Warren Central High School, 2018 record, 0-11; 2019 prediction…8-2
KPGFootball is going to make you a promise right here, right now. The Warren Central High School football team which takes the field this Fall will more closely resemble the one which went 11-2 in 2012 than the Warren Central program which last won a football game October of 2015, at home over Warren East, 23-12.
You think we’re crazy. There’s no way the 2019 Dragons come anywhere approaching a team which went 9-1, regular season, with wins over Mayfield (42-28), Franklin-Simpson (40-14), Class 6A Meade County (21-7), Class 6A Louisville Ballard (34-17), and Hopkinsville (61-7)? Don’t be so sure my friends…don’t be so sure.
We know everyone thought the same thing when Logan County followed up over 40 some-odd, straight losses by winning 21 of its next 24 games under Coach Adler. Now, heading into 2019, there aren’t too many around who think of Logan County’s football program as a dog. Prior to Adler, it was a perennial dog.
Warren Central was a stout and feared football program prior to the emergence of South Warren. South opened its doors August 3, 2010, not that long ago.
Point is, it has been done, like when Grayson County went 1-9 in 2017 and then went 8-4 in 2018, and it is about to be re-done by Cary Fowler and his staff.
This information we are feeding you now is worth the entire year’s subscription. Warren County’s days of being pushed all over a football field are over, Mister. Why? Here’s why.
Reason No. 1-Coaching:
Just last year Cary Fowler was an Associate Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator at the Division I, FCS level of football. He’s won at every stop along a 23 year college coaching career and, in talking with him, he doesn’t appear to be making plans to lose in 2019. All one has to do is look at the steely glare in the photograph to the left of this paragraph to see the man is pretty intense when it comes to football.
Now, KPGFootball went by a practice at WCHS and the first person we encountered was varsity basketball HC William Unseld. He was in the football field house overseeing the football player’s workouts. At a time when Kentucky high school football and basketball are at an all-time high regarding acrimony towards the other, these two are working in complete harmony.
Reason No. 2-Talent:
When we stopped by WCHS, KPGFootball watched the Dragon’s Sevens-team (7 on 7) practicing. They looked like a FBS, Power-5 team out there. Coach Unseld’s being on the staff has made 8 players from off his final-four, men’s basketball team decide to play football in the coming Fall.
Adding 4 players as athletic, quick-twitch, explosive, and agile as the 8 players being added to the Dragon’s roster would completely morph any Kentucky high school football team. These aren’t transfers as they were just walking around the hallway unused.
These kids also haven’t lost 35 straight football games. These are the Dragon athletes whom have been playing basketball, not football. Their experience with WCHS athletics is kicking “arse” and taking down names.
We personally saw the following basketball players, working with the football team and each of them told KPGFootball that, unlike in 2018, they were playing football in 2019. The players were Tay Smith 6-2, 160; Tegra Muleka 6-0, 165; Kamden Lawrence 6-2, 165; Jessie Wright, 6-3, 205; Geovonni Floyd 6-2, 190; Dre Boyd 6-4, 200; Antonio Barbee 6-6, 190; and Dennis Freeman 6-6, 205.
All of these players will have to learn how to play football, or in some cases learn to play football again, as many of them have either never played or haven’t played in a while. Can Warren Central “coach them up?” Go back and re-read “Reason No. 1.”
As they change into both football and basketball players who “know what’s going on” WCHS will be left with both offensive edge and slot talent, together with defensive second and third-level talent, mis-matching any team on the Dragon’s schedule. Yeah, we know South Warren, Franklin-Simpson, and Bowling Green High are all on the 2019 schedule.
Reason No. 3-Transfers:
We are not at liberty to disclose anything about transfers owing to strict magazine policy. KPGFootball has a policy to not report on transfers until the transferring player enrolls, or players enroll, whatever the case may be.
That being said, we know of a minimum of 2, Division I college prospects headed to Bowling Green and Warren Central High School. We have heard that number could end up being 4 to 5.
Bowling Green is one of the largest cities in all of the commonwealth with the easy ambience of a small city while still having a big city’s amenities. It sits right on Interstate 65, a major thorough-fare. Warren Central’s campus, which has state of the art facilities, including the facilities used by the football team, is a stone’s throw from Jack Harbaugh Stadium where, of course, the Hilltoppers play.
There are lots of reasons families would relocate to Bowling Green, Kentucky completely unrelated to football. A relocating family would find plenty of additional reasons, unrelated to football, to choose WCHS as an excellent social and academic opportunity for their children.
Bottom Line: Here it is as plainly as we can deal it out for you…Warren Central is back, baby. They will be a very good football team and will challenge Franklin-Simpson for the district crown.
We don’t believe they will finish any worse than 2nd in that district and could (conceivably) win the 4A State Football Championship. Basically, anything which can be done at Logan County High School can be done at Warren Central.
This is the conclusion of this series about high school teams who will do way better in 2019 then they did in 2018. We hope you have enjoyed the details about five programs on the come-up so to speak. We are discussing featuring 5 programs who were good in 2018 and might suffer in 2019 and 5 programs who were good in 2018 and will also be good this coming Fall. Stay tuned for details on this. Thanks for reading and subscribing to this site.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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