Over the course of five years at Dripping Springs, head football coach Galen Zimmerman isn’t one to look beyond the horizon in front of him.

To the uninitiated, such a task could be easier said than done. Dripping Springs enters 2018 as not only the favorite in the new District 12-5A, Division I, but also as an area football power that’s consistently tasted success.

But all of it – the accolades, the hype – don’t weigh on Zimmerman, whose approach of taking things one...