Chad DeGrenier knows the score.

It is 66 days from June 22 until the new Mesa Mountain View football coach debuts the Toros against Desert Mountain. He is anxious, but it's a good anxious.

DeGrenier, 38, is starting his second prep head coaching stint after leaving Cave Creek Cactus Shadows in  early March after seven seasons. He resumes mentoring at a place that does not start over. Mountain View football is predestined  to continue at a high level no matter the coach or situation. It does not pause.

DeGrenier is well aware. He's not afraid.

"There is pressure, but I love it," DeGrenier said. "It's exciting."

With a tad more than two months before the Toros begin a season with only their fourth coach in 35 years, DeGrenier is focused on installing his offense, melding almost an entirely new varsity staff and getting acquainted with players. Despite that list, he doesn't  forget or ignore the past and tradition that came before him.

"To be one of four coaches in 35 years here is amazing," DeGrenier said. "I take it as a great responsibility. When I was applying for the job people were talking about the high expectations. I want that. From what I've seen the kids here want to work, and want to get better. It's engrained."

Mountain View's past is full of wins (359) and state titles (8), even if the last championship came almost a decade ago -- 2002. Mountain View is the only school to win a big school title in football other than Hamilton or Brophy Prep in that span.

De Grenier's beginning at Mountain View figures to be markedly different than his first at Cactus Shadows.

"We finished 0-10," DeGrenier said. "We had six seniors and four juniors coming back. We played a lot of sophomores that year. Here there are 65 juniors and seniors."

The continuation of that 0-10 story -- Cactus Shadows was 5-6 the following year and in the thick of the 4A-II playoff chase. The next year the Falcons were 15-0 and 4A-II state champs.

After spring practice and a good month of summer workouts, DeGrenier says the Toros are "getting there" in picking up his system.

"Not quite where I want to be yet, but by the end of July with the things we can do between now and then, I think we'll be caught up," DeGrenier said.

Mountain View put up lots of offense in the last nine years under Tom Joseph. The Toros ran the ball more than threw, but put up plenty of big plays through the air.

DeGrenier said people's perception of his teams being pass dominated is a misnomer.

"Other than two of the years when we were 60-40 pass-run, the others we were 52-48," DeGrenier said. "We will do what we need to do to win. If we need to run the ball a lot, we will. They know how to run the ball here. We want to be more balanced."

As summer hit with a vengeance on Wednesday and promises more of the same as usual, DeGrenier will be glad as most teams will to head to preseason camp at cooler locales next month. Mountain View's July  18-23 destination for the varsity is Williams, Ariz., about 30 miles west of Flagstaff.

"We'll have lots of fields it will be cooler and we can get the work done we need to be ready (for August)," DeGrenier said. "There is tradition here. I think my expectations match Mountain View's, which are to be the best."