2025 Cooper Jaguars

[se7ens]

Cooper had a dominant season, going undefeated all the way up to the title game where they came up short against Bowling Green. Austin Alexander is graduating but Cam O’Hara and Ryker Campbell are back. O’Hara is one of the most touted arms in the state. Campbell is as good as any deep back in Northern Kentucky. Possibly the state.

Keagan Maher is also back. He was the Jaguars’ leading rusher and a popular O’Hara receiving target. O’Hara will have to add some favorite targets alongside Maher as the top three leading receivers are gone.

Can Cooper remain dominant over NKY competition? Can they make a title run again? Will O’Hara be a contender for Mr. Football? It should be fun to find out.

[VF111]

Cooper enters a 5A where there are not the apparent grizzly bears that were there last year. Cooper was a beast in 2024, but bigger, badder beasts were in the forest. I still maintain that South Warren would have handled Cooper much in the same way BG did in 2024.

But South has moved to 6A... Owensboro is without a coach or identity... BG returns a lot but is replacing their OL and QB... Scott Co. seems to be playing second fiddle in their own county... Southwestern has gone MIA... Highlands has gone down to fight with Cov Cath in 4A... Woodford Co., well, we've seen Woodford Co. in big games. 

All that is to say, 5A is about as wide open as it has been for a while. Cooper returns some of the best players in 5A, and one of them is their phenomenal QB.

Predictions for 2025:

• Cooper is the best NKY 5A team but behind Ryle, Highlands, Beechwood, and Cov. Cath overall
• Cooper is in, at the least, the Final Four, likely the Finals 
• O'Hara is one of the top 3 contenders for Mr. Football 

[futurecoach]

While Cooper loses some top talent. They still have talent returning. Plus Cooper’s whole offensive line will be returning to go along with Ohara, Maher, and Campbell. So offensively they may have to do it a little differently without Johnson, Alexander, Jaidan Combs, and others. However, they should still be one of the top offenses in the state IMO. The same goes on the defensive side, as they obviously lose some really good seniors. They do return two starters in the secondary, their two inside linebackers, and two DL. So they return some good pieces on defense too, and just may take a little time for a few others to adjust to varsity play. With that said I believe Cooper’s JV only lost one game last year. So there is some good players coming up from JV that will look to help out next year.

So when all is said and done coach Borchers and staff will have this team coached up, and I think we see Cooper back on the state title game again for the third year in a row.