""Just get the four years over with," he said."
""They said if we send you a text, you made the team. I never got that text," he said. "I was in denial. 'Maybe they forgot me.' After the third or fourth week, I was [thinking], 'Maybe they didn't send that text.'""
""He doesn't go down and everybody has prepared to stop him and hasn't," Moran said."
Melion Busano entered high school lacking confidence and initially aimed only to finish the four years. He tried out for basketball but did not receive a roster text and felt rejected. A JV football coach invited him to play, and he joined as a sophomore despite never having played youth or flag football. His mother had previously forbidden football after seeing the film Concussion. He learned quickly, rose from JV to varsity, rushed for 211 yards as a junior, and as a senior (5-foot-10, 195 pounds) has 824 yards and 13 touchdowns with multiple 100-plus-yard games. His father served 20 years in the Marines from Belize; his mother is from the Philippines.
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