LYCOS RETRIEVER
Kenny Troutt
built 658 days ago
Later, Mr. Troutt decided not to build on the property. And last spring, he agreed to sell the acreage, listed at $28 million, to the Ross Perot family's Hillwood Residential. Allie Beth Allman and Sherwood Blount helped negotiate the sale.
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Troutt's heart may be in the right place, but he obviously doesn't see that treating little boys like they're LeBron James and Dwyane Wade can drastically skew their value system. Good luck to the high school coach who has to deal with these kids after they've been pampered like kings throughout their childhood on the basis of their basketball ability.
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Coaches and players aren't the only ones benefiting from the arena renovations as part of the Troutt-Wittmann Center's construction. SIU's media services department is getting brand new offices as part of the deal. So as Antoine and colleague Jeff Honza's former office space gets renovated, the two have moved up to the attic, along with golf coach Leroy Newton since November.
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Troutt: "It's a little bit about our philosophy. When you look at any industry, if you do what other people do, you will get what other people get. The only way that you're going to improve is to step out of the box. And you can step out of the box in a lot of ways: in your philosophies of how to raise horses and how to do different things.
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