Warriors land D-end

Damn you wowlaulau! hahaha, I was so close..!

wowlaulau (I’m kidding of course)

I actually really liked some of things you posted yesterday against one of the trolls… Good Job, Sir…

Long is the kind of player that Chow needs to implement what he (Coach) wants to do in the long (really, really pardon the pun) run (pardon that pun, too) 😉 .

Ok. Neva mind.

WarriorNY:

October 29th, 2012 at 7:51 am

Damn you wowlaulau! hahaha, I was so close..!

Here’s to your good luck — missed in being ichiban on the board today — will be found by you, and other East Coasters, later today/today$

WarriorNY: my thoughts and prayers are with you and others on the East Coast!

I thought the comments on Darius Bright yesterday was just some trolling…

He reminded me of that Nebraska RB transfer we had. Lots of promise and potential but always getting injured. Wasn’t he also the guy that got into some drama in Waikiki?

I hope he is OK and just not showing up to practice. He didn’t completely disappear did he?

Top 20!

Good morning erryboddy!!! Hi gigi…enjoy your trip to India!

(returning a shout out to DPK, KK and Whitey)

whoooooooooosh

Ok. These are the facts. Chow is stubborn and does not care what anyone thinks, including what fans, the team, and alums think. He also cares very little about winning. His primary care is about being right, even if proving his theory will result in the worst losing season since Fred. These being the facts, I say it is time to start looking for a replacement, someone who does care about winning, the program, the team, the players, the fans, and alums.

If you care about winning, you make adjustments after each loss, and sometimes, during the game itself. If A is not working, try B. If B does not work, try C. Chow refuses to do anything except keep using A. He does this because he does not want to admit he might have been wrong about Shroeder. The sad thing is that he is willing to sacrifice the entire team, the entire season, to prove his point. Unncessary, I say. A fool’s errand. They say a fool will do the same thing over and over and expect a different result each time even though experience teaches him if you do A, you get B. Sad to say but this is Chow.

Wonder if we see more leaving. I can see some players getting fustrated when a system is not set or flip flops. The game is tough alone as it is to win, but when you add tweaking here, tweaking there in your system stress is gonna build. Most of these guys want to get to the next level. Maybe not the best way to prepare them for that. Hard to buy into something that you dont know what you’re buying into. Not saying this is the case but i can see it happening. Hard to stay the course when its crumbling. If you truly have a vision then you gotta stay the course of that vision. Come Back! =)

“Hard to stay the course when its crumbling. If you truly have a vision then you gotta stay the course of that vision.”

A very profound statement. I find that fitting for Coach Chow as well.

Oh, forgot to say good luck to Darius, whatever his endeavors may be.

Grease, after reading your posts in the past, my conclusions is that posterior munching is the sum of your presence here, ma’am. I suggest you stick to the shallow end of the pool. You don’t want to wade into the deeper waters if you don’t know how to swim. Put on your life preserver, little one, and keep treading water. Good boy.

I got to watch most of the UH v CSU replay late last night. The offensive line did a nice job at run blocking. They were able to get to the 2nd level of the defense and UH cracked several very nice runs. Nice to see Iosefa back! He’s a beast, but he looks a little heavy coming off of injury.

Regarding Sean’s play. It was a very nice 1st quarter, but he was off on several throws. Again, the WR’s had problems getting open (but that’s not going to change in 2012). I see Chow is getting Lister more involved in the passing game because the WR’s aren’t getting the job done.

Schroeder’s stats were ugly. No two ways around that, but the 1st pick 6, which was the back breaker, actually wasn’t his fault…. I’ll explain

On that play, CSU was showing heavy blitz and Schroeder correctly audibles to a quick 3-step pass. It was a twins left formation, Harding split wide and I think Miah was in the slot. The TE Moleni ran a quick out to the flat, Miah ran a quick slant to clear and Harding ran what looked like a hitch (WHICH WAS THE MISTAKE). As the Schroeder threw the ball, it was too high for Moleni and Moleni actually pulled his hands down as he thought it wasn’t for him. The CSU CB stepped in front of Harding and the rest is history.

After looking at this play several times, I truly think Harding screwed this play up… 1. The ball placement was perfect for a slant/in-route. 2. Harding didn’t come back for the ball. He waited for the ball to get to him. 3. After the play, the cameras were pointed at Chow and he was screaming at somebody(ies) and was making hand gestures indicating that the routes weren’t run properly.

At first glance, I thought Schroeder made a horrible throw, but after review and looking at Chow’s reaction, Harding messed this one up. Some blame goes to Schroeder because he chose the wrong receiver (Moleni was open on the out route), but had Harding ran the right route, at worst it’s an incomplete pass.

