“A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them...”
― William Petersen, Underground, 2011
Monty Joe Lovell died recently. Coach Lovell was among the greatest high school coaches and figures the KHSAA has known. We featured him in our “Slow Motion Replay” series this past offseason. Another all-time great we featured was Garnis Martin. Broaddus coached for two years with Coach Martin at Bardstown after graduating from EKU where he also was on the football team. We are proud to remember this fine player, excellent former teacher, a guy who made Principal at a high school by age 30, and all-around great figure in this KHSAA game of football we all love so dearly.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
Richmond, KY: We have as many “viewers” or “readers” offseason as in season. This really makes sense if you take the time to study the phenomenon.
In season, we are competing with the actual games and the pantheon of “other outlets” and “other writers” all vying for your attention. At the end of the day, we are all reporting on the same topic.
Out of season, when all the other outlets have moved on to other things, or sports, we have your undivided attention. We only report on the one sport. We believe it both needs and deserves the attention.
One reason we do well in the offseason is our generally undertaking what we refer to as a specialty series of articles. This offseason, we featured 77 KHSAA’s high school, coaching icons.
The series was entitled “Slow Motion Replay.” It was a whopping success beyond our wildest imaginations.
This coming offseason we are contemplating featuring the KHSAA’s finest former football players. It will be our most daunting undertaking, to date, if we undertake it.
If you would want to sponsor it on behalf of your business, let us know. We will work out something beneficial to us both.
If we do publish this purported specialty series, we imagine today’s feature will be among the greats we will feature. Who knows, you may see this article again this coming offseason.
When we decide what to title the series, we will change the above title to suit. That is how you pull up our articles from any of our series; by typing into the “search” engine the title of the series. If you search “Slow Motion Replay,” it will give you the series from this past offseason.
When I went to law school we were told that nobody (really) knows the law. What makes a man or woman a lawyer is his or her ability to know where the law may be found.
We didn’t invent this concept. We stole it from literature like many other professions are so apt to do.
Smart people may not know the answer. They do know where the answer may be accessed, may be found.
If you search “Slow Motion Replay,” you will get our series on the KHSAA’s greatest coaches
Friday Night Fletch
His name was Willian Petersen and he wrote a novel entitled, “Underground.” The book is about an explorer and recluse exploring the southern coast of Alaska, looking for gold deposits and having a great time just being free. The central character stumbles across a construction project in the very valley he is planning to explore and he is expecting to be uninhabited.
Finding this valley occupied, the central character (Michael) detours to another location, seeking to stay as far from other people as possible. That is the “recluse” part, the desire to stay away for other people.
In the book, Petersen writes “A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them…” This is an age old axiom as true as when I first encountered it.
I have been called the commonwealth’s foremost authority on KHSAA football. I have been called this by authorities you would neither dare challenge nor question.
I have not been called this because I am smart or because my head contains an infinitesimal amount of KHSAA football knowledge. If the truth be told, if I am, in deed, that guy; it is because I have ready, immediate, and perpetual access to the most expansive, thorough, and vast reservoir of agents across Kentucky.
I have ready, immediate, and perpetual access to the most expansive, thorough, and vast reservoir of agents across Kentucky
Friday Night Fletch
The network KPGFootball has assembled keeps me informed of the comings and goings in KHSAA football across our great commonwealth. It is they, not I, who should be credited.
One of the guys in this network is Madison county area, football historian, John Lovell. John Lovell was Coach Monty Joe Lovell‘s brother. Monty Joe Lovell, one of the finest football coaches the Madison county area has ever known, recently passed.
Hubert Broaddus was among the men who spoke for Coach Lovell at his funeral. After the funeral, it was suggested to me, by Mike Holcomb, I write about Broaddus.
Mike Holcomb is among the very best and most revered coaches our game (KHSAA football) has ever known. When guys like this make requests of me; those requests are generally honored.
There wasn’t much about Broaddus’s playing days online. There was a mention of his playing football at EKU, in 1973, but not much else.
Luckily, I knew a guy. I knew John Lovell would know, so I asked him. Much of what you will now read was offered by John Lovell to me for the purposes of publishing this article.
Hubert Clay Broaddus, who went by Hubert, is numbered among John Lovell’s very best, lifelong friends. Broaddus signed with EKU after his senior year at Madison High School where he was a three-sport star, three (3) year vastly letterman in basketball and football, and a four (4) year varsity letterman in baseball.
Broaddus was recruited and agreed to stay at home and attend EKU and play football for the Colonels. After two weeks of practice, Broaddus joined the military.
His brief stint on the Colonel roster was anything but uneventful. After only two weeks of practice, Broaddus had already ascended to second on the Colonel depth chart behind a senior starter who got injured right after Broaddus left for the military.
In two short weeks, Broaddus had already ascended to second team on the Colonel roster as a freshman
John Lovell
Had Broaddus not left school for the service, he may have been a four (4) year starter for the Colonels. Broaddus was that kind of athlete.
As a high schooler, Broaddus was among the best athletes Richmond, Kentucky ever produced. Broaddus was all district in football, basketball, and baseball, lettering in all three sports.
Broaddus came back to EKU, after his stint in the military, and finished his education. Broaddus became a high school principal by age 30, making him among the youngest to serve in such a capacity in the commonwealth’s history.
Broaddus coached a couple of years on Garnis Martin’s staff at Bardstown and helped win Coach Martin a state football title in 1980. Broaddus served on the Madison High football staff for three (3) years after leaving Bardstown. Then Broaddus was appointed Principal.
Hubert Broaddus had a remarkable run; first, as an athlete then as a teacher and coach. Broaddus capped it all off in an administrative office, serving as Principal.
At the end of the day, a news outlet following and reporting on a sport or sports has some responsibilities. Among the responsibilities are keeping and reporting on the covered sport’s history.
We take this responsibility seriously. We have published hundreds of, nay perhaps thousands of, articles since coming on line which either should have been written; or, arguably, must have been written but likely wouldn’t have been written were it not for KPGFootball.
We have relied heavily on men like John Lovell, like Mike Holcomb, to help us cover your kids, your sons, your teams, your towns. Today was a perfect example of an article which needed to be written.
It was our job. It was our duty to our readers.
And, so it was…
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball and KPI Newspaper Group, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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