Jack Britt Boasts Top Offensive Tackle

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Jack Britt (Fayetteville, N.C.) head coach Richard Bailey is no stranger to coaching top high school talents. But Bailey, who has coached Wake Forest standouts Patrick and Brandon Ghee and former Virginia Tech running back George Bell , may have his best prospect yet in 6-6, 280-pound junior offensive tackle Xavier Nixon .

Coach Bailey tabulated the big-time lineman’s Division 1A offers the other day, and the total came to 34. Coaches from all conferences have come to Fayetteville to recruit Nixon, who started out his high school career envisioning a college basketball career.

“Honestly, he was a basketball guy when he first started high school,” Bailey said of Nixon, who had “15 to 20” scholarship offers by the end of his junior season. “His first love is basketball, but he started to focus on football after I sat down with he and his parents after his sophomore year. I told them that 6-6 centers in basketball are a dime a dozen, but being a 6-6 offensive tackle will pay for college. He really dedicated himself to get stronger after that.”

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