“I get cynical,” he said. “We live in a world where — it’s not just DePaul, it’s everywhere — you win a game, you conquered the world. Everyone subliminally or otherwise looks at it that way, treats it that way and they talk to our players that way. That’s all we did was win two in a row. We lose (and) a lot of people say this program is nowhere near where it needs to be. You can’t live like that.”