Month: August 2019

Louisville’s Kiyaunta Goodwin ready to bang with the big boys!

August 8, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

When Phillip Fulmer, now the AD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, but once a National Championship winning football coach at the same school, met Kiyaunta Goodwin he exclaimed it was like being in the movie “The Blind Side” a second time. That movie featured the coming of age of Michael Oher who went on to become one of the NFL’s marquee tackles. Of course Michael Oher was only 6-4, 315-pounds. Kiyaunta Goodwin is 6-8, 350. Regardless, Kiyaunta has been favorably compared to such greats for years now and has the opportunity, this season, to come of age and really showcase what he can do. You see, the player formerly playing 1A football for Holy Cross has now transferred to Louisville’s Ballard High School (6A). Enjoy the article.

Darion Dearinger, Class of 2021, Schools better hop on this train before it leaves the station…

August 7, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

This is a phenomenon we discussed with Darion’s father just yesterday. Why was EKU the first to evaluate Dearinger and then only offer after two bigger, more prestigious schools pulled the trigger. Do they believe FBS schools are better at evaluating prospects than the coaches they have hired? Don’t know, but FCS schools slow-walking obvious Division I, FBS-Level talent is a strategy which some coach at that level might want to explain to us sometime. We don’t see the benefit of arriving at the station after the train has departed.

Byce Patterson is the “Woodford Reserve” of Woodford County QBs

August 6, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

This Woodford County product is rare among high school athletes, smooth, and comes in small batches. All of this sounds eerily like the Brown-Foreman Corporation’s whiskey known, world-wide, as “Woodford Reserve.” Enjoy this article about a young QB entering his sophomore year who we think, around the magazine, will be pretty special too.

Brody Wells, Knox Central, Ready for the Friday Night Lights

August 5, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

This guy has represented Kentucky in the Future Stars game and, coming out of middle school, is widely regarded one of the best football players in Kentucky’s 2023 class of prospects. What will he do under the shine of the lights on Friday Night? Well, that is anyone’s guess. We believe he will be an early contributor for the Panthers coming off a 10-4 season in 2018 and a birth in the Class 4A semi-finals. Enjoy this article.

The Beechwood Tigers, reloading in 2019 for a new batch of quarry…

August 4, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

We thought it would be fun to look in on one of the Kings of Kentucky Football, the Beechwood High School Tigers. The boys from Fort Mitchell have put up both an enviable and unmatched record of sustained excellence which includes 3 State 1A football titles in a row (2016, 17, 18), one runner-up (2015), 5 Regional Titles and appearances in the Semis (2009, 10, 11, 12, and 14) and a regional runner-up in 2013. Over that decade the Tigers have averaged an 11-3 mark per season and won slightly over 78% of the games in which it has played. Needless to say, they don’t rebuild, they reload. How do they look in 2019? Well, let’s just see…Enjoy the article.

Injury news from around the commonwealth…

August 3, 2019 Henry Lyon 0

Some pretty significant players from across Kentucky are nursing some injuries which could possibly impact their teams’ performances in 2019. Here are just a few of the more notable players reported as having sustained injury to KPGFootball. We are sure there are more. We can’t report on what we aren’t told. HB.

The Meeks & Meeks Montgomery County Player of the Week is Montgomery Central’s Ashton Hembree, Class of 2022

August 3, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

Looks as if Montgomery Central will be returning one of Montgomery County’s best football teams in 2019. Ashton Hembree will be among the reasons why we are willing to wager. Hembree has the tools to have a huge season in 2019 probably as a two-way player (DE,C). Enjoy this article brought to you by your friends and neighbors at Meeks and Meeks, Attorney’s in Clarksville, Tennessee. Remember if you have a problem, they have the solution.

The Stewart Williams Company’s Robertson County Player of the Week is Springfield High School’s D’angelo Petties, Class of 2023

August 2, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

This Stewart Williams Company Robertson County Player of the Week is D’angelo Petties, a 2023 player at Springfield High School who performs well at both MLG and FB and who also enjoys working with the youth of the county on football fundamentals. 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.

Connor Marshall (Class of 2020) has come into his own, looking for big senior year

August 1, 2019 Henry Lyon 1

How was Ray Graham able to step in and turn around a Thoroughbred football program in Cynthiana, Kentucky (Harrison County) which had won a total of 9 games from 2014-2017? Well, it certainly didn’t hurt to have a Marshall on hand. Coach Graham had previously coached two other Marshalls, one named Bubba, the other named Cliff. Now he’s coaching Connor. It would appear Connor is on the cusp of a big, big year.