Joe Marinaro is the last of a dying breed.
The high school running back from the Minneapolis suburbs wasn't expected to secure a future at the bowl subdivision's highest level, but his bloodline as the son and nephew of former Division I football players offered him an internal pathway towards achieving his most far-fetched goals. Being a Boston College legacy kept him in line with potentially arriving in Chestnut Hill at a school with the academic background for a high school validation, but it never meant he would run out of the Alumni Stadium tunnel once, let alone for four years.