Adair County really struggled in 2018. Coach Stephens’ Class 3A, District 2 football team endured a 1-9 season which must have seemed to them similar to Custard’s Last Stand at Little Big Horn, only in reverse.
They needed some players in a big way if Van Isaac was to avoid the struggles of his immediate predecessor. Well, around Columbia, Kentucky, when help is needed on the football field, Adair Countians customarily turned to the Feese family. However, this time, this Feese will be playing for Russell County. It appears the school in Russell Springs, KY has won out over the one in Columbia for whom the Feeses have traditionally played.
This is not good news for Coach Isaac in his first tour of duty. Colton Feese, after all, was a decorated middle school player who played both QB and LB for the middle school in 2018. He was selected to Team Kentucky, East vs. West and would have arrived in high school for his freshman campaign considered a bone fide star in both football and basketball. Matter of fact, there are people known to be vested with such knowledge who believe the 9th grader, who is nearly 6-0 tall presently and appears to be still growing, maybe one of the better basketball players in Kentucky in his graduating class.
The Feeses have a history of playing really quality football for Adair County. Brother Dylon signed out of high school to continue his playing career at Kentucky Christian and Brian, Dylon and Colton’s father, was a star in his own right when he played for the Indians in the late 80s, early 90s. Brian Feese was a class of 1991 graduate.
Van Isaac, the new man in charge of the team’s fortunes, is inheriting a team which will have a senior returning at QB in Aaron Peck. However, Isaacs will not have Jaiden Taylor who was lost to graduation.
Taylor gained nearly 1,000 yards from scrimmage for the Indians in 2018 and scored 4 of the team’s 11 rushing TDs. Peck will have his favorite target returning in Clayton Janes. Janes caught 17 of the team’s 50 receptions in 2018 and one of the 6 TDs receiving.
On defense Taylor was the team’s leading tackler, had the most TFLs, and the most QB sacks. His loss will be felt.
Colton Feese would likely have taken up some slack if he could have plugged in at LB and help shore up some of the remaining deficiencies the team will undoubtedly experience with three of its top four tacklers lost to graduation. Isaiah Carter is the lone returner among the four and he was the team’s third leading tackler in 2018, third on the team in TFLs, and second in QB sacks.
So as we look around Kentucky at freshman likely to see the field early, it shouldn’t escape notice the Indians in Columbia, Kentucky have started a fire and are signaling for help from anywhere it can be found. While there will be freshman coming into the program who will, undoubtedly, get some varsity run, one of those won’t be Colton Feese. Unluckily for the Indians, Colton Feese will not be on hand to answer the call that at least two prior Feese’s have before answered.
Instead Feese will be at Russell, a team coming off an 8-5 season in 2018 in Class 3A and a team which lost a senior at the QB position in Grant Wilburn. Feese has the frame, ability, and pedigree to insert himself into the equation to be Wilburn’s replacement at QB while still being a viable candidate to play at LB too for TJ Maynard’s Class 3A, District 5 Red Devils.
This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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