Argyle Ready to Take on New District Slate

Argyle ready to take on ne distri t slate

by Steve Gamel

The Argyle football team has been placed into some interesting districts over the years. Next year won’t be any different, though the amount of travel appears to be the biggest eye-opener.

Head coach Todd Rodgers and company learned they would join a revamped District 7-4A Division I lineup that includes the likes of Anna, Carrollton Ranchview, Kaufman, Melissa, Paris, and Terrell. The news was released during the University Interscholastic League’s biennial reclassification and realignment day on February 3. The new district lineup is for the 2020-22 school years and is only for football. There are several positives with this new lineup. For starters, there are few programs in the state that can match talent with the Eagles, who played in

three straight state title games between 2013 and 2015, winning it all in 2013. The backto-back region finalists have not lost a regular-season game since 2015 and will be an easy pick to win the district outright next fall. In its previous district, Argyle beat Celina, Anna, Melissa, Paris, Paris North Lamar, and Sanger For starters, t ere are fe pro rams in t e state t at an mat talent it t e Ea les...

by an average margin of 33.16 points. Quarterback Bo Hogeboom threw for 3,719 yards and 57 touchdowns.

Another benefit is that there is plenty of familiarity with a few of those opponents. Melissa, Paris, and Anna were all district bunkmates with Argyle last season. Ranchview has also played Argyle in recent years, as has Kaufman.

But only Ranchview is less than 50 miles away.

“It is what it is and you really have no say in it,” Rodgers told the Denton RecordChronicle on realignment day. “We know there will be strenuous travel because we have to go across the metroplex in the heart of traffic. It doesn’t make sense to me how they can put us in a region one district against the same people, but I just had it rationalized, but that doesn’t mean I’m right. I’ll get over the shock of it and move on.”

As previously mentioned, the district above is only for football. Sports such as basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball and softball will compete in the new District 7-4A with Bridgeport, Decatur, Krum, Lake Worth, River Oaks Castleberry, and Springtown. Argyle is incredibly competitive in all sports, as both its baseball and girls basketball teams are coming off state title wins from a year ago.