TheDuke wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:14 am
They have to take Algebra II in HS. This requirement was implemented by Mortimer. It did weed out players for sure. The local recruiting came to a screeching halt. Wagner had to walk away from many local recruits. The next year Wagner got fired. Many polys that came from Samoa and Tonga couldn't qualify. Kahuku players couldn't qualify. The HS coaches including Kahuku just said ok we will send our players to other schools who don't have that requirement and off they went. I remember one year JJ had 7 recruits from Kahuku. None of them made it to UH.
I'm not disagreeing with you from a football perspective. Maybe the question should be, what is Kahuku HS doing about educating their students? What is DOE doing about that?
Every country have different standards. My UH professor was Samoan, PhD. Dr. "Tusi." We should not make exception for Poly players.
If top recruits go to another school over UH, I'm ok with that. There has to be other players that are just as good, and can pass Algebra II.
We can discuss the idea of student athletes or maybe college players should be paid, etc. How about HS? SL is pretty entertaining school to watch.
I know this may offend someone, but when I was young, I know a few SL students that admit (to me) that they can not read. I suck at English because it's on me. DOE public school. But if their parents paid that kind of tuition $$$, what happened...
