’29 QB has a bright future and a long, tall, sturdy frame
The Hoptown Tigers are no more. A football tradition which had been competing in high school football in the commonwealth of Kentucky for over a century will be subsumed into the “new school” and compete as the Christian County Tigers next season. I am sure we will become accustomed to it, but it is sad. We will miss Hoptown and all the good things that brand engendered in our hearts over the years. Still, we have to tip our hats to the extraordinary talent of ’29 QB, Nehemiah Bailey, and all that his talents, frame, and skills may lend to the QB battle sure to rage this coming Spring and Fall with incumbent starter, Jasiah McCarley (’28) as the Christian County Colonels will look to anoint an offensive leader for its inaugural campaign!
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
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Friday Night Fletch
Hopkinsville, KY: Nehemiah Bailey has everything you would want in a young, ’29, QB. Bailey is athletic, explosive, framed out well (6’3,” 195), with good length and a good head on his shoulders.
About the only negative thing you could say about Bailey in ’25 was he was a freshman playing behind a young, sophomore QB who ended the year among the top five (5) to eight (8) ’28 QBs in the KHSAA (Jasiah McCarley). Even with that unfortunate deployment, Bailey still got five (5) games of varsity run on a playoff bound, seven (7) win, 6A team which finished second in its district a year ago and made the second round of the KHSAA playoffs.
Bailey completed half of his passing attempts, averaged 31-yards or so per completion, threw a TD pass, and was only intercepted a single time. Bailey demonstrated the ability to stretch a defense.
Bailey may find unseating Jasiah McCarley challenging. McCarley threw for just over 2,000-yards, completed over a hundred of his passing attempts, threw 20-TDs against six (6) picks, and even scored a rushing TD in minimal attempts.
McCarley is a ’28 kid. McCarley is among the more productive QBs, Kentucky-wide, in his graduating class.
McCarley was among the more productive QBs in the ’28 graduating class, Kentucky-wide!
KHSAA Statistical Website
As for which of the two QBs is more recruitable, that is both a difficult and different question. Bailey passes the eye test but both QBs are young so who knows? McCarley could catch a growth spurt.
McCarley is further along concerning game-play. McCarley was among the team’s more pleasant surprises in its last season before the merger.
This past season was the program’s “Swan Song.” The team finished 7-5 and were as good as any team in the first district as Hopkinsville, McCracken, and Henderson took turns beating the other. The newly minted Tigers should be a tough out in first district play in the Fall of ’26.
McCarley figures to get the first opportunity under center. Does the young, ’29, big-bodied Bailey have what it takes to challenge for the spot? Bailey has the physique. This battle should bear watching.
We can’t make it any simpler than that. We’ll see you at the games!
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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