Comments on: Saint Louis’ defense simply on another level

By: TooMeke

TooMeke — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:06:14 +0000

Raise your hands if you think Big Red will only run once in the 1st half and only 4 times total for the whole game when they run over St LuLu in States??

Anybody???

Bueller??

Didn’t think so…

Puns HC needs to fire his son (da OC) who never played a down of football in his life. 4 rushing plays??? That was ridiculous. How you gonna call 4 vertical routes with 4 WRs on 1st down on your own 5 yard line?? Dummy. Go back to playing Madden. Leave real play-calling to people who actually PLAYED on the field.

RRFL.

By: Coach_B

Coach_B — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:01:38 +0000

@FightingHawyn
Tell you the truth, if it wouldn’t effect the kids playing for him, then I’d be really interested in seeing Punahou lose by 35+ for the whole season. Preseason, regular season, dead last in the ILH with a sizable senior class. There hasn’t been enough of a reason for the school to push for change. Kale has really been the only successful coach in the last 30 years. Blowing out OIA teams preseason, beating KSK, and bringing in promising talent will probably keep his job safe until he wants to retire. It also doesn’t help that he is an assistant AD and has deep connections throughout the Punahou community. If they really want to go out and reach the next level, then they might need change, but it might take a catastrophic season for that to happen.

By: Education First

Education First — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:19:06 +0000

I saw this game. It wasn’t close. The real score was 49-7. Punahou scored a meaningless TD late in the game with STL reserves in the game.

Punahou is overmatched on all facets of the game, head coach, offensive coaching staff, defensive coaching staff, special teams, and overall talent.

It was like watching a varsity team playing a jv team. St. Louis looked like they were toying with them at times.

I cannot see either Kamehameha or Punahou giving them a competitive game this year. It might be time for a coaching change, at the OC and DC level at the least.

By: FightingHawynOfNotreDame

FightingHawynOfNotreDame — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:54:21 +0000

@Coach_B totally agree with you. Not taking anything away from St Louis, they played very well, sans the questionable penalites. And as a Crusader I’m hopeful Punahou keeps Ane so all the talent they recruit can go to waste.

By: Coach_B

Coach_B — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:33:35 +0000

@FightingHawynOfNotreDame
So does that mean you are agreeing with me? I was just trying to make a point about Kale Ane’s son and his utter incompetence as an OC. I could go on and on about Kale’s own incompetence as a HC…

By: FightingHawynOfNotreDame

FightingHawynOfNotreDame — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:49:50 +0000

@DaFun they have school spirit and personal pride 😉 all power to them, nothing wrong with being proud of their team.

By: FightingHawynOfNotreDame

FightingHawynOfNotreDame — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:47:15 +0000

@Coach_B Ane is over rated and has been for years. He has lucked out by getting some extreme talent, Teo, Hilliard, Noa but realistically, he hasn’t produced. I’m not complaining, as long as the Puns keep drinking the Kool-Aid, they won’t be in the picture much… Hats of the Crusdaer D, they’ve been playing very well.

By: TooMeke

TooMeke — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:47:44 +0000

Hyn – I just posted on the actual game article – didn’t have a chance to follow game.

But I owe you plate lunch! St LuLu came to play and Puns stayed home and didn’t participate.

Lemme know where, what and when and I’ll call it in…under “Hawaiian”…?

Hopefully rematch is a better game.

As for defense…no doubt the played great. Maybe as good as Big Red’s D…maybe.

Shoots – lemme know details.

By: Dafun

Dafun — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:22:53 +0000

Why does every Kahuku fan end their comment with RR4L. I think we get it that this place is dominated with Kahuku fans

By: Coach_B

Coach_B — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:14:59 +0000

@Awrite
I’m going to agree with you that talent is more important than coaching in most cases, but there really isn’t that big of a talent disparity between STL and PUN, or at least not 36 pts worth of talent. Coaches still have to put their players in the best position to win. That is why some less talent teams pull off upsets. You are right that Cal Lee didn’t win titles at Kalani, but they had tremendous success relative to their historic levels of success. You can see the opposite when Cal Lee left STL. They only had 1 title in the entire period between his stints. I don’t think the talent just disappeared from STL for 15 years.

@HauulaBoy
I wasn’t so much making the case for Reggie as the OC at Punahou, rather I was making a case against the current OC. Your point that he wasn’t even the OC at kahuku just builds on what I was saying. He wasn’t the OC, but even he could see certain opportunities and adjustments that contributed heavily in their near comeback against Mililani.
As for the PUN run game… I agree there really isn’t one. That’s not to say the pieces aren’t there. Having a roster where you can field 4 300+lb OL and 4 more 260+lb OL suggests the talent should be there. Generally speaking, building a strong run blocking OL is easier than developing a cohesive pass blocking unit, assuming you have physically dominant athletes. That doesn’t even factor in the mix of speed and size of the PUN RB rotation and Barbers ability running the ball, which some may argue is his strong suit. What is lacking is a strong fundamental approach to running the ball. You can probably have a casual fan predict run plays the PUN OC calls just from their formations and personnel. If there are 7 OL and some FBs then chances are that they called a run play. Too predictable…