Regaleagle reminds me a lot of cowboyandchrist. They could be brothers, lol. Both great guys, but huge homers.
Regaleagle reminds me a lot of cowboyandchrist. They could be brothers, lol. Both great guys, but huge homers.
Of course......why would you expect anything different??? Somebody has to be that guy to throw eggs at.....I guess I elected myself, LOL. Not particularly partial to rotten eggs, but I can be quick enough to dodge most of them.
Yesterdays are gone forever and tomorrows may never happen, but today you have the opportunity to make a difference.
I will agree that Roger's has done a tremendous job at Argyle, but he has had a lot of help because of location. Argyle has reaped the benefits sitting smack dab in the middle of school district such as Flower Mound, Denton, North West and it sounds like SLC. Again that's not to diminish what Roger's has done, but it's way easier to be good when your pulling kids in from 6a school districts.
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Or get them beat up. Playing a schedule like Argyles is a double edged sword. If you win the games and stay healthy your probably on your way to a title and the coach looks great . If you get injured and lose players and those games then the coach looks like an idiot.
I'm all about having a tough schedule, but not one that your gonna be in a dog fight almost every game. You cant help your district schedule, but I've always felt the best non district schedule is to play one or two games your gonna win, one game that's gonna challenge you most of the game. Then play a slobber knocker.
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Looks to me like there's a movement with some of the more established programs in 4A D1 to move to a more stringent schedule in predistrict. There's quite a few schools with very tough schedules this season.....not just Argyle. And maybe it wasn't easy for Argyle to schedule some of the teams they wanted, so they had to opt for certain ones that would schedule a game with them. Injuries are gonna happen in football at all levels......you just hope you can keep them to a controlled minimum and protect the players as much as possible. But you certainly can't change your philosophy based on whether or not injuries will cause a problem.
Yesterdays are gone forever and tomorrows may never happen, but today you have the opportunity to make a difference.
When nobody will play the top teams, they have to play each other or they won't have any games. In Stephenville's case - being in a 5 team district hasn't helped - having to find 6 games is very difficult because your 6th non district game falls during when most teams have already started district play.
This just helps with year-to-year consistency. It doesn't guarantee success, and it certainly doesn't guarantee a winning culture. That's what I think is so great about what Rogers has done — same thing G.A. Moore and Butch Ford did at Celina — in building and maintaining a winning culture. Success breeds success, and that's evident throughout Argyle's athletic and academic programs.
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There's a lot of parity at this level — far more than there used to be at the mid-tier to lower-tier classifications. There's a very fine line that separates the truly great/elite teams, so if you want to be prepared for a heavyweight fight, you better have some heavyweight training in your back pocket. That's why you see the big dogs scheduling pre-district throw downs with other big dogs.
But, I will agree a bit with OM and say a full slate of slobberknockers in pre-district — especially if you already have a difficult district — could overtax a program that is on the cusp of being in the title discussion but may not come out on the other side with enough depth to make a run.
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I think more schools are following the model Surratt laid out. Stop worrying about going 10-0. Play tough teams. Find out who your players are. Get the guys experience against top competition. The trick that I think some teams might not be smart enough to except is to use pre-district as a learning experience. Don’t be afraid to lose games. And DO NOT get your best players hurt. Your proven weapons need about a half of hard play a game. At the max 3 quarters a couple of times. You cannot play all out to win in pre-district for 5 straight games. Does Surratt try to win every game. Yes! But he will not risk his best players to do it. Plus he finds the best role players, who will be his next stars in years to come. Rarely do the players that start the season, finish as the starters. By the time district rolls around, the team will look totally different than the team that started the 1st game.
But schedule like this at your own peril. Look at LE. They schedule up every year. And finish the season 7-6 or something like that. The chickens came home to roost in 2014 for Carthage. Lost a team full of 3 year starters, and then started off the season 1-5. It’s tough to play a schedule like that.
I think it depends on Argyle staying healthy.
Thank you Oldtonag, I don't mind being over the top when it comes to the Dawgs. Especially when I am right on what I post. So far I have been right six times out of ten.
This year I see six maybe eight teams with a legit shot at the championship, BUT I believe the Dawgs will have a good chance at the three Pete.
Lets Go Dawgs!!!!!
God Bless Coaches, Players, and Fans.
Man RII is a crap shoot. I agree Argyle needs to stay healthy. They haven’t the last couple years and had early exits. But it’s still such a stacked region I don’t know how you can pick a favorite. I think whoever has that lucky bounce will be the team to come out. All the other regions are weak compared to that one. Even my beloved RIII.
I'd watch out for Melissa to win this district. They're loaded with extreme talent and on the fast track to 5A.
Celina is a hard No. 3 in this district. The transfers they used to get from the Metroplex are now moseying nine miles north to a smaller school.
24 down ... 24 to go.