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    Ohio #2 Cincy St. X @ Indiana #3 Indianapolis Cathedral

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by bigfish
    added game preview

    On 9/16/2020 at 10:12 AM, Boilernation said:

    Possibly here. I watched a few of their games last year and they stream most of their athletic events. 

     

    https://boxcast.tv/channel/kcDxLlLCeqOvc4rAmBlg

    FWIW, the Cathedral-St. X game is now showing up on this link as a scheduled broadcast. Thanks again for sharing

     

    Edit: this will be an interesting game. I watched the Brownsburg-St. X game and think Cathedral can hang with these guys.

     

    Cathedral 34, St. X 30

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    Indys Top Catholic Powers - Is there a new pecking order?

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    8 hours ago, Lysander said:

    OK, I’ll bite....add that this is an actual thread about football and not the whole Corona/politics BS.

    I find it a bit funny that some here are actually thinking Chatard declines when last season they were ranked 6th ALL CLASSES  (That’s 1A-6A for the MENSA members) per Sagarin .  Sagarin’s Predictor ranking had them at 5th ALL CLASSES with only Carmel, Avon, New Pal and Brownsburg ranked ahead of them.  

    Chatard’s strength of schedule (SOS) ranking was Top 10 or 15 throughout the regular season but fell to 21st at season’s end largely due to 3A playoffs.  During the regular season, Chatard played an effectively “MIC-like“ overall schedule per comparative SOS rankings..  BTW, I followed the Sagarin SOS rankings throughout the regular season - it was well within the range of the MIC team’s SOS rankings pre-playoffs.

    Somehow, neither Cathedral, Brebeuf, Guerin or Roncalli squeeeeeeeeezed ahead of Chatard as to Sagarin rankings last year....some weren’t even in the same solar system.

    So before y’all declare Chatard dead and buried (while Chatard is “desperately” clutching those State-leading 14 State Championships in hand), I am quite honestly thinking Chatard (though roughly 1/2 the size of Cathedral....just to remind you folks...lest you forget) will offer even more challenge in the future as to being THE top Indy Metro Parochial (They REALLY should have beat Cathedral last year)

    1. Chatard will STILL be the North Indy Archdiocese school.  Say what you want about Hamilton County (Okay, I’ll say it..much of Hamilton County can be a bit....errr, well....... “soft”).

    2. Chatard NOW actually has their own football facility for home games which only Roncalli has previously had to offer as an Archdiocesan school (that said, Roncalli football, these days, may well be too cisgender male for them moving forward....I’m expecting them to drop football...I’m hearing they have some great Riverdancers on the South side these days).  

    Pretty nice facility, for the record, at Chatard.  FYI - Cathedral still has NO home game facility....nope...none whatsoever.

    3. Chatard NOW throws the ball around just a tad (and Coach Doyle was a HS and College QB......add that Rob is a pretty d@mn smart dude) which means Chatard now ACTUALLY competes for Archdiocesan QBs and receivers (and by default gets an upgrade to safeties and defensive backs) which they really didn’t previously.

    4. Chatard is still arguably the best Archdiocesan  (and anywhere else for that matter) home for prospective college lineman to make their bones.  The Big’uns are looked at like Chris Hemsworth by EVERYBODY at Chatard....just keep the shirt tucked in.  

    Truly, truly sexy dudes.

    5. Chatard still RUNS the ball like few teams do.  Running backs can make a name at Chatard.

    6. The apparent (and unsurprising) decision by Brebeuf to now focus on artistic swimming, gender studies and navel gazing means that even more actual football players will be available for a real Catholic school like Chatard (yeah, Cathedral too, unfortunately, even though they aren’t a Catholic parochial...life is yin and yang I guess).

    I’m sure I am missing tons of new reasons but I think Chatard actually (without any decline by competitors) does nothing except becomes significantly better.  

    When you factor in the actual expected decline of Brebeuf and (further decline of) Roncalli as they both drill down hard and focus on their social justice street cred, Chatard (maybe Cathedral) does nothing except get better at playing football....as well as college and career relevant studies.

     

    PS.....Again, Chatard is roughly 1/2 the size of Cathedral and a lot smaller than Roncalli.  

    Chatard is only about 100 students bigger than Ritter just to give some of you folks some perspective.

     

     

    Lysander: MY President

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    Best Young Coaches In the State

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    5 hours ago, POTLUCK said:

    When you say "put together". Does that mean he recruited one of Chatard's historically best teams? Typically high school coaches do not put together football teams, they are already there waiting on them.

    Yes, he recruited Wyatt Schrader and Brady Kinnett to feeder school St. Pius when they were in kindergarten. Keen eye for young talent

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    What are these advantages that private schools supposedly have?

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    50 minutes ago, MHSTigerFan said:

    Ha!  I hear ya.  I know Memorial is not unique in having a such a great, lifelong familial culture.  But it certainly is that and I’m proud to be associated with it.  What’s great about it, although some people view these sorts of schools as cliquey and exclusionary, is that we welcome with open arms new families who have no prior connection to the school.

    And anybody who thinks that most families who send their kids to parochial schools are “rich” is just wrong.  I can’t tell you how many people I know for whom the tuition is a real burden.

    But when they ask us for fees to pay for this or that, most families who can afford it will kick in extra to help pay for those who can’t.  Because that’s what families do for each other.

    No kidding. I worked my tail off to send my kids to Bishop Chatard.

    The "rich and spoiled" perception is laughable

    3A: Indianapolis Chatard (13-1) vs Heritage Hills (14-0)

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted · Edited by bigfish
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    7 minutes ago, HHPatriots said:

    I really wasn't intending to ruffle any feathers, even though I did.   Don't hear me say that I think we will run with this.  I stated (i think on page 1) that if we play in the first half like we have in the last month, we will get owned--BAD.  However, if we play 4 quarters of football, we have a real shot.  I think.  Cole Sigler said it well last week, "we didn't get off the bus until the 2nd half".

    I liked and agreed with everything about your post other than the unnecessary and uninformed insinuation in the middle of it

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