DePaul, it’s not 1983 anymore

Wow, DePaul’s search for a basketball coach has gone so far off the rails that I half expect Tommy Lee Jones and his crew of marshalls to show up and investigate the wreckage. This thing has been going on since January (yes, it’s been that long since Jerry Wainwright got shitcanned) and it’s a day before April, yet DePaul and its faithful still pine for coaches who won’t even acknowledge the school’s existence.   This opinion piece in the Chicago Sun-Times says DePaul should shoot for Bruce Pearl:

Pearl is a strong recruiter who can give DePaul the credibility it needs to reestablish itself in the Public League — the source of its golden era under Ray Meyer.

Yup, you read that correctly, the name of Ray Meyer is being invoked….it’s been that long since this program mattered.  Here are other names from DePaul’s list of dream coaching candidates:

• Phil Jackson
• John Calipari
• A reanimated Red Auerbach
• Mike Ditka
• Gene Hackman perpetually playing his Norman Dale character from “Hoosiers”
• Dean Smith after a swim in the Fountain of Youth

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