As far as the rest of the team… I didn’t see anything else that we didn’t already know. The WRs are still awful. There were 2 more dropped TD passes (I think that’s 5 or 6 for this year). Both were in critical situations. Stutz TD was overturned by replay (counts as drop), but that was a horrible call, caz there wasn’t CLEAR, INDISPUTABLE evidence to overturn the TD catch.

ST,

Huh??? I’m confused… I don’t think I said anything bad directed at ya…

The Dline is undersized and is getting pushed around, but we knew that already. What drives me nuts when I watch the defense is that Yap and Falemalu both get out of position or get sealed on many outside run plays. They constantly lose their outside shoulder and lose contain.

The silver lining is that many of the defenses problems are experience or size related problems. Because of the injuries, too many freshmen are playing this year. Under normal circumstances, most of Chow’s freshmen would be redshirting their 1st year to get bigger/stronger. Next year, these same freshmen will get a full offseason weight training program, and add a couple of large Dlinemen commits in next year’s class (Tua’au: 6’3″ 270 DE; Moala: 6’2″ 305 DT) and the line gets more stout.

I really like Murrell Jackson and Jerrol Garcia-Williams. Jackson is an aggressive safety and if Garcia-Williams can get to 230lbs, he’s going to be excellent. Both guys have speed. Enough can’t be said about Mike Edwards, he’s great.

My only wish is that Chow use Edwards on some offensive sets, using him on fly sweeps or screen passes and/or use him as a decoy. He’s the most explosive player UH has.

Oh, and one sign of improvement: earlier this season lava and others were questioning the play of the safetys. Well, Jackson looked pretty damn good there against CSU in his first start, I’d say.

I’ve been praising Marrell and JGW since fall camp.

I still have no idea why Chris Gant isn’t starting. I was right on the 1st 2. I don’t see how I can be wrong again when it is clear that Gant knows how to get open.

I know Norm will never give up on Schroeder after hearing the same quotes every week.

But honestly, at no point last year did David Graves look half as bad as Schroder looks right now.

ST,

Oh haha… I understand you now… Sorry for the misunderstanding…

Your comments yesterday were absolutely appropriate towards trolls who aren’t adding anything to the conversation…

Have to agree with Independent Thinker. Been saying this from day one. Chow could give a rip about this season. It’s a throw away year, and he don’t care if we get killed every game. This is a rebuilding year, and things going be done his way. He gets a pass this year. But we better be good next year, or at least show huge improvement, or he’s out. And he said if he had better QBs, maybe he’d try another guy besides SS. What is he scared of? That another QB might, dare we say it, lose the game?

I hope ebrybody survived the TsuNOTmi this weekend… I am mad at all the people on the radio who are saying BENCH SCHROEDER and FIRE CHOW… so I came up w/ a poem to express my thoughts…

At the start of the season

we said we’d support him,

and now that they’re struggling

you say it’s time to abort him?

You say you’re a fan,

as Tom Jackson would say.

“COME ON, MAN!”

The team still has fight,

so don your green and white

Cheer on the Warriors

WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!!!!

FIGHT ON COACH CHOW

FIGHT ON WARRIORS

and show ’em HOW!

Former UH Athlete, I’m another reader who really appreciates your insights and explanations. Please keep sharing when you can. Mahalo!

ST: I heard that yesterday a lot of the lolos who hoarded TP and bottled water were back at the stores returning these items.

ST, it’s good to know that the grumblers reside mainly among the ranks of players who aren’t playing and their kin. Not surprising, but good to know.

Now if the players who are playing and their kin begin to express dissatisfaction and doubt, I think the team has a much bigger problem.

I definitely know Chow cares about winning.

But I also question decisions.

I know offensive minds have certain philosophies. But at some point, when you don’t have the players around you to run what you’re used to, a good offensive coach needs to know how to adapt his system in order to give his team the best chance to win.

Dropping back and throwing 40+ times a game isn’t going to win games if you have a QB that doesn’t complete 60+ % of his passes at the collegiate level. Just a fact.

Identifying your best players has to be the key at this point. Offensively, I think our top 4 weapons are Iosefa, Gregory, Lister, and Gant. Stutz 5th. Why not simplify something such as getting graves in the game to run some zone read options. We all know Graves is a good athlete. Give the defense something to think about. Graves isn’t that accurate, but accurate enough. Completed 57% of his passes last year which is an upgrade from 51% of Schroder. Threat to run also gives us some mobility to avoid sacks.

At some point when you havent won a D1 FBS football game yet, something has to be fixed. And saying “were gonna work hard, thats the only thing I can do at this point” isn’t going to be good enough for most of the fans.

I will still be attending the Boise game, but I can understand why a lot of Hawaii fans have better things to do then watch a poorly assembled offense take the field.

Hahhahaahahahah, thanks # 55, wowlaulau. A Grease should’ve guessed.

