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my opinion,only an opinion,the coach doesnt matter if the players and community does not buy into the program..

We have 33 of our coverage area teams that have clinched a playoff spot with one game remaining in district play. We also have 6 teams that has wrapped up the #1 seed in their district. Here is a rundown of each district that has teams that have clinched playoff spots. Also a look at who can clinch in the final district game Tuesday, Feb. 13: 21-6A Atascocita has clinched playoff spot and #1 seed Beaumont United has clinched the #2 seed. Beaumont West Brook has clinched a playoff spot. CE King can clinch final playoff spot with a win or a Summer Creek loss. West Brook can clinch #3 seed with a win or CE King loss. 16-5A Lufkin, Nacogdoches, Kingwood Park and Porter have clinched playoff spots. Lufkin has clinched the #1 seed. Nacogdoches is the #2 seed. Kingwood Park has clinched #3 seed. Porter will be #4 seed. 17-5A Barbers Hill, Port Arthur Memorial and Crosby have clinched playoff spots. Barbers Hill can clinch #1 seed with a win and a PA Memorial loss. PA Memorial can clinch #1 seed with a win and a Barbers Hill loss. Crosby can clinch no worse than #3 seed with a win or Nederland loss. Nederland can clinch final playoff spot with a win or Goose Creek Memorial loss. 19-4A Silsbee, Bridge City and West Orange-Stark have clinched playoff spots. Silsbee has clinched the #1 seed. Bridge City is #2 seed. WO-S is #3 seed. Vidor can clinch final spot with a win vs. Jasper Tuesday night. Lumberton gets final spot with a Vidor loss. 20-4A Hamshire-Fannett and Huffman have clinched playoff spots. Hamshire-Fannett can clinch #1 seed with a win or a Huffman loss on Tuesday. Both teams have clinched no worse than the #2 seed. Livingston can clinch playoff spot with a win vs. West Fork Tuesday. They can clinch #3 seed with a win and a Splendora loss. Splendora can clinch playoff spot with a win vs. Huffman Tuesday. 21-3A Pollok Central, Central Heights, Diboll and Woodville have clinched playoff spots. Pollok Central can clinch #1 seed with a win vs. Central Heights Monday. Central Heights needs a win vs. PC to force a tie for #1 seed. Both teams have clinched no worse than the #2 seed. Diboll and Woodville need wins and the other to lose Tuesday to clinch #3 seed. 22-3A Kountze and Orangefield have clinched playoff spots. Kountze can clinch #1 seed with a win and an Orangefield loss Tuesday. Orangefield can clinch #1 seed with a win and a Kountze loss Tuesday. Both can finish no worse than the #2 seed. Anahuac, Buna and East Chambers are all tied at 7-6. Each needs a win and one of the other two to lose to clinch playoff spot on Tuesday. If one team loses and the other two win, the losing team will be out. Anahuac plays Hardin, Buna plays Kountze and East Chambers plays Warren. 23-3A Crockett and Shepherd have clinched playoff spots. Both need a win and the other to lose Tuesday to get #1 seed. Coldspring can clinch with a win or a Tarkington loss. A Coldspring win clinches no worse than the #3 seed. Tarkington can clinch with a win and an Onalaska loss. Onalaska can clinch with a win and a Tarkington loss. 24-2A San Augustine, Corrigan-Camden and Woden have clinched playoff spots. San Augustine has clinched #1 seed, Corrigan has clinched #2 seed. Woden can clinch #3 seed with a win Tuesday night. Chireno can clinch final playoff spot with a win or a West Sabine loss. 25-2A Evadale, Sabine Pass, West Hardin and Big Sandy have clinched playoff spots. Evadale has clinched the #1 seed. Sabine Pass and West Hardin play each other Tuesday night. Winner will be #2 seed. Big Sandy needs a win and a Sabine Pass loss to force a tie for #3 seed with Sabine Pass. 28-1A Brookeland, Leggett and Spurger have clinched playoff spots. Brookeland is #1 seed, Leggett is #2 seed. Spurger is #3 seed. Chester and Zavalla are tied at 6-7. Both need a win and the other to lose to clinch on Tuesday night. Otherwise they will have to play a play in game for 4th seed. Chester plays at Leggett and Zavalla plays at Spurger.

rumor has it that rich will be new coach but buying house and sending his kids to png🤣🤣

They are looking for someone who can work miracles.

