Coach, player suspended Recruitment rules violated in Pontiac football program

From: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL | Date: August 29, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

BLOOMINGTON - Pontiac High School football coach Mick Peterson and senior quarterback Isaac Monts were sacked Wednesday by the Illinois High School Association for violating recruiting by-laws.

IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman announced that Peterson is ineligible to coach at any IHSA member school for one year "for exercising undue influence to secure the attendance of Monts at Pontiac High School."

Monts, who transferred to Pontiac from Woodland High School in South Streator, was ruled permanently ineligible to participate in interscholastic activities at Pontiac as a result of his ...

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