Bishop Chatard Parts Ways With Coach Matt Boling After Two Seasons

A 13-33 record over two seasons is not a foundation you build on; it is a signal that something has to change. Bishop Chatard made that call official April 9, announcing that Matt Boling is no longer the head boys basketball coach after two seasons leading the Trojans.

The school acknowledged Boling's contributions to student-athletes academically and athletically, but the cumulative win-loss mark and a 2025-26 campaign that ended without meaningful postseason traction made the parting inevitable. The program has opened both an internal and external search for his replacement.

What Bishop Chatard is asking for goes beyond a basketball coach. The athletic department's outlined profile includes recruiting ability within Indianapolis, academic program management, and the capacity to re-establish the program's competitive footing in the local Catholic-school landscape. That last criterion is the most revealing: when programs like Cathedral set the standard in that tier, a 13-win two-year stretch signals a program that has lost its footing in its own competitive class. The entire coaching staff will also be evaluated as part of the transition, meaning the incoming head coach will have significant input in reshaping his own bench.

The search timeline is aggressive by necessity. Bishop Chatard is targeting a hire in late April or May, which gives a new coach just enough runway to install an offseason workout program, run spring camps, and begin building relationships with returning players before summer. That window matters. Coaches who inherit programs mid-offseason lose critical development time and often see transfer conversations accelerate before they have held a single practice.

The Trojans' opening fits into a broader pattern of post-April coaching movement across Indiana high school basketball, with multiple area programs searching simultaneously and a competitive hiring environment as schools race to finalize staffs before summer sessions begin.

For Bishop Chatard, the hire carries direct implications for what next March looks like. The Trojans compete in a sectional bracket where Catholic-school brand identity and recruiting pipelines define competitive ceilings. A coach with existing connections in Indianapolis' feeder system could compress the rebuild timeline significantly; one without them almost certainly extends it. With the right hire and a full offseason, a .500 campaign in 2026-27 would represent genuine progress. Anything approaching a sectional title run would require roster construction that simply does not exist on paper yet.

The decision facing Bishop Chatard's athletic department is not just who to hire. It is whether the program is prepared to make the investment in staff, recruiting infrastructure, and culture-building that separates a 13-win stretch from a sustainable winning environment.