Today, we are featuring Rubio Long Snapping Jake Abraham!
What is your occupation? Financial Analyst at Fisher Investments
Where do you live? Tampa, FL
Married? Kids? Not married, no kids.
What is your fondest memory of your time playing college football?
It’s tough to pick just one honestly. If I had to go with a favorite on field moment, it has to be storming the field with fans in 2014 at home after securing an 8-0 Sun Belt record and our first Sun Belt championship in our first year as a member of the conference.
There’s a ton of moments off the field where I’m just hanging out with my teammates or messing around in the locker room that bring a bigger smile to my face though. Those moments are the best part of being on a team.
If you could give ONE bit of advice to the current Rubio Long Snappers, what would it be? Snapping PARENTS, what would it be?
Advice to current Long Snappers: Pick a school and a location. Don’t pick a coach. Don’t pick based on a person or people. Pick for yourself. Every other person that you interact with in recruiting could be gone. I had 3 different coaching staffs and only 1 single coach that was the same when I left Georgia Southern. My senior class stuck together and of the roughly 20 of us, I think all but maybe 2 or 3 had been there for a full 3-4 years. That bond made us much closer and made everything far more important and just meant more to us as a group in our Senior Year. I still have relationships with them and love them to this day.
Advice to Parents: Please let your kid mature and grow up. When they get to the college recruiting time and choosing a college they’re 16-18 years old. Let them make some decisions for themselves. My parents stayed completely out of my recruiting process except for proofreading emails to coaches for spelling mistakes and simple items like that. They let me speak for myself in recruiting meetings unless they were directly addressed by the coaches. When it comes time to make a decision, offer support and guidance but don’t sway your child. This is one of the first times in their life that they get to make a huge decision for themselves and their life trajectory. Let them be the ones to steer that ship and just be there to help if called upon.
When was the last time you snapped a ball and for what reason? About a month ago I coached a youth camp with an old teammate of mine who’s an Atlanta Firefighter, Ironhead Gallon. We put on a free camp in North Florida and it was mostly just to get kids together and have fun. Did some combine drills, some 7 on 7, and just having fun with a football. Ironhead asked me if I could still snap and I gave a quick stretch and snapped right to his hip of course. I had a good coach.
If you could go back and play football in college again, would you go to the same school or a different one? Why? I’d go to the same school. I don’t have any regrets about where I went to school. It was a really fun university and was in a great location. The professors and classes prepared me well for the real world and being a professional in the job market. I made wonderful connections there that I still utilize to this day. I am extremely thankful and grateful for the life that my decision to go to Georgia Southern has given me.
Any regrets during college? Anything you wish you had done or hadn’t done? Regrets? Absolutely, but you can’t go through life without a single one of those. One thing I wish I did a little more in college, was try to interact with non-football organizations on campus. Maybe join a club or two with similar interests. I started to get into that when my eligibility ran out and I was still there studying for my MBA because I had the time at that point. I think it’s easy to get caught up in the groups and people that are naturally around you, but make sure you don’t lose yourself and who you are in that. I let some of my interests and hobbies from when I was a younger take a backseat and rediscovering those as an adult has made me happy, but I wish I didn’t have to rediscover them.
What tremendous thing have you been a part of or experienced since you graduated? I think traveling the world a bit. I’ve been able to meet a lot of amazingpeople and see some incredible cultures. I’ve visited Israel, Italy, Austria, and Germany since graduating and I highly recommend going abroad for some time. We forget that America is incredibly young compared to the world. I’ve eaten at restaurants that are older than our country in Germany. I’ve seen buildings that are 3x the age of America. Grabbing perspective from other cultures and learning how they live life a bit differently, for better or for worse, is very important. There’s an infinite number of ways that we can go through life and everyone does it differently, you’ll never do it properly if you don’t try to look at other people’s examples and history’s examples for guidance.
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