GOOD
GOOD EVENING FOLKS WELCOME INSIDE THE HALL FAMILY LIVING FOR
SPORTS THIS EVENING...
EARLIER THIS WEEK I HAD
THE CHANCE TO CATCH
UP WITH FORMER BOISE
STATE SAFETY DEANDRE
PIERCE... DEANDRE
ELECTING TO GRADUATE
THIS SPRING SEMESTER
FROM BOISE STATE AND
FINISH UP HIS COLLEGE
ELIGIBILITY AT ARIZONA
STATE AS A GRAD
TRANSFER...THUS
REUINITING WITH HIS
DAD, FORMER GIANTS PRO
BOWL LINEBACKER
ANTONIO, WHO OF
COURSE IS THE SUN
DEVILS DEFENSIVE
COORDINATOR, I CAUGHT
UP WITH HIM TO SEE HOW
THINGS ARE GOING AND
HOW TOUGH IT WAS TO
LEAVE BOISE STATE.
YOU LOOK FILLED OUT
MAN, WHATS THE KEY TO
ADDING WEIGHT?
"REALLY I TRY TO EAT
CONSISTENTLY
THORUGHOUT THE DAY,
NOT REALLY BIG MEALS
BUT CONSISTENTLY, LIKE
EVERY 2-3 HOURS, I GOT
UP TO ABOUT 192
POUNDS, THE HIGHEST I
WAS
WAS AT
WAS AT BOISE STATE WAS LIKE 183." OBVIOUSLY MADE THE
DECISION TO GRAD
TRANSFER FROM BOISE
STATE, WHAT LED IN TO
THAT
THAT DECISION? "LIKE I SAID, I'VE BEEN HURT THE PAST TWO
YEARS. IN THE LAST 28
GAMES, THE PAST 2
SEASONS, I WAS ONLY
ABLE TO PLAY IN EIGHT OF
THEM. AND SO TO REALLY
GIVE MYSELF THE BEST
SHOT AT THE NEXT LEVEL, I
FELT LIKE I REALLY NEEDED
TO CHALLENGE MYSELF.
BETTER
BETTER COMPETITION, THROUGHOUT THE PAC 12, THERE'S CONSISTENT
BATTLES EVERYDAY, TOP
SCHOOLS LIKE OREGON,
WASHINGTON, USC, UTAH.
OBVIOUSLY PLAYING WITH
MY DAD AND PLAYING
FOR A GREAT COACH LIKE
HERM
AND HE WAS AND NFL DB
DURING HIS TIME AND
OBVIOUSLY A GREAT NFL
COACH."
I KNOW YOU EXPERIENCED
IT IN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT
TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THE
CHANCE TO DO IT AGAIN
FOR YOUR FINAL YEAR OF
COLLEGE, TO PLAY FOR
YOUR DAD AGAIN, HOW
SPECIAL IS THAT?
"IT'S SPECIAL. HE KIND OF
GAVE
GAVE ME
GAVE ME THE BLUE PRINT ON HOW TO SUCCEED, HOW TO STUDY THE
GAME, I LEARNED THAT
FROM HIM."
I SAW HERM EDWARDS,
WHAT COMES TO MIND?
"ENERGETIC. ENERGETIC.
GOOD GUY, HE'S HIMSELF,
HE'S AUTHENTIC, I'D SAY
THAT. I DON'T THINK
THERE'S ANYBODY QUITE
LIKE HIM, I HAD MET HIM A
COUPLE TIMES WHEN HIM
AND MY DAD WERE AT
ESPN, EVERYBODY JUST
LOVES
LOVES HIM. AND YOU CAN SEE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, JUST HOW ENERGETIC
AND JUST HOW
AUTHENTIC AND REAL HE
IS."
HOW TOUGH WAS IT TO
LEAVE BOISE STATE?
"IT WAS HARD. I WOULD
PROBABLY SAY THE
HARDEST PART WAS
LEAVING MY