Will make a note. 😉

Here: http://www.martekwatch.com

Wowlaulau,

You really take anything I say way out of context my man. I am not mad either. Anyway, never have I said that you all don’t have any football knowledge. Nor do I care if someone agrees or disagrees with what I post. I am not here for the popularity contest at all. I post here because I love Warrior football and want to see them succeed but when things are said like with the QB situation with SS being the guy and everyone else around him is the cause for his mediocrity, that’s ridiculous. I am not one to claim that I am the guru or anything like that. Yes I have played many years, yes I have coached many years, yes I have actually emailed the coaches and talked to them face to face before about the game. I’ve many a times emailed the coaches on certain prospects from the areas I’ve lived in as well for them to take a look. I’ve been to the practices , been to the Pro Days in Carson. Believe me I eat, sleep, and breathe Warrior football just as much as the next person. We all have our opinions, we all don’t agree either but who cares. All of us debate about certain things that we are passionate about. I for one like some others think that this team is way better than what we see, have talent and everything needed to put some wins on the board. Again no one is expecting miracles this year just some respectable football. All we want to see is a team that puts out a good product on the field. Honestly I could care less about the wins or losses but it is the way we’ve been losing that is frustrating. Why, its the same mistakes, the same problems. Chow has changed positions for just about everyone but the QB which is the main ingredient on offense. Would it hurt to try someone else, frikk we already seen enough of Schroeder to know he ain’t it. In any case I could care less about what anyone thinks of me or anything I say, to each his own. It’s a football blog, we talk football, yeah things get repeated a lot from everyone , not just me, but like I said before if you don’t like it don’t agree with it, then buddy move on to the next nobody asking you to respond. Anyway, you have a good one wowlaulau, maybe one day soon ill catch you at a game and we can talk football in person, take it easy…

PB,

Nicely stated…appreciate the tone (and restraint). 🙂

Loving former UH athlete comments. It is nice to have insight instead.

All the people that are calling for Chow to go are living in a dream world. June Jones had the best turnaround inNCAA history. Do not expect it to happen again, especially here. I think everyone wanted a better year but NC entered the perfect storm. Aren’t the facts something like this:

under 10 seniors on road trips

7 weeks with one home game

Head of the department is fired and a ridiculous investigation is happening

Open at USC

The rest of the schedule…

New system

I am excited about the coming years. I can see some really great things happening to the team. When everyone is on the same page and our starters are juniors and seniors, not freshmen and sophomore. We are going to be a force to be reckoned with.

A-house,

Always Right! 😉

d1:

#70 – not really as Mrs -House will always say, “challenge him” -but, then again, we have been married a long time and it comes with the territory.

so, I confidently speak with conviction and hopefully she will not hear what I say – ha, going get busted again!!!

72. That statement doesn’t make a lot of sense. Isn’t it obvious that a football team SHOULD have most of its best players from the previous coach? I mean I wouldn’t expect a bunch of Freshmen which would be Norm Chow’s recruits to have the most stars.

And calling guys stars on a 0 win football team vs D1 opponents isn’t saying much. But when Marrell Jackson is your top safety and JErrol Garcia Williams is your best LB, that also tell you a little about big holes we missed in recruiting.

Kind of like stating Fresno St stars are Pat Hill recruits. Which is another obvious statement.

Pauoa Boy:

October 29th, 2012 at 9:30 am

I post here because I love Warrior football and want to see them succeed

This is really difficult to accept. Have seen, well, a Grease sees it as “not so much ‘love’ post-UH football game comments” made by you, yes?

From yesterday?

Pauoa Boy:

October 28th, 2012 at 8:03 am

LMFAO…is all you can do cause our team is the laughing stock of NCAA football this year. South Alabama is thinking hey at least we can go kick Hawaii’s ass this year cause they are playing at a high school level.

This is love? This is indicative of wanting “to see them succeed”? Explain.

People comparing teams to what June Jones did is pretty ridiculous.

The only question people should be asking is if Hawaii has made improvements or has Hawaii took steps back so far? I think answer is pretty clear.

I will say that I tip my cap to special teams coach because that unit turned around a lot.

System +

People +

Leadership = Success

System?

I think the system is pretty solid. System could always use some tweaking, but I think the system itself is good. I like the fact that the current system utilizes a balanced attack betwee the run and passing game. When team practices the offense will present both expertise at running and passing the ball. That should benefit the defense who should be more adept at defending both type of offenses. In a predominantly run or pass system like the “run and shoot” or the flexbone”, the defense is handicapped by not facing one or the other type of system on a daily basis.

The defensive system looked pretty decent against Colorado State for a good part of the game. During the first half of the season, I observed a defense that appeared to be solid from a system standpoint, but came up short in the area of excecution. Excecution of course is on the backs of the people (players) and the coaches. Excecution loooked a lot better for parts of the CSU game. By excecution I mean not being disciplined about gap responsibilities and poor tackling.

