Comments on: SPRING-ing into FB: Saint Louis Crusaders

By: Bigg Sarge

Bigg Sarge — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 02:10:48 +0000

Please stop with the Big Boyz non-sense. Its Junior Prep Sports or JPS. This league is formed up by Individual Owned Teams across Oahu with No Weight Restrictions.. And no its not 450-500. My son plays for the Ewa Beach Sabers, so our fees are about $200 per season. JPS was formed on the premise of having these “Big Boys” who cant make the Pop Warner weight play football. It eventually grew into Organization that is truly putting out the best Players Hawaii has seen in years. Tua, Taulia, Sol Jay, Isaac, Challen, Vavae, Haskell Garrett, Palaie Gaoteote and many more All-Stars are JPS bred and where they made their marks. Look at Punahou and St Louis Rosters and they have a bunch of JPS All Stars on their rosters. Kahuku, Kapolei, Campbell, Punahou and St Louis have benefitted from this League. So now the OIA are truly benefitting from JPS because they don’t have to sit out their Freshmen year. Ewa Beach Sabers just sent 2 Varsity, 5 JV Players to Kapolei and 3 Varsity and 6 JV Players to Campbell all of them will be incoming Freshmens. Now the fight is between the 4 Westside schools on getting the JPS players into their schools.

By: anywaaaays!!

anywaaaays!! — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 22:18:06 +0000

Big Boyz is a Club free from any OIA/ DOE administrative Buluseki!

Club fees for VB/Soccer/Baseball etc. are expensive too! $500 and up so $475 for bigboyz is normal. In fact it helps to weed out the drama kids/parents who are not serious about the sport, we dont need egotistical low-lifes expecting a hand-out, The higher the fee the more you are going to respect the club and not waste everyones time. Thats the idea behind all club sports, the alternative is AYSO.

If im not mistaken didnt the BigBoyz league start in Laie? They have the most participating teams and that league is their baby so it would be pretty hard to create a competing league and convince the Laie crowd to switch over.

By: Northshore

Northshore — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:35:27 +0000

bumbuchas: Big Boyz program won’t be able to transition into OIA high school freshman program. Freshmen are already playing in the JV OIA program. the Big Boyz program was created so that 12,13,14 year old kids that were ineligible to participate in Pop Warner because of their weight restrictions were able to play in the Big Boyz…no weight restrictions.

By: bumbuchas

bumbuchas — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:45:47 +0000

pt well taken North Shore, hand me down equipment would not be that which is not safe but as we know; still usable but not the best in the market. Plus, there are some schools that either their inventory can support a team or have funds to do so. The middle schools should be contributing too as it’s their kids and will reap the benefits of improved academics, discipline, campus control, attendance, etc. For gender equity, there are less costly sports; GVB, GB-Ball, etc. to equate the numbers. The OIA is missing the boat. Big Boyzs is a good venue but costly ($450? you might know better), not under the DOE’s control in terms of compliance, academic monitoring, etc. Robert Falefine has done a marvelous job of organizing, coordinating, soliciting donations and support of labor unions. The venue they put on in January involving 2 Oahu teams, Samoa and a mainland team and televised too! was outstanding. The one knock, on that is that they used underclassmen which is a big no no, got some of the participating high school coaches in very hot water! Maybe Robert F. can volunteer to oversee the transition of
Big Boyzs program to High School Freshman teams and program. He probably do a better job then Ray Fujino who has no FB background but is a Baller.

By: Northshore

Northshore — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:05:52 +0000

Bumbuchas: Your comments are well taken and the middle/freshmen football program has been sanctioned for years in the mainland and ILH. It’s an excellent program to have in the OIA but excuses are not the main cause of not having it implemented. It’s all about “funding” a public school sports program. Private schools are able to fund such program not only for one sport (football) but other sports and that includes girls sports….equality in sports for both gender. To try and play with hand me down equipment…broken, frail, improper size, fixer uppers are unsafe for any athlete to be using especially in football. The youth football program “Big Boyz” is just as effective as the middle school ILH football program although the Big Boyz are funded primarily by the parents.

By: bumbuchas

bumbuchas — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:39:11 +0000

wouldnt need Big Boyzs league

By: bumbuchas

bumbuchas — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:37:03 +0000

If the OIA had any long range vision and stop making excuses, they would have implemented a middle school/freshman program at all OIA schools. That would allow them to impact the student-athletes earlier in their lives and help provide structure, guidance, discipline for them. On the athletics side, it would streamline their respective schools with a true program running from middle school, JV, Varsity teams., all running the same overall program. The ILH, mainland schools have been doing this since the Dark Ages. The OIA ran an experimental middle school FB program at Nanakuli, Waianae, and 3 more schools which ended last year? 2 years ago? It was hoped that it would open the OIA eyes to the benefits but…… excuses, excuses, excuses. The concerns of those intermediate age FB players playing year round, w/no academic monitoring, would be addressed. There are enough hand me down equipment, uniforms from the respective high schools to field an intermediate team.

By: bumbuchas

bumbuchas — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:21:47 +0000

nothing worse then 1 who calls himself a coach but is not there at every practice but is there definitely for the game. People laugh at these part time coaches.

By: Northshore

Northshore — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 23:55:57 +0000

OIA#1: If a seventh grader on the ILH intermediate team warms the bench, would you think that he will gain experience by playing in the “Big Boyz” league? I don’t think so! Be great to see Lee’s intermediate team challenge the “Laie Park”Big Boyz team. It’s unfortunate that the two leagues are played in different months of the year. There’s no advantage for the OIA kids playing in the Big Boyz league since the ILH has an intermediate football league.

By: oia#1

oia#1 — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:49:58 +0000

NS he said that because some of the kids dont get to see any action, so they can get experience in outside leagues. Also oia kids play big boiz football too so there is an advantage. Mahatma theres kids from all over the state especially from waianae side.