 wants to build a winning culture, but he also wants everyone to dream big dreams with him.
Even if Peevy, 47, was not directly calling out anyone, he was sending an indirect message to everyone in the athletic department that some things need to change in order to win.
In terms of the men’s basketball program, Peevy does not want to make a coaching change right now. Instead, he wants to help head coach Dave Leitao bring recruits to Lincoln Park and make DePaul a constant presence in the NCAA Tournament.
It’s important to point out that Leitao is 64-98 in his last five seasons as DePaul’s coach, including four straight last-place finishes in the Big East. Leitao also signed a four-year contract extension back in April.
Peevy, on the other hand, is coming over from a university whose men’s basketball program was competing for national titles. Kentucky, led by head coach John Calipari, has won the Southeastern Conference nine times since 2009 and won the NCAA Tournament title in 2012.
Even if Peevy won’t admit it publicly, there’s currently a major gap between the Blue Demons and the Wildcats. DePaul’s last NCAA Tournament appearance came in 2004, a long time waiting for a program that made the tournament 14 times in 17 years from 1976-92.
How long will Peevy stay patient with Leitao if results don’t turn around?
This is a question that will be answered in the coming months, but an important question that Peevy will need to answer early in his tenure.
Peevy wants the NCAA Tournament not to be the ceiling, but the floor of where the program eventually gets to. But DePaul fans have waited over a decade for the Blue Demons to get back to that point, with patience thrown out of the window along with Lenti Ponsetto.
Peevy talked about taking the baton from Lenti Ponsetto and bringing it to the finish line.
He shouldn’t. He needs to change how the athletic department has been operating for nearly the past two decades, or else he runs the risk of not achieving his dreams.
Peevy saw what happened when Kentucky went from Billy Gillispie to Calipari — it was a complete change of fortune for the Wildcats. At DePaul, he needs to be ready to make similar changes if the men’s basketball program continues to underachieve.
Peevy also spoke about the women’s basketball program and head coach Doug Bruno. The question for the women’s basketball team isn’t about getting to the NCAA Tournament, it’s how to take them from the Sweet Sixteen to the Final Four.
A head coaching change is definitely not needed with the women’s team, but it’s fair for Peevy to want to alter some things to reach the Final Four. DePaul has made the NCAA Tournament 18 straight years, but have yet to make one Elite Eight.
Change is sometimes a necessity if the past regime was unable to achieve positive results. Peevy dropped subtle hints of making changes, but it will be his decisions that will speak louder than his words.
In order to make change, sometimes you have to be ruthless. And DePaul could use some of that to go to the next level in all of its sports.
It’s on Peevy now to prove how ruthless he is and wants to be.
With the recruits and transfers coming for the 2021-22 season, you have to let that play out. If DePaul is still in or near last place after those guys have had a year to play together, by all means hire a new coach. That said, I expect DePaul to have another rough season this year and finish anywhere from 7th to 11th place.
This made me a little curious what other game trailers might’ve hit. Curious enough to hit up Google at least. Although this was a pursuit quickly abandoned when it started telling me that some mobile games had higher view counts than other actual games!
Anyway, I started a new tack of random searches on YouTube as game names came to mind that might’ve pulled big numbers. At first I imagined I’d only take the ‘official source’ — but it quickly became clear that quite frequently other outlets pulled bigger numbers than the official sources. This is something I had sort of observed before, but this pulled it into focus.
Anywho — instead, and in the name of practicality — I just had a look at the single biggest view count for a given game’s trailer. Typically the first result (which was handy) and took that. I didn’t try to combine sources of the same trailer. But I did look across the different trailers for a game if I happened to be aware of them to find the most popular.
Before discarding the awful Google Search Result which showed mobile games topping out the pack and destroying my fragile world view, I did note a few big titles in there to take a look at now.
Grand Theft Auto V trailer for example? 60 million views. And that sucker has been up for 8 years.
The Witcher 3 – Killing Monsters trailer (the single most popular for the game) ‘only’ pulled about 10.7 million views over 6 years.
Hmm… Team Fortress 2? We waited for that sucker near on a decade. And it had a fair few official machinima and trailers behind it. ‘Meet the Medic’ achieved almost 57 million. But that’s also after a long time.
So clearly other games can, and have, hit over 53 million views. I wonder though if any other has managed it in under a year?
Because Hytale did. Alright, if we’re splitting hairs — it’s basically a year. The trailer released December 13th 2018 so we’re only days away. But somehow, I still had no idea of this games existence until now.
How it so completely slipped under my radar I’m not entirely sure! But wow! Just… Just look at it!
Minecraft 2.0 — now with more Zelda!
The Hytale developers recently posted an update admitting just how intimidating the degree of attention and fame garnered just from the trailer so far has been.
The attention has driven them to reinforce their feeling of needing to only show things ‘launch ready’ from herein out. They mention some aspects of Hytale being there — or close — while others are still very early and rough, or needing a revamp.
Frankly, I’m still just amazed at how I didn’t know Hytale was a thing. Still a far away thing, it seems. But a rather good looking thing nonetheless. Some have been calling it a Minecraft killer (heh, ‘x killer’ now there’s a blast from the past. How many ‘WoW killers’ did we cycle through?) but I think there is room in this world for both to exist.
While no doubt still sandboxy, it seems Hytale is going to focus a lot more on the adventure aspects — perhaps a Minecraft-Terraria cross? Colour me super excited.
…Hmmm. Minecraft trailer? Lordy. 144 million views.
I guess we are all in some sorts of bubbles. While you didn’t know about Hytale, I kind of have been following it for quite some time, especially since its creator, Hypixel (aka Simon), made a ton of different Minecraft-Adventure-Maps that are really awesome and since the Hypixel-Server has been a great success for quite some time. Tbh, I haven’t played Minecraft in ages and I’m not that excited about Hytale since it’s looking like a mix of Trove and Minecraft (Minecraft-aesthetics + the concept of Trove or Cube World or whatever) but I guess I’ll still follow it here and there whenever there’s something new about it – since it’s probably the most successful “Minecraft-Clone” that will come out any time soon and that’s gonna be interesting.
It is indeed interesting the bubbles we do and don’t end up part of, and the perception shifts that can rather suddenly occur when one pops for whatever reason.
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