Can we get back to talking about Nederland’s new football coach? I know very little about him. I don’t feel like reading every post. Thanks.

Isn’t life swell dad… hey son, how about we go fishing this weekend… great dad, but I have homework

Just passed by the boardroom and intended to stop for the meeting. 17th street had more Ford Escorts than Philpott.....

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.

True that, maybe change is in order there too.......

True

Post meeting lunch was at Redbirds...Golf cart parade and post signing party at the Wheelhouse.

Splendora was average to above average in 4A… I don’t think they will do well in 5A

The problem with Hemphill seems to be a major exit in high school enrollment. Snapshot number went from 273 down to 221. A drop of 52 kids. Hemphill lost their JV team in the middle of the year, had to combine with varsity. Even going to class 2A1 you need a JV program. Hopefully they have a large 8 th grade moving up. Would like to know the reason for the big drop in high school. Hemphill is a good place to live and the school has money. Hemphill just lost a good coach. Wishing my neighbor to the north the best.

I don't get why in bold.

I don’t know, but I do know this: Quinton Jackson is still on his feet. (PN-G fans who were at the 2009 game will get it.)

Why is this thread worthy?

The bonds are the big issue. Yes PNG has more money, but they also spend it wisely and the community is behind them. Nederland is spending $32 mil more than PNG on the last bond. PNG got rid of 2 schools (which cut overhead) and built 4 brand new state of the art schools. Nederland wouldn’t get rid of 100 yr old “historic” buildings because someone’s great grandma went to school there. Instead they piece milled 4 old schools together and it looks awful. They did get a new HS and 3 connex boxes for a press box though for $32 mil over what PNG paid.

When I went to academic competitions in Nederland their schools were piss poor work. I went on a tirade here and got shot down. Ned deserves better.

Haha what? Didn't Nederland play West Orange Stark, Port Arthur Memorial, and Silsbee last year and the year before in non district? Who do you want them to play Katy High school, North Shore, and Atascocita? You must not be from around here if you think that Nederland hasn't played anyone for non district.

I know PN-G is a football school first and foremost - 28 district titles, 16 seasons with ten or more wins, ten regional titles, eight state championship appearances and four state titles speak to that - but we really are blessed with an embarrassment of athletic riches at PN-G. The baseball program has made four state championship appearances and won it once; three of those appearances and the victory have all occurred in the last 25 years. The softball team has made two state championship appearances, both in the last 25 years. The volleyball team is 3-0 in state championship games. For most of the last fifteen years, both the boys' and girls' soccer programs have been major regional powers, making regional final appearances several times. If I recall correctly, there was one season where both teams made it to the regional final. We've fielded two or three state champions in various track activities plus a few dozen more state track meet qualifiers, and are always competitive in powerlifting. We used to be a real power in tennis. Sports-wise, basketball is really the only area where PN-G has consistently underperformed. Add in all the academic accolades - the years of blue ribbon designations, thirteen straight district titles in UIL academics from 2001 to 2013 and several consecutive years of dozens of kids advancing to regionals, a handful to state and one kid winning a gold medal in creative writing at the state UIL meet. For several years, PN-G offered more dual credit hours than any other local high school, Kelly included. And then there's the performing arts. The band has made, what, four trips to the state marching competition? Straight ones all but maybe three or four seasons since the UIL started holding regional marching competitions 50+ years ago, plus how many different awards from local marching festivals and competitions? Not to mention the hundreds of PN-G students who've achieved all-region and all-state honors in band and choir over the years, and a very competitive theater program. There are whole hallways at the high school lined with trophy cabinets filled to the brim for the different performing arts groups. Football is king at PN-G, but there are many, many more reasons to be proud to be an Indian.

How many golf carts? Haha

You know Nederland only cares about 1 sport only. Everything else is second fiddle and poor every girl sport in NISD…

Funny you mention that, they've always been weak one time a group of my friends from church beat their starters. But that's been an accepted fact and football reigns king here. But still a true story a church league of guys under 6' won

If my memory is correct PNG won the Nederland tournament

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Gold Star post of the month. 3 thumbs up👍👍👍

I think many of us probably appreciate your football postings (including AAW I’m guessing). Whether it’s Bellville or another team from that district, it is nice to know what’s ahead come playoff time from someone who has put eyes on those teams.

