's fewer than 4,000 students living on campus.

Do you consider that a significant resident population? I sure don't.

De Paul is a commuter school that is fine but not special academically (although its weakness in STEM disciplines will continue to hurt it in an era where humanities enrollments are sharply dropping) and has seemingly insurmountable facilities problems. There's just not much to sell there--to prospective students or coaches.

I would think at least a Illinois school can get the 5th best player off of Simeon...

That's wrong. It's near 30,000 students.

http://collegestats.org/colleges/catholic/largest/

All it takes is a good coach and one primo recruit. With the depth of local talent there is no reason DePaul can't consistently be one of the best 64 teams in D-1. Xavier-like is a very realistic goal and it can be done fast.

Why would a primo recruit want to come to DePaul?

Well, apparently we're both wrong. According to DePaul, the university's total enrollment is 23,799.

http://offices.depaul.edu/emm/facts-and-figures/Pages/university-enrollment.aspx

So there's fewer than 4,800 students living on campus.

That's not so good, especially if you're competing against high-profile state and private institutions for recruits. DePaul is a commuter school with OK academics and a major facilities problem. The university can't even sell its basketball tradition anymore because the only people who remember the program's halcyon days are middle-aged or older.