NICK HILL OFFICIALLY GETS EXTENDED + TIM LEONARD COMMENTS & NEW COACHING HIRES

About this episode

Nick Hill discusses his official extension as head coach, coaching staff changes, and upcoming team activities.

This Nick solo episode details: THE OFFICIAL EXTENSION OF HC NICK HILL, if it was the right choice, other reasons as to why letting him coach-out this Make-Or-Break season on his final year was the correct way to go (personally), comments from Tim Leonard on why it made sense to him along with the contrasting expectations of football compared to Bryan Mullins for basketball in the many similarities, him indirectly proving that the football bar is way lower, the talk about a current 11-game schedule after Sacramento State (and NDSU) jump to the FBS, adding FOUR new coaches to the staff including officially replacing Mac McLeran, touching on the extra 10 high school adds a month ago, PRO DAY results, quick other FCS news AND a sneak peek to the Spring as workouts begin tomorrow & our excitement to seeing their practices/Game next month.

Topics covered

• coaching changes
• football expectations
• basketball comparisons
• team performance
• spring workouts
• FCS news

Keywords

• Nick Hill
• Tim Leonard
• coaching staff
• FCS
• football
• basketball
• spring workouts
• team performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sacramento State, NDSU, Mac McLeran, FCS

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