Fri 12/6 BE Game Thread (1 Game)

[TheHall]

Looks like no Brandon Young tonight. It'll be up to the reigning BE ROW.

[TheHall]

Depaul trails 12-5 with under 13 to go. They should be down by a lot more.

[TheHall]

Nice run Depaul down 17-16 at the under 8. McDonald dude bringing the energy.

[TheHall]

Minor miracle DePaul is only down 28-25 at the half. Ther are 20 NBA scouts at the game and Melvin is playing like he doesn't know that. BG Jr is playing like he does know. If he can hit learn to hit that 3 he'll be a pro after his sophomore year.

[Omaha1]

DePaul down 28-25 at half.

[HoosierPal]

That was a hard game to watch. The atmosphere was terrible. ASU basically shot layups all second half. Unless the Blue Devils learn to play defense, this will be another long season. I had to turn it off at the top of the hour.

But the good news was that Ken Pom was right. He said DePaul would either win or loose.

[ivet]

That was a hard game to watch. The atmosphere was terrible. ASU basically shot layups all second half. Unless the Blue Devils learn to play defense, this will be another long season. I had to turn it off at the top of the hour.

The Blue Devils play excellent Defense. The Blue Demons...not so much.

[Lavinwood]

Sorry but DePaul is not a major conference team. They should be in the MAAC. The only reason they are here is to be the bad team that everyone beats up on. Obviously I know there has to be some basement dweller, but my god DePaul has been terrible for so long.

[HoosierPal]

That was a hard game to watch. The atmosphere was terrible. ASU basically shot layups all second half. Unless the Blue Devils learn to play defense, this will be another long season. I had to turn it off at the top of the hour.

The Blue Devils play excellent Defense. The Blue Demons...not so much.

Ha, got me! Good one.

[Demon22]

No Brandon Young, no chance.

Too bad. DePaul had actually beaten Arizona State in each of the past two seasons. Young plays, it's at least interesting.

Sorry but DePaul is not a major conference team. They should be in the MAAC. The only reason they are here is to be the bad team that everyone beats up on.

OK, I'll bite.

Why should DePaul be in the MAAC? Because they're not good? Did the SEC ever consider kicking Vanderbilt out because their football team was awful?

The fact is that DePaul is the largest school in the conference, and they're located in the 2nd-largest media market in the conference. They were on the road to respectability when Dave Leitao left for Virginia, and they happened to follow his departure up with two abysmal coaching hires... at least one of whom SHOULD have worked out. They've also suffered an unbelievable amount of bad luck. Admittedly, some of it they had some control over, but if Ronnie Fields doesn't get in a car accident in the spring of 1997, or if Pat Kennedy doesn't tell Dwayne Wade that he's not good enough, or if Dorrell Wright doesn't shock just about everyone and declare for the draft after signing his LOI in 2004, or if Dave Leitao hadn't weaseled his way out of his contract to go to Virginia, or if they returned Mark Gottfried's (numerous) phone calls after Jerry Wainwright was fired, or if Shane Larkin doesn't head back to South Florida three weeks after stepping on campus, or they don't finish 2nd to Kentucky for Anthony Davis...

Any of those things happen, and DePaul could be in a very different place today. That's our story the past 15 years. Granted, there's been a lot of ineptitude, but there's been more than our share of bad breaks.

But you know what? Step on us while we're down. Because after Purnell gets fired at the end of this season, someone is going to look at that job with a possible $2 million salary, a decent TV deal, a new arena, and the best recruiting pool in the entire country and say to himself, "Yup, I can win there."