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just think the year after this you will get to go to Montgomery twice......

I really respect Coach Joseph’s predistrict selections, even if I would like to see Memorial on the schedule. We will be prepared for whatever we face the rest of the season.
I’ve already circled December 13 on my calendar. Scalp ‘em, Indians.

Montgomery stadium twice in 1 season is brutal… 

WF will have their work cut out for them this year but they should be ready to fight in year 2.

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. 
 
 

Theriot told the team today that he will be accepting the DC position at Bridge City.

Nguyen is likely the favorite.
Over 2000 yards rushing on the season and state champion.

Offense should be Nguyen. 

Offense should be Nguyen. 

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. 

True!  Good head coaches have good assistants.  Bad head coaches have not so good assistants.  That's the state Ned is in now.  Time to bring in fresh blood!

Let us see how the new staff does. The new AD/HC has many years, so we will see how his program goes. I and most people that post hope he does well
I do know if I were coming in, seeing how bad the program has become under Barrow’s leadership, I would clean house

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. 

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. 

ST is a must this year....He has a whole new system to implement as well as evaluate personnel. As the AD  its on him to make sure ALL that play football participate, as much as possible. Football puts buttss in the seats and fills the coffers. 

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

Hopefully he will hire a very good staff and start getting the Bulldogs back to n track. I know when I visited with Neumann shortly after he got the job, he was extremely excited on how hard the kids worked. Is course Neumann had some very good assistants like Spell and Pate 
Hire good people, sell the program and the players will work
Best wishes to the new staff

I understand that Barrow called him and warned it about that.  He said he knows it from first hand experience!  (Grin)

Seven year clock starts right now !

Seven year clock starts right now !

Hope that coach Rich can turn things around at Nederland. The only things I have heard about him is that he played for Dodge and a Nederland board member and he played together  I don’t know how the guy from DeSoto would have been, but very thankful they didn’t pick guy from Lumberton I have not heard anything good about him ever
Anyway good luck to Coach Rich

I heard as long as your over .500 against PN-g you can get extensions on the 7 years.

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. 

Working for a Joseph to having to beat a Joseph gotta love it..