How many of you Seasiders fans know that we are 12-1 and we lead the nation in field-goal percentage (53.4),three point field goal shooting percentage(43.9) and rebound margin (12.7)
Trenson Akana our senior guard leads the nation with a 54.9 3-pointer percentage, Not to repeat the fact we are rank 5th in the nation and I strongly feel we could be rank as high as # 2 or 3 in the next national ranking poll to come out this week. Another Question I want to ask and get your opinion on is What if the Hawaii Men basket ball team had these same honors ,or Chaminade,Hilo, Hpu , Do you think this news would be buried in a news report where Grand Canyon beats Hilo and by the way BYUH Seasiders leads the nation in 4 categories. A one line mention of BYUh was all we got. I know for Sure if any other Team in Hawaii had this record it would have mention on the front page of the paper and a big headline on the front page of the sports section of our daily papers!
The excuse is that the Daily papers don't like the Seasiders and wont write anything about them, That is simply not the truth,The papers depend on News to attract readers and advertisers to sell space and subscriptions,The Sports editors could care less about your religion,How big your school is,personal friendship with sports writers,and on &on&on. If this is true why does Coach Porter and his teams gets nice write ups which they deserve and I think is great,even the Lady Volleyball team and Coach Navalta deserves the recognition also. Laie community and the North Shore buy papers and buy advertising also,Try this if you want the real answer -Call the sport editor of either daily newspaper and ask them why they don't write any news of this magnitude about our team.I think you will be surprised when they answer you! I know the answer,most of you do also.It is a disservice to a fine team of young man ,their coaches and to the University they represent.This could be reverse in a week if you demand answers and let the card fall where they made. It is way past putting up with weak excuses. (oh by the way we won our game against the Seawarriors 72-54) not very much info,right? you can be like the rest and watch it for free Thursday night on channel 16 and maybe submit to the paper-Old news but better than no news! We will face the Academy of Art Monday 7:30 pm at the Cannon Center. Go Seasiders !
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