Okay, the spelling “Cam’Ron” isn’t something we see every day, but I would gently suggest you get accustomed to spelling it. That is, if you happen to be a media member and you happen to cover Kentucky High School football.
One of the things we love to do at KPGFootball is forecast tomorrow’s stars. We have a freshman All-State team, and forecasting those guys will eventually become high school stars is not a stretch. After all, they are both playing and mightily contributing on Friday nights as freshmen.
However, not every primetime freshman player makes KPGFootball’s freshman team. We can’t get them all and never claim too.
Bourbon County, which is a class 4A team districted with Anderson County, Boyle County, and Lexington Catholic, so pretty much the hardest district in the classification, won 4-games last year. That was a masterful coaching job by Dave Jones as the talent was a year or two away from being competition ready.
Now, with Boyle having graduated a dream roster and losing one of Kentucky’s best and most accomplished high school coaches in Chuck Smith (albeit, Boyle reloaded with Justin Haddix, about whom you can say the same), Lexington Catholic graduating a QB which may never be adequately replaced (as good as he was), and Anderson County undergoing a regime change and coming off a 4-win season itself, Boyle may be poised to make some noise. That ought to be the 2020 slogan Boyle County Football 2020, Poised to Make Noise!
Feel free to use that guys. It’s on us.
One of the reasons the Colonels appear to us to be poised to reassume the type success it experienced in the 90s is young talent like Cam’ron Boatwright. Cam played in 11-games for the 4A football team in one of KHSAA’s tougher districts regardless of classification.
The 6-0, 185-pound, Class of 2023er, pictured with Dave Jones, projects to play both TE and DE. Now he didn’t record a single reception on offense but on defense the kid had 17-tackles, half a TFL, and recovered a fumble. Modest numbers, but just a jumping off point for what is about to happen.
Cam is a two-sport athlete, according to our research who hails originally from outside Atlanta. He was visiting a family with whom he has been lifelong associated (through church) which just so happened to live in Paris. He attended the Holiday Classic girls’ basketball tournament, while Cam was still a middle-schooler, and was bitten by the desire to play for the Colonels. Cam’Ron moved, after the holiday break of his 8th-grade year, in with the family we are referencing and was fully eligible to play by Fall.
He had never before competed on a high school varsity football roster down in Georgia. You will find, that makes a ton of difference regarding eligibility.
If one is to move, it is infinitely easier to pull that off as an 8th-grader-rising 9th-grader than transferring after having competed as a varsity athlete in the sport for which you are seeking eligibility.
Anyway, as above noted, Boatwright was able to very substantially contribute to the Colonel varsity roster even though just a freshman. What he does as a sophomore will astound you. That is our prediction…write it down!
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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