Comments on: Pupule’s ballot: Guess who at No. 2

By: bandits1

bandits1 — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 02:01:36 +0000

^^^Of course you’re right about Kahuku being the dominant team in the state for part of the ’90s and all of the ’00s. That can’t be argued. Farrington, however, as rock-solid as they are a football program, only has one OIA title to it’s name and one state championship/Prep Bowl appearance. In all the years that Kahuku wasn’t the OIA representative in the state championship/Prep Bowl, it’s almost always been a West team — mostly Waianae along with Leilehua and further back, Nanakuli and Radford. Castle made it once. As for OIA titles, again it’s Waianae, Kahuku, Leilehua, Radford and Nanakuli, along with long-ago appearances by Kaiser, Waipahu, Kailua and even Waialua in ’40s and ’50s.

But this article and it’s comments are about weekly top 10 polls; they aren’t predictions on who’s going to win the state championship. They’re more like weekly progress reports on who’s trending up and who’s trending down. I stand by my comments.

By: Matuu Pulotu

Matuu Pulotu — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:34:32 +0000

This may be the year of the west but depth of a conference doesn’t matter, this is not College Football looking at power conferences. You will not get more teams invited to bowl games to bring more money to your conference. Its about being the best TEAM and with a lttle bit of luck, the result is a championship team. All the years growing up the East side had dominating teams while Waianae beat up on the West. The roll has been reversed with Kahuku having only Farrington as in division competition. There has been a few seasons where the West saturated the OIA playoffs only to lose to the lone East team. I say this not to brag but to help everyone see that, although it is great to have a tough division, it doesn’t necessarily determine who will be the eventual champion. In fact, history has proved otherwise. I know the ILH is upset with them not getting to have more than 1 team in the state championships but if we really want to see who is the best…lets make a new division of the top teams and have them play each other each season, form a bracket based on records and playoff to a champion. Also, make different state records for divisions as some of these DII records are done against poor competition while DI continue to play against far better competition. Just some thoughts…GO BIG RED.

By: bandits1

bandits1 — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:47:07 +0000

You got it right with Mililani at #2. The Leilehua @ Mililani game this weekend is BIG. After watching last night’s game vs Campbell, the Trojans have already proven to be a state title contender, and with a win over the Mules, they’ll cement their claim to the #2 spot.

If Leilehua happens to win, that will say that the Mules got their sh!t straight again after stringing together those two consecutive losses. It will also prove beyond all argument that the OIA Red West is THE deepest and most competitive division in the state by a mile. They play ranked teams(or at least formerly ranked) almost every single week.

By: charley

charley — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:53:17 +0000

nah, i tink u really is pupule, u need to, ” look beyond what you see” GO GOVS 😉