https://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=33461901
And that's just the times his first and last name were mentioned together as the search term. Doesn't account for anytime just his first or last name would have been used.
Plus 2 articles (and likely more out there — that was just from a Google search). Plus one of those posts was a radio segment from KSL.
His name was out there.