No matter where Antonio Harmon lines up offensively for the Kosciusko High School football team this fall, first-year head coach Casey Orr said the Whippets will be looking for ways to get him the ball.
“He is going to play a lot of positions,” Orr said of the five-star recruit, who will be entering his senior season for KHS. Harmon has been recruited as both a wide receiver and a defensive back. “When you have someone with that kind of ability, you have to find ways to get him the ball,” Orr said, indicating Harmon may line up in the backfield some and even take some direct snaps.
“We have to be unpredictable and make it very hard to prepare for us,” he said. Orr said the Whippets would basically be running out of the spread. “We are not going to be a ‘Mike Leach throw the ball all around type of team,’ but we will spread it out. You can also run the ball very well out of the spread.”
Defensively, he said the Whippets would be in a four-man front and may run a 4-3 or a 4-2-5 type of defense. “Really it’s going to depend on the personnel.”
Orr really has not had a chance to evaluate the Whippets who will be coming out for the 2020 season due to a lack of spring practice. The fact there will be no 7-on-7 contests this summer also hinders progress.
“Once we can get out on the field with the guys, we will know more.”
Orr said the Whippets will play in the New Hope preseason jamboree the week before the season opener, but noted that the site of the event had yet to be determined. The Whippets open the Orr era on Thursday, Aug. 20, at Yazoo County High School.
The Whippets dropped at 20-16 decision to the Panthers last season, with Yazoo County scoring in the final minute of the contest in a game played in Kosciusko.
