Todd County Middle School has opened the year 1-0, beating Webster County 42-6 in Dixon, Kentucky. The game featured the fantastic play of Todd County’s top-rated, dual-threat QB in Kentucky’s 2024 class of prospects.
Todd County was supposed to play a game last evening against a team which cancelled due to the heat index. The game has been rescheduled.
Owenboro Middle School, also boasting some of the elite middle school talent in Kentucky, had its first game cancelled with a team which has “chickened-out” of playing the Red Devils now three years straight.
This begs the following question? Are there teams out there, competing in middle school football, who are so much better than their competition, or have players on the roster so far superior than anyone else’s at a particular position, that middle school teams and coaches are “chickening out” of playing them.
To the casual observer, and in our case the “not so casual” observer, it would appear so. Well, while we don’t condone not honoring your word to play a football game, we can see, in certain instances, how a middle school may not want to play OMS or any team with Joshuah Keith at QB, even it that team is perennial door-mat Todd County Central.
Josh Keith has an impressive résumé. He was the Russell Wilson Award winner at the Bret Cooper Junior All-American game in Dallas last year awarded to the outstanding QB. He was Kentucky’s offensive MVP in June in the Kentucky-Tennessee Future Stars game in which he led Kentucky to victory on the last drive.
He ran a 4.73-second 40 and a 4.0-second pro-agility shuttle at the Appalachia Prep Combine this summer and ran a 4.69-second 40 at the Kentucky Future Stars combine. He threw a high school football 59-yards in the air, this past summer, in Knoxville, Tennessee at Tony Colston’s Gunslinger Challenge.
Now, Keith (at least this year) is quarterbacking a team which has never been very good and, most years, has been abysmal. I wonder if last night’s opponent would have cited the “heat index” as a reason to cancel the game if Joshuah Keith were not playing QB on the other team?
I wonder if the re-scheduling was in good faith and they intend to keep the second date or is it just a precursor to ultimately backing out of the game while trying to hide its cowardice? Only time will tell.
Regardless, teams having to play Joshuah Keith have every reason to be scared. High School teams will be no-less scared and they won’t want to play him either we predict. I suppose that is why high school teams enter contracts to play each other which include liquidated damages provision in case of breech.
Hey, that’s an idea. Maybe OMS and TCMS can start insisting on contracts!
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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