IndianaWrestlingGuy

Without Carmel and Center Grove, the MIC is the new IPS. It's indisputable that Indianapolis Public Schools has just been pushed out to the old Marion County. If IPS futility is any past indicator of future performance, your topic line should have been, "the MIC has just entered the death spiral".

Not much of a story really. 

Love the Cathedral radio guys going crazy in the background of Kyle's Twitter post...

16 hours ago, PHJIrish said:

Does anyone know the JV score from today?

I found it!  Center Grove 14, Irish 13.

Went for 2 Late in the 4th and didn't convert. Great weekend of football. Definitely becoming a rivalry. 

Goal line stand at the 1 and a blocked punt for a TD in the last 5 minutes. Holy hell. What a game. 
 

insanely bad calls throughout...

I still have no clue if the Irish are any good. Our first test since Brownsburg is looking like Center Grove, which is unfortunate. We don't feel as good as last year, but we haven't played anyone yet that we can measure ourselves by. I feel like we could beat CG by 10 or lose by 30. Then bye. Then brutal playoff road. Weird year. 

PS. Budding superstar TE Zach Meeks with an official visit to Notre Dame last weekend! 

This two week stretch is just a momentum killer. A bye week into a J/V game 2.5 hours away. The flow of the season has been abysmal. I'm praying we can re-ignite the fire. Cincy LaSalle, Brebeuf, Center Grove, another Bye, then a brutal stretch for the title. The boys aren't getting much flow. 
 

I'm kinda sad that the seniors (and Mr. Football guys) don't get to strut their stuff for the stats/voters. Jaron Tibbs is the finest receiver in the state. A possession receiver and touchdown toss-up guy that always wins (i.e. Mike Evans). Or, Brennan Wooten, the Western Michigan recruit wrecking ball in the open field that has had to share TDs with so many talented WRs the last 3 years. Or Kendrick Gilbert, the one-man disruption machine (think Ed "Too Tall" Jones from the old school Cowboys). 
 

It has surely been a weird season. We have the horses to win it all. No question. But can we lasso that momentum from a herky jerky season with our weakest competition in a decade? If we do, it will be Coach Peebles finest season ever. 
 

War Irish. 

Well, not sure we learned too much more about the Irish this week. They were missing 5 starters (TE, DE, RB, SAM, punter). Went down 13-0 after a miserable first quarter. 5 offensive penalties on the first drive of the game and another horrible first punt of 14 yards from our 17 late in the first quarter. 
 

A fortuitous interception by Will McCormick sparked the defense into a virtual shutout from the 2nd quarter on. Danny O'Neill got going with Jaron Tibbs and then a score on a last second 1st half bomb to Zach Meeks as time expired to go up 14-13. Irish tacked on 3 more O'Neill TDs including a beautiful fly pattern bomb down the left sideline to Jaron Tibbs on the first play of the 2nd half. Dagger. 
 

A very loose start (perhaps a first loss hangover to BBurg) turned into a pretty convincing win with a great second half. Chatard week is upon us. Hope the J/V north side Catholics are ready. 

The only thing I didn't love in this loss was the Irish conditioning. If Coach Peebs doesn't run their arses into the ground all week the next two weeks, I'd be disappointed. Hands on hips as early as the 2nd quarter and our all-world D-line was pedestrian at best. 
 

O-line played so much better than week 1. D played so much worse. 2 blocked punts inside our own 30 and one fumble inside their 10 (albeit horrific call) were major mistakes that sank us. 
 

I love playing in 6A. 

19 hours ago, Southside said:

Leighton Jones is Left Tackle. 

Thx. He'll get Patrick Kendall then. Should be a good battle. War Irish. 

I can't wait to watch the rematch of the Leighton Jones (BBurg) vs Hosia Smith (CHS) IHSAA State Finals Wrestling quarterfinals rematch on the gridiron. Jones moved to Center it appears and Smith has moved to NG. Lets see if Jones can keep up with Hosia's motor all game. Will be a great battle in the interior. Both young men should be #1 and #2 ranked heavyweight contenders this year for the Irish and Bulldogs. 

Cathedral has 70 freshmen players. About 50% of males in the freshmen class. 

If Dwenger could surge to the top of 5A, we could have the 6 class P/P hegemony opportunity that Muda has dreamed about for years now. 

19 hours ago, Grover said:

CYO 😁

I would say 90% of the Cathedral starting baseball roster is CYO. The only player I can think of that isn't is Kyuss Gargett, our starting corner for the football team this season. Our starting pitcher is no other than the Mr. Football kicker Ben Gomez (Immaculate Heart of Mary)! Sidewinder! 
 

Also, it is worth noting that the boy's golf team has a puncher's chance at the State Golf title as well this weekend. And Boy's Rugby just beat Penn for the state title. This has been a senior class for the ages at Cathedral. 

6 hours ago, Footballking16 said:

Not sure Cathedral is THE favorite but definitely up there. Loaded at the skill positions but do have to replace the entire offensive line and 8-9 defensive starters. 

Only returning starter on defense is 4 Star DT Kendrick Gilbert. Kyuss Garrett played some key snaps, but he prob couldn't be called a starter at cornerback. 
 

That said, the incoming batch of linebackers is pretty nasty. Weingart, Kirsch, Bragg, McCormick. And fhe DL w Gilbert and Patrick Kendall will be a sick front 7. Look for some talented sophomores from the undefeated team last year to push for playing time (I.e. Aidan Hughes). 
 

My biggest question is the replacing the entire O-line. I think this year's line will be bigger than last years with WNeale, BBeasley, and Eli Albers. However, they'll need to get battled tested in a hurry. A 1 loss JV campaign last year to Cincy St. X is a good start, but some early season Ws will help them gel. The thunder and lightning attack of Carson Johnson and Hosia Smith will be fun to watch with our aerial game weapons (Tibbs, Wooten, Ayres, Bridges, etc). Need to find a good slot to replace the virtually irreplaceable Michael Page as well. 
 

