Biggest Recruiting Mistake

#101      
Guyton was a Central guy. Most of our Peoria guys came from Manual. Livingston, also.

But still, it's in Illinois, closer to Champaign than Bloomington, and we had a decent product at the time. Just curious if we were in the discussion for him or not.
 
#102      

Peoria Illini

Peoria, IL
But still, it's in Illinois, closer to Champaign than Bloomington, and we had a decent product at the time. Just curious if we were in the discussion for him or not.

Not sure how much we were in the discussion for him, but I seem to remember he was pretty tight with Chris Reynolds from Central who was at IU a few years before him. I think that had a lot to do with it.
 
#105      
Richwoods: Mark Smith, Derek Holcomb, Doug Altenberger, Jamar Smith

Peoria High / Central: Tony Wysinger, Jerrance Howard, D.J. Richardson

Notre Dame: Brian Randle

Canton: Dave Downey

Morton: Kevin Bontemps

Pekin: Freddie Miller
Don Deputy
 
#106      

NJILLINI

Castle Pines, Colorado

Pekin: Freddie Miller
Don Deputy

I think Kevin Westervelt was from Peoria Richwoods, too, and about the same time as Mark Smith and Derek Holcomb. Last I knew, both he and Kevin Bontemps were executives in Steve Lanter's trucking and delivery company near St. Louis.

I forgot about Donn Deputy. And, yes, as I recall he spelled his first name with a double-n. :)
 
#107      

Peoria Illini

Peoria, IL
I think Kevin Westervelt was from Peoria Richwoods, too, and about the same time as Mark Smith and Derek Holcomb. Last I knew, both he and Kevin Bontemps were executives in Steve Lanter's trucking and delivery company near St. Louis.

I forgot about Donn Deputy. And, yes, as I recall he spelled his first name with a double-n. :)

Yep, Westervelt was from Richwoods. His younger sister also went to UofI. I rode home a couple of times from UofI with her before I had a car down there.
 
#108      
Forgot about a lot of those guys. Matter of fact, I’v forgotten most of the 70’s.