'13 MA OT John Montelus (Notre Dame Signed LOI)

[SoJerseyIrish]

I am a ND fan right now......

 

[Irishnuke]

A) He is not our best offensive line recruit. It is just that someone said that he "could become."
B) We will have a chance to see what the staff has learned about handling recruits once they commit, since last year.
C) We will see how strong the Mob '13 is.

Rivals says he is, not that he "could become." Scout has him listed as the #2 OG. I don't care who our best OL recruit is, I just happen to think it's Montelus.

 

[peoriairish]

He may not be the best, and but I think he's the most important.. After next year, we are really lacking quality depth at inside OL and this kid will sure that right up. Do as I say, I not as I do.... I'm not worried

 

[Irish8248]

If I recall correctly Zaire said in an interview that he's 100% committed to ND for now... Not worried

 

[Mavericknyc1980]

We win games they won't decommit.

 

[ab2cmiller]

Stumbled across a web site that had film breakdowns of our current 2013 commits and posted all of them to this thread. Now posting to the individual recruits thread.

The analysis is done by Matt Alkire who worked for Scout for a number of years. Here is his bio for anyone who cares

Matt Alkire is also employed by Fox Sports where he works as a college and high school football recruiting analyst, mainly covering the Northeast portion of the country for Scout.com where he coordinates with players, coaches and administrators at the high school and collegiate levels. He is a regular for many ESPN radio affiliates for both the NFL Draft and high school recruiting, contributes on a regular basis to Fox publications and was also featured in former New England Patriot All-Pro Brent William’s book “Recruit My Son”. He has been doing extensive film study since the 2003 season for the NFL Draft. As a football player, Alkire played both defensive end and tight end and comes from a family with a rich coaching background.

John Montelus

 

[Rhode Irish]

Spent the 4th with one of John's high school coaches. Said he got an Alabama offer last week, but he is solid to ND. Great kid, is in the gym everyday, etc. John and his coaches are excited about how the class is coming together.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

@ISDUpdate
#NotreDame OL commit John Montelus on summer offer from LSU: “I'm still going to be committed to #ND, so it doesn't really matter.”

Montelus Builds Bonds

 

[yankeeND]

@ISDUpdate
#NotreDame OL commit John Montelus on summer offer from LSU: “I'm still going to be committed to #ND, so it doesn't really matter.”

Montelus Builds Bonds

Thats nice to hear! I'm not going to get worried until the season starts anyway. This class is as tight knit a group as I can remember.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I actually think that it serves no purpose to rank our five super O-Line studs. They are different guys and will play somewhat different positions, all of which are necessary for our O-Line restocking. If one wanted to think about specific positions, then Big John seems to be our current best fit for guard or center play. The immediate future seems well provided for by Hegarty, NMartin, Harrell, and the always good potential for Watt to return and if necessary Lombard to move down. This analysis is conservative since it doesn't mention what particularly Hanratty might do. But, even with all that, Big John is certainly being looked at by Coach Hiestand as an eventual replacement for Chris Watt. I expect, with talent like Montelus has, that something like this will happen after a year redshirting, which is what essentially all O-Linemen do. Montelus should have a big career at Notre Dame with an angry crowd of Earth-moving buddies along side him. Really looking forward to those lines developing.

Another way of looking at the O-Line with relation to this year's cycle, is to cast ahead three years to when Christian Lombard is our old man at right tackle in his fifth year and alongside is the dreaded destroyer Nick Martin. Who wants the other three positions? Montelus, Biven et al will be "ready" coming off their redshirts. They'll want them. Prestwood will say: Back off, boys!. Hegarty will say: Whoa, I've got this Center position. Ronnie Stanley will say: Nope! MY TURN!. ETC.

We have some very good players in the pipeline. Very good competition. We almost cannot miss putting out the punishing physical stud lines year after year like "the good old days". Let's just keep the coaching staff. All's well on the O-Line.

