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Christian Jones Interview
Christian Jones is a Sophomore here at FSU. However, most people know him as the starting outside linebacker on the FSU football team. After running to Cawthon Hall through the downpour that had come out of nowhere, I had the opportunity to sit down with Christian and ask him a few questions after he got out of class. Christian is a very nice, laid back, and humble guy and after talking a bit of football with him we started our interview.Q: When did you start playing ball? What/Who got you started?
A: I always wanted to play when I was younger. I played with kids around the neighborhood but nothing organized like most kids that got started early. I didn’t start playing till like 6th or 7th grade.
Q: When did you really start to get serious about possibly playing ball in college?
A: Well, I was always was good and people always told me I was good. So I always knew that I had the ability to play at a big school like FSU. So it was really no surprise when I started getting recruited but it was still exciting. I guess when I really knew I could be a good player was my sophomore year.
Q: When did you start getting recruited by big schools?
A: Freshman/sophomore year.
Q: When did you commit to FSU?
A: I waited till the last second, I committed on signing day on ESPN.
Q: How much free time do you have on a weekly basis in the fall?
A: Oh, the falls really busy and there’s really no free time till like the weekend after the game. We have practice every day from 2-6 and so we have to schedule all our classes in the morning and some of us have tutoring after practice so we usually don’t get home till around 9 o’clock. Yeah, fall's real busy.
Q: How is your free time different in the fall compared to in the summer?
A: Oh, the summer’s a lot better cause we don’t have all the tutoring after practice and stuff. There’s no night tutoring in the summer, but its still kind of busy because we start conditioning and stuff during the day so when I get home I just want to go to bed.
Q: How much of your time during the week is taken up by team events, or practice?
A: 5 days a week, couple hours everyday Monday through Friday. There’s always going to be something going on.
Q: How often do y’all do stuff without the coaches?
A: Well the coaches are not allowed to be at summer workouts, the only thing they can do is call meetings and stuff. But we have strength and conditioning coaches that set up all the lifting and running and for throwing and 7-on-7, we have to get together on our own.
Q: How do you choose to spend your free time when you have it?
A: Usually, I just hangout with my roommates and my teammates. And we go out and do the usual college stuff when we have time. We still like to go out and feel like normal college kids.
Q: How hard is it to make sure you go to class and make sure you do all your schoolwork in addition to football?
A: Normal students don’t have to go to class, like if you wake up and you don’t feel like it you don’t have to go. But we have teachers emailing the coaches saying if were there or not and we have academic advisors that are always on us for our grades. So its tough cause a lot of times you wake up and don’t want to go, but you have to.
Q: What are the penalties if you miss class?
A: We have like a point system, if you get 6 points you have to go in front of the Unity Council which is a board of players that do everything right and will punish you by giving you extra workouts and stuff like that. If you have to go, its not too good, like I had to go last fall and they gave me extra tutoring and in the fall, you don’t want that cause you don’t have any time for it.
Q: Do the coaches ever get involved?
A: Yeah, they meet with Coach Fisher and tell him what we have to do and why we had to be there.
Q: What do you think non-athlete students think you do with your free time? Do they have a different opinion?
A: Yea I think so. Normal students a lot of times don’t think we do a lot but we actually have to do a lot more. Normal students think we get babied a lot and special treatment, but that’s really not true. You’ll find out there’s some teachers here that are big sports fans and like athletes, but there’s a lot more that don’t like athletes at all and a lot of teachers don’t differentiate at all between athletes and normal students.
Q: Any disadvantages?
A: (Pauses for a second then laughs) No not really, I don’t see any.
Q: If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would that word be?
A: (Laugh then long pause) I don’t know, people who know me always say I’m humble about stuff so I guess humble.
Q: What’s something people don’t know about you?
A: I’m a chill dude so I guess ill go with laid back, and I love Swamp People that’s my show.
Q: Do you not tweet, you don’t have a Twitter?
A: Haha, no because our twitter and Facebook gets monitored and you have to be real careful about what you say cause you could get in a lot of trouble, so I just don’t mess with it.
Doak S. Campbell Stadium on FSU's campus- Home to the Florida State Football Team
The FSU Trophy room Inside Doak Campbell Stadium displaying our two
National Championship trophies.
The FSU locker room inside the Stadium
