Intentional Performers With Brian Levenson

Nick Hill is the Head Football Coach at Southern Illinois University, where he also played football earlier in his life. Nick also played professional football. The crux and meat of our conversation today is about what he’s building at Southern Illinois. He’s had 3 winning seasons after plenty of losing seasons at Southern Illinois, and he’s going to talk about the culture that he is embedding into the program and why he loves coaching football.   Nick had a number of amazing insights during our conversation. Some of them include: “You can still be young and not entitled and work your way up” (10:45). “It’s a people business, and that’s [true] in any business” (15:00). “If you want to make your way up in this profession, you have to be able to communicate verbally” (16:50). “Number 1, what are your values and what do you want this thing to look like?” (19:45). “How you’re hiring your staff, the people you put in place, your player/personnel people, it’s really the difference I think between elite teams