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Its a completely different culture across the board. Barrow has caught a lot of heat and owns some of it but its a Nederland ISD issue. I read a lot about kids playing multiple sports and all that. It really goes to overall involvement. PNG encourages a culture where kids are involved at a early age one way or the other. From students doing broadcast during games, 75 girls in drill team, band, and all the way thru into their athletics. Nederland needs to take a hard look at why their students are not getting involved. I might be wrong but I believe if your a cheerleader or drill team at Nederland you are not allowed to participate in spring sports, but I know at PNG they can. Why does one place have this type of participation in all there organizations and literally across the street their number shrink every year. One answer culture. Culture starts with your leaders and there is more than one leader at Nederland who should have to be answering these questions. Barrow and a lot coaches are going to take the bullet for this and rightfully so but their is still plenty of people from Principal Natalie Gomez to our Superintendent who need to take a hard look at the type of culture they are creating around them.

Sit back and do nothing about Iran’s 100+ attacks on out military but let’s go after Texas’s national guard.

List of Applicants thru a Public Information Request with OISD 35 applicants total: Jason Ferguson Lawrence Ellison William Brewton Blake Schmidt Quentin Cody Nelson Brandon Prouse Derek Hayes Beau Blair Josh Rankin Marcial Chapa Daryl Hobbs James Norman Mathew Loucks Joseph Hood Christopher Jones Christopher Billings Taran Hebert Nathan Byerly Jeremy Jenkins James Moore Henry Willis Brandon Craus Christopher Pachuca Michael Malphrus Bruce Munden Danny Ramsey Robert DeShazo Christopher Maple Shea Bolton Ryan Jones Robie Robbins Mathew Pace Jeff Breaux Michael Trahan Parker James

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Amen......and spot on. One thing about our neighbor school across the tracks....If there's not a place for you to fit in, it's cause you don't want one. Lot's of good things happening over there. I've always been a Huge supporter of Monte and company but he's gone now and it's time for change. Nederland doesn't have all the home growns and 2nd and 3rd generation kids anymore. So many have moved across the river, and to HF, Lumberton etc.......This isn't as big an issue in PNG. Just not as many diehard born and bred Bulldogs(CULTURE). Everyone needs a place to live but, Nederland is saturated with duplexes , apartments, and rental property. Say what you will but alot of these kids aren't diehards and necessarily Bulldogs due to moving in, out and around too much. This is a leadership problem, and it's in the lap of our City leaders. The ISD is saturated with kinfolks, classmates and GOB's. This can lead to an environment of complacency. It's uncomfortable to discipline kinfolk. This isn't saying Ned is all bad, it's just time for change. Top to bottom, and not just the coaching staff.

I thought Dayton was on the verge of being dominant again. Where did I read that?

I’ll ask some of my connections, but last I heard the last Monday is a key date in February… but they also decided to close the job opening down a few days early. Makes me think they might have a few choices they want… a few names been tossed around a interesting.

Leadership is not following the crowd or riding the current of the stream, it’s not looking across the tracks, but looking within and challenging yourself more than others. Poor leaders do things for cosmetics and optics. The worst do things out of fear.

Where is this list of applicants you speak of?

Just picked this up when I was re-watching this classic. Listen at the 41 second mark of this clip: The colonel talks about the infiltrators that walked across through the open border. Red Dawn hit the movie theaters in 1984.

It is my understanding that Nederland has garnered some quality applicants for the head coaching job. Sounds like it’s looking good so far!

Winner of this game will be either out right champion (Fairfield) or tie for a district championship. Fairfield won the first meeting by 17 points after a slow start by Franklin.

