Before Sooner signees can make it to Norman and make the true transition from recruit to player there is a rite of passage, Five Questions, and SoonerScoop.com sat down with Sooner freshman fullback Jeremiah Hall to find out just what makes the North Carolina native tick.
For those unfamiliar Five Questions has little to do with football and is all about Sooner fans getting to know their future on-field favorites a bit better before Saturdays in the fall take over.
Josh McCuistion: What is something you do that would surprise people?
Jeremiah Hall: I play the trombone. No one ever looks at me and suspects that I can play an instrument. I play the trombone, Euphonium, Baritone, those are all similar instruments. It’s a little something I do on the side. It all started in sixth grade when they gave me the option of computer classes, art, or play an instrument. It just so happened that my dad had a trombone at the house that he played when he was little so I thought hey I’ve already got one so I’ll learn it. I enjoyed that and continued it all the way through my junior year. The only reason I didn’t play as a senior was because I didn’t have any room for it on my schedule.
JM: You’re sitting in the locker room getting ready for the game. Are you yelling and screaming, huddled over the toilet, or just in your own world?
JH: I’m 100-percent, got my headphones in, just chilling and relaxing. I get up and go talk to people ever few minutes. I try not to talk about football on gameday because the whole week it is just practice, practice, practice. I might be asking about how their family is doing – talk about the hockey game, baseball game, just whatever is going on.
I’ll (also) be listening to J. Cole.
JM: As a talented athlete, there is no question you’re likely good at a lot of things, but what are you not good at?
JH: Dancing. I try so hard but I just can’t do it. Of course, I still try and I can fake the funk like everybody, I do a bit of dabbing, na-naing, but for real dancing I just can’t. I’ll get out there and do it but it won’t be too good.
JM: If you weren’t a football player, what sport would you have focused on?
JH: Definitely baseball, football wasn’t even in the picture for me until my tenth grade year. Ninth grade year I had a feeling but if you had asked my mom or dad coming out of middle school I was going to (Major League Baseball). Coming out of seventh grade and eighth grade and I was playing for the East Cobb Astros, I was driving over there to Georgia every weekend. They were inviting me to play – said if you could make the drive we’ll set you up.
Right before high school it felt more like a job, I didn’t like it anymore. My dad thought I was crazy and he still kind of thinks I am. But this is not what I want my life to consist of and any good athlete is pretty good at what they want to put their minds to. So I got serious with football and started improving.
JM: If you could go on any vacation, anywhere, where would you go?
JH: Australia. I’ve seen Rio and Brazil on TV, I think Europe is low-key overrated. I’ve got no interest in Asia. (I guess) just because Australia is out there and not a lot of people say that.
