DePaul tries to recruit Chicago, Illinois tries to recruit Chicago, Marquette tries, Notre Dame tries, the national blue bloods like Duke and UNC try.. it's a lot easier said than done to "build a fence around Chicago" if you're a MAC team
I think people wish we splurged and kept Dambrot. Seeing that Oats made the tourney 4 of the past 5 years and won a tournament game and got a 6 seed this year.. all netted him a raise to 850k, I don't think paying KD more than that to stick around would have been worth it. So here we are