Several teams starting the season strong
and that includes Denton Guyer, A6,
a division Two state finalist last year,
a new head coach this year.
He's read him and he's good
enough to join us now coach him.
Obviously a fantastic start for your team
for no all four of your wins coming against
teams that at the time you played them,
they were ranked in state rankings
in their respective classifications.
Couldn't ask for a much better
start to your coaching,
your head coaching career.
Welcome to the big time coach time.
How's it feel?
It feels great.
You know, this is something
that somebody's asking before,
but if you were a if you're playing
and sit down a game of poker,
you got delta a hand.
If you're a first year head coach,
this is the hand that you'd want to be dealt.
We are very,
very fortunate to have some young
men that are great character
young men and also happen to be
unbelievable football players.
Obviously the first name off of anybody's
lips when they talk about Denton Guyer
is going to be your quarterback.
Jackson Arnold. Everybody knows
that's at least that's seen him,
just how good this kid is, 5 star.
Prospect on his way to Oklahoma.
The game you guys won though,
on Friday night against Prosper, 23 to 6.
You guys did that mostly on the
ground with special teams and
in a big part with your defense.
How well-rounded is your football team?
That for you to be the team that that
you want to be or the team that we talked
about is what we'd like to
accomplish this season.
You're going to need to be able
to win games using all phases
of football and for us to
a game like that where we're playing a very,
very good opponent and prosper,
that's really good on defense and
it may be throwing some different
things on the back end for us to
make it a little bit more difficult
for us to throw the football,
for us to lean into the run game
come out in the second-half.
Established the ground game and have,
I think over over 250 at the end
of the day that that feels good
for us and the staff and and
then maybe more importantly,
our kids can go, hey, we can win games,
whether it's defensively special teams
and offensively throwing it or running it.
I think that makes you pretty dynamic.
That game you played against Prosper
on Friday night was the fifth time
these two teams have played in
less than two calendar years in the
course of these last three seasons,
playing in the district,
district season as well as
meeting in the regional.
Final it seems certainly very
plausible that you guys may link
up once again come December.
What did you learn about this year's
Prosper team and and how that may be
applicable come later on this season?
You know, just that they're they're
very similar to the teams that that
we've played over the last two years.
You know you're always going to come in,
they're going to be well coached,
they're going to be good on special teams.
They're going to be tough defensively,
offensively, they're going to know
how they want to attract. What we do.
Defensively were a little bit different.
In what we do.
So we expect every single time
that that we claim that it's
going to be a good football game.
And I think y'all saw
that on on Friday night.
It was it really tough we were
able to pull away at the end,
but you know, it was it was a
game that wasn't decided until
well into the fourth quarter.
Beyond that and really before that,
you're going to have to deal with an
Allen team that obviously looks to be
just about as good as Allen always is.
You got a good McKinney team
in that district as well.
You guys still have work to be done.
Can't ask for a better start,
but as you look forward through
your district slate, what,
what jumps out at you and
how do you tackle the,
the challenge that Alan is,
I think in in this district it's it's good
because it prepares you for the playoffs.
It's it's a, it's a district that
is filled with unbelievable coaches
programs that have a long story
tradition of being successful.
And you know, for us it's
really is week to week.
I know that's coach speak,
but it's the truth.
I mean we have to look at each
opponent that we play. They're
all going to be a little bit
different in their own right.
Each week they're gonna
come in with a good plan.
I try to attack us in
certain different ways.
And we got to stay on our
toes and we got to stay
mentally focused as the team
is. And that's something that we talk about,
especially today with the the youth is like,
hey, we have to learn how to focus
week in and week out to be the very,
very best team that we can be.
The brand new head coach of
the Denton Guyer Wildcats.
Coach, thank you so much for the time.
We really appreciate you joining us.
Thanks, Mike. Really appreciate you.
It's a man who has a zero in his
lost column and I think he may have.
At 0 for quite some time.