Eric Simpson  Eric Simpson is an American women's basketball coach who most recently served as the head coach at Loyola University Chicago from 2009 until resigning at the end of the 2012–13 season. He previously served as a women's assistant coach and Director of Men's Basketball Operations at Loyola and was an assistant coach on the high school level at Loyola Academy from 1994 to 1996 and his alma mater, St. Ignatius, from 1999 to 2001. Simpson was also the athletic director and head boys basketball coach at Marquette Catholic High School in Michigan City, Indiana from 2001 to 2005. Simpson played NCAA Division I men's basketball on the college level for the Big Ten's Northwestern Wildcats. After graduating with a B.A. in history in 1994, Simpson began a ten-year stint coaching at the high school level before joining the Loyola staff as the Director of Basketball Operations for the men's team.