Nederland Coaching

[DukeS]

16 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

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

It’s a little bit surprising because the Montgomery ISD area has been growing and Nederland is more or less landlocked. It looks like MHS lost students and LC stayed about the same. 

[navydawg31]

5 hours 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!!

Absolutely not… roll up your sleeves and get to work. 

[navydawg31]

Crazy what a couple footballs games can do… last year everyone was singing what a great hire because the PNG win, doing well and very close to a Home playoff game and top of the district… this year people are questioning it all…. If next year Nederland gets back to the old ways there needs to be a lot of I’m sorry letters written… but until then support the athletic program.. 

[Reagan]

5 hours 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!!

He has a young team this year that is getting experience.  I understand 17 starters will return next year.  I foresee a marked improvement next year!

[1970]

10 minutes ago, Reagan said:

He has a young team this year that is getting experience.  I understand 17 starters will return next year.  I foresee a marked improvement next year!

Yep. Every year is a new year everywhere. One kid moves to Lumberton to live with Dad. Another moves to Bridge City to live with Mom. A few others graduate. A whole bunch move up from JV and grow 4" taller and gain 25 lbs during the off season.  

[Razor]

Geez, can anyone come up with a less lazy reason than “the coaching is bad”?…heres reality, Nederland is in a period where the talent pool is down a bit…this is no more Coach Rich’s fault than it was Coach Barrows…i told everyone when they were begging for Barrow to go that they could bring Vince Lombardi down from heaven and not have huge success…it is also true that Nederland is fighting the numbers game a bit now as they are falling in the lower enrollment levels of 5a…thats a real issue and it can be overcome but it will take time to build a program that can compete with lower numbers…they also need the talent…it sounds like the numbers of kids participating and the talent level should improve over the next couple of years…lets give Coach Rich the opportunity to see what they can do with that group before we rush to judgement…i have faith that things will be brighter in the coming seasons

[Darth Texas]

Nederland turned in 1546. That’s solidly in the middle of 5ad2. And isn’t that roughly the same as they had about 10 years ago? I’m having trouble finding what Nederland used to turn in around 2017-ish, but PNG was hovering around 1450 and Nederland was always about 100 more. Nederland isn’t shrinking. It’s just not growing. 

[F150Dawgz]

On 11/1/2025 at 3:33 PM, Mr. Buddy Garrity said:

Kids leaving the school or just leaving the program?? 

Both

[navydawg31]

1 hour ago, F150Dawgz said:

Both

Nederland enrollment grows? Football participation is up. But both? Yeah ok….