DeWayne Peevy had never seen Chicago in the summertime before his early-August visit to interview for the job of athletic director at DePaul. Even in the clutches of a pandemic, the city worked its magic. The lake shone blue. The skyline sparkled. The neighborhood streets radiated vibrancy.
“From the first time I walked through Lincoln Park with my family,” said Peevy, who begins his new gig September 1, “we knew this was the place for us.”
But Peevy, 47, has never experienced DePaul men’s basketball in the wintertime, either, and that’s a whole different picture. It has been as bleak and foreboding as nine last-place finishes in the last 11 Big East seasons — and no NCAA Tournament appearances since 2004 — sounds.