Had an opportunity to visit a college program and was touring its facilities when I came into a room which was outfitted like an amateur boxing gymnasium. This had two fight rings, one of which was considerably higher than the other.
I asked the Coach taking me through whether the school had boxing as a club sport or whether the NCAA sanctioned and crowned a boxing champion now. He told me neither.
What he told me is that the football training staff pairs players and lets them have at it in the ring for 3, one-minute rounds. He said it identifies the “dogs” for them while giving the players the opportunity to reveal and, perhaps, develop their own inner dog.
I would be surprised if this particular coach isn’t traveling back and forth to Owensboro in the near future to check out Catholic’s Will Edge. Will Edge has dog, and he has walked out into the open for all of us to see.
Last year for Owensboro Catholic, one of 2A’s most successful and storied football programs, Edge got on the field on Friday nights for some quality PT considering he was only a freshman. This is true in spite of the Aces finishing 9-3 and exiting the playoffs way too early for their own liking.
Edge is listed as a WR/DB positionally and there are no records for this prospect, no Hudl page that I can find, and no size information to chart. There is only the fact that he is both a Golden Gloves and Jr. Olympic boxing champion in his weight class.
However, that being said; really says a lot. As a football coach myself it tells me about his willingness to absorb contact as well as his anxiousness to delivery contact. It tells me this prospect is super aggressive, courageous, and able to strategize a fight plan and stick to it even when slugged in the face and there is pandemonium around him (vague reference here to Mike Tyson’s “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth).
Will Edge is a guy our selection committee studied closely this past offseason to determine whether he was going on our Freshman All-State team. The committee really like him; but, in the end we didn’t think he got enough run on Friday night at either WR or DB to warrant selection.
We are looking at him in 2020 to get in the starting rotation. We anticipate we will be charting his statistics as best we can this coming season. We expect he will be discussed when the committee convenes next Fall to select a sophomore All-State football team. We believe every team the Aces face will have a game-plan on how to control his production, at least until their players get punched in the mouth.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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