DePaul's (as well as U of Illinois) main problem is that they can't get the good Chicago players to stay home. The city is too violent and the really good players get the hell out of here.
Regarding the NBE, we need to be in the league. It would help recruiting, it gets us with like institutions, we have better facilities than all of them, etc. But the main reason we need to get in is so we can pick up quality wins once the conference season starts. We have 1 - 3 opportunities during the conference games but in the NBE we would have 8 - 10. This in itself is worth leaving for the NBE unless schools in the A10 start stepping up their game.
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