UD: Coach Sonora comes into the game scoring an average of nearly 49 points per game. What is the biggest difference between Sonora’s offense this year as opposed to years past?
DC: The thing that I see differently offensively from them is they are more well-rounded than they have been in the past. There is not one, two, three guys this year. There are four, five, six, seven guys that you have to really account for. There are always players that you have to take extra notice of, and this year it seems like there are more than there have been in the past.
UD: Sonora has a tall receiver in 6-foot-4 sophomore Evan Bearden. Height is something that you can’t teach and your defensive backs are not super tall. How do you plan on matching up with …show more content…
In my opinion, it was a perfectly legal hit. In 2016, maybe it deemed a 15-yard penalty. But an ejection from the game, you totally left a player without a game-and-a-half, which does not set easy with me. Regardless of the Sonora game and regardless of our team, I look at that individual player and you took away playing time from him and that’s not right.
UD: You are a Sonora High graduate and still have lots of ties to the community of Sonora. I know that coaches like to say that every game is the same, but come on, this game must mean just a little bit more to you, right?
DC: To me, just because of the competitive nature, every game is big. OK, yeah, it’s Sonora, which makes it a little bit bigger, I’ll admit that. We prepare exactly the same and do everything exactly the same that we would week in and week out. But in the back of your mind, of course, it’s a bigger game. We’ve had a couple of games go down to the wire with them. And as a coach, that’s what you hope for. I would love nothing more than to have a good, tight, close football game. It’s better for the fans. It’s better for the players. It’s better for football in general than to go out and see a blowout. I hope we deliver what everybody is hoping for and that’s a good
DC: The thing that I see differently offensively from them is they are more well-rounded than they have been in the past. There is not one, two, three guys this year. There are four, five, six, seven guys that you have to really account for. There are always players that you have to take extra notice of, and this year it seems like there are more than there have been in the past.
UD: Sonora has a tall receiver in 6-foot-4 sophomore Evan Bearden. Height is something that you can’t teach and your defensive backs are not super tall. How do you plan on matching up with …show more content…
In my opinion, it was a perfectly legal hit. In 2016, maybe it deemed a 15-yard penalty. But an ejection from the game, you totally left a player without a game-and-a-half, which does not set easy with me. Regardless of the Sonora game and regardless of our team, I look at that individual player and you took away playing time from him and that’s not right.
UD: You are a Sonora High graduate and still have lots of ties to the community of Sonora. I know that coaches like to say that every game is the same, but come on, this game must mean just a little bit more to you, right?
DC: To me, just because of the competitive nature, every game is big. OK, yeah, it’s Sonora, which makes it a little bit bigger, I’ll admit that. We prepare exactly the same and do everything exactly the same that we would week in and week out. But in the back of your mind, of course, it’s a bigger game. We’ve had a couple of games go down to the wire with them. And as a coach, that’s what you hope for. I would love nothing more than to have a good, tight, close football game. It’s better for the fans. It’s better for the players. It’s better for football in general than to go out and see a blowout. I hope we deliver what everybody is hoping for and that’s a good