We are pleased to report one of KPGFootball’s very favorite players from around the commonwealth of Kentucky has committed to the University of Charleston after having de-committed from Concord University and opening back up his recruitment. We have consistently maintained Ethan Wolford is one of Kentucky’s elite interior offensive linemen in his or really any class.
Big E is a representative of the 2020-class for us. Ethan Wolford represents to us a class which comprised our very first KPGFootball sophomore All-State team. He represents, and well, a class we feel we grew up covering.
Ethan has been a real success story which tracks very nearly the growth and expansion of this publication’s own sphere of influence. Wolford was a member of our first KPGFootball Sophomore All-State team. When we selected him, few outside of Pike County even knew who he was. As his play continued we would discover that was their fault, not his.
From that team, “Big E,” as we call him, parlayed this sophomore All-State football inclusion into selections to both the media and coaches’s All-State Football Teams (Coaches’s team-Courier-Journal (Louisville); Media’s team-Times Herald-Leader (Lexington)). KPGFootball, a voter on the media team, has been very proud to have both nominated him and voted ultimately for his inclusion on the Lexington Times Herald-Leader team.
Ethan gained selection to the East, Blue-Grey, All-American Football Team this year in spite of his never having attended either a Blue-Grey All-American regional or super-regional. How did he do this? Here’s how.
KPGFootball is the main Kentucky-selector to that particular All-American game and we insured his selection to the classic played at the home of the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta, Georgia. Wolford played very, very well; thus holding up his end of the bargain. His fine play has insured we will continue to get our kids on rosters in years up-coming. We happen to know we have some Kentucky kids in the 2021-class already slated to play in one of the Blue-Grey’s All-American games next year.
Ethan attended the Appalachia Prep Combine in 2019 and came away one of its most coveted and highly rated interior offensive linemen. Again, KPGFootball is the Kentucky Director of that combine and responsible for selecting Kentucky participants for that illustrious event.
Ethan’s exemplary and even spectacular performance at the event, last summer, insured KPGFootball’s “selections” would continue to be included in future events. There are a plethora of Kentucky’s finest slated to attend this year’s combine hosted at Bluefield College.
Every step of the way, KPGFootball has been there to promote and advance the prep-career of Ethan Wolford and many of his classmates. Every step of the way “Big-E” and his classmates have held up their ends of the bargain through exemplary play and exceedingly good citizenship. We have grown along with our players. We have both grown and developed since this journey began three years ago.
Boys, we have traveled this path together. We have grown in prestige and ability together. We have grown in sphere of influence together. It has been one-whale of a partnership and journey. Man, look at us now!
We are going to miss our Big-E’s out there around the class of 2020. Guys beside whom we feel we have now grown-up. We will miss guys like Grayson Cook, Reece Fletcher, Reese Smith, Reed Lanter, Octavius Oxendine, Devin Johnson, and, of course “Big E” together with many other names we could continue to list ad infinitum.
Good luck boys. It has been our inestimable pleasure. It has been quite the ride. We stand ready to help advance the playing career of the Next-Kentuckians-up!
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
Link: 2017 Sophomore All-State football team
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