Before sunrise, in the small town of Floresville, the Tigers football program assembles at Eschenburg Field — as the team turns the page on its previous 3-7 season.
“You can expect a hardworking team, a very conditioned team, a very bonded team, and a team ready to work and play,” said Floresville senior tight end and linebacker Christian Peralta.
Floresville, of District 15-4A-D1, is under the new leadership of Ilyan Martinez, who spent over a decade with the Natalia football team.
Martinez is on a mission to teach his new group how to approach the game of football with the right mentality. The Tigers are projected to finish last in their division — per Dave Campbell’s Texas Football — and Martinez doesn’t want his players to mind the outside noise.
“We started from the ground up, and that’s how we are going to coach them,” said Martinez. “We’re not going …