PHJIrish

Coach Allen is correct! Friday nights should be left for high school games! The BIG or any other conference doesn't need the Friday nights for revenue. They're making enough when they become the Big 18 next year.

I played a lot of sports back in my day, I was a fast pitch softball catcher for most of those years, and believe me theirs a lot of pain when your knee gets bruised! It doesn't go away overnight either. Also I had a fractured knee cap that took some time to heal. Unprotected knees are just inviting injury. A helmet to the knee can put a player out for a substantial period of time.

Irish played lights out in the first quarter and then the lights went out, both the team's lights and Arlington lights. Hats off to the Tojans for not giving up after been blitzed for 21 points in the first quarter. They just turned it on and the Irish had no answer. The Irish offense just was stagnant after the first 12 minutes. Maybe they thought it was going to be easy and the game was over. It wasn't. On to North Central next week. I'm also not sure that the AMS experiment isn't over for the Irish Too much upkeep for that facility.

I'll be there for homecoming bright and early! Hope to see a lot of Irish fans there too!

No, other games have been televised from AMS. I was under the impression that Bishop Chatard had an agreement with Indiana SRN to televise their games. Maybe that agreement has expired?

Indiana SRN streams all Bishop Chatard games.

I'll go along with the ortho folks!

I can't believe that players are playing without knee pads! It's OK for kickers, but many wide receivers are not protecting that precious part of their anatomy! It might slow them down a couple of tenths, but one good hit and it can be bad for them.

I don't watch Paul Finebaum because he's far too opinionated at times. It's the first game of the season and all he!! isn't breaking loose yet. Let's wait a few more games to determine what programs will survive the season, and God only knows who will survive the craziness coming up beginning next season. I'm not defending Dabo, and don't rate him as an elite coach, but it's too early to get all wound up over one game. TCU and LSU fits this mold also. We'll know more soon enough. And Finebaum loves to stir things up. It was fun watching Brian Kelly twitching at the end of the Florida State game though. He could have left ND in a classier way.

To say the least it was an interesting weekend of college football this week. Lots of big time programs, notably Clemson and TCU, had trouble hanging onto the ball. Hats off to Prime Time for winning over TCU and Mike Elko for putting a whoopin' on Clemson. It was a fun weekend for sure.

Should be nice and cool for this one. I just hope the Irish aren't overlooking the Trojans. Playing other Catholic schools is always an adventure.

It will be homecoming for Cathedral and it will be a hard fought Catholic school battle. Also it looks like the weather will be good this Friday night.

Cincinnati St. Xavier JV 10, Cathedral JV 3 Cathedral Freshman 19, Cincinnati St. Xavier Freshman 7

Maybe just call the BIG the American Conference or the American League.

I thought that was called back, but I stand corrected Final score, 35-6.

Cathedral led 35-0 at halftime, thus the running clock in the 2nd half, and it was scoreless. The Irish won 35-0. There's still some things to clean up for the Irish, but they had fewer penalties and caught the ball tonight. Not much of a running game which is quite strange. Most of the running plays, except for the QB keeps, were right up the middle. If they had run outside guard it would have seemed like an end run. Bishop Chatard is up next back at AMS. The field was no factor tonight. Oh, and it's Cathedral's homecoming next week. Tonight was senior night which had to be early when the Irish only playing a couple games at "home.' I also want to thank Penn for coming down to play at AMS twice in the last four years, and I wish them well the rest of the season.

And the Colts cut Emil Ekiyor earlier in the week. I sure hope he can catch on and play somewhere.

To further recap the Brownsburg game, the Bulldogs receivers made more catches in double and triple teaming than I've seen in a long time. Hats off to them for that. The Irish DB's need to spot the ball better and make some plays. It's a beautiful September day here in Indianapolis. Of course every Friday night is beautiful this time of the year! I hope to see a lot of Irish fans tonight at AMS! Gametime is 7:30 BTW.

Penn is 2-0 and Cathedral is 1-1.

Thank you!

I can't find the JV and Freshman scores from yesterday. If someone knows the scores. please post 'em.

Nice second half and a 28-7 win!

Sam Hartman is pretty good!

The grass field at Arlington is as well kept as possible. Unless it rains it's still a fast track, or it seems to be for the Irish anyway. I'm working from memory, but the one turning point happened at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. The Irish defense holds the Bulldogs to 3 and out, and on the first play Danny O'Neil runs for 8 yards. Instead of going for the first down, O'Neil throws two long passes that had very little chance of completion. It seemed like the 3rd quarter went downhill for the Irish after that. The Irish have two good running backs, Jalen Bonds and Desare Thomas, but they only had about 10 carries between 'em last night. And the game scheme was quite basic, not much misdirection, if any. I was surprised at that. And it seemed that O'Neil had time to throw all night, but just wasn't seeing the field well. He threw more into double, or even triple, coverage more than I've ever seen him. After all that, I believe both teams will be a factor come playoff time.

It was almost a carbon copy of last year at Brownsburg. You just can't give breaks to a good team like Brownsburg. A lot of penalties, dropped passes and missed open receivers ain't gonna win a lot of games. Brownsburg is going to be tough to beat this season, but I hope the Irish get another shot at them in late October or early November! BTW, the weather wasn't all that bad. It was quite comfortable after the sun went down.