'10 OH OT Matt James (Notre Dame Signee)

[SoCalDomer]

Offensive Tackle
Cincinnati (OH) St. Xavier

Ht: 6-8
Wt: 290
Forty: 5.2
Bench max: 305
Squat max: 445
GPA: 3.5

Ranking:
Rivals: , #14 OT, Rating 5.9
Scout: , #11 OT
ESPN: , #14 OT, Grade 80

Offers:
Ohio State (OV 12/11)
Notre Dame (OV 1/29/10)

Cincinnati (OV 1/15/10)
Florida (Cancelled OV 1/15/10)
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Illinois
Louisville
North Carolina
North Carolina St
Northwestern
Penn State
Stanford
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Virginia Tech
Wisconsin

ND Recruiter: Tenuta

Decision: NSD, FEB 3

 

[SoCalDomer]

Likely one of the top OL prospects for 2010.

 

[SoCalDomer]

Some highlights

Matt James Video Scouting Ohio

 

[irishmarine]

great work socal on all of these kids. sounds like we are really going after these lineman hard. thats great news.

 

[irishmarine]

is it me or did they run behind him everytime. this kid is sick. good footwork and gets to the second level

 

[ndlb41]

this kid his huge!! and he has more time to get bigger wow!!

 

[Junkhead]

If he's a legitimate 6-8 with 2 years of HS left....damn.

 

[SoCalDomer]

St. Xavier junior OL Matt James has offers from UC, Illinois and Tennessee, St. X football coach Steve Specht said in an e-mail this afternoon.

James, who is 6 feet 7 and about 290 pounds, is one of the state's top 2010 prospects.

Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati High School Sports | Cincinnati.Com

 

[SoCalDomer]

Visited unofficially for the Pitt game: (free) Scout.com: Recruiting week in review.

 

[irishmarine]

any word on how his visit went. other thanthe obvious disapointment of watching the irish lose the game

 

[MirageSmack]

I wish I had paid attention when he came into town to play Trinity a month ago, but didn't see this thread. But their whole OL was slow I thought, and was schooled by the smaller, faster Trinity team, who won big.

 

[GOLDENISTHYTATE]

Amid dozens and dozens of scholarship offers, ESPN has posted that Matt James has three favorites as of right now Ohio State, Cincinnati, and Notre dame. This is definitely a kid who is high on us.

 

[allnd1962]

It would be nice to get him away from tosu and the backyard of the Bearcats.

 

[nthurman]

is he going to be at the Blue and Gold game? Do we know who will be there yet?

 

[ant80]

So am I reading correct here? He really doesn't have a ND offer?

 

[NDinL.A.]

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[jjsccer2]

this is matt james not james hurst.

 

[NDinL.A.]

this is matt james not james hurst.

OOPS! My bad. Thanks for the clarification. I'll fix it above...

 

[NDinL.A.]

Alright, I was right originally, but I got my players mixed up. But I knew he was offered, as it was fixed already in the title of the thread.

Cincinnati (Ohio) St. Xavier offensive lineman Matt James already had a very impressive scholarship offer list that included Ohio State, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, Tennessee, Alabama, Cincinnati, Illinois and Stanford. The list has become even more impressive in the past week.

The 6-foot-8 and 280-pound James has added scholarship offers from LSU, Penn State, Florida State and Miami.

 

[NDinL.A.]

Matt was at the open practice today. Nice news to hear from a very good recruit. He'll be tough to pull from OSU but getting him to SB is huge...

 

[Clausen2Kamara]

Yea that was nice to hear. He was with Lombard.

 

[OCIrish]

Yea that was nice to hear. He was with Lombard.

Hopefully that's a good sign. I would like to land him as well as Hurst, Henderson, Linder, and well, that would give us another OL to play with.

 

[Clausen2Kamara]

Yea this class of OL is reminding me of a few years back where we landed Young and Co. It could be huge and it's an obvious need which recruits should see...

 

[Brown]

Matt James visited open practice and had nothing but great things to say about the experience. I'm really like our chances with him.

disclaimer: I know every recruit only has positive comments after visiting any school, but, his comments seemed uniquely positive.

 

[OCIrish]

Good, let's hope he's all Irish.

 

[Clausen2Kamara]

Its looking good. I'm feeling very good with him...No facts just a vibe...Recruits who visit for a practice b4 the spring game weekend are obviously verrrrrry interested...

 

[irishmarine]

lets all hope so

 

[IrishInFl]

Its looking good. I'm feeling very good with him...No facts just a vibe...Recruits who visit for a practice b4 the spring game weekend are obviously verrrrrry interested...

Kyle Rudolph went to the same school right? Are they friends? Will this effect his decision? I'm getting interested to see how this plays out.

 

[dyrtdogg]

Kyle Rudolph went to the same school right? Are they friends? Will this effect his decision? I'm getting interested to see how this plays out.

Same city, but Rudolph went to Elder. James goes to St. X.

 

[Clausen2Kamara]

You can bet Rudolph will def be in his ear especially with our lack of depth at the Tackle positions..