Comments on: Search ongoing for next Waianae football coach

By: notes

notes — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:21:59 +0000

players play. coaches coach. cal lee recruits. that’s why waianae football has gone downhill since the early 2000s. hard to build winning programs when your generational top talents get poached for money and “educational opportunities”

By: Hawaiian

Hawaiian — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:47:24 +0000

*Jv open championship

By: Hawaiian

Hawaiian — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:46:08 +0000

@ILH you are definitely right. They win in pop warner, they win at the intermediate program, and they just won the open Division OIA Championship. I see your point Can’t visualize a mainland Coach coming in for little pay, the commute is crazy, Super high demand for winning due to its programs rich history, kids and community is as tough as they come, cultural differences, etc etc etc

By: ILH

ILH — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:36:53 +0000

Ha-Y-N

Ok. You named 4 players. where the rest?

I am speaking specifically about Waianae and Nanakuli. With all the talent that has risen through its youth leagues, and I mean strong, athletic studs, why isnt Nanakuli or Waianae winning more often??

I can honestly say that out of all the schools, Waianae has kept true to its roots and plays with their homegrown youth. It is always factored in that they will lose some to private schools but that was the case even when they was winning, whats happening now??

Surfing, girlfriends, $$money$$, started at a young age and dont have interest in the game anymore, etc. etc.

I hope the new coach will be able to rejuvenate the program and bridge the gap from youth leagues to HS to continue their winning ways.

Would they ever entertain the idea of bringing in an outsider??

By: Hawaiian

Hawaiian — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:49:18 +0000

@ILH Lol who???? The starting center for St. Louis is from Waianae and one of the DT. Kamehameha’s DE who has a couple D1 offers is from Waianae. This has been going on for years? Defrost Buckner is from Waianae Rex Manu was from Waianae. It happens and always did happen and that’s only the Waianae guys. Tua is from Ewa Beach, tui tele thats Farrington or McKinley So when you say who that’s almost everybody But no excuse cause Kahuku and Mililani still find ways to compete. Waianae still competes just not at the consistent pace it had in the past. Waianae will figure it out cause their is a lot of talent that come from that community

By: ILH

ILH — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 06:56:57 +0000

Who? Where?

By: Easy

Easy — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:26:14 +0000

ILH THEY ALL GET SNATCHED BY THE ILH LOL

By: ILH

ILH — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 01:41:42 +0000

Answer me this my westside peeps.

With all the championships that are being won at the youth leagues why is it not transferring to the high school?

Nanakuli youth league baseball and football- hammahs
Waianae youth league baseball and football- hammahs

what is up?

By: Wainakea

Wainakea — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 02:06:33 +0000

＠Choloropicrin

Probably referring to how there was a dynastic coach. Osborne for Nebraska, Ginoza for Waianae.

By: Former OIA Insider

Former OIA Insider — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:35:32 +0000

It is a difficult situation, but Coach Young wasn’t AD Kaluhiokalani’s “guy”. Coach Young was selected to succeed Coach Matsumoto after Matsumoto was ousted by the principal. Having coaches assigned to your staff is tough because philosophies might not align. Rumors are they already have a DC in place. Weird how you select a coordinator prior to the head coach. Maybe the supposed selected DC should be the head coach? Defensively Waianae was trying to blitz more against the new Open Division as to not get picked apart with the heavy passing schemes, total change of defensive philosophy required more than a year as Waianae previously played a lot of base/zone defense for years. We’ll see how the new coach fits and what actual control they have over their program. As for Mr. Tokunaga he was forced to deal with a micro-managing administration which ultimately led to him to leave having enough of it.