Nederland Coaching

[cal81]

Plain and simple, Nederland's last season was not very good and this one is not very good.

[pngfan316]

Nederland was a drive away from a district championship last year.

[oldman]

Standard Couch Coaches comments.  
 

Move your kid if you don’t like what is taking place.  Simple solution to your problem

[Darth Texas]

38 minutes ago, oldman said:

Standard Couch Coaches comments.  
 

Move your kid if you don’t like what is taking place.  Simple solution to your problem

It’s not that controversial to want to diagnose a problem. Are you happy with how things are going this season? 

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

3 hours ago, Couch.Coach said:

Thanks for bringing the numbers up. In several cases the enrollment doesn't reflect the athletic participation. Even though Nederland is around 1400 kids, i would bet they have more kids in their high school program than Memorial. No one ever talks about the amazing job PA has been able to do. They are around 1700 students also, but over half of their enrollment in hispanic, with absolutely no interest in American football.  For many, english is their second language. So while Memorial plays in 5A-D1, their program has the involvement of a Silsbee..........and they still handle business.

Maybe Nederland doesn't have as many students enrolled, but they definitely compete in program size & participation....for now.

I disagree Rich is a good coach. Maybe a good assistant. But as your first head coaching job, this one might not be the one. Maybe a smaller school, with less visibility and a weaker district. I think he's a good guy, just in over his head. He should have started at an Evadale, not the #1 high school rivalry in the nation.

We're at 2021 enrollment, but I understand what you're saying though. 👍🏾

[PN-G bamatex]

6 hours ago, Couch.Coach said:

Thanks for bringing the numbers up. In several cases the enrollment doesn't reflect the athletic participation. Even though Nederland is around 1400 kids, i would bet they have more kids in their high school program than Memorial. No one ever talks about the amazing job PA has been able to do. They are around 1700 students also, but over half of their enrollment in hispanic, with absolutely no interest in American football.  For many, english is their second language. So while Memorial plays in 5A-D1, their program has the involvement of a Silsbee..........and they still handle business.

Maybe Nederland doesn't have as many students enrolled, but they definitely compete in program size & participation....for now.

I disagree Rich is a good coach. Maybe a good assistant. But as your first head coaching job, this one might not be the one. Maybe a smaller school, with less visibility and a weaker district. I think he's a good guy, just in over his head. He should have started at an Evadale, not the #1 high school rivalry in the nation.

Memorial’s enrollment hovers around 2,060 students, which is at the top of the 5A spectrum.

[oldman]

3 hours ago, Darth Texas said:

It’s not that controversial to want to diagnose a problem. Are you happy with how things are going this season? 

Have no iron in the fire at Big Ned.   Just stating my opinion , just like couch Coach is

[spidersal]

Offensively, you must have a passing game to go with your running game these days to be successful Nederland’s running game was not that bad, however the passing game was lousy I don’t know what they do to choose a QB, but he either needs to be able to throw accurately or the QB coach needs to teach him. It is also a coach’s responsibility to teach receivers how to run good pass routes. Nederland is very poor at that. It is mainly the athletes responsibility to learn to catch a pass. They were really bad at that. I thought the OL blocked pretty well on running plays, but pass blocking was a big issue My take is that they probably didn’t work on pass blocking enough

Defensively, they haven’t had good secondary play in years. I take it that the coaching staff does an inadequate job teaching them and they simply have average athletes at those positions I thought the DL was decent vs the run, but pass rushing was not very good and again probably didn’t work on that enough. It also appeared watching their games that the LB’er position has average athletes that appear to be in slow motion. The poor tackling is on the defensive coaching staff

That is what I observed watching them and they have major issues to get corrected by next season if they plan on being successful 

[Couch.Coach]

7 hours ago, oldman said:

Standard Couch Coaches comments.  
 

Move your kid if you don’t like what is taking place.  Simple solution to your problem

No kid  to move. Grandson coming up in a few years.

[prepballfan]

13 hours ago, Couch.Coach said:

They slipped from first in district to fourth, by a few plays. Thomas saved them in several games. 

I agree they have good players right now. He just needs to figure out how to get the best players on the field, at all positions. 

 

It doesnt help when you are in a district trying to buuld a program with (last year) the defending state champs. The quarterfinalist in huntsville, and a couple of tough programs in Montgomery and MLC. Then this year with a solid PNG team, Montgomery team and then a couple of teams that are right there similar to you. Then you have injuries and lack depth. 

