DePaul Basketball: The Most Hopeless Program in America 

I've been a DePaul fan for about 15 years now. The fact we had a team with two current NBA players (Paul Reed and Max Strus) and didn't make the tournament that year shows the lack of leadership this program has.

You forgot to mention the rise of Loyola and Northwestern's programs, which compete with Depaul for fan and recruit's attention.

I wonder if they mistakingly thought Stubblefield's connection to Lou Henson was going to allow him to build a recruiting connection with Chicago. It makes 0 sense because their time together at NMSU was 16 years prior to Depaul hiring him, but their inability to make a good athletics decsion would make it believable.

DePaul SHOULD be a great program.

Its a dam shame what happened to DePaul

Born in 1977 and growing up near Dayton Ohio. The Blue Demons on WGN where my childhood. Loved the mascot and cool uniforms and eventually got old enough to appreciate the team. Terry Cummins, Dallas Comegys, Rod Strickland, Lou Edwards, its sad to see this program like this. Depaul and Dayton back in the 80's and early 90/s had GREAT games.

As a DePaul alum, the university is kinda screwed when it comes to the arena, the area around the main non-downtown campus is a fancy ass rich ass area of Chicago, but the school gentrified the area a lot and they didnt capitalize on buying land when it was cheap. There's like three things they can do to put a decent sized arena on campus 1. Tear down the DePaul welcome center, I visited this building once during orientation and never again for 4 years. It's useless, some perks is that it comes with a parking lot for extra arena space, but its around a large residential area. 2. Tear down Wish Field/Cacciatore Stadium, controversial cause its the field where soccer/softball plays but its the biggest open field on campus. 3. Buy out and reutilize the McCormack Row House District, for some reason between Wish Field and the Music School building there's a random assortment of townhomes within our campus. Personally I don't like these rich people on campus, so buy them out and say adios. Could make a decent sized campus.

Bobby it’s impossible for you to make a bad video my dude. Another 🔥 vid

Here after DePaul went winless in big east play

It’s crazy that they’ve been in the Big East more than Xavier, Butler and Creighton. And those 3 have had success since they’ve joined 2013.

They never recruited Illinois suburbs and paid the price. To think they had the opportunity to bring Illinois basketball royalty and legend with a Duke pedigree and passed?? Every report states Scheyer was bitterly disappointed he didn’t get the job. Did he ever dodge a bullet. Although I am convinced his recruiting would have revived DePaul, I’m sure he’s happy with his $7 million a year as Coach Ks successor. DePaul has had a small minded mentality forever. And this is what they got and deserve for the choices they made.

Prior to DePaul’s ascendancy to national prominence in the late 70’s into the late 80’s, it was a respectable regional program. All under Ray Meyer. Meyer hit the big time with local Chicago kids, Mark Aguirre being most prominent. Ray retired and pretty much forced DePaul to hire his son, Joey. At best an ok coach who lived off prior recruits and the reputation the program built. Never should have been hired. The AD, Lentil Ponsetto is primarily to blame. She took a jewel of a program and made poor coaching hires. Way out of her league. After Joey was fired, she should have brought in someone familiar with the high school programs in the Chicago area. Even under Joey, they relied too often on recruiting outside of Chicago. The new new arena is actually a plus vs. the old Rosemont Horizon. Big East schools like Creighton, Marquette, Xavier - all in smaller Midwest cities, all Catholic, have lots of recent success nationally. Absolutely no reason DePaul, in the major market of Chicago, can’t get solid recruits. Let’s see what the former Ohio St. coach can do; prior to OSU, was at Xavier.

Dang DePaul used to be the cool trendy school to watch on tv what happened??

Thanks I went here for under grad and grad we have been dog crap since day one. I wish we had a football team at this point. More likely we get that than a winning hoops program at this point.

The program has been a disgrace for years, Jean Lenti Ponsetto was probably one of the worst athletic directors ever the only reason she kept her job for so long is her name (family ties) recognition at the university. Having a stadium in the middle of the suburbs didn't help. As a life long DePaul fan and Alum I haven't been to a game in 20 years and have no desire to go with the product they are putting on the floor.

