Long haul for Hall
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Rest hasn't exactly been on the top of the list this week for Kevon Hall. The Class of 2015 athlete traveled to his fourth camp in as many days on Wednesday in Boulder, a long way from home in Memphis, Tennessee.
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"I really wanted an offer from CU," said Hall of why he came all the way to Colorado. "I thought I could fit into their offense well, so I wanted to see what I could get out of this camp."
Hall has an uncle from Colorado, who encouraged him to come check it out, and he liked what he saw.
"I liked it," he said. "The atmosphere was kind of different because I'm from down South."
Part of that different atmosphere, was the altitude, which Hall was not used to.
"Blurry eyes, cramps," he explained. "It was different, but I have to learn to play through that if I am going to play here."
And play through it he did. Despite it all, Hall still won the "fastest man" competition, a 100 yard race between all the players at the camp.
"[Coach Mike MacIntyre] pushed me to win it," said Hall.
As far as recruiting goes, he is only hearing from schools in the South right now.
"I have offers from Marshall, Memphis, Southern Miss, MTSU, Southeast Missouri," he explained.
But he feels like a Colorado offer could come too, as long as he does what the CU coaches advised him to do.
"Qualifying academically, and working hard my senior year," he told. "Getting some tape for them to look at."
The staff will most likely be hoping to see film of Hall in the slot.
"Primarily I'm in the backfield right now," Hall said. "But I'm going to try and get more into the slot receiver role this year. That's what I'm hearing from coaches as to where I'll fit best at the next level."
Hall said his favorite part about his trip was working with the Colorado coaching staff.
"They're really pushing us hard," he said. "They're really killing us out here, pushing us to finish every drill really hard, and I liked it."
It was those interactions with the coaching staff that made Hall feel comfortable about Colorado.
"This is definitely somewhere I could see myself," he concluded.
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