Is 2021’s Christian Hernandez Coming to Save the Day for Franklin-Simpson?

At KPGFootball, and we realize this probably dates us a bit, we were big fans of the animated, television series Mighty Mouse. What’s there not to like? He’s diminutive in size but Herculean in strength. Mighty-Mouse had a tag-line associated with him which was the very climax of his theme music which is short enough to post the lyrics in their entirety. These are the lyrics

Mister Trouble never hangs around 
When he hears this Mighty sound. 

Here I come to save the day

That means that Mighty Mouse is on his way. 
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right 
Mighty Mouse will join the fight. 
On the sea or on the land, 
He gets the situation well in hand.

Well, after Franklin-Simpson graduates the ground-production it will this Spring, from off a roster which won back-to-back State Football Champions in Class 4A, for Franklin-Simpson at least, it will appear old-Mister Troublewill be hanging around if you catch my meaning. Who’s coming to save the day? Who’s play will emit a Mighty sound?

KPGFootball feels before we can suggest a solution, we might want to thoroughly frame the situation. The problem is Franklin-Simpson is an offense which gained 5,066 of its total 5,903 yards of offense running the football. For you percentage people, that is approximately 86% (.85820769) of its total offense gained on the ground.

The Wildcats top two rushers, Tre Bass and Carlos McKinney, were seniors. Together, Bass and McKinney gained 3,801 of the team’s 5,066 rushing yards (.75029609) and scored 52 of the team’s 70 rushing TDs (.74285714). So who will join the fight to get this situation well in hand.

Do the Wildcats have a diminutive, but Herculean, answer to this problem? Perhaps they do, and (we can’t help ourselves) here he comes to save the day!

According to our on-line research, Christian Hernandez didn’t register a single varsity carry a year ago. We would be happy to tell you what he did on the JV-team but JV-football isn’t covered in Kentucky unless the school signs up with us to cover it under our #WeGotUCovered program (shameless plug), which wasn’t the case with Franklin-Simpson in 2018. We simply can’t tell you much about his production on the field.

Here’s what we can tell you. Christian Hernandez is a hard worker in the offseason weight room. At 5-7, 165 pounds, the Class of 2021 RB has a registered bench-press maximum lift of 230 pounds. We don’t have any idea the age of that recorded press nor do we know what his present bench-press is, it could be considerably higher. We can tell you, at last year’s Kentucky Powerlifting Championships, a 230-pound bench-press would have been tied with Sebastian Caeden from Perry County Central for the 6th-heaviest bench-press at the competition in the 165-pound weight-division.

Christian has been invited to try-out for the United States Nation Football Team by Al Popadines, who formerly worked as a talent evaluator for Youth1.com. USAFootball is interested to see what this diminutive ball-carrier, with the Herculean strength, can do; and so is the rest of Kentucky.

The 2019 season, for the Wildcats particularly owing to the production no longer eligible, will be the time for heroes to emerge. The Wildcat faithful need to know a hero is on his way. They need to believe that someone with heroic abilities will align in the backfield and join the fight to re-tool its production over the land. They will need a running-back who can get this situation well in hand.

Is Christian Hernandez that guy? Will he be the Wildcats’ diminutive, but Herculean-like, hero? At KPGFootball, we suppose we shall see, shan’t we?

Reporting for KPGFootball, this is F.W. Long, reminding all of you ballers out there to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE.

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Two-time winner of Kentucky Press Association awards for excellence in writing and reporting news stories while Managing Editor of the Jackson (KY) Times-Voice

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