I'll always think of Stanford coach David Shaw's comment to me about recruiting Hill out of Pocatello, Idaho: "Watching Taysom was just fun."
And here's the background: Shaw, who was Jim Harbaugh's offensive coordinator during Hill's senior year of high school in 2008, was talking about everything that goes into evaluating quarterbacks. College coaches try to judge every aspect of their techniques and how their skills project to that level. Yet as Shaw said, Hill's game was just different. "He played with energy and excitement," Shaw recalled. "You watched him play basketball, and he played with the same energy and fire.