Comments on: WATCH: #Cover2OT on the format of the upcoming state tournament

By: LMK...

LMK... — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:07:58 +0000

Could someone please let me know who Kahuku recruited…or recruited in the past…I’ve been reading this on this blog for some time now…Please FACTS only…

By: To da hale

To da hale — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:16:22 +0000

I doubt Iolani will move up

By: Austin Chang

Austin Chang — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:57:42 +0000

My thoughts is there are so many recruiting going on now, because I started to notice all talent is coming from Ewa, and Laie areas. Mililani did some heavy recruiting, Campbell took half of the talent from Kapolei, Kahuku is still rebuilding the team, but still recruiting people from the mainland. Waianae and Farrington are only teams that doesn’t recruit. Punahou got future QB only freshman, but I don’t barely recruit. St. Louis got major talent no matter what, 8th or 9th would get D1 offer, and under Cal Lee they do recruiting. Kamehameha is unfortunately exposing ILH with there talents cannot get it done.

I feel like Leilehua, or maybe Iolani is going to move up to the Open Division. I don’t think Waianae or Farrington is going down to D1.

Prediction: Open Division

St. Louis
Campbell
PUNAHOU
Kahuku
Kapolei
Mililani
Farrington
Waianae
Leilehua
Iolani
Kamehameha

By: To Da Hale

To Da Hale — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 01:11:10 +0000

Basically, I think fans just want to see the top schools play for the title and NOT have teams there just because they are OIA or ILH.

With the legit 4 top teams, maybe we won’t see repeat blow outs. Any of the top 4 teams can go down by a lower ranked team on any given day (chances are just greater).

By: ???

??? — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 23:02:37 +0000

Thank you Nick,
As you insinuated, STL is
Hawaii’s DREAM TEAM (Facts).

By: ILH

ILH — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:48:45 +0000

Increase Open tournament to 6 teams.

4 OIA
2 ILH

1 OIA and 1 ILH sit
2 OIA vs 4 OIA- winner play 1 ILH
3 OIA vs 2 ILH – winner play OIA 1

or switch round 2 for those who dont want a potential ILH final, no matter.

OIA= 66.6%
ILH= 66.6%

Huh????

By: Nick Abramo

Nick Abramo — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:39:43 +0000

As for the recruiting talk, my thinking is:

>> Players will go and should go where they want to go.

>> Coaches or assistant coaches or boosters who nudge players to their school (if they actually do it and my guess is that some do and some don’t) cannot be policed. Getting scholarships offered or getting district exemptions are super easy and therefore DE FACTO LEGAL.

>> We used to think Olympics were for amateurs only. Shame on anybody who got paid and then actually play in them. Then you get stupid things like the Dream Team (yeah, I said it, stupid) who beat the crap out of clearly inferior teams and are still GLOATING over it 30 years later like it was the best thing that ever happened in sports. … So, those days of athletic innocence are over. People are building the teams they want in high school. There are pretty much NO RULES, so, this is not your daddy’s high school football. It’s a new age. Complain if you want, but it will get nowhere.

>> The difference between public and private schools getting various players showing up on their teams is that private schools offer tuition incentives. Money, sometimes, talks.

By: Nick Abramo

Nick Abramo — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:30:58 +0000

These boys, “Billy Bob” Hull and Rob DeMello , have it completely right.

It’s simple. The five leagues funnel their teams into the state tournament. The more teams in a league, the more berths you get.

So, win your three-team league before you go to the states.

OIA gets HALF (50 percent) of its six Open teams into states. ILH gets ONE-THIRD (33.3 percent) of its three teams in.

For those of you who think it should be 2 from the ILH and 2 from the OIA into the Open states, then it would be ONE THIRD (33.3 percent) from the OIA and TWO-THIRDS (66.6 percent) from the ILH.

That would be a lot more out of whack, in my opinion.

By: Hau’ulaBoy

Hau’ulaBoy — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:42:46 +0000

Haha. Too funny.

By: ILH

ILH — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:18:33 +0000

Back in the day, we would just take our helmet out of our back pocket, strap em on and play ball.
It didnt matter who was lined up across from us, we were going to student body left and right until they gave up.
One time, one of our guys was about to get tackled and lost control of the ball and it flew forward where, miraculously, my teammate caught it and scored. And that, people, is how the passing game started.