Comments on: As Oregon’s OC, UCF’s Frost recruited Milton

By: Action Jackson

Action Jackson — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 03:13:16 +0000

Only Hawaii guy I know who braved it in Florida on D1 scholarship is Dominic’s dad Tony Raiola. Was all ACC @Miami for the Hurricanes.

By: Action Jackson

Action Jackson — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:23:59 +0000

The scholarship recipient should research everything exciting surrounding the college town and area before they go up. Is there a water park, ski area, golf driving range, one of those “Sonics” when you get da munchies? What about girlfriends and dates?
Gandhi am I not right? Gotta make college a fun experience!

By: Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:52:13 +0000

Education First, name me one California player who “flourished” by going to Florida? Your analogy about international students is not valid. In other countries, having a degree from a highly respected USA college means everything back home. I don’t think McKenzie Milton is going to Central Florida for academics. he’s going because they run a type of offense he thinks he can succeed in.

By: Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:45:52 +0000

@be thankful

First off, it’s not me saying Florida is too far away. It’s the players that tell me that by all the ones I see transferring from far away places to be closer to home. I take their word for it.
Secondly, “doing what’s best” for themselves. What’s best for local players if they want to make their home in Hawaii is to play big-time sports for UH. The positive name recognition you make by playing and starring in big-time sports for UH will do wonders for your career. So many ex UH football players now working as policemen, Halawa prison guard, firemen, stevedore….
Private sector too. Curt Watanabe, now in physical therapy. Got his own private practice in Pearl City. Starting 3rd baseman for UH baseball in their glory years of the late 1970s when they finished 2nd in the College World Series. Ask him what positive name recognition in the community has meant for his career.

By: Education First

Education First — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:42:40 +0000

So many kids from California flourish when they go to Florida to play sports. This isn’t the 50’s. Hawaii is not much farther. Imagine international kids that come to Hawaii on exchange program for schooling to the states and Hawaii. That is much farther than Hawaii-Florida.

By: be thankful

be thankful — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:10:10 +0000

Mahatma, not everyone is afraid to leave home. Some realize that a plane ride whether 6 hours or 9 hours, you’re still across the pacific ocean. Have to do what is best. There are plenty of athletes, girls and boys, who go to Florida, NY, CT, PA and all over the east coast and they are doing fine. The mentality that they are better off on the west coast is small minded.

By: Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:36:20 +0000

So was Oregon recruiting McKenzie Milton? I thought he was Pac-12 all the way. USC wants their QB’s to be 6′-5″, but I thought WSU, Arizona or Oregon St would offer him. I was surprised his best offers were from UH and the service academies. You people should have seen him against Punahou in the state championship game hs sophomore and junior years. Deadly accurate passer and cat quick scrmabler. I don’t believe this BS that schools backed off once he verballed to UH. I still think Florida is too far away for a young man first time away from home.

By: Action Jackson

Action Jackson — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 09:07:19 +0000

Glad he got that offer @UCF to represent Mililani alumni.

Some of my friends I grew up with: Konti Pellegrin from Punahou to Stanford, Sa’a Foster from Puns to Azusa Pacific. Donny Utu from Puns to Utah. Brian Ching from Puns to Notre Dame. Kelley Bryant from St. Louis to Oregon State. Darnell Arceneaux from St. Louis to Utah, Mark Moody from Kamehameha to Air Force, Nephi Shurtleff from Mililani to Lindenwood College, Ikaika Malloy Kamehameha to UW, Olin Kreutz St. Louis to UW.

Just my Pop warner team alone had Eli and Afa Thompson, Jason Scanlan, Olin Kreutz, Dominic Raiola, Tyler and Ryan Hoke, Brandon Matchen, Keola and Kekoa Willing, and DJ Cabrera.

80% played D1 on scholarship. All of ’em except Afatia graduated from St.Louis.

By: 808burn

808burn — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 06:45:48 +0000

Best of luck McKenzie! Do Hawaii proud! Sad to see you hurt all year and it seemed you came back not fully healed but that seems to be what Hawait is about….helping your team….get healthy and do your thing at UCF…Hawaii will be rooting for you just like we always do for our boys.

By: Paper Crane

Paper Crane — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 06:39:35 +0000

Outstanding Milton,..you got smarts and to play under the coaching of Scott Frost is professionally outstanding and you not only got the smarts but even wise to look to the future;…follow your priorities and make your family and fans proud of you;…you’re one shaka
quarterback that always listening to how to get better then your best.

Good luck, stay safe, and stay humble to yourself and all your senior.