Henricksen very tapped into the local hoops scene, so definitely not nothing, though kind of out of left field.

Very out of left field. He could be a great coach, I have no idea. But you have to think this would feel like an underwhelming hire to Depaul fans. That’s a shame.

Just doing a little digging after intially posting. Never been a head coach (interim for a short period an New Mexico State due to head coach's illness), currently has the Associate Head Coach title at Oregon. Previous stops include Cincinnati, New Mexico State, UT Arlington, and Nebraska Omaha.

Bio on Oregon's website touts him as being a high level recruiter. Ranked as a Top 5 Assistant in the PAC12 in Stadium's rankings from last year. Quote from that below.

Lock it in DePaul, sounds like a great hire!

I guess the question for Depaul is: he’s a good recruiter, but is he a good recruiter in Chicago and the Midwest? For as long as he’s been around, I would think he has enough connections, but who knows.

In any event, as others are wont to say: Congrats to “Not Porter Moser”

FWIW, Valentine had an Instagram post today and the quote I found most interesting was:

“Sustained success is a testament to the culture that we have built and will continue to build here”

As long as we're talking about Coachpoaching™, we probably also need to start talking about the assistants.

We sometimes talk about Valentine like he'd stay behind if Moser goes, just waiting around to find out if we'd give him a chance to run the show. That's pretty absurd... He's got a resume that's robust enough at this point where he would be considered for a lot of mid-major and small major head coaching gigs. He could be a logical replacement right now for 65-year old Greg Kampe at Oakland, his alma mater. Oakland hasn't finished higher than third in the Horizon League since Valentine left for Loyola, and they've been under .500 overall for three straight years. Maybe it's a good time to elevate Valentine to Associate Head Coach?

Kimbrough has a lot of experience before Loyola, and not much of a connection to Chicago. I could see him going to a high major or P5 as a second assistant making 40% more than he'd make here.

And Matt Gordon has a resume and a function that would be high-value for a Big East type program.... His personality isn't forceful and brash enough to be a head coach, but he could definitely cash in on his skill set at a flush program whenever he wanted.

National pundits starting to pick it up.

This makes so much sense. They were going after someone with Nike ties, in with world wide Wes, and is a national recruiter. It seems they want to make a basketball factory like Kentucky. They are building a new basketball only practice facility on campus.

As far as us goes I think we have a better coach and culture. I think they really want to go big game hunting. Will be curious how this turns out. This approach wouldn’t work at a small school like us. I don’t know if DePaul has what it takes to be a university like that

Deal allegedly done. Several national writers tweeted in the last few minutes.