DE Tennison Dean<\/a> and stout LB Kole Mitchell are a good base to build on. With the offense being so explosive, the defense doesn\u2019t need to be anything special. But it may determine how deep the Eagles go in the playoffs. Georgetown\u2019s nondistrict schedule \u2014 Victoria East, Belton, Copperas Cove \u2014 isn\u2019t easy. However, it does allow time for the defense to gel. Junior LB Gavin Smith is a player that the Georgetown coaching staff thinks is poised for a big season. \u00a0<\/p>\n\u2022 Finally, some coaching consistency. Unlike last summer when Georgetown coach Chuck Griffin lost both of his coordinators and some other assistants, the Eagles coaching staff returns virtually intact this season. That should only pay dividends for a team that, if it stays healthy, has a floor of nine wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Etc.<\/p>\n
Keep an eye on RB Westin Steward. Griffin wants to keep Walker as fresh as possible for the playoffs, so Steward will be getting plenty of carries. \u2026 Being in Region II with schools mainly in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, there are no easy playoff games for Georgetown. Winning the district gives the Eagles the best shot to still be playing after Thanksgiving. \u2026 Walker was a Class 5A all-state pick and first-team all-Central Texas selection last fall. \u2026 Though Georgetown is a city that\u2019s constantly growing, Griffin doesn\u2019t expect the school to move up to Class 6A when UIL does its biennial realignment in February. The Eagles\u2019 were more than 150 students below the 6A cutoff last realignment. … Georgetown over the last three years: 26-10, 17-4 in district (10-3\/6-1, 6-5\/5-2 and 10-2\/6-1). … Georgetown hasn\u2019t missed the playoffs since 2014. It went 7-3 that season with a 4-3 district mark but four teams finished district 5-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, one area team was crowned a state champion. Could that number go up this season? The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,44098,34956,22143,85,59232],"class_list":["post-77185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-schools","tag-sports","tag-texas-high-school-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}