Hillwood Interviews

[shadow]

Heard Hillwood starts interviewing for the open head football job on Wednesday. Maybe 5 coaches will interview .

[outsider]

Who are the top five?

[bigchief]

It will be a joke just like everything else over there is/has been. Hopeless situation.

[cbg]

Does Hillwood not have an assistant principal that played about 10 years in the NFL? If that is true why would he not be the one to hire a football coach.

[drknows]

Not worth talking about.

Edited May 8, 2006 by drknows

[shadow]

Not worth talking about.

 

Ah, the good doctor is back. Welcome to the game.

[wingman10]

When will they announce the new coach?

[runtheball]

SSDD,5down&5across.

[nrgrizzlies]

Fall before last they had the huge winning streak, when Hillsboro played there the line to buy a ticket stretched all the way out to the street.

 

Why is everybody so ready to throw in the towel? Yes, they lose lots of good athletes to private school, but so what? They went to 2 straight basketball sub-states once at a time when the leading scorers at MBA, USN and BGA were all guys zoned for Hillwood (and in the case of BGA, the guy <Fesmire> lived ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE SCHOOL!!!)

 

Nobody threw in the towel. There must be somebody that can jump-start some enthusiasm for extra-carricular activities over there.

 

It would be nice to see the band get back to a decent number of kids again also, but several other metro schools have a skeleton of a band anymore - Hillwood isn't alone on that.

[Hoganknows]

Hillwood is just a sign of the times in Metro Nashville Schools---Bad getting Worse

[My Alias]

Hillwood's problems are a reflection of poor zoning decisions in metro schools and even worse leadership decisions both at the school and at the board.

[nrgrizzlies]

Hillwood's problems are a reflection of poor zoning decisions in metro schools and even worse leadership decisions both at the school and at the board.

 

o.k. - let's forget sports for the moment. Hard to do on a sports forum, but I am willing to give it a try.

 

How are they doing at Hillwood on academics? After all, that is why the school was built. Are the kids who want a decent background for college getting it? Are they prepared correctly for the s.a.t. and a.c.t.? For college level work? Honors and/or a.p. classes?

 

Forget the kids who are biding time and don't care. Just looking at the serious students (they do still have some, I hope) - are the opportunities available to learn what needs to be learned?

 

If the football team goes 0-11 next year and they are barely able to field a band, that would be unfortunate. However, if a decent education can't be had, that is something you could not forgive. Not all schools are going to have a football program like Riverdale and a band like Columbia Central.

 

Putting the cynical stuff aside - what about the academics?

(contrast and compare with other metro schools, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner, etc,,,but nobody expects it to be USN or Webb, so no need to even make those types of comparisons)