2024 Record – 5-6
Head Coach – Blake Powers
2024: For the first time in 35-something seasons the Meade County will have a new football coach as longtime head man Larry Mofield stepped down after the 2024 season. The new head guy will be former Green Wave and assistant Army West Point coach Blake Powers and he will take over a team which lost a huge senior class (mostly starters and skill players), but Meade County is coming off another 5-6 season and will be returning to a familiar District as well.
Offense: The Offense scored 289-points which was 16 more than the previous season, but there will be plenty of different faces in 2025 as the Green Wave lost nearly 70% of their offensive starters. With both Cade Scott and Braden Mofield gone, the only other guy credited with a passing line was Wyatt Rainey, so Powers will look for a passer. Rainey was the team’s top rusher with 626-yds and 8-TDs, but the other three runners behind him are gone meaning only Braylon Pruitt is the only active back. Whoever Powers has throwing the ball (and Scott did that very well for 2,295-yds and 20-TDs) will be throwing to some different faces as well with Stull, Bratcher and Kaiser gone, Raney is the fourth ranked pass catcher returning other than Grayson Heiner. The Offensive Line will still have Dylan Tucker and Jesse Bevin returning and Powers will look for some replacements.
Kicking: Nolan Poole (29-of-31 PATS and 4-of-6 FGs) handled the kicking duties, but with him gone there will also be another new kicker at that position.
Defense: The defense also improved as they allowed only 309-points (compared to 331 in 2023), but like the Offense, will replace some parts as well. The Defensive Line will lose some important parts, but returns Emmitt Day and Phoenix McCormick. The Linebackers and secondary will lose Thomas Fox (who led the team in tackles), Braden Mofield, Ethan Spencer, Talon Ledford, Roque Wrenn and Ethan Kaiser, but return Grayson Heiner, Jesse Beavin, Wyatt Rainey and Braylon Pruitt to a defense that intercepted 8-passes and produced 13-quarterback sacks.
Summation: North Hardin coach Brent Thompson said it best when he stated that losing Mofield to the retirement was like a changing of the guard in the area football universe as he had seen so much and took the Green Wave to the top echelon of Class 6-A football (and with a few breaks would have celebrated a State Title). Powers will be stepping into a tough, but good situation as nothing last forever and how long it takes to maintain that certain level of competitiveness associated with the Green Wave football will be decided when he can replace the multiple starters graduated last season. Even better news is the switch back to a much familiar district and that should help as well.