Bigdog

Playoffs are set, just playing for seeding now.

Haven’t heard anything about it. Never mind I just saw it.

Ok

I don’t think so. Those rules are setup by the individual districts not the UIL. So I’m not absolutely sure

Hmmm, I think if Ned and PNG end up with the same record they would flip for the 1st seed.

So what does everyone think?

Bump

TTT

Hmmmm.....

Something that both schools planned together?

More wishful thinking..

Updated for week 10

I'm not discounting what they have done at the lower levels, I am just saying it doesn't always translate to varsity. Sometimes it does, a lot of the time it doesn't. Now, for some individual players it might, such as Shug but as a team not always. Some of that is because of players moved up to varsity as juniors or sophomores that aren't playing with the same teammates that they were on the freshman level.

how so? All I was hearing a few years ago was how good the sub varsity PNG teams were and how they were going to tear up the district at varsity and beat Ned. Didn't happen.

Ok, PNG lost the game no reason to rehash it. And be careful with the name calling .

And that has nothing to do with varsity. Seems like i was hearing that a few years ago too.

You lost the game. Period. And they don't play again till next week. Crosby is up next.

thank you. I'm no expert, I usually don't dive into all of the possible outcomes, just the most likely.

Ok, I am going to try to answer this. The short a answer is SF has the heads up wins against Lee and Crosby already. So with the standings like this: SF 3-4 Crosby 3-4 Lee 3-4 SF will still go due to the heads up wins against the other two teams. Now if SF had the heads up against Lee and Crosby had the heads up against SF it would get interesting. I think that is where you start getting into point differentials if the rules haven't changed. But, that isn't where we are now. Basically if Crosby loses to Ned or SF beats Dayton and PNG wins against BH, Crosby's playoff chances are over.

Yeah, might need to switch to decaf.

I am not questioning his ability as a motivator or as a moral compass for the kids, its obvious he is very good at both. My thing is as bulldogpower stated is being stubborn about the type of offense and defense that is run and not being open to changing or just modifying it. We see it every two years, the teams that come into the district after realignment have some issues with it until they get used to it, but the teams such as Ned, PNG, Central that have seen it every year for the last 15 or so usually don't have as much trouble defending it. The few exceptions have been the Quirante years and maybe one or two other years in the past.

Coaching is a big part of it. Nederland hadn’t made the playoffs in 6 years before Neumann got there and before that it had been 33 years. Ned went to the playoffs the first year he coached , missed the next two and then reeled off 11 straight and they are currently on another 11 year streak now. The point being, he established the expectation early and held the kids and coaches to it.

So that’s the excuse for the poor defense the last three or four years?

yep

Matthews started in 99 , i went a few years farther back to illustrate. Other than the Quirante years there hasn't been a whole lot of difference. 1976 4-6-0 73-167 Joel Soileau 1977 6-4-0 163-154 Ronnie Thompson 1978 C 8-3-0 197-164 Phillip Brown 1979 6-4-0 180-189 Phillip Brown 1980 3-7-0 167-187 Phillip Brown 1981 3-7-0 104-159 Phillip Brown 1982 5-5-0 144-158 Phillip Brown 1983 5-5-0 134-130 Phillip Brown 1984 6-4-0 173-118 Phillip Brown 1985 4-5-1 127-186 J.R. Jones 1986 1-8-1 87-254 J.R. Jones 1987 0-10-0 48-305 Nolan Viator 1988 3-6-0 76-145 Nolan Viator 1989 2-8-0 96-216 Jay Law 1990 0-10-0 115-398 Jay Law 1991 1-9-0 93-310 Jay Law 1992 2-8-0 99-224 Jay Law 1993 0-10-0 81-272 Jay Law 1994 2-8-0 149-304 Pat Murphy 1995 0-10-0 79-344 Pat Murphy 1996 5-5-0 148-160 Pat Murphy 1997 2-8-0 75-385 Kevin Johnson 1998 1-9-0 118-298 Kevin Johnson 1999 5-5-0 201-187 Jeff Mathews 2000 T 4-7-0 208-226 Jeff Mathews 2001 6-4-0 183-198 Jeff Mathews 2002 6-4-0 217-153 Jeff Mathews 2003 2-8-0 149-233 Jeff Mathews 2004 3-6-0 180-223 Jeff Mathews 2005 4-4-0 211-154 Jeff Mathews 2006 3-7-0 223-279 Jeff Mathews 2007 2-8-0 157-237 Jeff Mathews 2008 5-4-0 218-162 Jeff Mathews 2009 F-- 7-4-0 345-245 Jeff Mathews 2010 2-8-0 182-292 Jeff Mathews 2011 T-- 10-3-0 384-290 Jeff Mathews 2012 R 9-2-0 447-216 Jeff Mathews 2013 4-6-0 303-274 Jeff Mathews 2014 2-8-0 251-358 Jeff Mathews 2015 3-7-0 279-351 Jeff Mathews 2016 TRI- 8-3-0 362-247 Jeff Mathews 2017 F-- 5-4-0 314-229 Jeff Mathews