Comments about ‘High school football: P.G. hires coach Les Hamilton’

good luck to Coach Hamilton and congratulations to Pleasant Grove on landing a great coach and great mentor for the boys.

I am sure Les is going to get verbally beat up over this but it makes sense for him and his family. He lives in Utah County. The hour long commute to Hunter High every day, had to take its toll. Good for him.

Hunter, Cyprus, and Granger all have Head Football coach openings. What is going on in the Granite School District?

How long from PG to Hunter??
no way that is a hour drive and if he leaves at 6 am when no one is up, he would get to hunter in 40 minutes!

Good for him???

smart move going to a school like PG, anything you say will be listened to all the time because of a little 2 state titles at Alta won by your TEAM!

still, PG wont get kids from Lone Peak or American fork or Lehi, becuase ya your football field is turf, but unless that school gets a makeover, the kids wont be going there.

PG already had its best team 2 years ago, that was not very good! ha I dont even remember your QB you people were obsessed with, is he even playing anymore? ha Lloyd was his name maybe

Wow. Good luck to Les. Didn't he move his family from South America after getting the Hunter job? Not a feasible excuse. Les is a great coach. This just sounds premeditated.

I haven't heard about the other Granite District openings? Is Granger really open? Cyprus?

Good luck to Les, better luck to the kids of Hunter.

@ binghamalum
Wow! Bitter much? Mellow out, it's just a high school coach transferring. Life will go on...

Hey Binghamalum-
Lloyd is on a mission in Chile, and will be attending an irrelevant university by the name of Stanford next season on a full ride. Maybe you should save your Bingham bs for Alta, and leave everyone else alone. Hamilton is a good coach. Leave it at that.
By the way, two years in a row losing to Bountiful in basketball. No comment there I'm sure.

There is a ton of talent at PG--Coach Hamilton will see that right away. Furthermore, these kids have been champions from 4th grade on. last year was frustrating and not representative of the potential. This is great news! I hope Coach cleans house and we can start fresh.

les hamilton has just turned into the urban meyer of utah high school football

Hunter sure messed up letting Coach Pearce get away, he actually wanted to be there...............................

Welcome to Region 4.
Rebuilding PG only makes our Region stronger.

Les, just win 1 game (Bingham) and all us Skyline fans will be happy.

Does Hamilton teach at the school? I just wonder what else he would be able to do to travel around and coach football. Also where is pearce coaching at now?

Enter commentLOL...Binghamalum....We do agree on one thing the PG '06 team is the best they have fielded since '94. Yeah they lost to Bingham in the semi's and bad, but for a team that was picked to be in the cellar of the Region that year, they were incredible. For all the State Championships Bingham has won, I'll take the '06 PG team any time..5 years out of high school state championships mean very little, but the quality of the young men produced says it all...I have the privilege of being the father of one of those '06 boys, a kid that had average talent and minimal size, but an incredible amount of heart and no fear...you will never find a group of boys that had more love for the game and each other. The secret to their success was their unselfish play...some will remember them for the loss to Bingham, we will remember them not only for a Cinderella season, but the things they will go on to accomplish in life after State Championship trophies are covered in dust.

Well I am a youth football coach in northern Utah county. I can tell you that the PG team in the age group I coach is our toughest competition. They have alot of very good athletes and every game we play with them is a very toughly contested game.

I don't think binghamalum knows what he/she is talking about in regards to the level of athletes that attend PG. I do find it very telling that in his/her post she/he references PG having trouble "get"ting kids from AF, Lone Peak and Lehi. I live in Highland right at the point that Highland, American Fork and Lehi's borders come together and I coach kids that will eventually attend all 3 high schools in the several sports I coach. I have close ties to all 3 schools athletic programs and the kids that will be going into them. Unlike Bingham that recruits kids from all over the place these schools play mostly with kids from their own boundaries, they aren't out trying to take each others kids.

Way to help comfirm what all of us already new binghamalum. Can bingham actually win with their own kids?

Hamilton has been teaching at Hunter but will get a teaching job along with the coaching job at PG.
The Chile job was a bad deal, a notorious multi level marketing exec offered him a great deal to go to Chile (where Les served an LDS mission) and run a new seafood import/export business for him. As with many multi level marketing folks the reality was much different than the promises so after almost a year of not getting the pay he was promised Les decided to move his family back home and landed the Hunter job. He had moved the family to Orem prior to the Hunter job even opening up, so I'm sure the proximity of PG to his family has a lot to do with him taking the job.

Poor Hunter High.

Can't hold on to coaches or the best players in their area. Had Les stuck around, I truly believed the kids that were "transferring" (to Alta, Bingham, Riverton, Jordan, Cottonwood) would stick around and Hunter would start being more competitive with the above mentioned schools. Too many of the best players from the West Valley area (Hunter, Kearns, Granger) leave to go to schools with better funding, coaching, etc.

This guy is not the Urban Meyer of Utah. He knows his football, yes. He has some proving to do. Don't crown the guy yet. Get to know him and see what lies beneath. Looks good on the field with talented kids and a good scheme. But off the field. Pay to play, apparel, etc. he got lucky with Alta and the school district. The truth is out, he got lucky because he left.

Jkmeister, do you really think winning in youth football since 4th grade had anything to do with a teams varsity record? Heard that a lot from parents, especially that 08 team. Guess what, things happen win these kids actually have to play SLC schools and not lehi B teams every week. Cleaning house is not feesible at the high school level. Every coach will tell you that they want to keep as many coaches in house as they can. I think Hamilton kept most hunter coaches in tact. But if you think you can win with a bunch of 8th grade dads...good luck.

utahbruin,

i made the comparison to urban meyer because of meyer's recent headlines, not because of his past success.