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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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Slow Motion Replay: Dan Haley had the Midas Touch! @pths_football, @bryanstationfb, @PurplesFootball, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans

May 12, 2025 Fletcher Long 1

Dan Haley finished his career with an overall record of 253-79-3 with stints as the head football coach at Bryan Station in Lexington, Paducah Tilghman, and Bowling Green Senior High. Haley did something else rather singular, he took every program he ever coached to the title game, winning titles in ’73 at Tilghman and ’95 at Bowling Green. His ’95 title likely stands alone as he won that title over Fort Thomas Highlands, and its enigmatic and brilliant head coaching legend, Dale Mueller (28-12). Haley won four COY’s in four (4) different decades and was enshrined in the Dawahares, KHSAA Hall of Fame in 2007. Enjoy this look at one of the finest coaches the sport has known, a guy with a real “Midas Touch.”

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Slow Motion Replay: Tom Becherer, from the ‘thin thirty’ to the Rockets’ ’87 launch @SCHSRockets, @RocketPrincipal, @SCPS_Activities, @centurions_fb, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @minguabeefjerky, @bigassfans

May 11, 2025 Fletcher Long 2

We were praising the 1971 season at Shelbyville High, the one where Dan Goble led the “Rockets” to an all-time season, when a reader reminded us Shelby County had other “all-time” seasons under coach Tom Becherer. Becherer won over 225-games, led the “Rockets” to a “Big-Boy” title (4A), and led them to the finals on three other occasions. Becherer helped get the Christian Academy-Louisville started on its path to Kentucky HS powerhouse status; but, what he did in Shelbyville, Kentucky is singular, remarkable, and why he is considered among the very best and more elite coaches at the HS level in commonwealth history. Enjoy this look at the former UK football great.

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Slow Motion Replay: Kevin Wallace says the 2025 season will be his final tour around the KHSAA @CoachKWallace, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @BGHSPurplesNews, @StXTigersFB, @PurplesFootball

May 10, 2025 Fletcher Long 3

How does one judge the greatest coach in KHSAA history? Is it wins? Is it championships? Is it the ability to consistently imbue men with the character befitting the proudest traditions of the commonwealth of Kentucky? Is it a combination of all of the above. Some might claim the KHSAA has never had a better coach than Marshall Patterson, Mike Glaser, Chuck Smith, Dan Goble, Ed Miracle, Mike Holcomb, Dudley Hilton, Sam Harp, and Phillip Haywood, and each of these could make legitimate claims (and for valid reasons). However, if someone were to claim Kevin Wallace, or Jim Matney, or Larry French, or Noah Rash, or Eddie Eviston, or Jay Cobb, or Mark Spader, or any other number of HFCs were “the best in KHSAA history” that would be just as difficult to discount. Point is; who knows? We do know this…Kevin Wallace was a HOSS! Enjoy this feature.

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Slow Motion Replay: The architect of the 50-game win streak, Dennis Lampley, from Trinity High @BALampley79, @TrinityHSFB, @trinitysports, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball,

May 9, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

There are families indelibly associated with the KHSAA and either one or all of its member institutions. The name “Jaggers” is such a name. So is the name “Lampley.” Dennis Lampley served the students and athletes of Trinity High in Louisville, KY for nearly 50-years. Along the way, he had a hand in nine (9) titles, five (5) titles as HFC, 50-consecutive wins, and three (3) consecutive, undefeated, 4A football titles in a row. Lampley had an 87% win rate at Kentucky’s largest classification of competition (4A) in his day. Is this guy a HOFer? If Retief Goosen is in “golf,” then Lampley is in football. Enjoy the feature.

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Cameron Davis from Paul Blazer High in Ashland, Kentucky is the @bigassfans Kentucky Comfort Creator of the Week @CtackettC @J_maineKeyes @Tomcat_football @Sdowdy12 @KYHighFootball @minguabeefjerky @_camdavis_

May 9, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Cameron Davis plays for one of the best football programs in the 4A classification across our great commonwealth. Paul Blazer High in Ashland is full of excellent athletes and the right men in place to lead them. Cameron Davis had a super junior year and may be a “Mr. Football” candidate in ’25 if he continues to improve along the same trajectory he has been improving. Like Sammy Davis, Jr. once sung, Davis just has to be Davis. If you read this feature the reference will crystalize for you. Enjoy the feature and let’s keep it comfortable out there, Kentucky!

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Slow Motion Replay: William Kean, Central High, Floated like a Butterfly and Stung like a Yellowjacket @CHSJacketFB, @MuhammadAli, @KyChamber, @KyHighFootball, @khsaafootball, @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky

May 8, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

Bill Kean coached at Central High in Louisville at a time when the Yellowjackets, because of the segregated school systems in Kentucky at the time, wouldn’t let Central compete with the “white” schools. Kean won five (5) Kentucky High School Athletic League (KHSAL) titles, and won four (4) National Negro High School titles and his 856-wins in basketball, coupled with his 225-wins in football, may make Bill Kean the winningest coach in the history of Kentucky high school sports. Enjoy this look at a guy who was posthumously inducted into the KHSAA Hall of Fame in 1988, thirty years after his death.

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Storm Warning: Connor Miles, ’28 DE, looks to be setting into a role @bigassfans, @minguabeefjerky, @khsaafootball, @KyHighFootball, @HopkinsCentral, @_CoachManning, @evans02_mike

May 8, 2025 Fletcher Long 0

What can we tell you about Connor Miles? We can tell you he got three (3) games of run as a sophomore on the varsity. We can tell you he is putting in the work this offseason. We can tell you his coach tells us he is ready to assume a roll on the ’25 roster as a regular and (perhaps) a leader. We can tell you he may be a two-way guy this coming Fall. All of the above aside, Miles finished 5th in Kentucky in powerlifting at one of the sport’s toughest classes (220-pounds). We feel that says a ton (pardon the pun). Enjoy this feature about a kid you might not have know about prior.

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