Oliver Purnell to DePaul

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Oliver Purnell is a bit of a college basketball transient. Now that he's headed to Chicago to take over DePaul he'll have held five different college basketball coaching jobs. He is certainly someone who has won during the regular season, if not in the NCAA Tournament, and he should be up for the rebuilding job he'll have to do at DePaul. The fact that he's leaving the ACC for the Big East, and that he's leaving a school that's currently in the upper echelon of the ACC in basketball, suggests to me that he really wanted out. Or that DePaul's dollars were just too much to pass up.
Everyone is putting up their take on the news. Andy Katz has a quote where Purnell says that, "DePaul presents a great opportunity." What Purnell might be referencing is the contract which is said to be around 7 years, $15 million. That's a big pay raise from the $1.6 million he was making at Clemson.