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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1053747, member: 127"]
Just wondering - are  D1 NCAA recruiting regulations different for football than basketball? Can alums bring recruits to campus to actually meet with the coach? Could that have been an issue - with a son on campus and being an alum, would that make one a booster?  For all I know it's okay but the NCAA seems to have so many recruiting rules...

Regardless, it never should have affected how those young men were treated when visiting SU.

Garry's son, Michael, was a walk-on at SU during Marrone's tenure. His senior year, he was even added to the travel team, was given a scholarship and caught the winning TD catch against Rhode Island. It's all captured in P-S articles from 2011. So it appears that Doug Marrone didn't ignore Garry's son while here. It's a cautionary reminder though that how you treat people and how its viewed, can have long-term repercussions one can't take back. However it sure appears that HCDM rewarded Garry's son for his hard work at SU and during a tough stretch for their family. This incident had to have occurred a few years before Fall of 2011, Michael Acchione's senior year at SU, since these 2 recruits were already in college.

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