We’ve caught a little heat out there for not ranking Montgomery County among our top ten teams in the 5A classification. Our catching heat for this is well deserved. It doesn’t change our prediction, but it is well deserved.
Montgomery County (MoCo) in both 2017 and 2018 have easily been a top-ten team in the 5A classification and the class of district 6. Of course, that was before the realignment.
Post realignment, the KHSAA has re-classified two very successful programs, formerly in the 6A classification, to the same district in 5A as Montgomery County. Basically, our not ranking MoCo in the Class 5A top-ten had more to do with what we think about Scott County (6A State-finalist in 2018) and Frederick Douglass (lost to Scott by a single point in the playoffs and were 11-1 in 6A a year ago) than a poor reflection on a team we both admire and regard highly.
One thing is for certain, the Indians have a warrior along its offensive front in Adam McCune and warriors run in the McCune family. Father Rich McCune played at Breathitt County High School and is one of only 9 players in the fabric of its very rich football tapestry to be selected first-team All-State. Brother Luke McCune played at MoCo and was an honorably mentioned All-State player himself.
Jamie Egli, the head coach at MoCo, is down to his last McCune for the foreseeable future. That’s the bad news. The good news…Adam plays football like a…well, like a McCune!
Adam (2020) is listed on the roster at 6-1 and weighs 225 pounds and has started the last 25 games for the Indians, after playing in only three games as a freshman. McCune plays guard along the offensive front.
With McCune on the OL, MoCo has won 19 of its 25 games (2018, 10-3; 2017, 9-3). The Indians, in 2018, rushed for 3,088 yards, passed for 2,419 yards, and scored 468 points in its 12 contests (39 per).
Adam McCune, whose Hudl page has been linked for your easy access, is a hard-charger from the interior OL slot. From what we have seen on film, he attacks the first level and collisions off to the second and even third levels. He gains easy separation from defenders with his stem technique and both runs his feet and pounds the ground through the whistle upon engaging with the target.
Adam uses superior leverage among his tools and plays at the consistent pad-level line coaches prefer. He’s what we call, in the business of coaching the o-line, a “meat-mover.” What this means is he carries the fight to the first level by pushing, or “moving,” if you will, the first level defender back into the defensive second level.
Adam doesn’t play a lot of football in the offensive backfield. Coaches certainly want the interior o-line to avoid giving up too much ground. Nothing good for any offense ever gets accomplished with a D-line getting middle penetration straight back into your QB’s lap.
Adam McCune is a football player. He’s a Friday night battler. For a high school player, he’s a five-star, meaning he would be among the first players a high school coach would pick to take out on the field with him in a high school game.
McCune is more than just a Montgomery County Indian…he’s a warrior. For that matter, he’s a McCune. We shouldn’t expect anything less from him. For the McCune’s; football is a family tradition.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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