Louisville’s Greg Scruggs is a 6-foot-4, 250-pound defensive end. Imposing numbers, if not a little generic for the college game.

Not long ago, he was the most intimidating drummer you’d ever seen before becoming deciding to become one of the country’s top high school defensive ends.

In one season.

“People could always see me in the band and the way I played the drums and the way I moved on the field and the way I grooved and tell I was an athlete,” he said. “It totally translated for me. In band and in football, you have to be disciplined. That was the one big thing I took from band and applied to football.

“I could stand in the middle of the field holding a 30-pound set of drums for five minutes and not budge. I believe that helped me withstand the jobs you do in football. I can sit in a meeting and concentrate on the strategies and schemes being taught.”