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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5345473, member: 27"] I agree with you. I think when you have a player who plays football and another sport, their scholarship has to count against the other sport. This is the Miami rule, designed to stop the abuses UM made when they had scholarships pulled for cheating and put some stud football players with no scholarships on the track team instead. So SU recruit Joe Filardi, who is also slated to play lacrosse and football (I believe he just enrolled), has his scholarship count against the lacrosse team's numbers. It is a way of getting around the scholarship limit. Belechick is on top of things here, as expected. I heard an XM radio story a couple of weeks ago where the host touched on the Merrill commitment. He said the UNC QB job was wide open and he wouldn't be surprised if Merrill won it. That made me curious about Merrill. Was he really a legit top level talent at QB? I reviewed his senior film for football. think he is a very good athlete but very raw as a passer. He is going to have a lot of work to do to improve his arm strength and throwing mechanics. He might end up being a good option as a wildcat QB though. As an aside, Joe Filardi threw for 3115 yards and 43 TDs, and ran for 1204 yards and 12 TDs in the 2024 season. He accounted for 4,319 yards and 55 TDs his senior year. He ended up with 9 interceptions. His HS played 11 games. Merrill threw for 1762 yards and 19 TDs and ran for 1955 yards and 32 TDs. He accounted for 3707 yards and 51 TDs in 2024. He had 10 interceptions. His team played 13 games (and he had huge numbers in his playoff games). Hard to understand how Merrill got selected. His team didn't even win the little HS 'catholic' state championship. Iona Prep did. Great running QB. If there was a championship for running from the QB position, he should probably get it. But you need to also take passing stats into account I think. I will be interested to track all the careers for all three of these guys for lacrosse and football. Hope at least one of them gets some real playing time in football at some point in their career. [/QUOTE]

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