Comments on: Sports to Ponder: ‘Football is fun’

By: hwnstyll

hwnstyll — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:37:55 +0000

So are we saying a kid who can sleep until 715am and still make it to school on time is at a disadvantage because he attends a school that is not in the ILH? The kids leave because of the coaching and level of commitment that most ILH teams have, and that carries over to school work. Millilani has that and proved it last year by winning state championships in various sports
and sent just as many scholarship athletes to college as did any single ILH school.
Kahuku, even with all of its social disadvantages still produces college ready kids, its about people in the right positions caring enough to make it happen. Unfortunately the ILH schools make it happen more than the OIA schools. BTW not all players are on scholarship, and more than half pay 50% of tuition. Maybe take a look at the scholarship offers on this website and count how many are for ILH or OIA players.

By: OahuPuns

OahuPuns — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:24:52 +0000

ILH schools have the unfair advantage of dangling tens of thousands of dollars worth of scholarship money to recruit the best talent away from the public schools. Why should public schools agree to participate in an equal competitive super conference when it really is not equal.

St. Louis had a down year last year so what did they do? They went and recruited a couple of the best kids on Kauai, three from Maui, one from Big Island and this year they are ranked #2 in the state. They are always pouching the elite intermediate grade kids from out of the communities here on Oahu. Leilehua and Waianae had down years last year and what is their option to rebuilding? They have to look to their elementary age kids and start coaching and training them to come up in the system and then pray that St. Louis does not come along and cherry pick those elite kids.

UNFAIR!

If anything the OIA should narrow down the Div 1 conference from 14 to 8, that will eliminate the weaker teams and potential blow outs. Then allow for 3 non-conference games instead of just 1. This will allow them to play the likes of St. Louis/Punahou/Kam/Iolani during the regular season as a measuring stick for both sides, Heck if a D2 team is kicking butt they can even test their team by scheduling a D1 game.

By: FB fan

FB fan — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 22:03:37 +0000

I grad 99″ we had the res, white, blue div…. red div
Farrington
Kahuku
Castle
Waianae
Campell
Leilehua
The resr made up the white nd blue div… shulda left it like that….

By: Whiston

Whiston — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:35:23 +0000

I think u put waianae, kapolei and Campbell in the platinum thar way they play 8 games or split into 2 divisions 4 teams or 5 if kaiser and iolani want conference winner in states w/ lower division winner and outer island top 4 playoff!!!!

By: 88

88 — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:21:17 +0000

I agree with the idea of a super conference. The teams and players only get better when they have to face the best every week. However what happens to one of the super conference teams when they have a rebuilding year? The OIA has transfer rules in place now that I believe would make it very hard for teams who are contenders now to stay on pace with the ILH schools.