I wouldn’t say okay with it because wether they was on the schedule or not I’m bleeding blue & gray all day ready for smoke with which ever team were lining up across.
but as a former player & coach I also understand that when you’re a second year head coach taking over a program that haven’t seen a deep playoff run since 2019 and over the last 5 years they’ve played chaminade 5 times (0-5), norland once (1-0) Central once (0-1) gibbons once (0-1) & on top of that you have a mass exodus of players after the coach before you left ; you have to build your program back up to a contending program before you try to schedule the big dogs of south Florida.
for EX: last year Dillard at STA, GIBBONS & chaminade on the schedule went (0-3) and each lost was by over 20+ the sta loss was 58-0. But those games had to be played because of the last year of the contract.
It seems possible BTW canceled on Lakeland. The game was removed from Maxpreps and the Lakeland football Twitter posted that they need games. Must be a bad offseason for transfers at BTW.
We don’t play them this year because we’re no longer in the same district. The last 5 years we’ve played sta, chaminade , two years played central and norland.
at this moment Dillard is not in the same playing field as those teams. Can a lot change in the upcoming months ? Sure but as for right now Dillard needs to put some wins together , get the Dillard faithful back believing in the program. And get some confidence in the players.