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Slow Motion Replay: Doc Ferrell walked through Prestonsburg like a Demi-god @PrestonsburgFB, @SrHighFootball, @khsaafootball, @UKFootball, @KyHighFootball, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans

May 20, 2025 Fletcher Long 5

I think the world of Dan Goble. I am also mindful of the responsibility of this online magazine to be the recorders of KHSAA football history. I don’t know why the job has fallen to us, I just know that it has. That is why when I got a call from Coach Goble asking me to feature a former coach who meant the world to him, I was eager to comply with the request. From that phone call, this article materialized. I would like to thank my mother, and the DAR, for contributing to this piece. We have resurrected the story of a former great we were required to rescue from the dustbin of history, soon to be forgotten forever. Thank Goodness we got to it before it was gone. Enjoy this article.

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Slow Motion Replay: Bob Redman, Renaissance Man @ItsChris_Redman, @OwensboroSports, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @MaleBulldogs

May 19, 2025 Fletcher Long 5

Bob Redman was a true Renaissance Man in that he was able to do a variety of things while doing them all very well. Redman was among the greatest high school football coaches the Louisville area has ever known and managed to beat both St. Xavier and Trinity more than any other Louisville area coach in spite of coaching a team in one of those powerhouses’s districts in 30 of his 35-years. Redman averaged over 9-wins a season for 35-seasons. Playing against the best and most talented rosters the commonwealth of Kentucky had to offer, that is really something quite remarkable. Enjoy this feature.

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Jesse Clark, Murray High, is on quite a few prospect lists across KY @GoldRushNathan, @JesseClark2027, @murrayhighFB, @Coach_Hugo33, @Dickerson_Coach, @MurrayQBClub, @PrepRedzoneKY, @Chapman42071, @DCHS_Football, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball

May 19, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Jesse Clark is a 6’3,” 260 pound DE who many believe is about the best DE on the western end of KY. Clark has the frame, length, and size you want at the “big schools” and with a 3.5-GPA he is also sure to gain admission pretty much everywhere from the SEC to the Ivy-League. This kid has plenty of “leg kick” and get off coming around the end and his explosion will only increase as he matures physically. This is a long, tall, lengthy, edge presence schools love to be able to slot defensively. Enjoy this feature.

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Union needed a RB in 2021 and Isaiah Wright, from Last Chance U, was the man for the job @isaiahwright01, @KyHighFootball, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @UnionBulldogs, @CoachLuttrell49

May 17, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Isaiah Wright got another chance, both on the series “Last Chance U” and in Barbourville, Kentucky, to follow his dream. We were there to catch his rushing output against Campbellsville which was the second most prodigious output in Union football history. Wright’s performance that day crystallized an important message to young, KHSAA football players…if you think you are “too good” to play NAIA football, you better rethink it. There is talent abundant at all levels of college football and the developments involving the transfer portal and NIL have done nothing but make the “lower levels” of college ball even more competitive than prior times. Enjoy this feature, and try to learn something.

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Slow Motion Replay: Mike Glaser from St. Xavier was ‘Everyone’s Coach’ @GlaserMglaser, @StXTigerSports, @CoachKWallace, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @StXTigersFB

May 16, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

You just can’t write a series of features about the best football coaches in KHSAA history without featuring the great Mike Glaser from St. Xavier. Glaser won over 81% of his games in football, won seven (7) titles, went to the title game 11-times, all the while making these men better players, athletes, students, Catholics, and citizens. Glaser focused on the good of the team, its players, and its coaches without ever really focusing on himself and what he did or failed to achieve. He was completely selfless. He was completely a class act. Enjoy this look at a guy who embodied “The Xaverian” principles of humility, simplicity, trust, compassion and zeal as well as any person to ever work for that diocese, or that school. Enjoy the feature.

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Slow Motion Replay: Crittenden County and its ‘Rocket Man,’ Coach Al Starnes @CrittendenCoHS, @tanner_tabor, @KyHighFootball, @khsaafootball, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans, @coachthomp9, @pths_football

May 15, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Those of you who have been featured in our “Slow Motion Series” may not realize this, but you owe your inclusion to one of our intrepid staff members or agents at Kentucky Prep Gridiron. Many articles begin with “Hey Fletch, you need to feature this guy or that guy” together with a small explanation why the coverage is warranted. This article began that very way. We were contacted, last night, by our central Kentucky agent, who formerly coached on this end of Kentucky, and he told us we needed to feature Al Starnes. His reasoning was Starnes is the Hoover Niece of the western end of the commonwealth. Well, that was good enough for us…Enjoy the feature.

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Storm Warning: Remembering Central’s great Defensive Coordinator, Bob Louden @HopkinsCentral, @CountyMustangs, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @_CoachManning, @KyHighFootball, @khsaafootball

May 14, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

If you want some debate in your life, put a list on social media. We have a funny anecdote we will tell you about a guy who published a list of the “5 best LBers in Louisville” and included an 8th-grader from Oldham County. If you see me out somewhere, come up, and I will tell it to you. We put up a list of the best DCs in KHSAA history. It got over 15,000 “views” on Twitter/X. We left off Bob Loudon and probably shouldn’t have. To make it up to Coach Loudon, we are featuring him in this edition of “Storm Warning.” Enjoy the feature.

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Jonny Lind, from Covington Catholic, left Indianapolis one of the MVPs of the Best of the Midwest at the DL position and our Protein-packed weekly Performer @JonnyLind96, @BOTMWCombine, @Drake_Jackson52, @CovCathFootball, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball

May 14, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Jonny Lind from Covington Catholic has all the characteristics and measurements any college coach would want in a lineman coming out of high school. Lind who lists DE as his primary position is 6’3,” 264-pounds and was one of the Defensive MVPs of the Best of the Midwest Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana earlier this year. Lind had 30-tackles in 11-games, missing three (3) games owing to thumb surgery in the middle of his HS, sophomore season. This kid can play and plays for one of the premier programs in the commonwealth of Kentucky. Enjoy this feature and don’t forget to pick up some world famous jerky products from Mingua Beef Jerky and “SavorTheFlavor.”
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Slow Motion Replay: Justin Haddix, whether playing or coaching, is just a freaking winner! @CoachHaddix11, @BCRebelFootball, @BreathittFb, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans, @CountyMustangs, @KyHighFootball, @kyhighs, @khsaafootball

May 13, 2025 Fletcher Long 2

Justin Haddix is a mountain legend. Much like Jay Cobb at Trinity, people from outside the mountains tend to forget from where Justin Haddix comes. The important thing is the former WKU QB-ing great hasn’t forgotten. As the Appalachians would be proud to claim, “Justin is one of ours.” Haddix has had a Hall of Fame run both as a player and coach. He still talks with the great Mike Holcomb regularly and the two of them run a QB camp together which convened on Joe MacDaniel field at Andy Frye stadium a year ago. Enjoy this look at a guy who, like Mark Spader, is a future Hall of Famer.

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Slow Motion Replay: Randy Reese’s record boasts of three (3) state titles and 38-consecutive wins @coachclsmit, @ChiefSmoke10, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @CoachJeffHester, @PHS_FB_KY, @Lionathletics

May 13, 2025 Fletcher Long 1

Today, we continue on in our series of Kentucky’s all-time, high school football coaches. We have published nearly 40 of these and we still have many guys left we just can’t omit from the series. Who knows if we can even get this wound up before the season gets here. It will make one heck of a book, though. Today we give you Randy Reese. Old timers will remember this guy as the guy who did things at schools never before done nor done since. That seems an important characteristic among all-timers, the doing of things never before or since done. Enjoy this feature.

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