DePaul Basketball: 5 candidates to replace Dave Leitao as head coach

Porter Moser

Every job has a home run hire; the name you immediately think and dream about when a job opens up. More times than not, the home run hire politely declines and the school goes in another direction. For what he’s accomplished these last few seasons, and for how he matches up with so much of the criteria, it’s clear that Moser would be a home run hire for the Blue Demons.

Moser was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago before playing his college ball at Creighton. He’s bounced around throughout his coaching career, with head coaching jobs at Little Rock and Illinois State and assistant jobs at Texas A&M and Saint Louis, among others. His best work has come in these last ten years at Loyola-Chicago, inheriting a doormat in the Horizon League and transforming them into the MVC’s best program, and a Final Four team in 2018.

With what he’s accomplished and built at Loyola, why would Moser leave the Ramblers just to take a job just a few miles south, with a program that’s struggled for over a generation? He arrived at Loyola, no doubt bent to prove himself, and his turnaround with the Ramblers has been impressive enough. If Moser isn’t inclined to spend the rest of his coaching career at Loyola, then it’ll probably take a much bigger job to lure him away.