DePaul hasn't been good since the 1980's, and was only great from 1978-1983. Mark Aguirre made them great, Terry Cummings, then they faded. Aguirre now works to recruit players for next year at DePaul.

Yes! My irrelevant school finally has a video on how irrelevant they are.

It doesn’t make any sense. Big city, big basketball conference and a great city of talent to pick from. They shouldn’t be this bad.

It seems to me the success of DePaul was the aberration and failure the norm. I believe their success was tied to WGN. They were the only college basketball team in the country to have many of their games aired nationally on Channel 9. They basically became the Cubs of college basketball. Once WGN was no longer allowed to be a Superstation the lifeblood of the DePaul program was cut.

Good video. The move to south loop has been devastating to the program and fanbase. Was Rosemont better no, but at least more showed up at games. Lots of games now attendance not even reaching 1k. Sadly I think the time they possibly had promise was missed when the Purnell hire was made. In my opinion they would have been better off letting Tom K or David B take over the program. Maybe one day we'll get surprised with a revival of the old days, one could only hope.

They're in the Midwest.........It was not a good move moving to the Big East they are overmatched for the most part...... not saying they can't compete nationally but they would be better off in a smaller Conference like Conference USA so they can win some games and make the dance. It's time for the powers that be to swallow their pride.

I like Coach Stubbs and want the program to succeed but thus far we're not seeing it, though they did have a few good wins last season and lost some close games. Is it a matter of not being able to recruit the right players?

Maybe try this move back into the on campus arena If I'm not mistaken I remember the NIT game against Cincinnati many many years ago was rocking because the Rosemont horizon was booked that night and even though it was a small crowd it was a great atmosphere maybe try to dip and get a couple of juco ( it worked with Kevin Edwards ) that are from Chicago but anything to get to 500 If you get to 500 you'll at least make the NIT and maybe get a home game or two that's what they should shoot for now remember you have to crawl before you can walk ? Regardless maybe once again a packed house can chant " THE THREE POINT PLAY "

Would going to another conference help? Maybe A-10, or the American Athletic Conference?

Dwayne Peavy, the AD, somehow decided that Stubblefield was a better hire than Jon Scheyer, local Illinois basketball hero, Coach K protege and a guy that desperately wanted the job. Peavy should be fired immediately on the basis of that inexcusable decision. fire Stubbs right now. I would go with Bob Huggins at this point.

Everything in this video is on point I don’t know where they turn from here but something has to be done with this program. I’m a DePaul fan but I hate to say that DePaul is a joke and that’s hard to say coming from me because almost my entire family went to DePaul.

Stubblefield got fired today!!!

Spot on.

Rock bottom - 0-20

i’m going to change depaul.

No, Chicago State is the worst. I feel bad for them I Don't know if Chicago State has ever had a good recruiting class or anyone go to the pros.

Uic is worse

Bring relegation to College hoops lol. DePaul GOT to go.

This vid aint it

I remember as an early ninties ( as gen z says, "1900's" 😭) alumnus, the grey Depaul Basketball shirts that read "Blood, Sweat, & Beers". Whats happening now is Thanos. I hope the politics change this season, because that IS the reason. ~ peace Thomas 🙂🥲❤️🕊️🌏✔️

Thoughts? Thanks for flipping off my school for clicks. 🤦‍♂️

Wait so did kenny payne not want to come to depaul or did depaul not want kenny?

Come on now, we better than this Blue Demons

Ima have to disagree, DePaul is a wasteland now but I’m confident we can find an even better coach, and be able to recruit better players moving forward. No reason at all to give up on us now the season isn’t even in full swing yet….

I stand with DePaul.

Love the vids Bobby

Maybe DePaul should stop hiring for diversity, and just hire competent, qualified individuals. Just a thought.

Wow that is interesting. I only decided to look up what's going on with DePaul after Rick Pitino was asked a few days ago if his son Richard would take that job. Ah no you can't have him. He is doing just fine in Lobo land ❤️🤍❤️🤍

good vid bob