[GoBigBlue1997]

Coaching is not the issue.  Last years team went 2-8 as sophmores.  It is a similar cycle this year.  The seniors have really put the effort into this season, but no fault of their own, there just wasn't that many of them.  Underclassman are all over the field on both sides of the ball.  Nederland, for majority of the games, have been really competetive.  Too many stretches were mistakes/turnovers are made that snowball quickly and are too difficult to overcome. 

I share in the frustration that we continue to make these mistakes and are not learning from them more quickly.  The future is bright for Nederland.  Receipts are being kept.  I am thankful for Coach Rich and the rest of the staff for everything they do for our kids. 

Some of these posts would make you think that we do not work on anything, but nothing could be farther from the truth.  I know there is a lot of people around our community who are disapointed with this season, but I assure you, these kids and coaches are more upset about it than they are.   

There will not be a lack of motivation for next year that is for sure.  

[A BUC 77]

I don't think it's panic mode yet.  Give the Coach a little more time.  He was handed not a bad team but a bad culture.  When you have upper classman not wanting to play football because of numerous reasons, it's going to take a while.  What the coach needs is support from the fan base, especially the parents.

[BBtater984]

On 11/1/2025 at 12:12 PM, Couch.Coach said:

What's going on with Nederland? I thought their new coach was going to do something. I was wrong.

Three easiest places to coach from... the couch, the bleachers, and the internet.

[navydawg31]

4 hours ago, A BUC 77 said:

I don't think it's panic mode yet.  Give the Coach a little more time.  He was handed not a bad team but a bad culture.  When you have upper classman not wanting to play football because of numerous reasons, it's going to take a while.  What the coach needs is support from the fan base, especially the parents.

Bad culture I can agree and get behind… the new coaching staff brought in what seems to be a good offseason program, the Bulldogs look stronger and faster than years past. Size has never been in Nederland’s favor… but great offseason programs and culture will for sure help that out. 
 

Community support/donations/ supporting the athletic program goes a long way. I know during the Athletic BBQ dinner was done through the new weight room… A wish list for the coaches may need to be made so community can raise money for those items.. or a big booster/group of boosters come in and help out… because let’s break it down Nederland is far behind in a lot of things. While their rival is I’m sure about get some new nice additions to help support their programs. 
 

One thing I’m not for sure on is does Nederland participate in 7 on 7… (maybe someone can help out on that one) a lot of this teams current issues could be helped out and groomed during the summer with 7 on 7 with the passing attack, WR route running, DB play and etc… if they do maybe take it a little more serious if not maybe this year take it a little more serious and see what that might lead too next season.  

[setxathlete14]

I can speak on this because I've been on both sides of this. Lcm is going on their 5th straight winning season. Producing many first(s) in school history since 1956. Are the kids any different? NOPE. Guess what the difference is and it took place almost immediately. Groups either buy in or they don't. And I KNOW nederland doesn't have a lack of athletes.

[spidersal]

Hopefully this coaching staff will get the Bulldogs going in the right direction I have noticed much fewer personal foul penalties under the new staff. That is a plus

The only post or part of the post I disagree with is the one about being competitive in most games. The Dayton game is the only loss where they were competitive The other 5 losses were blowouts minus the West Fork game and West Fork had no business winning that game

[grayhair777]

I will say it ...Nederland needs to go down to 4A, then maybe we can be more completive and maybe build a winning program again, a state chip in 4A is great too!!

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

1 hour ago, grayhair777 said:

I will say it ...Nederland needs to go down to 4A, then maybe we can be more completive and maybe build a winning program again, a state chip in 4A is great too!!

Ned to 4A, cool.

Quick question: where yall shipping off the excess kids to get to that 4A number?? 🤔

[oldschool2]

21 hours ago, BBtater984 said:

Three easiest places to coach from... the couch, the bleachers, and the internet.

That's where the experts are.

[lcm93]

6 minutes ago, oldschool2 said:

That's where the experts are.

 

[AggiesAreWe]

Nederland snapshot number:      1548

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

2 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

Nederland snapshot number:      1568

You have 1548 on the other thread. 

[AggiesAreWe]

Just now, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

You have 1548 on the other thread. 

I'll correct. It's 1548.

[lcm93]

7 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

I'll correct. It's 1548.

Actually Nederland has a higher enrollment than Montgomery!!

[AggiesAreWe]

1 minute ago, lcm93 said:

Actually Nederland has a higher enrollment than Montgomery!!

Why is that a surprise? Montgomery has two high schools. Nederland has just one.