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MRH Football Takes the Long View, With High Expectations

Coach Rich Nixon said the team would like to beat MICDS in the first game, but that's not the most important thing.

new head coach Rich Nixon wasn't interested in talking about the Blue Devils' opening game agaisnt MICDS.

The first game is Saturday at MICDS at 1:00.

The Rams beat the Blue Devils in last year's opener 36-35 at MRH, but Nixon is looking farther downfield than the first game of the season.

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"The kids are excited to hit somebody else for sure, and you always want to erase those bad memories, there's no doubt about it, but we preach preparation for the end of the season," he said.

The season record doesn't matter, he said.

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"It's all a matter of how good can we get by week 10," Nixon said. "That's really what our focus is."

He said they won't be at playoff form early on.

"We put so much in offensively and defensively and special teams, that we are not at playoff form early on. We install everything we have, and we continue to build on that throughout the course of the seaon."

That being said, they have high expectations.

An article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch points out that a core group of sophomores that played in The Dome for the state championship two years ago are still with the team.

"The depth of this small school's roster is truly breathtaking," the article states.

Read the rest of the article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

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