Someone contacted old Coach Lyon and asked when we were going to put out our preseason top-10 football polls for each classification. Well, today seemed like as good a day as any to continue the tradition. Since KPGFootball started with the top classification when picking district winners, this time we started with Class 1A. Today we give you our projections for the next classification up from the lowest one, here is Class 2A!
I cried three times writing this article. Enjoy this feature about a young football player who is among the best Kentucky players at his position, in his or any graduating class with remaining eligibility, and whose play has reminded me of a coaching legend I greatly admired. HB.
Someone contacted old Coach Lyons and asked when we were going to put out our preseason top-10 football polls for each classification. Well, today seemed like as good a day as any to start. Since KPGFootball started with the top classification when picking district winners, this time we started with Class 1A.
We have the most extensive contacts who relate the most current and accurate data to us daily about the high school football world across Kentucky. Sometimes even we are amazed how right we turn out to be, seemingly all the time, and how much sooner we know who the football players are in Kentucky before any of our rivals. All they really have to do is read us…wait a minute, that is what they do. Here is a player whose anonymity (prior to today) will astound you. Cole Taul from Montgomery County High School, commonly referenced simply as MoCo. Enjoy this article.
Clay County has backed out of playing Breathitt County in the Honey Bowl this year. Don’t blame them, the Breathitt Bobcats are loaded and will have its strongest team in a number of years (we believe). South Laurel is close to finalizing the paperwork to come to “The Riverbank” and take on the Bobcats. The Cardinals, from Class 5A, District 8, would be a stern test for the Class 2A, District 7 home team. Here is a look at Coach Donnie Burdine’s Cardinals and how they project in 2019 and particularly as a Breathitt Honey Bowl opponent.
Today, all over Kentucky, is the first day teams have been able to wear what the KHSAA calls “shells.” What gear constitutes “shells” is set out in Bylaw 23 and its subparts. “Shells” are defined as shorts, helmet, and shoulder pads. Judging from some social media postings we have viewed in advance of today, some of you were confused as to exactly when you could add shoulder pads to your practice equipment. We watched one middle school video of a member school practicing in “shells” last week. Anyway, the donning of shoulder pads means different things to different players so we sent out a query to some of Kentucky’s best high school players to see what, if anything, it signified to them. This article contains what we received back from some of the players asked.
Sam Huff, Middlesboro’s top freshman footballer, and one of the very best in the 2A classification a year ago, appears to have relocated to Barboursville, Kentucky and enrolled at Knox Central. Enjoy this story thumb-nailing Huff as a 2022 prospect.
The season creeps up on us more and more daily. Monday, teams will be permitted to don what we call “shells” in football. Starting Monday, we will be putting on shoulder-pads to go along with the helmets we have been wearing since “Dead Period” ended. As the openers approach, one team we believe will be a favorite to win District 8 in Class 2A is Shelby Valley. Players returning like Dalton Meade is the reason why the prospects for the Wildcats from Pikeville, Kentucky look so rosy. Enjoy the article about one of the Mountain’s best back-four defensive players and one of its most versatile backfield weapons.
Congratulations to the 7s team for Madisonville North-Hopkins for its play in this week’s Best of the West 7 on 7 tournament in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and for being this week’s Independence Bank Revolutionary Players of the Week. Join us next week for another selection.
This Stewart Williams Company Robertson County Player of the Week is Tyrekus Garrett a 2021 player at Springfield High School who performs well at both FB and MLB in spite of being what some people would say is undersized. Sometimes the most important players on any team are the ones who don’t look exactly as you would expect them to look. That certainly sums up Tyrekus well. Enjoy this article brought to you by the fine folks at your locally owned, hometown Stewart Williams Furniture Company. Don’t forget to stop by again next week as we crown another deserving recipient.
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