After another coaching change occurred over the off-season at the University of Missouri, long-time assistant coach Andy Hill was not retained by the new staff led by Eliah Drinkwitz, ending an over-two decade long stint as an assistant and ace recruiter for Hill under the regimes of Larry Smith, Gary Pinkel, and Barry Odom.
Hill, a Trenton High School and University of Missouri alum and former player, did not stay out of work for long, as by early March, his favorite childhood NFL team, coming off their first Super Bowl title in 50 years, had offered him an assistant special teams position. In a late-week virtual press conference last week, Hill spoke about his upbringing in Trenton, and the chance to coach as an assistant with the special teams unit for the Kansas City Chiefs:
Upon Coach Hill’s first meeting with the Chiefs coaching staff, he picked up quickly on the confidence and excitement that a championship brings into a building:
Hill said that the University of Missouri did offer him employment that would have had him remain with MU, just not on the coaching staff, and even though the job in Kansas City is a ‘lesser’ position than the ones he had in Columbia, the opportunity to ‘go pro’ was too tempting to pass up:
Andy Hill played football at Trenton High School in the late 1970s and at the University of Missouri in the early to mid 1980s, earning a spot in training camp with the Chiefs in 1985 before a late cut prior to the regular season. His career in coaching soon followed the end of his playing career.
