Part Three: Kentucky High School Football teams who figure to greatly improve in 2019…Trinity Rocks!

Louisville Trinity High School, 2018 record, 7-7; 2019 season predicted finish: 9-1…

Never would have thought entering the 2018 season we would be talking about Louisville Trinity as a team figured to greatly improve. After all, Trinity, which holds the Kentucky high school record for consecutive wins with 50, entered 2018 having won 30 straight games and back-to-back Class 6A Football State Championships.

Sure they had lost a QB in Nick Bohn and an athlete in Rondale Moore who were once in a lifetime types but this is Trinity were discussing. They are Kentucky’s premier football program, right?

First of all, nothing which happened in 2018 takes any luster off of Trinity being Kentucky’s premier high school football program. Sure, the Shamrocks went 1-6 over the first seven games but righted the ship and finished 7-7 narrowly losing, 27-20, to Class 6A State Football Champion Louisville Male in the final four.

Here’s a little hint from old Coach Lyon, if your Kentucky high school football team plays 14 games in one season, then you’ve done something right somewhere. Must be nice to count a 14 game season and 7 point loss in the State-semis to the eventual champion as a total disaster. It’s good work if one can get it, right Coach Beatty?

So KPGFootball is going to make the easiest call in our brief, but active, history covering high school football in the commonwealth. Louisville Trinity will NOT go .500 in 2019. We are fairly sure there won’t be any takers on that bet. Why? We thought you would never ask.

For starters, Trinity returns four players who were first-teamers as sophomores (so you know they are damn good) and who were four of the most impressive players at their respective positions in Louisville. Inside linebacker Charlie Ely, DBs Roman White, Kyle Feger, and Blake Ruffin give the Rocks four very experienced second and third level defenders entering their junior years. Secondly, the schedule, which is never easy, is easier than last year.

Last year, Trinity had to play Naperville Central, which beat the Rocks 38-20. This year’s schedule drops Central for Waubonsie Valley. Now Waubonsie Valley may not be push-overs, but hey, Naperville Central is a perennial top-five football team in Illinois and was regarded as the 13th best team in its state even after finishing 2018 with a 7-4 record. Valley was also 7-4 but the difference was they were ranked the 41st best team in Illinois, not the 13th. There’s quite a lot of play between those two numbers.

Additionally, the Shamrocks get Cathedral High School on the schedule. Now they have to go to Indianapolis to play them but they were 6-6 in 2018. Before we forget, the Rocks get Archbishop Moeller at home instead of in Cincinnati, like last season; and, while they still have to play Carmel which beat them 24-21 in Indiana in 2018, Carmel has to come to Louisville, Kentucky in 2019.

Then there is the Meade County argument. Remember when we told you not all 3-8 records are alike? The same is true of 7-7 marks.

Consider this for a moment…Trinity lost to Warren Central (IN) by a single point, Carmel by 3, and Archbishop Moeller by 7. That is 12 points from a 10-4 slate, which is still a terrible year by Trinity standards but a different discussion from the one we are presently having.

As one can easily above see, we believe the Shamrocks will lose one regular season game. We believe they will either lose to Warren Central from Indianapolis, who they have to play on the road for the second straight year, or to Louisville Male, who they play in September at Male. We do not believe they will lose them both. Look for the Shamrocks to play for the 6A State Football Championship in 2019 and enter the playoffs 9-1.

Join us tomorrow as we break down another team in Kentucky High School football which figures to vastly improve in 2019 over its 2018 performance. We’ll see you then…

This is Coach HB Lyon, reporting for KPGFootball, and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!

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