DISTRICT 5-5A DII
Corsicana TIGERS
Head Coach : Eugene Rogers 2024 Record : 1-9 Last Playoff Appearance : 2019
One bite at a time
By Mike Phillips Explore Corsicana
There ’ s a million ways to look at Corsicana ’ s Tigers and every fan , young and old , probably has a suggestion to make the team better , but the Tigers find themselves playing
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against a lot more than just opponents on the other side of the ball . The once great program has struggled mightily in recent years and when Coach Eugene Rogers arrived last winter the Tigers he took over faced gigantic odds from every direction . Rogers , a star when he played for the Tigers in the 1980s and a feared and respected coach before he returned , came back to revive the Tigers .
One way to look at the Tigers , who will eventually return with a winning program under Rogers , is to tell an old worn-out joke about how to eat an elephant . If you haven ’ t heard it , here it is : Question : “ How do you eat an elephant ?” Answer : “ One bite at a time .” That ’ s where the Tigers are today . Rogers is going to win , and win big . But it ’ s going to take time . Repeat that : “ It ’ s going to take time .” They haven ’ t won a playoff game since Steve Hoffman left after the 2018 season after losing just three district games in three years . His final team ripped Lake Dallas 53-21 to win the Bi-District round of the playoffs . Hoffman ’ s Tigers , who won eight games in a row and went 9-2 , might have gone three or four rounds in the playoffs that year if his son ,