Carson High's Austin Pacheco left for Florida last week for the first-ever Blue-Gray all-star football game in Tampa sans a scholarship offer.
He returned with offers from Bethune-Cookman in Florida and Prarie View A &M in Texas.
Pacheco's father, Ron, said that Fairmont State in West Virginia also is showing interest.
Pacheco had a solid game, converting his only PAT attempt and barely missing a 50-yard field goal. He averaged more than 40 yards on punts, and he got to play safety for several snaps.
"It worked out well," Pacheco said. "I got under that field goal just a little bit, and the air was really thick. On the kickoffs, I was pretty much to the goalline on all of them."
Pacheco said he isn't in any hurry to make a final decision. Besides Prarie View and Bethune Cookman, Nevada is still showing some interest. He admitted he wants to wait until all the schools interested have made a pitch.
Cameron Norcross was the local recruiter for Nevada, but he took a job at Fresno State recently. Pacheco said he has talked on the phone recently with Norcross, but the Carson senior didn't indicate whether Norcross was trying to recruit him for Fresno or Nevada.
Pacheco also said he is interested in the University of Utah, and part of that interest stems from the fact that his girlfriend also is interested in the school. Pacheco said that he hasn't talked to anybody from Utah yet, and he'd be prepared to go there as a walk-on.
"I like the atmosphere there," he said. "It's a good football program, and a good school, and it's still pretty close to home."
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It appears that the big 11-team 4A league for football will dissolve, and that 4A (as we know it) will go back to two divisions.
Big mistake.
You would have six teams in the High Desert and only five in the Sierra League because Wooster will play 3A or Division 1A as it will probably be called.
This isn't a popular choice, but I would move North Valleys or Hug down to 3A, at least for football, and then you could have a 10-team conference for football only. That mans all the large-school teams could play against each other every year, and you could still play one nonleague game.
It makes perfect sense to me. After all, Hug and North Valleys have gotten absolutely pounded the last couple of years in 4A football.
Of course if it makes perfect sense, it means that the people who run sports in Nevada won't do it.
