The event will be held at the University of Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center in St. One of these Pace brothers is going to get drafted and it's going to be me!'" Merriweather will see merry weather come Novemberįirst-year Cincinnati women's basketball coach Katrina Merriweather will be taking her squad to the Virgin Islands Nov. "'I've got to go a little bit over and beyond to be able to get drafted. "In the back of his mind, he's thinking, 'Hey these guys didn't draft my brother!'" Brown said. Defensive coordinator Brown knows his star will do right by his team but also understands his motivation to do right for his family. Though he would have two years of eligibility, Deshawn Pace hopes to hear his name called on Draft Day next spring. "Briggs says he's going to beat Ivan's sack record," Pace said. Defensive lineman Jowon Briggs will take over the No. This coming season, Deshawn Pace will switch from No. "I feel that every level we touch it's going to be top dogs." "Every level that me and Ivan played on it's always been top dogs," Pace said. He's used to being on top and for two seasons at Colerain and one at UC he was able to share the spotlight with his brother. That would be the Heath Ledger version for clarification. Pace is a huge fan of the Batman villain, The Joker. If he doesn't recover the pumpkin, he still enjoys the by-product. "He gives me the flexibility to do so much defensively that I don't have to do a whole of subbing."ĭeshawn likes finding the football and often does. They were interceptions, forced fumbles, fumble recoveries and sacks. During one of the sessions, Scott Satterfield came to Brown and said he had never seen a defensive player have the type of practices he was having, not at Appalachian State or Louisville. This spring, Pace appeared to be the hardest worker. "You go to work and be the hardest working man in the room." "You don't take a day for granted," Pace said. Deshawn Pace out to make a statementĭeshawn has seen the struggle and the effort of his brother and is out to show there is something to the family name that NFL scouts need to realize. At Miami, Ivan was also the Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Year. He was recruited by current Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman to come to UC, while Ivan's best offer was with the Miami RedHawks. He is slated to be at the star position in an attacking defense run by new defensive coordinator Bryan Brown. Deshawn Pace is now a UC senior and has a more "draftable" size at 6-foot-2 and 215 pounds. The Combine doesn't measure heart and desire which is plentiful in the Pace brothers.
Listed at 6-foot and 240 pounds by UC, Ivan Pace measured 5-foot-10 and 231-pounds at the NFL Combine. "Whenever somebody tells you (that) you can't do something, you're going to prove that you're different." "My dad always told us 'can't' isn't in a man's vocabulary," Pace said. Deshawn agrees and repeats words of wisdom his father passed on to the two boys who are 15 months apart.
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Eventually, the Vikings signed Ivan Pace and many have called him the best undrafted free agent in the league. In the seventh and final round, a call came, but it was a promise not delivered.Īgent Roosevelt Barnes then held a front yard summit with the family, explaining that not being drafted would allow Ivan more choices.
Instead, the family heard UC's Tyler Scott get called, then Josh Whyle. Surely Saturday, April 29 would be the day Ivan Pace's name would be read. The second night, they heard teammate Tre Tucker's name late. He later was named the defensive MVP of the Senior Bowl.īased on the accolades, the family watched the opening night of the draft Thursday, April 27 hoping to hear his name. He became UC's first unanimous First Team All-American. In their one year playing together at the University of Cincinnati, Ivan was the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year. For three days in April, Deshawn Pace shared a couch with his brother Ivan in their Colerain Township home watching the NFL Draft.
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