Here’s Mud[d] in your eye…Class of 2021’s John Mudd

Talk about your axioms which have taken on different connotations than initially intended, the saying “Here’s mud in your eye” is interpreted today way differently than it was initially. According to popular Blogger and Counselor, Soumya Sharma, the saying, used when two or more people are toasting together with spirits, was meant to convey tidings of good health, fortune, and cheer.

It has morphed into some sort of curse because the axiom sounds negative and is taken poorly often times by people to whom the toast is directed. It’s origins are Biblical.

You may remember a passage in the Bible where Jesus spat in the dirt and rubbed the wet dirt, or mud, into the eye of a blind man. Well, it healed the blind man’s sight. The saying really means along the lines of “here’s a cure.”

There is one place where getting Mudd in your eye is rightfully a curse as opposed to some sort of blessing. That place is a football field in Kentucky around the Louisville area anywhere you find Waggener’s football team.

If one is trying to play defensive line, for instance, and he gets a steady dose of Class of 2021’s John Mudd in his eye, we promise you he will neither be in good health nor fortune nor in particularly good cheer for that matter. Why? Well that is “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

One reason is the fact it is rare to find a player entering his junior year who has played more football than John Mudd. Mudd has been a fixture on the offensive front for Waggener since arriving up from the middle school ranks.

This former Team Kentucky and KPGFootball freshman & sophomore All-State player, like the many who have gone along before him from those proud traditions, may discover what it’s like to watch a high school football game one day. However, it is clear to KPGFootball, that day will be long after his playing days are exhausted.

Mudd is 6-2 and weighs 298 pounds and has been ranked, unofficially, on BlueGrassRivals as Kentucky’s 20th best offensive lineman regardless of class. He’s in the top-10 amongst the 2021ers.

We at KPGFootball would have ranked him higher than that, but weren’t the least bit surprised to find him listed. There just isn’t a serious debate to be had about whether he is one of Kentucky’s top 30 OL in the commonwealth. He clearly is.

Mudd trains with Chris Vaughn with Aspirations Fitness Institute. Vaughn has a penchant for attracting Kentucky’s elite, Louisville-area athletic talent.

Big John, as he is commonly called, is a long-neck kid with long arms and legs. What that generally and anatomically means is he still has some growing to do. That being said, Big John is both long enough and athletic enough to play tackle along an offensive front at the Division I next-level right now, his present height notwithstanding.

We do see Mudd sliding inside in college (potentially) and being aligned at either guard or center in the future. Regardless of where he will play, we feel his being a D-1 football player in college is a no-doubter.

So, to all the teams on Waggener’s 2019 schedule, particularly those defensive front players and blitzing linebackers coming up Big John’s gap, here’s Mudd in your eye. What do you know, when said that way, it really is a curse.

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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Have coached at the high school and middle school level. Have worked in athletic administration. Conceal my identity to enable my candor on articles published by this magazine. Only members of the editorial board are aware of my true identity.

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