Our schedule lightens up quite a bit with Cincy GCL playoff requirements shifting and vacating our schedule. 

On 3/31/2022 at 11:18 AM, Dave007 said:

What is most crazy about Cathedral this year is that in the championship football game Tibbs had 200 receiving yards...and in the basketball championship he was the leading scorer for the Irish.

He's having a special career. Has a shot at the elusive 5 blue rings. Only Zeke Seltzer in wrestling this year has achieved that at Cathedral. 

1 hour ago, DE said:

Well....

How is Cathedral's baseball team this spring and potentially next (2023)?

What does Cathedral have coming back in football 2022?

Basketball looks to be pretty healthy after what I watched Saturday night.

Baseball would need a miracle run, but rugby and lacrosse should win a title this spring. One of our most talented senior classes in a long time. 
 

2022 football team won't lose much from last year in my opinion. Yes, we lose 40 seniors and our entire defense, but we have another 35 seniors coming in. We'll have one of the top rated QBs in the state returning (Danny O'Neill), Western Michigan-bound TE Brennan Wooten, and the best possession receiver in the state (Jaron Tibbs) flanking the offense. The defense will be lead by senior DL Kendrick Gilbert (offers from pretty much every Power5 school). Some impressive junior linebackers (Weingart, Kirsch) should make our front 7 extremely nasty again. And, this year's freshmen class (one of our most dominant ever rolling through undefeated over the MIC and rivals w relative ease) will push the upperclassmen for minutes. Lets remember that we'll get our second sniff of 6A. The last time we were up two classes, it didn't go well  

2023 basketball returns 3 starters (Tibbs, Jake Davis, and Xavier Booker) and the 6th man (Germany). They should be the favorite entering next season. 

19 hours ago, 1st_and_10 said:

He committed to Iowa over the weekend.

Makes sense. They predominately offer wrestlers. 
 

https://www.si.com/college/2019/09/13/iowa-hawkeyes-offensive-line-wrestling
 

The Cathedral v Hammond Morton game is a 3 year contract. Irish traveling to Hammond next year. 

Cathedral's super sophomore wrestlers Jackson Weingart (most likely our beastly next up ILB) placed 7th and our incoming Jerome Bettis-esque RB Hosia Smith placed 5th. Cathedral has a long tradition of wrestlers playing football and it is highly encouraged. Multiple wrestling state champs that have played football for the Irish starting with Derrick Brownlow in 1986. He won the state in both sports that year. Matt Hasbrook was another. 3 rings for Irish football and 1 for Wrestling. 
 

We had 6 wrestlers win blue rings with the CHS football squad this season. 
 

Also, Brownsburg HS 3rd place finisher Leighton Jones was just offered by Purdue Football yesterday. 

Was quite a run for CG. Congrats on a great program. Couple awesome stats I learned from the Cathedral award banquet last night:
 

1. These Irish seniors played 16 teams that played in a state finals game between OH, IN, and KY. Their record was 12-4 with 2 losses to the Trojans. 

2. Cathedral seniors have 29 academic All-state players.  
 

As for next year, we have another 42 rising juniors with the J/V squad losing to only Cincy St. X in a tight one. Obviously, we have four highly touted returners in Kendrick Gilbert (DL), Jaron Tibbs (WR1), Brennan Wooten (TE) and Danny O'Neill (QB - 37 TDs, 2 INT this season). Our defense will take a hit for sure, but our offense should be equal to this year's squad. Biggest loss will be Mr. Football kicker, Ben Gomez. He was one of our underappreciated absolute hammers all season long. 

Couple things: 

1. This is a funky recruiting year. I was told by a B1G coach that this senior class got screwed out of scholarship offers because all the D1 programs were forced to extend scholarships for a 5th year of COVID eligibility. When the NCAA granted the 5th year last year, it zapped 1000s of scholarships for this class. Cathedral has 2-3 kids that should have had Power5 offers in this senior class, but didn't. However, 2 of our juniors had them before the season started. 

2. Kendrick Gilbert, Cathedral's 4 Star junior DL, had B1G offers before the season ever started. He played maybe 10 snaps with 1st team defense as a sophomore. So, I think they look at dimensions more than anything on the field. 

19 minutes ago, TigerFan20 said:

Yup

East Central 

Roncalli 

Mt Vernon

Mooresville

Chatard

Memorial 

Jasper

and now New Pal is back In 4A 

Or are they?

1 hour ago, WestfieldRocks said:

Greg Rakestraw mentioned several times during the broadcast that it was not set that both Z'ville and the Irish would move up to 6A next season. I thought that, regardless of what they do about enrollment again next year, that the success factor still comes into play. Thus, Cathedral moves up to 6A, most surely in the south region, possibly in Sectional 8, which only had three teams this year, meaning the Irish and CG in the same sectional.

IHSAA claimed last year a "null year" with COVID thus making this the first year of the Success Factor cycle. Whether that holds any water as they evaluate next season is simply a wait-and-see for the Irish faithful. We'll have a little drop-off, but not much. And our freshmen class is our most talented since this senior class. So, wherever they want us, we'll rally. 

19 hours ago, foxbat said:

They've only given up a handful of TDs, across the season, in the first half.  Most of the points scored on Cathedral have been against 2nd/3rd string this season or after the game's been pretty much decided ... Center Grove being the exception.

 

I count 10 TDs scored on the first team D in 14 games. This includes 3 in the Center Grove game with one being in garbage time. Zionsville has to score a TD twice on us for this to be a contest.