Footballking16

Beat me to it. Some 2/3rd's of Cathedral's enrollment is on some type of financial assistance. $15k a year to send a child to school (in some cases multiple) isn't cheap. Nearly 95% of Cathedral's enrollment participates in some type of extracurricular activity.

There isn't a single person at Cathedral getting scholarship money.

If you said Cathedral was the private school football IMG of greater Indianapolis, I'd wholeheartedly agree. You'd be right about something....for once. But you clearly live in a bubble. Go look at some of the talent the GLC Cincy and GLC Cleveland schools put out on a year to year basis or Louisville Trinity as well as the Chicago catholic schools (they're also in the Midwest) and it dwarfs Cathedral.

Not even close. Center Grove has more kids with D1 offers on next years team than Cathedral does and kids with major offers. Caden Curry can go anywhere he wants. Jackson is comitted to Tennessee. They just brought in two transfers from Brownsburg with multiple D1 offers. Schott has B10 offers. Per usual, you don't know what you're talking about.

Those are prep schools who recruit kids nationwide and give full rides to attend their schools....like IMG does. I would say every single player for IMG has at least 1 scholarship offer. Cathedral has about 8-10 kids who have a at least 1 D1 offer totalling 40 offers. I'm sure Caden Curry at Center grove has amassed 40 offers by himself. You're analogy is terrible.

Uhh no. There's actually legitimate athletic prep/boarding schools in the Midwest. La Lumiere, Huntington Prep, Sunrise Christian

You’re assuming GCA doesn’t have a plan then I take it? I don’t think anyone expects GCA to win state in their inaugural year, but they’re in a prime location to draw some serious talent in the event they do go the football route.

And GCA’s will likely follow in similar fashion.

I never said you endorsed the CC program. You said you didn’t “care” about football at that level. Clearly you do.

CGA has a pretty good basketball team if I can recall. If they do go the football route they will have no problem attracting student-athletes from Johnson Country and the southside of Indy. DT says he doesn't care about this level of football, but it didn't stop him from starting a thread at the end of last year going all-in on Covenant Christian which CGA could easily become. This will be interesting to watch going forward.

I'm not sure any of it matters. Rodgers looks like a man who is done with football.

My bad, 2012* Cathedral hasn't been in 4A since 2012 and likely will never play in 4A again.

I don't know honestly. I would say on average they out 1-2 D1 players a class. Some years like last year it was none, this coming year they're going to have a ton.

Cathedral has a very special senior class this coming year that could net anywhere from 5-10 D1 players. That's an exception, not the typical rule. This more likely than not will be the most talented top to bottom team Cathedral has fielded. Would be shocked if they didn't win 5A this year. Absolutely floored. But they soon be in 6A for the 22 and 23 seasons. They're set to lose some 40 seniors this year. Will be interesting to see how things shape up going forward.

Or the year before and the year before that? Cathedral is a very, very good program. I think all can recognize that. But they aren't invincible, not by any stretch. Last year was an historic year, even for Cathedral's standards. But last years senior class didn't net a single FBS scholarship player. Not one.

And they haven't and likely will never play in 4A again, they haven't since 2011. Cathedral will be in 6A starting in 2022 barring a colossal collapse in the tournament next year.

Cathedral hasn't played in a 4A tournament since 2011. Why don't you relax a bit and sit the rest of this one out? Thanks

Best in the country? You're so out of touch with reality. They're a very good Indiana football program. They struggle most years beating the Cincy and Cleveland catholic schools and would get absolutely waxed by the St. Thomas Aquinas, the Bishop Gorman's, and the Mater Dei's of the world. Please have some perspective. Cathedral had a very good year last year with a very special class and should be very good once again this year. But they have 1 title since 2014 and have been soundly beaten by likewise publics the last few tournaments.

Cathedral or Center Grove or any other 6A team playing IMG to a 40 point rout on national television isn't good for Indiana High School football. The only reason IMG would have any interest in coming to Indiana would be for the sole purpose of developing a pipeline to recruit kids out of the state and down to FL. There's a reason why Georgia has banned their member schools from playing IMG.

Cathedral will once again be in 6A next year. Cathedral is a 4A school playing up a class and hasn't played in their enrollment based classification in over a decade.

Because it's inconducive to Cathedral, or any Indiana team for that matter, to play a school 1200 miles away when there's plenty of strong local and regional competition.

IMG will have 25-30 D1 players on this years team alone. They have 4 of the 25 best seniors in the country. They will have around 15 major D1 football players, many who will attend whatever school they want. I'm not selling anyone short, just looking at reality. IMG would name the score against Cathedral or any team from Indiana for that matter.

You're not getting off that easy. I think it'd be closer to 40.

The IMG "National" team is barred from the Florida High School association postseason. The "Varsity" team isn't and plays in the tournament. Similar rule with the IHSAA, La Lumiere isn't considered a member and isn't allowed to play in IHSAA sanctioned tournaments. I know recently Center Grove, Cathedral, and Culver have all played La Lumiere. I believe La Lumiere played in a tournament hosted by Brownsburg a year or two back.

Good for La Salle. The IMG-Cathedral equivalency is what is dumb.