 

[TerryTate]

#2 Top Performer at Top Gun Camp this past weekend

#1 was Steve Elmer

http://notredame.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1387988

 

[Redbar]

Awesome job! Psyched about this class

 

[BGIF]

17 OLs Cited Including ND's Elmer and Montelus

17 OLs Cited Including ND's Elmer and Montelus

Rivals.com Football Recruiting - Summer Standouts: Top OL making a push

8/5/12

The summer camps have wound down and the Rivals.com recruiting analysts were all over the country, scouting hundreds of prospects. Over the next week, Rivals.com is releasing our Summer Standouts list, position-by-position. Here is our list of offensive linemen.

Note: This does not reflect a guaranteed move up in our next set of rankings. Many players listed had excellent summers but also proved we had them ranked in the correct range in our previous rankings. These are in alphabetical order

...

John Montelus, Everett (Mass.): Montelus' mark on the summer was made at Top Gun, where the Notre Dame commit put his power on display from the guard spot, handling most interior defensive linemen he faced. Montelus has a reputation as a prospect with a mean streak and he proved it at Top Gun.

 

[BGIF]

Montelus is ranked as Rivals #2 OG. He's worked his way up from #26.

 

[Irishman77]

While watching dermontti Dawson's hof speech Saturday I thought of big John.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

#1 Guard and #57 Overall in new Rivals 100

 

[Rhode Irish]

Boom.

 

[ThePiombino]

Excellence.

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[Ironman8]

Per the Rivals 100 chat, analyst Josh Helmholdt on why Montelus was chosen as the #1 Guard over Khaliel Rodgers:

"I got a chance to see both Khaliel and Montelus this summer, and I believe Montelus has the higher upside. Great size, great athleticism and strong as a bull. I'm going to be shocked if that kid isn't playing on Sundays someday."

 

[NDPhilly]

God I love our OL class.

 

[GBdomer]

Guess who asked that question? This guy.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

Guess who asked that question? This guy.

and here I thought it was some jelly USC fan mad because Montelus was ranked ahead.


Oh wait...


Just kiddin.

 

[GBdomer]

I was just surprised to see Montelus jump Rodgers.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

I was just surprised to see Montelus jump Rodgers.

Apparently so was Rodgers. Butt hurt even.

@K_rodgers55
I clearly had 1 of the best offseasons in the nation..I excelled at every camp..no olineman even compare to how hard I worked...


@K_rodgers55
Rethinking bout the army game

 

[GBdomer]

he mad.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

@K_rodgers55
I clearly had 1 of the best offseasons in the nation..I excelled at every camp..no olineman even compare to how hard I worked...

Khaliel: "I'm really happy for you, John, but I had one of the best offseasons of all time. Of all time."

 

[IrishLax]

Apparently so was Rodgers. Butt hurt even.

@K_rodgers55
I clearly had 1 of the best offseasons in the nation..I excelled at every camp..no olineman even compare to how hard I worked...


@K_rodgers55
Rethinking bout the army game

This is the one chance that we have. USC is recruiting so many 5 prima donnas that they very well may implode. Similar to what happened with that "epic" Florida class that came in calling themselves the Miami Heat. And at USC, we've already seen this rodeo with Henderson, Baxter, Ambles, Prater, etc.

 

[Rhode Irish]

Seriously...the Kanye/Swift picture was perfect, Whiskey. This Rodgers kid is definitely from the Kanye West School of Temperament. What kind of a spaz reacts that way to anything? Haha.

 

[BeauBenken]

Way to go John. My only question is, it takes 56 guys before you find a guy in the top 100? I guess too many other positions are bigger priority?

 

[Grahambo]

This is the one chance that we have. USC is recruiting so many 5 prima donnas that they very well may implode. Similar to what happened with that "epic" Florida class that came in calling themselves the Miami Heat. And at USC, we've already seen this rodeo with Henderson, Baxter, Ambles, Prater, etc.

Yeah, he's doing well in Miami.........not