TUSCOLA — The Johnathon McClure era begins at Jim Ned with respectable numbers. 

Back from last year’s 8-3 team are five offensive and seven defensive starters among 21 lettermen, with impact players on both sides of the ball. 

The timing of this couldn’t be better from the Jim Ned perspective, given that its traditionally tough district (3-3A DI) got even more difficult following this year’s realignment with the addition of very good teams from Comanche and Sweetwater. 

“If you go team-by-team, I could talk at length about each of them,” said McClure about the opposition facing the Indians in district play. “Obviously Sweetwater is an easy one to talk about right now with good reason. But I don’t think there’s enough talk about Comanche. They’re a dangerous crew.”