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It was on Facebook. I didn’t see it until after the fact, but I’m not on any direct Nederland pages.

That’s going to be tough

August 30 - @Klein Oak September 6- @BU September 13 - La Porte BYE September 27 - Montgomery Lake Creek October 4 - @Huntsville October 11 - Splendora October 18 - @West Fork October 25 - Nederland November 1 - Montgomery November 8 - @Dayton This is about as good a district travel schedule I could have hoped for. I would have preferred Nederland be one of the away games, to get either Huntsville, Dayton, or West Fork at home. As it is, we get both Montgomery schools at home. Regardless of travel, this is a tough schedule. Preseason, I could see us going 1-2. La Porte, MLC, and Huntsville all in a row is going to be like a playoff run. And, Klein Oak looks like they’ll have some serious size and strength. First five weeks will be a murderers’ row, not counting BU - Who knows what they‘ll be next year, but if I had to guess I’d say “not good” until they have a new coach. West Fork, Nederland, and Montgomery are wild cards. I think Dayton and Splendora won’t make much noise. West Fork: New schools are always intriguing. Sometimes they go straight to being good. Nederland: New coach, determined to get back into the mix. Montgomery: I don’t know much about them, other than we played them in the playoffs in ‘21 and ‘22. They strike me as always being at least pretty good. Hunstville and MLC are both returning talent from last year, and we saw how good they were. If Lake Creek had beaten us, I think they could have come away with a state championship. We’ll be good too, I think. But, this is going to be an exciting district.

He probably did

Offense should be Nguyen.

Sounds like it

I don’t see it as about stature so much as a way to judge where things are likely going. If, seven years from winning a state championship, a team hasn’t been back to state, it’s roughly safe to say they aren’t likely to be back to state any time soon. But, I take a more broad approach - Getting to state is nearly as useful an indicator as winning state, and getting at least to the semifinals means you had a team that was capable of getting to state. So if I had a coach getting to semifinals or to state seven years in a row, never winning state, I’d think long and hard before firing him on the hope that a new guy can replicate that success. A coach that can get you that far is one of the best coaches in the state. But, I like the seven year rule because in seven years you have an idea of what is a coach’s “normal” (statistically) outcome.

Agreed 100%. He needs to plant his flag as soon as possible to send out the message that things are full-circle different now. Best way to do that is actually play football. There needs to be a Nederland spring game.

Any thoughts on how soon he’ll select DC and OC?

Seven year clock starts right now !

Seems to me Nederland and PNG might be running very similar offenses now. MCM is about to be a bullfight - power runs and disciplined defense. Going to be mirrors of each other.

Congrats on the new coach!

You better believe it. We’re hiring Mr T and Chuck Norris next.

No sport has nearly the aggregate amount of emotion around it like football. When PNg won state in baseball (also, I’m just realizing PNG won state in two sports in a six year stretch - That’s pretty cool) everyone was extremely excited and proud. But it wasn’t even close to the near-religious, transcendent breath of joy that opened up across the entire PNG community when we won in football. Football is king at most schools. If coaches chose their jobs only on lack of pressure, they’d all be fighting for non-football spots.

I haven’t heard as much about the Katy guy, but re: the Desoto coach, the idea of a local guy who was DC at the best team in the state last year sounds too good to be true. Maybe when we learn more about the Katy guy, he’s just as good. If I had a vote, I’d be falling over myself to hire the de Soto guy.

Is that a prediction or an announcement?

Is that based on good info?

Awesome

If it ain’t broke, don’t schedule Klein Oak

It doesn’t. Waco is so much closer to Dallas than the District 8 teams, and isn’t nearly as close to Houston as the district 8 teams. The entire concept of “regions” demands at least some geographic logic.

Now that you mention it, the district list is just in alphabetical order. I didn’t notice that.

I’m assuming these are listed in order. Pre-season Klein Oak Beaumont United La Porte District Dayton Huntsville Montgomery Montgomery Lake Creek Nederland New Caney West Fork Splendora Anyone know anything about Klein Oak? I’m slightly sad we don’t get our annual PAM game.

I think Neumann started in 1993. In his first seven years, he was 4-3 vs PNG, and it only got worse for PNG from there.

Well, they’ll have to actually travel, is what I mean, probably won’t get their Dallas area refs, and probably will have a smaller crowd than they get at At&T, facing a not-at-all smaller PNG crowd.

And it does seem like things ended up good for Liberty Hill. I don’t know if the UIL was trying to treat them well, but they get to stay in the district closest to them (almost no travel) even though it makes their district have 9 teams, leaving a neighboring district (that isn’t very far) with only 6. And, to top it off, nearly all of LH’s recent competition in region 3 (all of the regional semifinalists except for Richmond Randle) got moved to the other side of the bracket when they moved over.