Coach Rich's dad was a career teacher, coach and administrator.....

Scott Rich will be a good coach for the Bulldogs. It might take a season or two for him to right the ship, but Mid-County Madness is on the verge of being a contest of state-ranked powers, on top of already being the state’s fiercest rivalry and the perennial marquis game in the Golden Triangle. This is good for both schools, and good for the area at large. I look forward to seeing what Coach Rich does at Nederland.

Ohhh no they got a A+ rating from the TEA.....

Board meeting is at 5 pm this evening FYI.

Do you think Todd D. will mess it up? I could see if it was just the district selecting, but I am hoping we get the best candidate like PNG did with TD advising.

if he didn't apply, not sure how he can be considered?

It should be the DC from Desoto , but they will mess this up

Not surprised. Never trusted said group

On the high school campus

Probably so… I mean I was a Kountze poster before moving here and posted about football and baseball there… not sports of which they weren’t the greatest.. And yes of course I posted about basketball to lol Honestly other than keeping up with Kountze basketball scores other than College hoops I honestly don’t care much for basketball as much as I used to

Lol yeah you ain’t gotta worry about the sport of basketball in Bellville… For one weirdly we are region 4 in every sport but football (That will change next year as we will be region 3 across the board). Though Bellville has 6 playoff appearances since I’ve lived here (2015)… They have 0 playoff wins 😂

Shoot I remember back in the mid 90s kids that couldn't make it at 5A Baytown Sterling would transfer to BH to be able to play. One ended up being all-state in 3A I think in football and baseball but couldnt crack the lineup at Sterling. My have things changed. This was during the 5A district that had Lee, North Shore, Sterling, Central, West Brook, PAJ, PNG.

The UIL needs to shuffle numbers, bump 5A bottom numbers up, play local 5A and split come playoff time like 6A does. These 5A districts are getting ridiculous.

Just pasting this over here. BH schedule! I like it should get us ready for PAM 😎

School district boundaries don’t follow city limits. NISD has all of Nederland plus healthy portions of Port Neches and Port Arthur and all of Central Gardens and Beauxart Gardens. PN-GISD loses roughly a quarter of Port Neches to NISD and a fifth of Groves to PAISD, though it picks up two neighborhoods in Port Arthur. It’s more like both districts have a town and a half; the number of residents and households the two districts have is almost always roughly even. When I was in school (PN-G c/o 2011), Nederland had about a hundred more students than PN-G. The fact that PN-G is ~15% larger than Nederland now is significant. That’s the largest enrollment disparity between the two schools in at least 30 years, maybe longer. What you’re seeing is PN-GISD’s aggressive approach to replacing schools since 2008 paying dividends. Young families took notice.

So you want them to play tougher teams? Because they couldn’t even beat WOS last year and got blown out by Silsbee… I’m just confused by you saying Silsbee is over rated but Nederland is 2-3 the last 5 games vs them.

You have made a great suggestion in that Nederland should find coaches that "teach fundamentals and technique". You should set up a meeting with the staff and share your insight. It is likely that if Nederland coaches were to "teach fundamentals and technique", they could dethrone PNG and Lake Creek. The only issue is that it will be difficult to find coaches that would know to "teach fundamentals and technique". Also, when you were at the meetings on Thursday, which schools were available for Nederland to schedule? The 6A schools and CS?

+1. I watched the YouTube video (not live) where Dave Campbell's Greg Tepper interviewed UIL Deputy Director Jamey Harrison, and Harrison stated that the UIL contacted ISDs and ADs to accommodate as many school needs and wish lists as possible. I had the exact same thought. No one called PN-G or Lufkin. And, did anyone at the UIL stop and think, something about Region 2 doesn't look right? Which one of these is not like the others? Crazy. But, it is what it is. Line up and go play. Go Indians.

I’m speaking more on the travel. Especially when playoffs start. Region 2 makes no sense.

Who are they going to beat to get in the playoffs? Angleton , BH , PAM , and GBALL are my picks for playoff teams. Not sure what order yet.

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.

Until recently, all golden triangle schools have been in region 3 since the 70's until recently beginning with Westbrook

This is the first time that Ned and PNG have been in Region 2 that I can remember, I could be wrong though.