• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

'10 OH OL Matt James (Notre Dame Signee - RIP)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Cloudy;1688595; said:
Anyone know if Tressel and company went to the funeral?
Click to expand...
I don't know if it would be appropriate for them to attend. He picked Notre Dame. If they show up it might draw attention away from the relations this kid enjoyed with family and friends. Some folks might interpret Ohio State coaches attending as an attempt to score points with the St X community rather than show respect for a recruit that chose to go somewhere else. I'd be surprised if they attended.
 
Upvote 0
Steve19;1688610; said:
I don't know if it would be appropriate for them to attend. He picked Notre Dame. If they show up it might draw attention away from the relations this kid enjoyed with family and friends. Some folks might interpret Ohio State coaches attending as an attempt to score points with the St X community rather than show respect for a recruit that chose to go somewhere else. I'd be surprised if they attended.
Click to expand...

That's a sick way of seeing things, if some people actually would think that. I would see it as a classy move. I don't think they went though.
 
Upvote 0
starBUCKS;1688614; said:
That's a sick way of seeing things, if some people actually would think that. I would see it as a classy move. I don't think they went though.
Click to expand...

We live in a sick world. It wouldn't be the people associated with Matt or, probably, St. X who would see it that way however.
 
Upvote 0
Cloudy;1688595; said:
Anyone know if Tressel and company went to the funeral?
Click to expand...

Don't know that it would be appropriate to attend for the simple reason they don't have much of a connection. How many funerals do you go to that involve people you've met maybe a handful of times? That sounds a bit harsher then it is but funerals are really meant for people to remember someone who they were close to or had a significant impact on their lives
 
Upvote 0
JBaney45;1688684; said:
Don't know that it would be appropriate to attend for the simple reason they don't have much of a connection. How many funerals do you go to that involve people you've met maybe a handful of times? That sounds a bit harsher then it is but funerals are really meant for people to remember someone who they were close to or had a significant impact on their lives
Click to expand...

A handful of times? They recruited him since his sophomore year in high school.
 
Upvote 0
DontHateOState;1688700; said:
A handful of times? They recruited him since his sophomore year in high school.
Click to expand...

Doesn't mean Tressel was coming over to the house for dinner every Friday. Ohio State recruits a LOT of kids. Tressel has the kind of relationship with his own players past and present that would obviously merit him attending one of their funerals. I mean I'm sure no one would expect him to attend a funeral of someone who he happened to recruit 15 years ago or something. Again it sounds a little bit more blunt then it is, but if I were to look at it from James perspective I don't think Tressel would be one of the people I would expect to be there
 
Upvote 0
JBaney45;1688684; said:
Don't know that it would be appropriate to attend for the simple reason they don't have much of a connection. How many funerals do you go to that involve people you've met maybe a handful of times? That sounds a bit harsher then it is but funerals are really meant for people to remember someone who they were close to or had a significant impact on their lives
Click to expand...

I agree. I could see Tressel writing a letter to the family but not attending the funeral.
 
Upvote 0
Matt James, Notre Dame Recruit, Had Blood-Alcohol Level of 0.19 -- NCAAFB FanHouse

Matt James, the Notre Dame recruit who died April 2 when he fell from a hotel balcony in Panama City, Fla., had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.

The toxicology report was released Wednesday. A person is considered legally drunk in Florida with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08.

James, a 6-foot-8, 280-pound offensive lineman from Cincinnati, was planning to enroll at Notre Dame in June. He was in Florida on spring break with a group of six adults and 40 other students from Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School.

Continued...
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
MaxBuck;1700840; said:
The adult chaperones on that trip have much to answer for.
Click to expand...

If the adults truly were expected to act as chaperons--there was some comment from locals in Cincy that they were not--then I agree entirely.

I feel most sorry for his parents because they will be calling themselves to account, for many years to come, for allowing him to go on this trip. Just think of all the trips to pee-wee football and games through high school, the excitement of college recruitment and making a choice, and then to have this end. I am so very sorry for them.
 
Upvote 0
FCollinsBuckeye;1700870; said:
According to this site, about 18 beers in 3 hours.
Click to expand...

Are we going to blame chaperones for this kind of stupidity?

I'm not.

Definitely a tragic situation, and RIP, but he was old enough to know that amount of alcohol is out of hand.

Now if a chaperone was giving him the drinks as he was drinking them, different story.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top