Comments on: Kahuku demolishes another in-state foe

By: Alpha

Alpha — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:11:19 +0000

It’s the schools integrity, some will look the other way (Penn State) and some have zero tolerance. . .

By: Red Raider in Seattle

Red Raider in Seattle — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:57:17 +0000

You cannot tell me that Briles when he was at Baylor, Petino at Louisville, and other coaches didn’t know some bad stuff was going on. They didn’t care since they winning.

By: 88

88 — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 01:33:19 +0000

Yeah you right. Bring in the $$$$$ keep your job. It’s still wrong though. What can we do

By: Red Raider in Seattle

Red Raider in Seattle — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:17:32 +0000

88, possibly but were those coaches guys who are bringing in top level talent that could lead to million dollar payouts? Or was it a new coach who hasn’t established himself and made himself a risk early in his career? I haven’t heard about any college or NFL coaches who fled the scene of a crime. I understand if you do something bad but you have a track record if winning and making money then often things are either overlooked or swept under the rug. But I have rarely heard about a university sweeping under the rug a felony made by a position coach at a losing team like Vandy.

By: 88

88 — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:34:52 +0000

There are coaches who have done way worse than a DUI that are still coaching to this day. Tata probably just upset the wrong person.

By: Red Raider in Seattle

Red Raider in Seattle — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:37:59 +0000

88, I heard Coach Tata has been sending feelers out to D1 schools to gauge their interest in him coming to be a position coach. I went to the UW-USC game yesterday and there were a lot of Hawaii people up here. Many of them were talking about the upcoming STL vs. Kahuku game and how adding the extra ILH team was great for competition. Many prefer an 8 team tourney with no byes. My buddy who is the LB coach for UW told me that the DUI arrest so recently will really hurt Tata’s chance to get back to the D1 level where everyone is under a microscope with domestic violence, coaches turning the other cheek on problems, and the image of the universities being the most important. I think the 2 DUI’s kind of hurts the guy. Not too smart. If he wants to coach college ball again I suggest going to a D2 or D1 subdivision and proving he can stay clean. Then maybe a D1 would offer. But I definitely wouldn’t take the chance until he can prove he can make smart decisions coaching college when all the eyes are on you.

By: 88

88 — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 19:12:34 +0000

I don’t think Tutu is talking about physical attributes when he refers to speed. We all know there is a big difference between a 17yr old high schoool kid and a 20yr old college student. He is probably referring to the way Tatas kids are able to break down film, mentally prepare themselves, recognize formations and adjust during games to shut down both run and pass happy teams.

By: Red Raider in Seattle

Red Raider in Seattle — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:48:59 +0000

Tutu, I am sorry but no HS Team in Hawaii plays at the D1 speed and level. While Kahuku is a great Hawaii team, there offensive packages are minimal at best.

It’s not a fair comparison to put college D1 and any high school team in the same sentence. Most NCAA D1 program run sophisticated offense systems, even the less successful ones.

Everyone know that Coach Tata is yearning to go back to coach at the college level. He gets paid about $3000-$5000 a year. As a positional coach at the D1 level he could make anywhere between $75000-$250000. Those numbers are not close.

Sorry, but I don’t understand what you are trying to say in the rest of your post.

Aloha!

By: Simple Simon

Simple Simon — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:39:15 +0000

@dirty plays by waianae

If you go back to Kahuku’s last 3 or 4 championships, you will see that Kahuku surprisingly passed in crucial situations in the Championship game.

They used to be a “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” type of team. Now they are really implementing that passing game to compliment their smashmouth. It’s crazy!

Kahuku 28
St Louis 7

(And I’m being very very generous to St Louis with that score)

By: Tutu Kane Ale

Tutu Kane Ale — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 04:43:32 +0000

@Red Raider in Seattle; about now everyone knows Coach Tata but his personal goals toward being at D1 is encouraging yet where can he do MORE then best for Hawaii’s football and that’s at home; only by what you wrote about HS Football being to slow for him but at the moment the results sure shows how well he has brought his HS football up to D1 speed/pace and that may just be happening with the 2016 Red Raiders but at D1 higher education level how many of our own from Hawaii football will make it to where he’s actually coaching at, like not even close to where and what’s in front of him today and his exposure and expertise will pay back more satisfaction whereas to bring up his kind of HS Level up to what’s D1 speed; but quality time and salary is essence to any coach and he’s super great with the players and they demand more and more from him like even their learning objectives are striving for D1 quality; So we will see, yet here’s hoping he will stay at Kahuku High whereas to make his HS Football Players D1 Level yet any top notch coach is a wanted coach and demands comes with their salary demand yet with all fairness besides the goals of the coach what’s important is what he ultimately strives for whereas only to make better then the best his players. For Red Raiders Nation him staying comes with job satisfaction along with sound fair contractual agreement. Praying that he stays for awhile. Enjoy RR4LE