Every high school is the same. February starts off-season training for football. Some football players are playing other sports, some start off-season training and others cruise and enjoy life or decide to train on their own and wait to first day of actual tryouts in the fall to show up.  What is different at every school is how each coach determines who will make the team.  I would dare say that at Kahuku, if you show up on the first day of tryouts for the first time and expect to make the team, you better be a five star player transferring in or else you may be out of luck.  How would you even be able to get on the field with OIA rules determining the progress a player needs to make before even putting on pads? No reps; No clue as to what the plays are; Can’t get on the field to out play the guy that showed up in February and knows the ins ands out of the plays = cut player or benched player. Not the coaches fault, not discrimination, not favoritism, just reality.