'17 GA S Xavier McKinney (Offer)

[BobbyMac]

Free Safety
Roswell GA
Roswell HS

Measurements:
6-1
185

Rankings:

247 Comp ..... ....... #11 S ..... #118 OA ......... .9435 rating

247 ............... ....... #21 S ..... #241 OA ........... 90 rating
Rivals ............ ....... #5 S ....... #57 OA ............. 6.0 rating
Scout ............ ....... #18 S ..... #171 OA
ESPN ............ ....... #9 S ....... #98 OA .............. 84 rating

Offers:
Notre Dame
Bama
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
Georgia
Ole Miss
Miss St
Oklahoma
S Carolina
Tennessee
Va Tech

Media Links:

Twitter - mckinney_xavier

Xavier McKinney - Hudl


Highlights:

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[BobbyMac]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Blessed to receive a offer from Notre Dame ✳️✳️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThefightingIrish?src=hash">#ThefightingIrish</a> <a href="https://t.co/JONsgKr5d3">pic.twitter.com/JONsgKr5d3</a></p>— Xavier Mckinney (@mckinney_xavier) <a href="https://twitter.com/mckinney_xavier/status/704465099096989697">March 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[PANDFAN]

check the master list...i posted some quotes he gave yesterday

 

[BobbyMac]

Per Rivals via Panda:

"It's a huge offer for me," McKinney said when asked about Notre Dame. "I'm committed to Alabama, but I'm still kind of looking around so I will probably take a trip to Notre Dame soon maybe for the Junior Day on March 19."

"[My parents] are excited like they are with most of the offers, but they want to take a trip and see what it's like," he added.

"I just want to give every school a chance," he said. "That's kind of what my parents want to do. Just look at everything."

rivals

 

[dad4aa]

This is nice and all, but have we ever flipped a recruit from Bama?

 

[fightingirish26]

This is nice and all, but have we ever flipped a recruit from Bama?

Kareem? Sort of

 

[koonja]

This is nice and all, but have we ever flipped a recruit from Bama?

That DE from this year's class. He decommitted then a few weeks later committed to ND. But he's also from Michigan I believe.

The question should be have we ever flipped a Bama commit from Louisiana/Bama/Georgia area.

 

[dad4aa]

That DE from this year's class. He decommitted then a few weeks later committed to ND. But he's also from Michigan I believe.

The question should be have we ever flipped a Bama commit from Louisiana/Bama/Georgia area.

Good point. You are correct, I am looking at flipping someone FROM the south committed to Bama.

 

[BobbyMac]

The reason you offer guys like this is not to flip him from Bama but to be there for him when Bama over recruits his position, he decommits and he re-opens his recruitment. McKinney is a solid 4 star guy with a 94+ Composite but the fact is, Bama has SIX offers out to higher rated guys that could play FS.

Hopefully both Clemson and Bama do this and McKinney and his teammate LeAnthony Williams want to package deal themselves to the Irish.

 

[Kingbish01]

He said his dream school is OSU and the word on the street (Roswell..lol) is if Urban comes calling he is 100% flipping.

 

[Kingbish01]

The reason you offer guys like this is not to flip him from Bama but to be there for him when Bama over recruits his position, he decommits and he re-opens his recruitment. McKinney is a solid 4 star guy with a 94+ Composite but the fact is, Bama has SIX offers out to higher rated guys that could play FS.

Hopefully both Clemson and Bama do this and McKinney and his teammate LeAnthony Williams want to package deal themselves to the Irish.

I'm surprised Clemson didn't lock him up since they already have Tre Lamar on campus.

 

[dad4aa]

He said his dream school is OSU and the word on the street (Roswell..lol) is if Urban comes calling he is 100% flipping.

Just when Crusader got my hopes up...you come crashing them down.

 

[koonja]

Bama commit in Georgia. We have a better chance relocating to California and fielding a team exclusively with kids from Fresno. /thread.

 

[NDRock]

Bama commit in Georgia. We have a better chance relocating to California and fielding a team exclusively with kids from Fresno. /thread.

Sounds like a Stanford lock (assuming he gets his SAT score up enough).

 

[ColinKSU]

He said his dream school is OSU and the word on the street (Roswell..lol) is if Urban comes calling he is 100% flipping.

Oh, this should be fun.

 

[NDRock]

Oh, this should be fun.

That's actually good. Let Ohio State fill up with kids we have no chance with anyway. Less room for them to take the kids we also want. That's my positive spin on it anyway.

 

[BobbyMac]

The staff was at his HS today. I've read stories that he's wanting to visit again. Any word behind the pay walls if he's in for II?

 

[GBdomer]

The staff was at his HS today. I've read stories that he's wanting to visit again. Any word behind the pay walls if he's in for II?

Nothing, don't think he ends up at Bama though. Maybe an OV visit but summer visits usually set up officials and then you have a chance so hopefully staff can make a move.

 

[BobbyMac]

Nothing, don't think he ends up at Bama though. Maybe an OV visit but summer visits usually set up officials and then you have a chance so hopefully staff can make a move.

Damn.

I wonder if they were looking at Corey Reed? 6-3 WR that Rivals has had ND linked to in interest for some time. I read a local Georgia story a while back (when McKinney and Williams got offered) saying they were in contact and that he was very interested.

Back to McKinney. He had 9 Int's at FS last year on the #2 team in GA and Top 25 nationally.

Want Want Want

 

[Irish#1]

Any reason why he's shopping around?

 

[PANDFAN]

surprise, he ditched Bama...likely heading to Georgia

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

Smart and his staff are killing it this year.

 

[PANDFAN]

Smart and his staff are killing it this year.

pretty easy when you have a completely rich recruiting ground, play in SEC and just so happen to be the former DC of bama...richt could never get them over the hill, hopefully smart won't either

 

[OCIrish]

If Smart had an offense in Athens.......he's gonna have a damned stout defense before too long. He's gonna be hard to beat!!

 

[ThePiombino]

We scheduled UGA at the absolute worst time.

 

[Kingbish01]

He'll end up at OSU, and if not he is more likely to land at Clemson than UGA.

 

[dwshade]

We scheduled UGA at the absolute worst time.

Oh please.

 

[BobbyMac]

In other news this guy at AL.com just got hired by the Onion.com

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alabama commit <a href="https://twitter.com/mckinney_xavier">@mckinney_xavier</a> bonds with other Tide pledges at The Opening, <a href="https://t.co/pdwnE7gXKZ">https://t.co/pdwnE7gXKZ</a></p>— Drew Champlin (@DrewChamplin) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewChamplin/status/753599016567443456">July 14, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[BobbyMac]

Throw another one in UGa's DB funnel. Recruit them all because they can't all go there.

The State of Georgia has nine 4 star DB's. Unbelievable.

 

[dwshade]

Smart and his staff are killing it this year.

Reason is state of Georgia is absolutely loaded this year. More top D-1 prospects this year than California. Only Florida and Texas have more.