Football

It’s all in the hands of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association football committee now. That committee worked all year to gather information and make recommendations to the high school football voting bodies, and then those recommendations passed by a wide margin. Yet, the committee and four of the state’s leagues got hit Friday with a severely hard pill to swallow by the state’s other league, the Oahu Interscholastic Association. Moments after the votes came in to the HHSAA executive […]

It’s going to be a shrewd political move by the Oahu Interscholastic Association. OIA executive director Ray Fujino told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Hawaii Prep World on Friday that the OIA’s football teams will all opt for either Division I or II in the state tournament and keep themselves out of the Open Division. It’s a blockbuster move that will severely cripple — and maybe even end — the Open Division, which was the centerpiece of a new three-tiered tournament […]

Hawaii’s high school athletic directors voted to continue the three-tiered football state tournament this year after it began as a pilot program last year. The vote was 63-27 today at the Hawaii Interscholastic Athletic Directors Association conference at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island in favor of competition for state championships in the Open Division as well as Division I and D-II. Prior to last year, there were only two divisions — D-I and D-II. There will be […]

Honolulu Star-Advertiser sports columnist Dave Reardon didn’t hold back in a column published in Wednesday’s newspaper blasting the OIA for a 2017 schedule that includes an unfair balance of midweek games caused by a referee shortage. It is, quite simply, the worst, most ineptly produced and unfair schedule I have seen in 40 years of writing about sports,” Reardon writes. To read the full column, click here. Feel free to share your thoughts below.