Strange off season for the boys in blue, a new Athletic Director as well as welcoming the 13th HFC in program history Jason Foley. In the last 20 years Warren East has been wedged in the middle of the 5 schools in the county, competing in 3 Region championships while winning 2 (‘07,’12).

A tough of a district as any. Tilghman still reigns while also picking up former QB from Louisville road Xavier Isable. Coach Adler and his Cougars of Logan County are still chomping at the bit as well. Bordering county rivals with ACS and FS are never easy outs and have Calloway County to round out the six team district. With the Raiders missing the playoffs last season for the first time in a decade I’d say rattling off a couple district wins and getting back into the post season would be a good start for the Foley era.

Offensively, your guess is as good as mine. 31 offensive TD’s last year (20 pass,11 rush) and not a single one of those kids are returning. Foley and company are offensive minds so it’ll be interesting to see how they manufacture some points this season with a very inexperienced bunch. Sophomore RB ChuChu Cofer will be asked to handle a load on the ground. Unsure who will be the QB as they’ve scrambled find a replacement for Isable, murmurs of SR Weston Akins, JR Brandon Mccluskey to take on that role. Should be interesting nonetheless.

Defensively, quite a bit of their production returns. They bring back SR Sam Tunks. Led the Raiders in tackles last year by a nice margin with 110, a couple of players in the backend as well with JR Azzarrious Douglass and SR Mario Serna.

As mentioned above it’ll be important for WE to catch the Lakers and knock off either FS or ACS to get into the playoffs. I believe PT and Logan have the 1/2 spot locked in so it’ll be an uphill battle indeed. The out of district play with a couple Hardin County schools and the crosstown Gators will be tall task. Definitely a team to watch this season in terms of trajectory moving forward.

18 hours ago, theguru said:

Tremendous Coach!  During those early East days he chased many a referee off the field at halftime!  Ha!  But he was a exceptional organizer and pairing with Coach Haley at BG provided the comprehensive structure he needed to go on to be a Championship level coach!

I like the Raiders!  Wishing Warren East a great season this year!

What’s WE’s schedule look like for this year? 

On 7/5/2026 at 10:19 PM, BigBoss69 said:

What’s WE’s schedule look like for this year? 

The schedule is attached above. I think 5 wins would be considered a great year, but they’ll finish 3-7 possibly 2-8 and miss the playoffs for consecutive years. 

I could see 4 wins off the schedule. Then another couple similarly matched games with Calloway, Franklin, and I think greenwood could be a close game also. The old head coach is the OC there now. I would think the Logan could be competitive and the north Hardin as well. PT… well… 

Warren East Looked pretty good tonight against Campbellsville defensively. Played two quarters of varsity and the score was 21-0 when the JV went in. The defense had three interceptions and a forced fumble, including a pick 6 by Zari Douglas. Offense was heavily run oriented and then hit a few deep passes for scores as well.

Played a disciplined triple option team in Metcalfe county. WE had a lot of penalties but won in a 3quarter scrimmage 23-6. They open next week with Ohio County.

Well unless Ohio Co. has made an incredible one year turnaround WE is almost certain to start out the season 1-0. Which is always a good thing it gets excitement going in the team school and community. It seems if you start out 0-1 it kind of sucks some of the life out of a team unless it was a really good team and you played them close.