Okay, one doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out Madisonville North-Hopkins is an elite football team in Kentucky’s 4A classification. Their present 8-1 mark, the District-1 Championship trophy they have already secured, and the 12-10 narrow loss, last year, in the Regional Championship Game to eventual 4A Football Champion, Franklin-Simpson, would tell you all of that.
One might have to know something about football to know North-Hopkins has among the best group of both offensive and defensive linemen in the KHSAA. Look at some of the offensive numbers and that is fairly apparent.
Like all of you, we’re huge Jeriah Hightower fans at KPGFootball. We have featured him more than once. That said, even we don’t think Hightower has carried it 206 times this year, gaining 2,041 yards from scrimmage, with 20 rushing TDs, without some work being done upfront by Moody, Vaughn and the gang.
There are stars abundant, along both lines of scrimmage for the Maroons. Dru Flener (2021, DE), Blake Moody (2020, C-NG), and Jordan Vaughn (RT-LT, OL), are just a few examples of this.
This next bit of information may require you to be quite well informed. There is a fourth player about whom you don’t hear as much. With his production, his degree of anonymity is curious. You might find it interesting that he is the leader for the Maroons in both tackles for loss and QB sacks. His name is…Jared Gobin.
Gobin is listed on the roster at 6-3, 230-pounds. We have sources all over the area in western-Kentucky who may not have ever measured him, but can tell you things about him which aren’t open for debate. For instance, he is in “gifted” classes at Madisonville North-Hopkins and has a 3.95 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) and an ACT score of 32.
He has been described to this publication as being “Humble,” “blue-collar,” “very coachable kid who starts along North-Hopkin’s defensive front and is the full-in at all five OL spots.” We have also heard terms like “high-motor, high football IQ, high-energy guy.”
Gobin starts at DE for the Maroons, and in his first nine games, he has 34 solos, 20 assists, 54-total hits, with 10 tackles behind the line (TFL, tackles for loss), and 4 QB-sacks. He leads a talent-laden roster at North-Hopkins in both TFLs and QB-sacks.
For all you college recruiters out there, we can’t speak for you. If it were we, and our jobs hung in the balance and were being judged on the ability of the players we get signed and bring to the roster for the team employing us, we just might take a look down Madisonville’s direction. While you’re looking, don’t forget old number 5-7!
Reporting for & KPGFootball, this is HB Lyon, reminding all of you ballers out there that #WeGotUCovered & and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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