Friday, February 22, 2008

HHSAA Tournament Needs Better Planning

The HHSAA Girls and Boys Basketball Tournament is currently going on with the venues of several high school gyms on Oahu. There are some great matchups like we saw in Konawaena girls versus Punahou and Kamehameha Hawaii versus Kalaheo. However, for us watching on OC16 at home some of the great matchups were not seen on TV or radio. Why, because the HHSAA thought it would be all right to put the tournament together at the same time. The word circulating is that the main venue of Blaisdell or Stan Sherrif was not available for the Girls tournament the previous week or it could have had something to do with a popular Jamboree tournament coinciding annually with the girls HHSAA tournament. Okay, no big stage for the final game or semifinals. We might hit a title nine issue here. So alas we have the current mess of having two tournaments at the same time. The gyms are spread out as far as Pearl City all the way to Waialae, some good match ups were not shown on TV or broadcasted on radio. Some outer islanders were delighted thinking they could watch more games and have a buffet of girls and boy's basketball. But the reality of it was the matchups clashed at primetime so most had to pick and choose where they would be. It would not be practicle to travel to Aiea from McKinley to watch the second half of another game. The results, less coverage for both tournaments and venues all over creation. Do you think the HHSAA should do this again?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe we should have Mufi Hanneman run the Girls tournament and Governor Lingle run the boys tournament. That way we can always get Blaisedell or Stan Sheriff.


Shorty on Oahu...

Anonymous said...

I think the athletic directors's have too much power and the administration, principals & Districts should have a full time appointed regulators to make sure they follow protocol and not make rules as they go or make half okole excuses to justify making bad decisions. Also ILH should follow Hawaii State Employee rules because they have an advantage or have the state public schools be independent of State of Hawaii Employee laws that way we are all on the same page and on the same level playing field.

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