Former Naperville Central, Wheaton College coach J.R. Bishop is remembered as 'ahead of his time'
"He had a phrase, and everybody that knows him will know this phrase, and that is: 'You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right,'" Peltz said.
"He was a godly man," said Peltz, Bishop's first coaching hire when he took over at Wheaton College."He loved his church, he loved Jesus, and he loved football. And he felt that football really parallels with life and all you have to do in working hard and working with people and getting a team together and just the struggles of football. Every game has its ups and downs, and you have to work through that as a team.
"He was very highly regarded among high school football coaches," said Andy Nussbaum, who coached with Bishop at Naperville Central and whose four brothers played for Bishop at Wheaton College."But I think even more he was just a tremendous individual. He was warm. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Bishop took over the Wheaton College football program in 1982 and turned the program around. Wheaton, then known as the Crusaders, went 84-43-1 under Bishop. He retired as head coach in 1995 but remained on the staff as an assistant coach through the 2005 season, trading jobs with Mike Swider."He was a master of the passing offense," Peltz said."Especially in Division III, he was ahead of his time when it came to the hot read.
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