Personal Narrative: An Interview With A Cool Korn

Cool Korn As I sat down with one of the coaches, who is the defensive backs coach on the Tennessee State University (TSU) football staff, I noticed how Coach Korn reminded me of myself. My interviewee was Coach Korn, since I play offensive line, he is not one of my coaches. Coach Korn and I have had our occasional hi and bye’s, but until this interview I knew not much of him. I noticed a few things, one being that he has been interviewed before because when we sat down he showed no signs of nervousness, second is that he kept his hood on throughout the entire interview, and third was that Coach Korn did not speak with a loud voice but at the same time I understood his …show more content…
When I asked him to describe Greenville to me he quickly responded, “Way out in the country man”…. “Far from the city.” In his early years Coach Korn went to the local elementary school in their small town, before he was moved into the gifted program for young kids, he was already a scholar at a very young age. As we spoke more I began to feel like we were just talking, and there was no interview happening at all. He and I were relaxed, he had his phone out, and every here and there he would tell a …show more content…
He answered me “at a very young age, he absolutely loved sports”. He also mentioned to me how his father really introduced him to sports. He let me know how they would go to basketball games, football games, and even baseball games together as they both love sports. He told me football was the sport he began to love as it had the best aspects to it, he loved the contact, the physicality of it, and how it is a team sport. He made the decision around the end of his high school athletic career that football would be the sport he went to college for, but Coach Korn did play other sports he mentioned Olympic weightlifting, baseball, track, and