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[QUOTE="AD31, post: 4932351, member: 8599"]
Jake Murphy from last yr played on the HS team against Ruckert actually. He was a really good LB and RB in HS.  Ruckert was skinny in HS and was abusing their comer so in 2nd half they moved Murphy on him to play bump and run at the line of scrimmage and shut him down.  From that game I thought no way could Ruckert move to TE and play at Ohio State.  Sure enough the next yr he put on like 50 LBs of muscle and they turned him into an animal.                                                     Murphy is actually doing well and playing at SU really opened up a lot of doors for him that he didn't have coming from LIU.  He's running camps out of Turtleslax club which is owned by the Desimones from Hopkins.  Chris Gray runs turtlelax in Charlotte NC and Conner Desimone runs the one on Long Island. U can see it under turtlelax.com.  He also got the Head Varsity Lacrosse job at Bellport HS.  Only 23 yrs old but playing at SU looked a lot better on his resume.  Also he has his own lax training business that got much bigger now from last yr cause kids see an SU player and want to train with him.  Lacrosse is big here on Long Island so a lot of kids want training. Also he is playing sixes for Team Ireland in February in the Eurolax Sixes tournament. They wanted him to play in the world box games in September but he starts his teaching job in September while also the Head JV football coach at Shoram Wading River so he can't take off his first few weeks in a new job.  The following summer he's gonna play either sixes or field in the worlds for Ireland as it's in the summer time so he can play,                                              Idk how I got into Murphy but I know him well and since u guys are big SU fans i figured i would let u know all the doors that opened for him from playing for SU last yr.  He's grateful he got the opportunity to play there last yr. It did a lot for his life after college lacrosse.  He was a lil down when he left SU because he felt he could have played better but he didn't get along well with Coach Petro and Petro demanded him to play his way so he never got comfortable. As a transfer he was already molded for 4 yrs under Coach Troy Reh (Albany AA and PLL Chaos All Star) his DC at LIU and loved playing for him.  Petro refused to give in at all and yelled at him a lot for doing things he was so used to early in season.   As the season went on he played thinking all the time instead of comfortable having fun.  He respects Petro and knows he's a good coach who knows the game well but he did learn from it as he's  coaching lacrosse.  Now he looks back and is grateful for all the opportunities SU helped him get and the experience playing in the dome plus all the guys he got to play with.  He keeps in touch with some especially Carter Rice they got close.
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