Centre College Football

Jaxson Dernocoeur got a taste of what varsity football entails and finds himself hungry for more! @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @bigassfans, @LasatersCoffee, @FC_FALCONS_FB 

February 10, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

Jason Dernocoeur is a guy who has loads of promise and appears prepared to do lots of work to develop into the type player he wants to be. He is built like an interior offensive lineman, wears the number of a guard or center, but will probably have to pull “double duty” through much of his high school career. This young guys has shown he has what it takes to get it done. Congratulations to Jaxson Dernocoeur for being our ‘Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (or Tea)’ Player of the Week from Lasaters Coffee & Tea where you are more than served, you are loved!

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Graham Kleykamp welcoming Coach Chirco and staff with open arms! @GKley31, @MontgomeryFTBL, @chirico_joe, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @bigassfans, @eCampusdotcom

February 7, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

We bet you didn’t know a Kee Klamp is a real thing. It is a galvanized, steel pipe fitting with thread-less connections used to create pipe hand railing and other pipe-based structures. Our Graham Keyklamp shares some characteristics with the Kee Klamp used in construction. In this feature we will tell you about this star from Montgomery County and his plans to thrive under the tutelage of a brand spanking new head football coach. Enjoy the feature.

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Step one: Keep Ezekiel Wiseman on the field @EzekielWiseman9, @CoachMikeJones2, @estill_fb, @EstillAthletics, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @bigassfans, @eCampusdotcom

February 5, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

Every high school has an all-time football coach. Some of these guys are in the KHSAA Hall of Fame and others of them aren’t well known outside of their territories. Regardless, all of these guys were great and have wonderful attributes which made them the kind of men for whom families, for generations, have entrusted their sons. Hoover Niece, a KHSAA Hall of Famer, was such a coach and we believe Austin Moore is headed in a great direction. Enjoy this look at a kid named for a famous prophet but whose future success doesn’t take a prophet to foresee.

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Centre Colonels pluck top Florida safety (Justin Rode, Fort Myers) for ’26 signing class… @CoachRodeBV, @JustinRode_, @H2_Recruiting, @CoachSimmons_CC, @bigassfans, @khsaafootball, @eCampusdotcom, @LasatersCoffee

February 2, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

The Centre Colonels recruit better than almost any small college in the Kentucky area. Chief among the reasons the Colonels are viewed as such a prestigious offer by area prospects is Centre’s standing among peer institutions, the quality of the education it both help funds and provides to it student body, its prestigious history, its second to none facilities, and its second to none social, academic, and even athletic opportunities the school provides to and for its student body. Centre is a big leagues school which attracts big time talent to its athletic programs, football included, (perhaps) football especially. Centre has struck oil again plucking out of Fort Myers one of Florida’s premier safeties. Justin Rode is a coach’s son, has the football IQ that entails, carried a 4.1-GPA and an SAT of 1200, and brings an element of power, speed, and twitch which should be reminiscent of another former Colonel great from E-Town. Enjoy this feature.

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Jackson Wyatt from Calloway County is our Bank of Cadiz feature of the Week @KatherineL58069, @WyattRobbins9, @MurrayQBClub, @LasatersCoffee, @eCampusdotcom, @bigassfans, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @Ale8One, @CountyColonels, @HopHighTigers, @murrayFB

February 2, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

We continue on with our offseason coverage not really discussing players of the week so much as discussing featured players and prospects. Jackson Wyatt is a kid with a ton athletic ability and potential who found himself on the varsity playing field, under the Friday Night Lights, more than most expected. Wyatt will be called on to be “The Man” going forward as Calloway loses some all-timer types from off the roster this Spring to the graduation platform. Wyatt is among the commonwealth’s better players among ’29s and is already enjoying varsity success in other sports. Wyatt is the kind of kid coaches want to coach and, in the end, that may be the finest compliment which can be paid to him. Enjoy the feature.

