In 2023, the Clyde football team enjoyed its best season in a decade and a half, riding one of the Big Country’s most explosive offenses to a shared district championship and an 11-2 record.

This year, the Bulldogs will try to build on that success with some new faces in some very prominent positions.

Gone are coach Danny Dudgeon, who left to take over the Godley program in May, and standout quarterback Blake Carr, who earned a scholarship at Division II Pittsburg State with an outstanding senior year. But taking over at CHS is a friend and former colleague of Dudgeon in Johnathon Haddock, who feels good about the group he’s inheriting despite returning just 14 of 34 lettermen from last year’s squad.