If you want a QB who is lighting it up and setting the record books on fire, Drew Hartz is the pyromaniac of Kentucky High School football!
Drew Hartz plays for one of the best coached and consistently good football programs in Kentucky’s 2A classification. Year after year, week after week, we are talking about Owensboro Catholic and their impact on the State Championship hunt.
Simply put, kids go to Owensboro Catholic and turn into good football players regardless of how they arrived. In coaching, the ability to develop kids into good players is that profession’s Sine qua non.
Sine qua non is literally translated Without Which, not. How we are using it is to plainly state that where a coach can’t develop players, he just can’t coach. This applies to any sport, football is no exception.
Hartz is listed at 6-3, 200 pounds on the Owensboro Catholic roster. 247Sports and Rivals have him at 6-1.5 and 186 pounds. Of course, Rivals gave a clarinet player in the marching band a 3-star rating and ranked him one of Tennessee’s top 10 recruits, state-wide, because the kid invented a Twitter page and some fake Power 5 offers. The opinion of some recruiting services concerning a player we regularly watch, and on whom we report, holds precious little sand around here.
If you’re a client of that service, you’re 6-3, 200-pounds. If you’re not, well then your 6-1.5 and 186 pounds. Truth. There are reputable services for which that isn’t true, like the Appalachia Prep Combine, Elite 3 Foundation, and @TNGridironScout (#1NameNTheGame) just to name three.
Anyway, Drew Hartz can be any height and weight he wants with the numbers he has put up so far this year. The Class of 2020, pro-style QB has completed 107 of his 147 passing attempts through 5 games for a completion percentage of .72789116 or 72.8% if you’re looking for the close enough for government work answer.
Hartz has thrown for 1,655 yards on the year, or an average of 331-yards passing per contest. He has thrown 23 TD passes, and only 2 interceptions. If you worried about the quality of opponent against whom he has compiled these numbers, don’t be.
Owensboro Catholic plays all comers, not just teams in the 2A classification. Through five games, the Aces have played Class 5A, Ohio County (won 68-27); 6A, Daviess County (won 36-18); 5A, Owensboro (Sr. High) (lost 36-7); and 4A, Hopkins County Central (won 68-14). Their other game was against South Spencer, in Rockport, Indiana, which they won 54-14.
Owensboro Catholic travels to Elkton, Kentucky to take on a hot Todd County Central ball club which is 5-0 for the first time since 1974 and has been ranked in the top 10, weekly AP football poll for 4 consecutive weeks. Of course, Owensboro Catholic is No. 6 in this week’s poll which is nothing new for them. The Aces are always ranked it seems.
Todd County (No. 9) is the kind of club which likes to shut down the run and make you beat them through the air. Well, nobody in Kentucky can do that any better than Drew Hartz.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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