Why did the best players in the Public League--one of the richest high school basketball recruiting areas in the country--stop going to DePaul?
The easiest answer is Teddy Grubbs. He's the high school All-American out of King who suffered from personal and psychological problems after his freshman year (1979-80), and eventually dropped out of DePaul
After that, King's Landon Cox and several other coaches vowed to never again send their top players to DePaul.
"Efrem Winters (who played at Illinois) was in my house when he told Joey he wasn't going to DePaul because of what they did to Teddy," Cox said. "Ray Meyer made a personal visit for Jamie Brandon, but Jamie wanted to go to Illinois. Marcus Liberty, he just didn't like Joey. And Rashard, he didn't want to stay in Chicago."
According to former DePaul assistant coach Robert Collins, a onetime Public League coach, the school was unfairly blamed for Grubbs' problems.
Source: Chicago Tribune