Plug-In Players….part 5…the final installment

August 15, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

This is our final installment (Part 5) of our series on Plug-In Players. I know we have been over this before but the criteria to be considered a true Plug In Player is a freshman player (2021) who is either starting, week one, or almost certain to start by year’s end, meaning […]

Plug-In Players (part 3 of the series)…

August 10, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

This is the 3rd installment on our series of Plug-in Players. Up to this point, the players we have featured, thus far, are 9th graders who are presently running 1st team on the HS Varsity football team, or expected to make that spot by the season opener, according to the people in […]

Plug-In Players…part 2

August 8, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

Continuing on with our series of Plug-In Players which we have defined as freshmen players (2021) who either are starting right now on the Varsity team of their High School or are expected to start before the year is over and who are dressing Varsity and sure to contribute. The next […]

Seth Henderson Anchoring the Line

August 8, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

I was taking Seth Henderson to the Team Kentucky Future Stars combine in Bowling Green, Kentucky the summer before last. He had played guard and DT for me in 8th grade at HMS and I was concerned he wouldn’t pass the eye test sufficiently to make the Kentucky team at either […]

Lane “Freight Train” Rushing

August 5, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

Hopkinsville High School’s incoming class of freshmen is completely loaded. The Class of 2021 is so loaded, in fact, that quite a few of them are in the starting line-up for the HHS, Varsity, right now heading into the season opener. Quite a few more are dressing Varsity and expected […]

The Masters at finding the “Plug-In” Player

July 25, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

  I am pretty sure when Ricco Hughes (Kentucky Future Stars Director) and Josh Jones (Ricco’s Tennessee counterpart) first got their respective heads together and finalized the concept of pitting the elite Middle School players from Kentucky and Tennessee against each other annually, while they knew it would be quite […]

Darion Dearinger, Class of 2021, All-American DE

June 28, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

Have any of you ever been to Lawrenceburg, Kentucky? Lawrenceburg is the county seat of Anderson County which, at the taking of the last Census, had a population in the neighborhood of 21,000 or so people. Kentucky Prep Gridiron can assure you of one thing…there are a lot of schools planning trips […]