Texarkana Texas (56) vs Nederland (14) - FINAL

[Eazy]

Ned had a really good October.  Not so good November.  

[DukeS]

Nederland lost by 47 points in the first round last year and only lost by 42 this year. Improvement is improvement. 😀

But seriously, I do believe the program will continue on an upward trend the next few years. 

[Bordertown]

How is the Nederland QB that was injured late in the game?

[NHSBulldogFan]

2 hours ago, Bordertown said:

How is the Nederland QB that was injured late in the game?

He has a concussion 

[prepballfan]

Prayers for all the injured Nederland players. 

[spidersal]

Coach Rich and assistants need to have an excellent offseason after a nice 7-4 season. I don’t know how many juniors are returning, however the JV and freshman teams did well. Hopefully there is some talent there

It appeared to me that the backup QB and RB have a chance to do well if they are not seniors. The OL could be good if they were not seniors. I thought the defensive line was ok

I do like the offensive scheme similar to Katy’s. I certainly think he knows what he is doing on offense and the offensive staff did a good job. The defensive staff did not do a good job imo.  I know a lot of it has to do with a lack of talent and being slow, but also very soft. I watched every game and besides having an ok DL and #6, they were extremely weak

Obviously the staff will evaluate the season and know what should be addressed and hopefully have a good offseason. One major thing that has to get better is the mouthing and late hit personal foul penalties

I certainly like the hire and am looking forward to the Bulldogs getting back to being a very competitive team. They will be in this tough district at least 1 more year
 

[prepballfan]

3 hours ago, spidersal said:

Coach Rich and assistants need to have an excellent offseason after a nice 7-4 season. I don’t know how many juniors are returning, however the JV and freshman teams did well. Hopefully there is some talent there

It appeared to me that the backup QB and RB have a chance to do well if they are not seniors. The OL could be good if they were not seniors. I thought the defensive line was ok

I do like the offensive scheme similar to Katy’s. I certainly think he knows what he is doing on offense and the offensive staff did a good job. The defensive staff did not do a good job imo.  I know a lot of it has to do with a lack of talent and being slow, but also very soft. I watched every game and besides having an ok DL and #6, they were extremely weak

Obviously the staff will evaluate the season and know what should be addressed and hopefully have a good offseason. One major thing that has to get better is the mouthing and late hit personal foul penalties

I certainly like the hire and am looking forward to the Bulldogs getting back to being a very competitive team. They will be in this tough district at least 1 more year
 

Nederlands arrow us headed up. Huge turnaround this season. Nederland is going to be very good soon.

[outanup]

Pretty sure Ned's DC was in his first year as such. He was a position coach last year if I'm not mistaken. I believe he brought a special teams guy in also, don't think that worked out too well. I'd be willing to bet some changes will be made now that he has a year under him to evaluate things. Rich has done a good job imo....Congrats to the Dogs.

[NHSBulldogFan]

5 hours ago, outanup said:

Pretty sure Ned's DC was in his first year as such. He was a position coach last year if I'm not mistaken. I believe he brought a special teams guy in also, don't think that worked out too well. I'd be willing to bet some changes will be made now that he has a year under him to evaluate things. Rich has done a good job imo....Congrats to the Dogs.

That Special Teams coordinator was on several of Katy's State Championship teams he knows what he's doing but it was an up and down year i think we see improvement next year with a full off-season in place

[Bigdog]

Nederland has some talent coming up, we will see what year 2 looks like after a full offseason.

[outanup]

4 hours ago, NHSBulldogFan said:

That Special Teams coordinator was on several of Katy's State Championship teams he knows what he's doing but it was an up and down year i think we see improvement next year with a full off-season in place

I thought the special teams coach was also a coordinator but didn't wanna speak out of turn. Something has to change in that area.

[Rez]

I watched Nederland and PNG’s JV game. I think both will improve in the secondary next year. 

[A BUC 77]

Congratulations Big Ned.  The end wasn't what we were looking for but hey great year.  Thank you, coach Rich.

[navydawg31]

4 hours ago, outanup said:

I thought the special teams coach was also a coordinator but didn't wanna speak out of turn. Something has to change in that area.

The special teams coordinator is also in charge of all the offseason workouts. From my understanding he was Katy High school offseason head guy in charge of workouts/strength and conditioning and he resumed that role here. Pretty big grab to get a guy like that… ready to see a full offseason under this regime and the newness for the most part has worn off ready for the coaches and players roll up there sleeves and get to work. 

[rvbulldogs]

The dogs exceeded my expectations this year and they were competitive in every game up until that playoff game. I thought coach Rich did a great job in his first season as our leader and took ownership when things didn’t go well. I think the dogs have the right guy to get them to the next level. Hoping for a great offseason and building up this program to an even better spot than scary Larry had it.