My realignment predictions: 21-6A: Cleveland, Humble, Atascocita, Kingwood, Summer Creek, CE King, New Caney 22-6A: Channelview, Deer Park, North Shore, GCM, Pasadena Dobie, Pasadena Memorial, Pasadena Rayburn, South Houston 9-5AD1: Barbers Hill, Baytown Sterling, United, West Brook, Crosby, Kingwood Park, Porter, PAM 10-5AD1: Angleton, Friendswood, FB Kempner, Galveston Ball, La Porte, Pasadena, Spring Woods 9-5AD2: Baytown Lee, Dayton, Galena Park, Nederland, West Fork, PNG, Santa Fe, Splendora, Texas City 9-4AD1: Bridge City, Hardin-Jefferson, Liberty, LCM, Lumberton, Vidor 10-4AD1: FB Crawford, FB Willowridge, Huffman Hargrave, Livingston, Navasota, Stafford 9-4AD2: Hamshire-Fannett, Jasper, Shepherd, Silsbee, Tarkington, WOS 9-3AD1: Buna, Coldspring-Oakhurst, Crockett, Diboll, Huntington, Kirbyville 10-3AD1: Anahuac, East Chambers, Hardin, Hitchcock, Orangefield 12-3AD2: Anderson-Shiro, Kountze, Newton, New Waverly, Trinity, Warren, Woodville 12-2AD1: Corrigan-Camden, Groveton, Hemphill, San Augustine, Shelbyville 12-2AD2: Colmesneil, Deweyville, Evadale, Hull-Daisetta, Sabine Pass, West Hardin, West Sabine 16-1AD1: Apple Springs, Burkeville, Chester, High Island

The media is also misrepresenting that the SC ruled against Texas..... Media is stirring the pot as well. I don't think Biden is that dumb. If he starts a conflict, I think he will end up on the wrong side of it.

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I had them in. 🤷🏾‍♂️

First action in the new G&G Arena tonight!

They should be a playoff team next year. let’s see what realignment looks like.

AD job and Football job are separate.

Dayton Open… Coach Blake Ware has stepped down

If this was a rehearsal, was the scene rehearsed to where the gun is to be pointed at the cinematographer? I think not.

Silsbee would do to Kountze what they are doing to everybody else in their district this year. If there was a year to schedule that game and expect Kountze to win or keep it close, it’d be next year. But there is a 0% chance that game will happen.

Maybe something is being looked at for part of this continuation. Ill fill you in after turnaround. You are one of the people who, if interested, could take part in it. Working with a mutual friend and two long time PN-G historians. Looking at some ideas. Also working with a great man from PA to help develop something for the great history of Port Arthur. A few other ideas being kicked around. Little to early in the process to get to deep in discussion.

PN-G often gets made fun of because of its core values of Honor, Pride, and Tradition, but those things matter. As I get older and farther away from my time in the PN-GISD, I am more and more thankful for the generations of PN-G administrators, teachers, staff, and alumni that created all the great traditions and Indian Spirit culture that still mean the same thing in 2024 like they did in 1925. What outanup said was 100% correct. If you are a student at PN-G and you cannot find a group or activity to join, then you don't want one. That makes this alum feel proud and I would feel that way if our football team was 16-0 or 0-10. PN-GISD, alums, and the leaders in the cities of Port Neches and Groves want the kids to be involved from K-12...Honor, Pride, and Tradition meant something in 1925, it still means something today, and it will carry you a long way in life. Here's to Nederland finding the right coach, re-energizing the ISD, and the kids enjoying success. I still gotta finish with Go Indians.

1. I don't believe a new AD/HFC will readily change that type of existing culture that you're talking about, re student involvement across the board, etc. I hope I'm wrong, maybe the new guy will know all about these things. It could be that he'll just do the best he can with the current HS enrollment, but really focus on the youngsters from middle school on down, I don't know. 2. After watching 16 live football games and halftimes this season I can say that (IMO) student involvement at ALL of the other high schools that PNG played was pretty low. I wondered at every game what the deal was, with purported enrollments, why the other bands and drill teams, etc, were so small. Is it lack of money? Lack of tradition? What else? The only other band and drill team that came remotely close I think was Dayton. 3. After watching a few of this season's playoff games (PNG), my older sisters and brother, who graduated in the 50s and 60s, remarked that everything was still the same, even the last names. The only "new thing" to them, (and to me), was the tomahawk chop thing. That's a lot of long time tradition. There are many schools that have merged over and over, changed mascots, colors, songs, and there's no tradition. 4. Hopefully the new AD will have the secret, and Nederland athletics and other related activities will come back.

