Carroll football's defensive coordinator Tim Wasson was hired in 2009 by head coach, and brother, Hal. Since then, the Dragons have made their way all the way up to a top 25 ranking in the nation on various lists.
According to a recent interview with WFAA, many questions arose when the original decision was made; however, Hal said Tim was brought in not because he was his brother, but because he was the best defensive coordinator out there.
"No one is gonna put more pressure on me and Hal than we will ourselves. When we line up and we want to play we expect to win and we expect our kids to play hard. When you coach kids like this it makes you invest a lot of time because you know how much they put into it," according to the report on WFAA.
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From the Archives
For further read the original text of our 2010 interview with Hal and Tim Wasson:
Brothers in Arms
With a clipboard full of X's and O's at the ready, Dragonbrhead coach Hal Wasson and his brother, defensive coordinator Tim Wasson, havebrbecome brothers in arms in the fight to prevail atop the 7-5a district footballbrrankings. Hal, winner of last season's District 6-5a head coach of the Year, entersbrhis fourth season at the helm of the Dragons with a record of 30-7. After 19bryears and two state championships with Lewisville's football program, youngerbrbrother Tim starts his second year with the Dragons and his first as hisbrbrother's defensive coordinator.
As the Southlake's Defense returns only one starter frombrlast season, many look forward to the 2010 season as a coming out party for abrflurry of new talent. As they change their base defense from a 4-3 set to abrmore flexible 3-4 (think 4 LBs) the Wasson brothers look forward to the debutbrof some new defensive schemes that will highlight their up and coming roster.
Southlake Style got a few moments with the Wasson brothersbrand asked them about their new look and the 2010 season.
SouthlakebrStyle: Dragon coaches have been recruited almost as heavily asbrour players. Could you tell us about some of the recent departures?
HalbrWasson: Some of our coaches have moved up and I’m proud of thembrand wish them success. Two of them have gone on to become head coaches. ShannonbrWilson (def. coordinator ’09) is now at Bullard and Bill Poe (off. coordinatorbr’09) is now the head coach and Longview Spring Hill.
SS: Howbrhave these positions been filled?
HW: I’mbrglad to have Clayton George return to Southlake as our offensive coordinatorbrafter spending the last 3 seasons as the receivers coach at UNT. Tim [Wasson],brsteps up from being our safeties coach last you to our new defensivebrcoordinator. He has earned the right to be a coach here.
SS:There has been much talk of the new 3-4 defensive sets, can you give us somebrinsight?
TimbrWasson: There are a lot of defensive schemes, but the bottombrline is it’s all about heart, desire and attitude. We’ve got to get to the ballbrand put pressure on the quarterback.
HW: It [3-4brset] is designed to stop the run. It fits our personnel, it puts more people inbrthe box and allows us to bring in more complicated blitz packages. With morebreyes on the ball we can better react better to what we see.
TW: Webrcan run flexible schemes to match our opponents. We may face a power team onebrweek and a spread offense the next week. We can run a three, four or five manbrfront and keep the element of surprise.