This past Saturday the Tiger family and, really, all of Kentucky High School football, lost one of its brightest, rising stars. EJ Austin was the consummate leader, teammate, competitor, athlete. Tonight at the Stadium of Champions, his teammates will come together, over his memory, and play a football game against […]
Players, coaches, and even football fans from all over the Commonwealth of Kentucky have expressed a wish to attend either the visitation or funeral for EJ Austin. Â The arrangements for Elijah Scott Austin (EJ) are as follows: Visitation Saturday, October 14, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. there will […]
Hoptown’s Tigers lay to rest its brightest young football star…a town left in mourning I was not there when Elijah was Christened with the name of one of the most famous of all of God’s servants. I can only imagine he was so named in reference to the Elijah whose story […]
At one time I was on the Board of Directors of the Clarksville (TN) Football Playmakers Academy. We had many players matriculate through that organization to play in College on Saturdays, and a few went onto the NFL to play on Sundays. In our first class, we had Jalen Reeves-Maybin, […]
Well, for most teams in the Commonwealth, we have reached the mid-point of the 2017 High School Football Season and its now time to get to business as most teams are facing District opponents in games with playoff implications. Play time is over folks. In recognition of that fact, we […]
Well, tonight I go back to an old stomping ground, after having been so kindly invited by Taylor Stokes, The Voice of Wildcat Football, a post I formerly held myself in a past life. I will be there to enjoy the contest between the Choctaws from Newburn, Tennessee (Dyer County High […]
Well, sports fans, Hoptown and Owensboro are both off this week but there are some interesting match-ups around the Western Kentucky area tomorrow night. We here at Kentucky Prep Gridiron, in order to get you ready for the action, will preview the contests and provide our prediction at the conclusion.  Here […]
Rudy is one of my favorite movies. It is a movie about a walk-on football player who spent his whole life dreaming of playing for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. He goes to a junior college across the way, gains admission to Notre Dame as a Junior and plays two […]
The below is the present MaxPreps Top 25 in the Kentucky 4A Classification after factoring in the games played this past Friday night. According to the people of MaxPreps, the poll is computer generated and doesn’t poll coaches, sportswriters, or fans. It eliminates the necessity of staff making judgments on the […]
At the season’s mid-point, and with a reference to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, we at Kentucky Prep Gridiron would like to look at two teams we think are hot, two we think are cold, and two we think are just about right. Here we go… Too Hot… The […]
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