Comments on: As usual, Kahuku can run (but how far?)

By: Nick Abramo

Nick Abramo — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 01:31:55 +0000

Bleedred — good point about the defense.

By: BigRedCountry

BigRedCountry — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 01:47:29 +0000

Its hard every year for our Laie Big Boy League coaches to prepare and teach our kids for High School football and then Punahou and St. Louis come cherry pick the cream of the crop. If our kids stayed home Kahuku would win the State title every year. Personally if a private school offered my sons a free education and better prep for college I would do whats best for my situation, I think Manti opened a big door for our Mormon kids to get into Punahou, the Buff-n-Blue seem to like our Laie kids because they are boy scouts and come from a responsible family environment. St. Louis had a pipeline to the Catholic Hauula’ans from way back in the 90’s and I wonder if Cal Lee’s return opened it up this year.

When all is said and done lets just be happy that our North Shore kids are doing bigger and better things no matter where they go, with that being said we still got enough Homegrown talent to compete for the crown. Lets get it! RR4L

By: SimpleSimon

SimpleSimon — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:52:30 +0000

@bleedred – That’s true and I realize that. But honestly this year, there are pretty much only about 6 good teams. Everyone else seems “below” average (no disrespect).

@Smoking Duck – I know a few of those kids and they come from great families. I think it’s about education and opportunities. Yes you can do great things coming from Kahuku, but I think the path will be much easier if you went to a private school. The resources and benefits from private schools are ridiculously better/more compared to Kahuku.

By: Smoking Duck

Smoking Duck — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:02:42 +0000

Who knows who the starting Kahuku JV players last year who transferred to St Louis? There are suppossed to be 4 of those traitors. Punahou’s starting QB and top running back are from the Kahuku school district. As is their big Tongan offensive lineman Semisi Uluave and their star LB Saitui Moeai. No other community in Hawaii loves and reveres their football team as Kahuku. Yet the parents want to send them away. I have seen the Kahuku championship celebrations on YouTube. The Kahuku kids want to play with their boyz they grew up with and want to play for the Kahuku community.

By: bleedred

bleedred — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:53:53 +0000

@simplesimon so far Kahuku has been blowing out weak teams so its hard to say if that scoring can continue in the playoffs against better teams. They need to improve their pass coverage and make some stops against the teams that can pass at will, Should be a great post season this year.

By: Paper Crane

Paper Crane — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 06:45:21 +0000

No sweat,…this year Kahuku got the better of all the best Lee coaches in Hawaii Nei; as for
Coach Leslie Lee, ” you just show the varsity boys the way and how it’s done and they’ll put out for you 24/7 no matter what, you just watch and see;..”like don’t think,..just feel”,…kay.

By: SimpleSimon

SimpleSimon — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:26:37 +0000

Kahuku is stacked across the board. They have score in every aspect of the game in every game. I don’t think there’s a more complete “scoring” team than Kahuku. There might be passing teams that can score. There might be running teams that can score. But there’s no team out there that has scored on offense, defense, and special teams the way Kahuku has in every game this year. They are a triple scoring threat this year.

By: bleedred

bleedred — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:47 +0000

Great article but history tells us that its Kahuku’s defense that determines how far they go. The running game is only there for eating the clock as their smash mouth style is not pretty or exciting. Kahuku does not want to get into a scoring race with their opponents. As beautiful it is to see Punahou pass for 500 yards per game, its even more beautiful to see a hard nose defense stop it. Go Big Red!