Hall of Fame
Chris Isaac played four seasons (1978-81) at quarterback for coach Roy Kidd’s EKU Colonels, leading Eastern to back-to-back national runners-up finishes his junior and senior seasons. As a junior, he was the team’s offensive most valuable player as he threw for 1,318 yards and seven touchdowns and ran the ball of 274 yards and five more TD’s. He was EKU’s MVP in the national championship game vs. Boise State when he 16-25 passes for 250 yards and a TD, a go-ahead 55-yard bomb to David Booze with less than a minute to go. Isaac, a second-team All-OVC choice, also ran for 40 yards and a TD in the 1980 national title game. He was the only quarterback to hit 50 or more percent (.520) of his passes that season. One of his most stellar efforts came in a 28-16 win at East Carolina when he hit 11-12 passes for 177 yards and two TD’s. While serving as offensive co-captain as a junior and senior, he set an EKU single game record for most yards passing in 1981 when he hit 15-30 passes vs. Murray State for 318 yards, including a 61-yard scoring fling to fellow EKU Hall of Famer and All-American wideout Steve Bird. Isaac also came up big in ’81 semifinal playoff game vs. Delaware when he hit flanker Ranard McPhaul along the far sideline for the game-winning 32-yard TD pass with less than a minute to go in Eastern’s thrilling 35-28 win over Delaware. He finished his career as the seventh leading all-time EKU passer in yards passing with 3,611 yards. During his four years at Eastern, the Colonels posted a 41-9 overall record, won all 25 home games at Roy Kidd Stadium, captured the national title in 1979, two national runners-up trophies and won the 1981 OVC championship. Following his collegiate career, he played three seasons in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Roughriders where he won the CFL’s Rookie of the Year award in 1982 and was chosen for the All-Star Game that same season. He served the next 18 years as an assistant football coach and instructor at New Smyrna Beach High School and Mainland High School in Daytona Beach before serving as head football coach at Deltona (FL) High School for one season. He has been serving as a math teacher at Pine Ridge High School in Deltona since 2004. He also had two stints as an assistant football coach at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach from 1996-2002 and 2004-07.
