Cashen In on the playoffs

With football season growing ever so near and the game with Rockcastle County looming on the horizon, I feel very good about the Redhounds having an excellent year. The primary factor in that feeling is a young man named Clint Cashen.
Clint will be the quarterback, barring an injury or anything unforeseen for the Corbin Redhounds of 2006. Cashen is a man for all seasons, an outstanding football player, an outstanding baseball player, and a basketball player who will help your team win.
Clint will only be a junior this coming season but he will be the most seasoned junior at this position in the state of Kentucky.
I don’t know Clint personally, but I love to watch him play, whether it be football, basketball or baseball, I feel much better about the ‘Hounds chances to win if he is on the field or court.
Over the years, the Redhounds have had many outstanding quarterbacks, in the forties it was a guy named Roy Kidd who later become head coach at Eastern Kentucky. The fifties had several memorable quarterbacks. In 1954 Edd Selvy was good enough to start at UK as a sophomore halfback.
Ralph Wilder, who may well have been the best of the group, out of the class of ’55, was a lefty who ran the football as well as he threw it, and he threw it very well.
Tony Lanham became a great quarterback under former Redhound Roy Kidd at Eastern Kentucky.
Tony set a record for touchdown passes in one season in 1957 for the state of Kentucky school boys.
Ronnie “Crusier” Boone succeeded Tony and had a great 1958 season.
In the decade of the sixties there were names like Phil Henderlight, Gary Frederick, Ova Hill, Jimmy Walker and Tony Asbridge that manned the quarterback position.
Next week we will take a look at quarterback, from the 70s, 80s and 90s, but this year we can watch Clint Cashen.
I have been fortunate enough to spend some time with some up and coming Redhounds this summer through watching open gym in basketball and playing golf with some of them on occasion. Kids like Justin Spencer, who is working very hard in the weight room, putting on muscle for football season.
Madison Johnson, Aaron Mann, Issac Wilson and Luke Stewart as they work hard as freshmen to try and join their buddies Josh Crawford and Josh Smith, sophomores, and junior Deke Barley and senior Josh Hamlin on the Redhound varsity basketball squad under coach Tony Pietrowski. I have also played a few rounds with Eric Jones and my old buddy, Josh Hopkins, two more future Redhounds. I hope the entire community realizes how fortunate we are to have such great kids.
The University of Kentucky seems to be preparing for a successful season in football this year as they stepped up the recruiting and did it the right way by garnering commitments from the in state prospects first. I hope the Wildcats do well, but as always I am a bit uneasy with the ‘Cats playing in the SEC. The schedule was built for six wins, but the ‘Cats better not stumble or it will be adios to Senior Brooks.
As for round ball, the Wildcats of Kentucky may be a pleasant surprise. Jodie Meeks, a recruit out of Georgia, could be the key.
Meeks is a manchild, and Jared Carter could also be a large factor by allowing Randolph Morris to move to power forward since Tubby cannot seem to recruit one.
It will probably be boring to watch, but I feel this will be a good year for the ‘Cats.