Footballking16

Also a very real possibility

I think the fact that he hasn't already committed to Ohio State means the door may still be open for some of the schools that aren't perceived to have a chance, meaning he truly is undecided. Unless he wants to make a big spectacle with an announcement after an all star game or something of that nature (nothing wrong with that by the way), you would have already thought he'd be committed. I doubt he's still holding out for a better offer as he has all the best offers, so who knows.

Right, I should have prefaced it better. Cathedral is being compared (somehow) to IMG here. There is a litany of high schools in the state of Indiana, let alone the Midwest, that send multiple kids a year to FBS schools. It's an accomplishment but not some kind of earth shattering revelation.

I was talking FBS Scholarship players. Langdon is playing at Columbia in FCS. Still a very commendable feat, but Cathedral isn't sending 10+ players a year to D1 schools which is what I was responding too.

Ohio football a different breed than Indiana. Louisville Trinity has 27 state championships. If Cathedral played in 6A they'd just be another really good football program. Nowhere near the IMG moniker you so liberally throw out.

Last several years? Excluding last year Cathedral went 2019: 9-3 lost in regionals 2018: 6-6 lost in sectionals 2017: 7-6 lost in Semi-state 2016: 7-5 lost in regionals 2015: 8-4 lost in regionals I'm sure the pity party for Cathedral was real on here during that stretch.

10 is an anomaly year. It's been stated that Cathedral's 2022 class is a generational class and I doubt when the dust settles Cathedral sends 10+ kids to D1 ranks from the 2022 class. Cathedral typically sends 1-2 kids a class to a D1 football school. It's really not that much different from Dwenger (a similar-sized school) once you really look at it. Cathedral's 2021 class that had arguably the best year in school history didn't send a single player to a D1 school.

The Catholic schools in Indianapolis are deanery schools. They feed into the diocesan high schools of Indianapolis (Chatard, Roncalli, Scecina, Ritter). Cathedral is NOT a diocesan high school, it's a privately run high school. Yes, deanery students attend Cathedral as they do Brebeuf (which also isn't a diocesan high school) but Cathedral nor Brebeuf have direct or inherent feeder schools. It's why they have to take kids from all over the city, catholic or not, to keep their doors open.

I would love it if Cathedral reached the consistent levels of success of those three schools. Those schools are perennial top 25 programs in the country.

Cathedral doesn't have "feeder" schools or a district like Dwenger. It's not a Diocesan school. I'm not sure the point you're trying to make?

12 is too many. Needs to be 8 teams -5 P5 conference champions -3 wildcards with a spot reserved for a G5 school if they finish in the top 10 of the final CFP committee ranking

Cincinnati Xavier OH, Louisville Trinity, Lakewood St. Edward would all like a word with you.

So far, I've gathered that in order to be compared to IMG, your school must: -Give financial aid -Have players with scholarship offers -Not be a diocesan school. Give me 2 hours and I'll be back with a more complete list of schools that fit the bill.

What do you mean by "predominantly work within their Catholic pipeline"? Like admit students from FTW area catholic schools? Well they have too, they are a Diocesan high school. Cathedral isn't. Pretty simple.

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.