Fighting Colonels

This game should be really fun to watch, and a lot closer then the games in the past. I’m going with CAL in this one. They may not have Milton Wright or coach Lefors but with Souths inexperience on the Dline and CAL’s 3 division one prospects on the Oline, I think it will be tough for south to create pressure and that should give CAL a lot of extra time to work with the ball.

Updated list of top throwers: Ryan Bryant (Ashland) Shot PR 53'9.5 Discus PR 139'4 Barrett Henley (Mayfield) Shot PR 51'0 Discus PR 164'10 Nathan Jacobs (Collins) Shot PR 50'8 Discus PR 167'0 Bradley Herman (Greenwood) Shot PR 50'1.5 Discus PR 121'2 Fisher Briggs (Fern Creek) Shot PR 48'5 Discus PR 140 Nathan Ray (Green County Shot PR 48'2 Discus PR 154'8 John Young (CAL) Shot PR 48'2 Discus PR Doesn't throw Brandon Hinojosa (Shelby County) Shot PR 48'4 Discus PR 152'9 Noah Thomas (Russell) Shot PR 47'9 Discus PR 143'8 Bryan Back (Manuel) Shot PR 47'7 Discus PR 122 Jacob Kehoe (Oldham County) Shot PR 46'11 Discus PR 116 Jackson Smallwood (Grant County) Shot PR 46'6 Discus PR 102'11 Derrick Miller (Madison Central) Shot PR 46'0 Discus PPR 127'10 DC Boone (Apollo) Shot PR 44'7 Discus PR doesn't throw Terrance Packer (Manuel) Shot PR 44'10 Discus PR 111'4 Emmanuel Lopez (Fern Creek) Shot PR 44'10 Discus PR 127'7 ONLY A FRESHMAN DaRoyce Flemons (Paducah Tilghman) Shot PR doesn't throw Discus PR 162'2 Will Perkins (Somerset) Shot PR 42'1 Discus PR 145'10 Ezarious Roller (Boyle County) Shot PR 41'8 Discus PR 142'6 Again if I missed anybody do not hesitate to put there names and PRs in the comments.

Since the 6 class system began 6A has typically housed the powerhouses of the State like St.X, Trinity, Male, Scott County, Lafayette, Simon Kenton ,Ryle and more recently Fredrick Douglass. This year though both Fredrick Douglass and Scott county are moving down to 5A and with Lafayette and Ryle more recently being down is there any chance a new team could emerge and challenge the reaming powerhouses in St.X, Trinity, Male and Simon Kenton. With the new class alignment there are 7 new teams moving up next year to 6A in Fern Creek, Oldham County, Bullet East, Apollo, Dixie Heights, Southern and Marshal county. In my opinion I would have to think Oldham and Fern Creek would be the best two newcomers to put up a decent fight with the traditional powerhouses, Oldham probably has the best chance to advance with the new playoff system since they don't have to play Male to make it out of there region. Other then the new teams is there any other teams out there that have a chance to steal the glory from the traditional powerhouses this year.

With Bryan Hudson as far as we know being out for the rest of the season with a torn ACL the throwing landscape has been wide open for newcomers to take the thrown. Some of these throwers include: Nathan Jacobs (Collins) Shot PR 50’4 Discus PR 167 Ryan Bryant (Ashland) Shot PR 50’3 Discus PR 134’10 Barrett Henley (Mayfield) Shot PR 50’2.5 Discus PR 130’6 Nathan Ray (Green County) Shot PR 48’2 Discus PR 154’8 Fisher Briggs (Fern Creek) Shot PR 48’5 Discus PR 140 John Young ( CAL) Shot PR 48’2 Discus PR Dosnt throw disc Jacob Kehoe (Oldham County) Shot PR 46’11 Discus PR 109’11 Bryan Back (Manuel) Shot PR 46’2 Discus PR 122 Brandon Hinojosa (Shelby County) Shot PR 43’1 Discus PR 139’11 Jackson Smallwood (Grant County) Shot PR 46’6 Discus PR 102’11 If I missed anybody do not hesitate to put there name and PRs in the comments.

Is he just considering football, because I heard he was a pretty good track athlete as well.

After one of the best seasons in school history, coach Fox should have this team in shape for another great season (hopefully going pretty far in the playoffs). They lose alot of offenseive of fire power from the previous season in Jalen Moore (WR), Lucas Jones,(RB) Jacob Ratliff (WR) and Jackson dekard (WR) but Oldhams Class of 2020 is more then capable of coming to the table. The offense returns about 6 offense starters in Regan Ray (LT) Jakob Muntchler (RG) Joey Lay (LG) Parker Caudil (QB) Tyler Holvey (WR) and Carson Deckard (WR) but rumors have been floating around that Sam Young might take over as the QB and Parker will move to slot reciver to replace a position that needs some help. Also another rumor being said is Joey lay may move from the oline to a skill position since he is only around 170 lbs. For the new faces expect to see the likes of juan Tapia and Preston Dikes as the main running backs, Mason Rabbeith should take over for the center position and as of now the left guard and right tackle spot are up for grabs. Oldhams defense on the other hand should once agian be one of the best in the state. They do lose two starting linebackers in Brody Kelly and Jackson Deckard but throughout the year coach Fox and staff constantlly rotated the linebacker position and the younger guys are ready to step up when needed. The only two concerns in my mind is they lose cornerback Zach Ford. Cornerback being a position they struggled to find any consistancy with and had no true conerback backups, instead they would use reciver Jalen Moore. The bright side for the conerback position is the other conner Sam Young looked really good last year and he was only a freshman. The other concern about the defense is replaceing one of the best defensive lineman in the state in Devin Cancel. With his departure the D line might have to be a little more causious of who they put out there instead of just moving players around to different d line positions like they did last year for certain times. The defense last year had a lot of turn over and subsitions which means that there isnt really a clear picture on how many starters return but some familar faces are Preston Dikes (LB) Sam Young (CB) Dakota Mabe (LB) Regan Ray (DT) Koby Thomas (DT) Jacob Kehoe (NG) Blake Fox (DT) and Carson Dekard (CB). I belive that this team has the chance to be really really good but there going to have to get prepared for these bigger teams. I think theyll go 3-0 to start to the season and the next 4 games are all toss up but they should win out the rest of the way. I think they will go atleast 8-2 and then its back to 0-0 once playoff times start.

8/9 at Desales (scrimmage) 8/16 at Ryle (scrimmage) 8/23 Eastern 8/30 North Oldham 9/6 Shelby county 9/13 at Manual 9/20 at SOUTH Oldham 9/27 BYE 10/4 at Fern Creek 10/11 Madison Central (district game) 10/18 at Bryan Station (district game) 10/25 George Rodger Clark (district game) 11/1 at Collins

I think the 10 game regular season format is fine but instead of playing the first game in mid august, have instead the first game played in the first week of august. This will lead to no games in December and late November, so the weather will be a lot warmer and bring more people to the game. This will also cause less injury's (mostly cramps do to the cold). Its a win win for both the players and the khsaa. The players get better weather and less injuries and the Khsaa gets more money.

It will be nice to see how Oldham fares against both teams since there moving to 6a. Both games should be pretty fun.