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I'm going to go ahead and say its because he wasn't a very good coach.
Charlie Parker from WOAI 1200 says he knows why Bob Hill got Fired, and to ask him in private why....Answers anybody?
I'm going to go ahead and say its because he wasn't a very good coach.
He couldn't explain why he was a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case, and got questioned every time the team played in Denver. And there was that incident with the three cheerleaders, Marv Albert, and a Shetland pony.
But that's just what I heard. The only person who knows for sure, other than Marv and the cheerleaders, is the one who supplied the pony. Let us know what Charlie's version is.
he got fired because he refused to wear socks with his shoes
'Things that happened in 1996' forum.
he wore tight white pants?
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Here's what happened...Hill got fired, and couldn't find work for a decade while the team that fired him went on to win 4 les.
The guy with the power to hire and fire him wanted his job. /thread
Anyone who still drinks body solutions will say anything.
Charlie parker seemed like a down to earth guy. Didn't let having his voice on the radio go to his head.
Something always seemed fishy about the Hill situation.
because he was bad in the 1994 spurs - rockets series whan he didn't put Rodman to guard Hakeem one on one when Robinson as the halp defender. and instead he put Robinson on Hakeem one on one and that was a very bad decision.
Hill proved his coaching skill at the college level. Count me as impressed.
Uh, Rodman wouldn't even cover Horry. He was too busy trying to halp his rebounding numbers.
he was great against Karl Malone!
Why is anyone still bothered by this? It's not like the franchise has suffered since Hill's departure. And it's not like Hill has acquitted himself particularly well at any stop since he departed San Antonio.
Besides, the rumor that circulated years and years ago was that at least one (and probably more) of the prominent players in 1996-97 went to Pop and confided that they didn't think they could play for Hill. Pop had been a favorite to be head coach when he was hired as GM in 1994 -- for the old schoolers out there, Jay Howard actively promoted the notion that Pop the GM should name himself coach in the summer of 1994. It would be typical Pop to have listened to his players, to have canned Hill and assumed the reigns, and to have never allowed some sort of insurrection to be the story. Puro Pop would be to allow all of the heat to come down on himself -- and to never comment on it.
I remember when Spurs fans bemoaned the firing of Bob Hill.
Most Spurs fans are idiots.
Bob Hill is a horrible coach. That's why he got fired. Since his tenure with the Spurs, he hasn't been able to doing anything in terms of coaching.
He was let go by Fordham after they finished 2–26 in 2003, the worst record in school history. They paid Hill $650,000 to GTFO.
Bob Hill was a bad hire from the start. I remember at the Spurs kickoff luncheon the year he was hired, Avery said something like..'We're really looking forward to the new season and we're glad we got the best coach that was available at the time"..he wasn't kidding around either. People were laughing and then Avery finally understood why. Bob Hill had a grin on his face as if it was some sort of celebrity roast.
Sean MC'd the thing and was the one doing the joking, not Avery. Its ironic that Avery led the charge to convince Pop to fire Hill.
Too bad Karl wasn't on the Rockets.
I was upset when they let him go back in the day, but truthfully I didn't understand what a good coach was back then. Watching Pop coach for the last decade or so changed the way I watch and understand the game.
Popovich wanted to take over the duncan bandwagon and get paid.
Avery Johnson, Sean Elliott, and David Robinson wanted him gone.
Pop then kept that quiet so he would take the brunt of the fire.
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Duncan wasn't on the team yet.
Yeah, and Troy Aikman wasn't a Cowboy when Jimmy Johnson took over. Duncan probably wouldn't have been a Spur if Pop hadn't fired Hill, who was still trying to win games.
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