The rumors on the EIU and WV boards is the Devries and his entire family are life long EIU fans and his wife is not real happy in Morgantown. She misses her friends and family back in Iowa. Sounds like EIU is his dream job and will make his wife happy by moving back if its offered. Creighton is the better job, but there is no guarantee that Coach Mac is leaving anytime soon. If it opens down the road, DeVries could still take the EIU job for next year and then look at that job when it comes open.
Unless EIU goes winless and Mad Fran pulls a Prohm here, I would suspect that EIU will give him more season to right the ship and see if DeVries is the guy they want. It lowers the buyout by $1.4 million and also the payout to WV for DeVries that they will have to pay. Now if Freeman and Dix say they are out after the end of the season, that could change everything, but Fran is still recruiting like he is coming back next season, if he was finished, I doubt he would be spending all his time and energy recruiting kids to play for the next guy.