UGA Asst RB Coach David Hill is accepting the Colorado St RB coach job a source has confirmed to @DawgsCentral_ (first reported by @mzenitz)
A native of Las Vegas and an alum of Desert Pines High, Hill has one of the best stories in college football.
@GrahamCoffeyDC wrote about Hill in-depth in 2023 in the article linked below…
Overlooked by FBS programs, Hill spent two seasons at Pierce Community College in Los Angeles.
California JUCO programs don’t offer scholarships, so Hill worked part-time jobs at Sears and the campus bookstore to scrape together enough money for tuition and living expenses. He shared a 800 square-foot two-bedroom apartment with 8 teammates to keep his football dreams alive. After finishing his last year of JUCO with little FBS interest, he spliced together his own highlight tape and started calling schools. Eventually Arizona gave him a football home, and he spent two seasons playing Fullback from 2011-2012.
He returned to Desert Pines after college to coach football and teach in a school-to-career program called Jobs for America’s Graduates. Hill taught his students life skills like shopping for groceries and how to prepare for a job interview. In a 2022 interview with the Las Vegas Sun, Hill said that he told his students to “never stop pursuing your goals and dreams. Mine is to be a college football coach, and it’s only a matter of time until I get there.”
Hill was born to a 14 year-old mother and his father was shot and killed when he was just a baby. Hill wanted to help other athletes and started helping recruits at Desert Pines build their profiles. He started arranging trips to D1 programs in the region for the players at the school.
The Desert Pines program continued to grow, and won two state championships with Hill on staff. With more wins on the field, Desert Pines began to get more interest from college coaches looking for recruits to fill out their rosters. Hill’s trips started happening to football powers like Alabama and Oklahoma. Hill also reached out to other schools in Las Vegas to help bring their players into the recruiting spotlight.
Along the way, Hill helped players land scholarship offers at FBS powers and developed a network of relationships across the college football landscape. Washington’s background is similar to Hill’s. Darnell was raised by his mother and his family hopped apartments and missed meals when he was a child. Hill was determined to make sure that Washington used his talents to create a better life for himself. When Georgia was recruiting Darnell, Hill was by his side to advise Darnell on what to look for in a college program.
NCAA rules prohibited a school from hiring a player’s high-school coach for two years after they enroll. After that time had passed, Smart reached out to Hill and offered him a job.
Anyone publicly attacking a player for the loss, just stop. You could point to dozens of plays that could’ve changed the result.
Yeah, this sucks. But these players worked their asses off and played hard as hell in era you don’t always see it. Let’s have lift them up right now
Alright Game/Off-Season thoughts
1) Bobo is the easy scapegoat obviously. And he was not good yesterday for the most part. BUT if you watch the sky cast there are guys open. And how many deflected balls did we have to stall drives?
Some blame, ya. All the blame? Nah
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