Coming off the winningest three-year stretch in program history, the Miles Bulldogs will have the strength of their budding football tradition tested in 2025.

MHS graduated 12 of its 18 lettermen from last year’s 8-3 quad, returns just two starters on both sides of the football and didn’t have the numbers program-wide to field a junior varsity team for most of the 2024 season — all factors that, on paper, might point to a significant rebuild this fall.

But if you expect coach Jayson Wilhelm to accept that fate as an inevitability, you don’t know the sixth-year Miles mentor well enough. Instead, the enthusiastic Bulldogs coach is ready to prove some folks wrong this season, and — despite the heavy graduation losses — feels he has the talent to do just that.