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Mason Trimble pledges to the Colonels from Centre College and is our @bigassfans Kentucky Comfort Creator of the Week @StXTigersFB, @trimble_mason, @CoachKWallace, @CoachAndyFrye, @CoachOrts, @CentreFootball, @CoachLandis22, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball

January 30, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

Mason Trimble did a ton of stuff in 2025. He was ranked a top-5 Kentucky QB by nearly every national publication which publishes such rankings, he made our large school all-state football team, he led his team to 10-wins, threw for over 2,000-yards, around 26-TDs, ran for another 8-scores and did all of this against the hardest schedule played by any KHSAA football team at any level of competition. Now, in ’26, he has pledged himself to Kentucky’s most prestigious, liberal arts, small college football program. However, there is nothing small about being a Centre Man. Enjoy the feature and let’s keep it comfortable out there, Kentucky!

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Rylan Kelsey from Johnson Central High standing tall among the ’29s in the KHSAA @JCEaglesInfo, @jcfootball2025, @coachjessepeck, @bigassfans, @eCampusdotcom, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball

January 29, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

There are a ton of good football players in Painstville, Johnson County, Kentucky. There are some mighty good wrestlers too. That goes back to the days of the great Jim Matney who was a Hall of Fame coach in both sports, football and wrestling. Rylan Kelsey is an accomplished wrestler who showed he was also a darn fine football player. Not too many freshmen contribute to an 11-win, 4A roster to the extent Kelsey did in 2025. Enjoy this look at a guy who will develop into a multi-phase threat in football and is already a contender at his weight class in wrestling.

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Braylon Nester from George Rogers Clark is the @bigassfans Kentucky Comfort Creator of the Week @bigassfans, @KyHighFootball, @khsaafootball, @BraylonNester1, @LemmingReport, @CoachHaddix11

January 23, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

We heard a player described by a coach who had offered him as a “Football Playing Jesse.” We looked that term up and, what do you know, it really is a thing. A “Football Playing Jesse” is a guy who may not be the right frame, may be a tad small, or a tad slow, or whatever but is just a guy who “does it” when he gets o the field between the lines and under the lights. Today we feature a kid who is as Football Playing of a Jesse as any kid in the KHSAA. Enjoy this look at one of the best football players the commonwealth of Kentucky has competition at any level of competition.

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West Jessamine has a ‘Bird-Dawg’ in its lineup… @Aspirationsgym, @NashBird24, @WJCOLTSFootball, @bigassfans, @eCampusdotcom, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball

January 21, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

The Everly brothers told us “Johnny [was] a Joker (He’s a bird)/ A very funny joker (He’s a bird)… What they would have told us, were they still with us, is that Johnny isn’t the only Bird. Nash Bird is a “Bird” and a very smooth and not so funny weapon for whom to have to game plan if you are playing Coach Scott Marsh’s football team. Bird had a huge junior year and was a player who should have been on our Large School All-State Football Team. What can we tell you? We missed. We have our eyes on him now and if he continues to play his senior season the way he played in ’25, I wouldn’t count on us missing him a second time. Enjoy this feature.

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Kylan Combs from Breathitt has taken the long way home @combs_kory, @Elithomas1219, @BreathittFb, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @bigassfans, @eCampusdotcom

January 17, 2026 Fletcher Long 0

Among my favorite groups in the seventies was the group “Supertramp.” They had a wonderful song entitled, “Take the Long Way Home” released in 1979. Kylan Combs knows all about taking the long way to anywhere. Combs’s home is on a football field, positioned at safety, or anywhere on a gridiron actually. You see, Kylan Combs is a “Combs.” In the Appalachias, you don’t have to say any more. We fully understand the level of citizenship that surname requires and signifies and the football playing effort and talent associated with that particular family throughout the region. Kylan Combs has taken the long way home to stardom in Breathitt’s defensive third level once again and has made another of our Small School All-State Football Teams (Big Ass Fans) and we are mighty glad to welcome him home. Enjoy the article.

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