بوب هيل

لعب هيل كرة السلة والبيسبول في جامعة بولينغ غرين الحكومية، وكان أيضًا عضوًا في أخوية سيغما تشي. التحق بالجامعة في فترة لم يكن يُسمح فيها للاعبي الجامعات بالانضمام إلى الفريق الأول إلا في سنتهم الدراسية الثانية؛ ورغم أن الإحصائيات أشارت إلى أنه أظهر موهبةً كبيرةً كعضو في فريق السنة الأولى، إلا أن نجاحه لم ينعكس على أدائه في الفريق الأول. ^{[ 1 ]} ثم أبدى اهتمامًا بالتدريب.

عمل هيل مساعداً في الجهاز التدريبي لتيم جروجريتش في جامعة بيتسبرغ لمدة ثلاثة مواسم من عام 1975 إلى عام 1978. ^{[ 3 ]} ثم عُيّن في منصب مماثل في جامعة كانساس من قبل تيد أوينز في عام 1979، وبقي لمدة ست سنوات حتى عام 1985، قضى آخر عامين منها مع لاري براون . ^{[ 4 ]}

Between 1999 and 2003, Hill was head coach at Fordham University where he compiled a 36–78 record (31.6% winning %). He was let go by the Rams following the 2002–03 season after only 1 win in the Atlantic 10. The Rams finished 2–26 in 2003, the worst record in school history. Fordham paid Hill $650,000 to leave the university in a buyout agreement four years into his 10-year deal.^[9]

Hill took responsibility for his rocky four-year tenure at Fordham. "Fordham was my fault; I just shouldn't have done it," Hill told the New York Daily News. "I don't want to get into why," he added, "just blame it on me."^[10] "I guess the best way to put it (is), I've had a really privileged career," Hill said, "I've been around a lot of great organizations; I've had a lot of great players. I've always had success to some degree, so I feel like I understand what it takes to do that and it just didn't work." Asked to recount some of the missteps he made during his tenure at Fordham, Hill said that he made a mistake before the 2002–03 season in trying to bring in playground players such as Adrian Walton and Smush Parker. "We tried to bring the Rucker League to Fordham and it didn't work out," Hill said. Hill added he didn't have any regrets about his time in the Bronx. "It's a good school, good people, the whole thing, but I made a mistake," Hill said. "I don't really regret it," he added. "I've learned so much about what those young guys go through to try to be successful. It's hard for them."