LOL!!! What makes you think that the AD & coaches staff for any sports of NHIS especially football, aren’t doing their delegent duties in strengthening the encouragement to our student athletes in getting to the next level? I agree, when parents have concerns, we have every right to call the coaches out on it IF we feel that our child is being treated unfairly, unsafely etc. EVERY parent wants the best for their children and a great parent will pave a road in making sure that they are sucessfull in whatever they decide to do because at the end of it, it becomes their journey, their life, their choices, not ours!!!

Back in 2010-2011 when Keala Watson and his coaching staff decided to rebuild the Nanankuli football program our motto for that change was “Making a difference” regardless if that took hard disicipline to our student athletes, to receiving bashful comments from atheltes parents, to sacraficing the time with our own families to giving and providing to the boys that we were trying to bring up as independent mens, to teaching life long lessons that they can carry with them after highschool in the next level of “life” not only in “football”…. FOR any public schools; parents plays a big role in working harder than as if they attend a private school. We as parents are entitled in making sure that our child understands the resources that is provided to them and that the student/child learns to independently reach out, ask questions, and not be afraid in doing so. Because as parents what are we teaching our children if we allow ourselves to carry them their whole life. Life is all about winning and losing. But what we teach our football program is character and how to deal with adversity when life seems unfair. Every year the football program progressed especially in academics from starting at a 2.2 overall team GPA average to now sitting at a 3.0 overall team GPA. Every season student atheltes who has been apart of the football program under the direction of Keala Watson and his staff had started with at least 1% to now sitting at 12% students advancing to the next level in life, regardless if its hrough an academic scholarship, football scholarship in any D1 D2 Jc college and some of them decided to join the service. Then in the result of winning a championship title that echoed our valley louder than an NFL super bowl game? SO how are we not trying to strengthen our football program for our student athletes in preparing them to the next level? The coaches are only volentarily allowed to keep our students 3-4 hours a day for practices, us parents has the rest. And as parents your job is endless…And to be belittled that should a parent has a concern, you’re so quick to have valid reasons that us coaches will take it out on the kids?…LOL… TBH that could have been true if Coach Beaver was still here and i have valid reasons to prove that was the case back then, HOWEVER we are living in the future and our past doesnt defined what the next generations has to offer.

@KapCity The tagavailoas are family to us LOL and to hear others opinions in justifying the reasons why he never allowed his sons to attend Nanakuli? lol only shows the kind of character you display for your athletes in the next city. OVERALL gentlemen when our student athletes reaches to the next level, they dont represent cities, highschools, towns, WE represent the 808 state, HAWAII. theres a bigger picture to high school football and because Nanakuli is always under estimated , WE the true supporters of Nanakuli tries our best to teach our children that the grass is never greener on the other side of the fence. You get your hands dirty and water where you stand because even after we’re dead, our kids grows a thicker skin and know how to survive the world we live in that we call life….

How about the the coaches take in the parents concerns and learn from them? We teach our student athletes that learning never stops? So why do the coaches get a pass on that? We tell our kids to take constructive criticism and learn from it? Why not the coaches?

So my braddah, my story nevah change, maybe i needed to more thoroughly explain it and expand on what i was saying. So hopefully its more understandable now. Coaches and AD also need to learn and change things to get the program better. Not crap on concerned parents and hold grudges and vendettas and take it out the the players.

NEXT TIME DIDI AH YO! AND AWAY WE GO!!! ALOHA

Why does everyone come back to why don’t i coach? I’m not a coach for the reason is i have trouble speaking in layman terms. Can also have my thoughts come out convoluted. Which def. wouldn’t be good for the athletes. But by my being critical of some of the situation that I felt put the kids in bad spots, doesn’t mean they are horrible coaches. They are really good coaches, they put their heart and soul into what they do, but the doesn’t they should be immune from criticism or unflattering opinion. I will always wish the best for our boys!! they definitely deserve our support!