That is exactly what I was talking about. If he brought the revolver and bullets onto the set and then he grabbed the wrong one, he is likely guilty of killing someone with at least criminal negligence which is Criminally Negligent Homicide in Texas as an example.

I agree with that BUTTTT….it’s broke

Sark and Elko were both there today.

This is what people mean when they say culture change. Maybe Todd Dodge can help out Nederland boys track program. Or at least get the kids to show up and get organized work outs in…..

The list of things that can change between JH and HS is vast. It's more likely than not that JH success won't be the same in HS. 1st and foremost.. 7th grade kids playing against everyone else's 7th grade kids and 8th grade kids playing against everyone else's 8th grade kids is not evenly remotely the same as 9-12th against 9-12th. A grade level of kids playing with either the grade above them or below them.. or both can dramatically change the success/failure compared to when it was just them. Not only do kids mature, gain strength, gain speed, gain size, and gain skill (both physically and mentally) at completely different levels and pace individually, but kids actually WORK and/or gain/lose interest completely different. Forget about the other obvious variables.. like: academic eligibility, transferring (both losing and gaining kids), quitting, reclassification, coaching change, etc. etc. etc. The situation for a Senior IS NOT THE SAME as that same kid's situation was when they were a 7th grader. To think so is idiotic. It's truly funny to me to hear people make predictions based on what happened in JH... might as well add little league as a predictor lol.

Looking at historical records and the records of the guy that just left, it appears that he did a bit better than anyone else and definitely stayed longer than any other head coach.

You’re talking about stuff on offense, but this game was lost on the defensive end. So was the best defensive game plan followed tonight? I think not. All those wide open shots and easy lays I seen. We’ll have to figure out something better on defense moving forward. It’s funny that prior to these two losses to ‘Cita, no one had anything to say about the offense. We’ve beaten some really good teams this year with that offense…

He’s been elite in everything he’s ever done, his baby diapers were even more loaded than the rest… Dogs would be lucky to have him, but probably can’t afford him or her

Is Reagan still the front runner?

It was fun watching the BC student section. They were a hoot. The score was a matter of complete indifference to them. Being behind 20 something to 80 something apparently was not a factor in their thinking. They went nuts at every tiny little thing that went the Cardinals way. The ref calling a jump ball was like VJ Day for them. And there were a couple of times they cheered riotously for nothing at all, nothing at least that I could detect. The adult 3/4 of the stands was a good deal more cognizant of what was actually happening on the court and a little less exultant about the whole thing. With them it was more like, "Ouch" and "Yikes" and finally "Oh well'. Silsbee knows the feeling all too well and perhaps better remembering the Bellville game. If you've been though it there isn't much in this world that's more gratifying than winning a game on the road against a hostile crowd. Usually though there's some little note of disappointment and maybe even a hint of embarrassment in the enemy camp when the score is so lopsided. Not so here. Watching the kid section you'd have thought that BC was 50 points ahead rather than 50 points behind. No sir, they weren't going to let the fact that their guys were being run out of the gym spoil their fun. If you could have gotten their attention and said, 'Guys, look at the scoreboard." I'm sure their reply would have been something like, "Scoreboard? I don't see any scoreboard. What's a scoreboard?" Or perhaps it was just a case of managing expectations. If so it's one of the most impressive demonstrations of that science I've ever witnessed. Today I'm sure that it's ancient history for them. In the words of Ralphie, "In the jungles of kiddom, the mind switches gears rapidly."

Jeff Joseph to be named new HC at Nederland.

That's all in the past now and NISD is taking the proper steps to see that the future is brighter. Ive always respected Neds program and wished them the best, I still do.

Todd Dodge, Don Clayton and Kevin Barbay

records are window dressing. you sell yourself with your plan (prep, process, vision, community building and relationship etc.) Lot of great coaches with bad records, lots of bad coaches with good records as well. You try to find the ones "doing it the right way" for your best chance at success

Newton OC Jeremy Russell was hired 1/11/24 as 3A Division II Omaha Pewitt AD\Head Football coach. The Brahmas finished 3-7 last season. Cedric Dorsey resigned after three seasons, he led Pewitt to the playoffs in 2021 and 2022.