Aloha. A new basketball season is approaching, and I was wondering if anyone knew of the changes throughout the state for schools that will be moving up or down to D1 or D2. Here is what I got so far.
Moving up to D1:
Roosevelt
Kailua
AOP
Moving down to D2:
Kalaheo
Honokaa
Farrington
Anyone got anything else? Mahalo..
I heard AOP is moving up next year to D1, there gonna be good with all the transfers comin next year.. They played iolani yesterday nd it was a great game, AOP lost by 5. That Makaula kid is good nd dunhour too..
Bball20, we know youre a player from AOP
and a good one also
AOP should stay in division 2. In fact, there should be a moratorium that you can't be a Div. I school until you have your own gym.
db, that is funny. But if that was the case, schools like UH Lab and Maryknoll wouldn't have won state titles in the 80's.
According to the Big Island Newspaper (Tribune herald) a few weeks back, the DI and DII will have a considerable amount of "shake~ups" in the BIIF as well...
...again according to the Newspaper:
Ad's had there meeting regarding the BIIF transfer rules, DI/DII, etc, etc...
Goes according to student body
700 below DII
900 above DI
Between 700-900 is the "gray area" where schools have to determine "which way they will go"...but the entire school needs to declare either or...which means, you can't go DI in one sport and DII in the others (visa/versa).
So according to the #'s which were posted for each school on the BI:
DI: Hilo, Waiakea, Keaau, Kealakehe
DII: Kona, Kohala, Honokaa, Kau, lapahoehoe, Pahoa, St. Joe, Kamehameha, HPA, Makua Lani, Christian Liberty
Waianae also switched to D1.
Aiea and Waipahu went to D2.
@mike23
I thought Waipahu was already D2 last year if i'm not mistaken?
Waipahu was in the OIA Red West and beat Kalaheo in the opening round of the OIA Playoffs this past year.
My mistake, thanks HoopFanatic.
No prob D12, your free agent post was very impressive!
Thanks HF, this upcoming NBA season should be a crazy ride.
Kalani also went up to D1.
If the BIIF does that, that would be very stupid!
they should have d1 and d2 refs instead
@kaBOOM
To address the ref issue...
I think more pressure should be put on the veteran refs to improve. For example, Barry George, Wes Kobayashi, and Pat Pacheco should barely see the light of day in BIIFs. Due to politics playing so heavily into that, many new up and coming refs have a hard time to prove themselves, when they could be a lot better than the current refs, and give a new fresh look to the game and the way it's called here on the Big Island.
So in the end The Big Island always will end up getting stuck with the same poor officiating that they are infamous for.
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