What does Newport Central Catholic need to do to improve in 2014? What do they need to keep doing to be successful? Remember, please be constructive.

Not exactly sure what they have to do to improve over last year, as they did make it to the state finals. I do know that they will be well coached and have tough, hard nosed kids on their roster as they always do. I always look forward to seeing NewCath play.....they are well disciplined and aggresive, just like a good football team should be.

NewCath does what they do, they play good fundamentally sound football and rarely beat them selves. They will continue to be the favorites in the Eastern half of 2A until someone proves they can beat them.

 

I know they lost some key players from last seasons team but they will be there in the end of 2A.

Just hope to play in Somerset in the Semi's, so I can see my good friends Jumper_Dad & AverageJoe. :thumb:

NCC will have an effective ground game. They will have several senior offensive lineman returning and a couple of juniors who saw time as soph's. Heard some rumblings one of the senior olineman has moved to a skill position in the backfield. If that's the case, I really think they want an extra body on the field to improve the ground game. Hoover, Wieland, Neff, Carmack, Raliegh, Winters, and Lawrence should anchor the line(s). Look for 2 soph's in Brooks and Sudkamp to make an impact there as well. IMO, Anderson will be the qb unless someone else pops out of the woodwork. That being said, he will really need to improve his passing game. Enslen and Gray, as well as Pangallo, should see the ball thrown their way in passing situations. Smith should be the feature back, but look for Harris to give some competition.

Defensively, it is going to be hard to replace Sudkamp. He attracted so much attention other defenders were the recipients of game planning against him. Lyon was fast off the edge and when Brooks was healthy made a lot of plays. Kues will be back at end and Tallon at linebacker and I see a couple of soph's (Carmack, Freppon, Pangallo and Sudkamp) contributing. I think Hoover, Wieland and Lawrence see most of the defensive line playing time with Winters and Carmack giving relief. Enslen, Gray and Smith should be in the secondary. This will not be a big team, but they will have improved speed from last years squad.

I would love to see ZP come back out for football. Although Anderson can/will do an adequate job as the QB, Z would add another dimension to the offense. He could put himself in a class of athlete NCC hasn't seen for a while. Point guard on the All "A" championship basketball team, Short stop on the All "A" Championship baseball team, POSSIBLE QB on the 2014 2A Football championship team. Its not too late!

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Sounds like they are going to be a young team, with that being said they still draw the athlete's and are always there at the end. I'm guessing that their schedule will be a brutal one as always in the beginning until conference play. Does anyone know their schedule?

Schedule should not be different than last year by much as it is the end of contract year. Which means NCC may be in tough with all the 6A and 5A teams on the schedule. But they will actually have decent depth for a 2A team. Biggest question is obviously QB and it might be the first time in quite awhile that the position does not have a star player ready to assume it.

Sounds like coach Dan has his work cut out for him but as in the past some young man with step up as rise to the challenge.

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Schedule should not be different than last year by much as it is the end of contract year. Which means NCC may be in tough with all the 6A and 5A teams on the schedule. But they will actually have decent depth for a 2A team. Biggest question is obviously QB and it might be the first time in quite awhile that the position does not have a star player ready to assume it.

 

Mac was a star receiver, but not a star QB at the beginning of last year. In fact, w/ the competition that they played, he had a very rough start (which is completely expected) before turning it around. The year before that, Cain had a rough start. I would expect the same with Anderson, but w/ Coach Wiggins coaching him up during the season, he'll be humming along come playoff time.

Is it for certain that Anderson will play football this year? What other kids do they have in the program that can play QB?

I hear the soph Qb Henchen (sp) has looked good in spring practice.

That would be a Sutkamp as a sophomore coming up and a Sutkamp leaving for Georgetown. Just an FYI incase ya'll wanna know your team.