Comments on: Opinion: extra OIA football games are otiose

By: Education First

Education First — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 19:11:41 +0000

@87, Too Meke didn’t show again. I am starting to think he doesn’t want to join me for lunch. How tragic.

#crickets

By: Bumbuchas

Bumbuchas — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:51:26 +0000

Nick, I like the playoff system, settle the seeding on the field, not some arbitrary ranking based on common opponents. What’s wrong w/more games? That’s why they practice, to extend the season. D1 Division is a good thing, don’t mess it up. 6 teams format? Nah, that’s messed up w/giving quarterfinal byes to seeds 1 & 2 in a state championship. 8 teams work out perfect, everybody plays a game! Injuries? Do what they need to do to prepare their teams, 25, 30 players, whatever! Bunch of panties out there. Like take 1 break instead of playing a game? What’s wrong w/you? Better condition more and lift more for injury prevention in the off-season. Moanalua cancelling the game? Panties! Shame on you Kawachi! Make the OIA look like a farce!

By: 87

87 — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:34:09 +0000

toomeke did you fukislam his muli for consistenly calling our kahuku kids stupid?

By: YNAE

YNAE — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:27:02 +0000

THAT IS STATE WORKERS ONE DO THE THINKING WHILE THE OTHERS STAND AROUND

By: Education First

Education First — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:28:40 +0000

@ TooMeke, I will be at Orchids at Halekulani at 11:30am today. Please stop by and join us for lunch. The rez will be under Derek Wong, my photographer buddy I hired to shoot some events. Please ask the hostess to direct you to our table. See you then big guy!

By: Andrew Hopoi

Andrew Hopoi — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:24:03 +0000

Actually the ILH 3rd place team is clearly Kamehameha, but they are not playing. Can anybody tell me why? I would love to see Kamehameha play Mililani for D-1 championship. Now there is no team in that division to challenge Mililani. How does Iolani go 0-6 and make the playoffs. This does not make sense at all.

By: Jason Keuma

Jason Keuma — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:58:27 +0000

What’s the point of regular season games, if you simply have to face them
again in a mean nothing game?

The OIA has become the ILH, playing games to fix the mess of poorly thought out schemes. A four team
League? Have fun, seeing each other twice, then again in your “second round” only to have a sudden death playoff game between the first round winner and the second round winner.

Play in your leagues, play in your defined divisions, one champion per league. Then have a playoff.

So how to define a division? Call them by numbers, so future expansion is possible. D1,D2, D3. There was a
Statement by someone that said they called it the open division so schools could continue to be called D1. Call a spade a spade.

Define each division. Other states classify schools by their population size, initially, then if they keep winning, they get moved up a division. that needs to be addressed. Team size can be a determination for division status.

Even playing field. Limit the maximum number of players in each team. Having a 80+ player team play a 30 player team is not going to be competitive.

We are all football fans here, we disagree which team is the best, but we all agree that we do not wan to see kids injured. Having a longer season increases injury possibilities. The kids are going to play and want to play, but it’s the adults responsibility to limit it for their own good.

Some good may come out of this fiasco, like some better thought out playoff.

By: rpaahana

rpaahana — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:54:14 +0000

why does every keep blaming the ILH for this BS? The OIA is the reason for this mess. They won’t agree to any format that is based real competition. The just keep flooding the tournament with teams to increase their chances. OIA folks say that lack of competition is the reason why neighbor isle teams should not be allowed in Open tournament. Well the same thing applies to everyone in the OIA but Kahuku. The ILH deserves two teams. everyone with a brain knows it. The current tournament is the result of the OIA trying to rig the system because they know its Kahuku or bust..

By: ???

??? — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:48:55 +0000

Why is everybody crying about extra games and seedings? You either love football or you don’t. I would have killed to play extra football games in HS, be like Kahuku, just play week to week whoever lines up across from you is who you play “No Matter” to be da best you beat da best. Da kids will regret it after HS, they will say we should’ve played that damn game! (Could’ve, Should’ve Would,ve)

By: Toomeke

Toomeke — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:43:06 +0000

Hmmm… Unforeseen consequences of decisions made behind closed doors by the HHSAA and ILH.

Go figure. No foresight. Only hindsight. Terrible “leadership” (and I use the term loosely).

@Nick Abramo. Next time don’t jump on the bandwagon so quickly. I seem to remember you were the biggest cheerleader of this new States format that obviously wasn’t thoroughly vetted.

No matter right? EXCEPT for the STUDENT-athletes who are now being compelled to play an extra unnecessary game. DOH!