Daily News | As Isiah Pacheco prepares to face the Eagles in the Super Bowl, the town of Vineland has his back
Talk to the folks in Vineland and they’ll tell you that the best way to understand Isiah Pacheco is to understand that he could have left.
But Pacheco was different. He had the speed; he had the frame, and he darn sure had the desire. Dan Russo was in his first year as the head football coach at Vineland High when his phone rang. Four years later, Pacheco again decided he couldn’t leave home, accepting a scholarship offer to Rutgers, where he transitioned to running back. Despite the firing of coach Chris Ash and the uncertainty of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Pacheco never thought of entering the transfer portal.“I wanted to be remembered as a player,” Pacheco said on Monday. “I didn’t want to be remembered as a number,” Pacheco said. “I could have gone somewhere else and transferred and just been a number.
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