Kahuku boys BBall (with class) scores 121 pts on Anuenue last week and the ILH coach from Kamehameha school whines about it and wants to make a big deal about “Fairness and Respecting the game” but when the ILH has both of their teams in the state tourney finals I dont hear no talk about fairness for our public OIA schools who are disadvantaged by the cherry picking of elite players into their ILH system by these same ILH coaches.

This year it was an all ILH Girls Volleyball and Girls Soccer state finals.

The fair thing to do would be to get rid of the HHSAA state tournament and settle on the fact that all conferences (ILH, OIA, MIF, KIF etc..) are their own seperate conferences and the winners from each conference are state champs (OIA public schools state champs, Maui public schools champs, ILH Private schools state champ etc…).

The HHHSAA can morph into a bowl series type of tournament where the conference state champs play each other for a “bowl champion”, not state champion. The term “HHSAA state champion” sends a message that it is the best in the state when clearly there are advantages for one league (ILH) over the rest of them.

I was watching the Girls Soccer tournament and Iolani and Punahou blasted Pearl city and Mililani in the semis. Some of the PC and MIll players were injured but had to stay in the game because they had no depth, where Iolani and Punahou had rotations where the 2nd stringers were just as good as the 1st stringers. Even the freshmen at these ILH schools were so good they were getting playing time and guess what? some of the best ILH players are from the Mililani and PC districts. Its just like Football where the ILH schools use Kahuku players to beat Kahuku at football. Even the announcer Brent Murakami said in the soccer broadcast “It would be interesting to see how good these public schools would be if their in-district players stayed home”.

Its funny because this time last year after Kahuku beat St. Louis for the 2015 state title, all this talk from Cal Lee and the ILH was to unite the leagues so that the ILH can have a better season against more opponents to help their players get better. Now that Cal won this year they are not pushing the issue. These ILH coaches are the biggest whiners in the world and they know they are using the OIA as jumping boards for their players and their coaching careers.

To think that some say they should basically stop playing ball (multiple passes, holding ball) because they are up big… Now that (imo) would be unsportsmanlike. If you think they should have done those things why stop there. Tell Kahuku they can only shoot left handed, and backwards? Or why not take the two teams and mix and match players until we can get two evenly matched teams to play? Doesn’t make sense right. Oh well Coach Tacon enjoy the haterade.