Special teams again has some bright spots for the most part. I think in time it may be the strength of the team and program. Blocked punts and returned kicks for touchdowns are always exciting. Tweaks here and there, and I think we’ll be fine in this department.

People?

As a whole the players are young. They are young in age and experience. No it is not an excuse, it is a fact. Trust what you see, not what you wish you could see. If you go through the starting lineup of our Warriors, there are good ballplayers who have potential. It’s just that they are learning on the job. It would be like the 2006 Warriors lining up and playing against the scout team. The scout team would have lost ten out of ten times. Well, this year’s Warriors are like your scout team. Very motivated, very spirited, but they are still cubs. Little bear cubs going up against grown lions. The only opponent that was close to as young as our Warriors might have been the Trojans of USC. However as young as USC was, most of their guys were still top notch NFL talent. We still need to get faster, bigger, and more athletic. That’ll take time.

Leadership?

So far I like what I see from the head coach. He has a plan and is working his plan. He has a system and is working his system. Success in leadership will be measured over time. I see progress in the program in a positive direction. I’m not saying that the head coach is good or bad. Good or bad will be measured over time. If we are still losing like we are today in years three, four, and five, then I will say leadership was ineffective. But like I said, I like what I see so far.

Go Warriors!

For the mainland folks. Coach Chow Inside Access Show.

http://imageevent.com/isewake/video/coachesshow?p=6&n=1&m=-1&c=4&l=0&w=4&s=0&z=3

Hope I didn’t break the rules for posting this. Delete if necessary.

If UH has “grumblers” on the football team, just imagine what the “mighty” BCS teams must go through with so many 5* and 4* players – only 11 can play at any give time – and the mix gets worse if “walk-ons” do really well and “jump over” the *** players! yikes!!!

the reality is that at any given time at any given school – there will come players who are bigger, stronger, faster and perhaps smarter then those currently on the roster – yet, so many 5* and 4* and 3* players “trend” to those schools hoping that they are better and can crack the starting line up.

I would be satisfied with a team that plays its heart out – even if they lose.

Normally I do not learn post on blogs, but I would like to say that this write-up very pressured me to take a look at and do so! Your writing taste has been amazed me. Thank you, quite great article.

A-house,

Got it.

BTW, No need just lay ’em down on the spread. Always get the O/U.

Chicken Grease,

Again you are taking my post out of context. Didn’t know I had to explain everything I say to you but let me break it down. I give credit where credit is due, I give praise when warranted, give criticism as well. I was being sarcastic because it kills me to see and hear the same problems from game to game. Bad decisions, mediocre play from the QB, defense not stopping the run, etc… It’s called tough love and well if you or anyone can’t take it then its a personal problem. The fact that this team has been literally getting killed from the bottom dwellers of NCAA football is to me unacceptable. The only legit team that should have given us rub is USC. But they aren’t even that good either like previous years. Nevada is good but we’ve beat them, BYU is tough but we’ve beat them, Lamar is a joke, SDSU is a joke, CSU is a joke, etc… Did I expect this team to be undefeated, nope. Did I expect to beat everyone besides USC, nope. The way we’ve been losing is an embarrassment to say the least. We’ve made these mediocre teams look far superior than what they really are. We’ve had backup QB’s, 3rd stringers, freshmen killing us, almost every running back have a field day, faced some of the weakest defenses in all of college football yet we can’t get the ball consistently in the endzone and continue to get spanked. Yeah I am frustrated and yup I do give tough love but never will I ever stop watching or supporting our Warrior boys. So sorry again if you have a thing for anything I say but like wowlaulau, hope to catch you at a game so we can talk football, take it easy…

Are they canceling flights out of Hawaii?

14,000 flights canceled due to storms on east coast.

To all the haters, GO WARRIORS!

CG,

Having met Pauoa Boy I can say that he is a true bleeder (believer) of Green and White…AND he is very passionate about it!

He’s not a flamer/troll.

Darius Bright’s family lives in NC. Hope they are ok & safe. Mahalo Ke Akua, my son moved out of NC in Aug.

Hope Darius is ok & succeeds in whatever he does. Hope he comes back to the team to play. He gives us a huge target on the outside.

#81 d1shima… Yes I live in Las Vegas. I couldn’t watch live because apparently 16,000 attendance isn’t enough to lift the blackout. LOL

#78 jeezy23… ouch, but true. 2012 is exposing the poor recruiting by McMackin over 4 years. His best recruits were mainly JC transfers and there have been few quality prep recruits.

Not to mention Mack and Rolo completely misused Alex Green while he was here. He was the 2nd best player (1st = Greg Salas) on the 2009 and 2010 rosters. UH went 12-4 when Alex Green got at least 9 touches during 2009-2010. Three of those losses were to USC, Boise and UNR w/Kaepernick.

How many of McMackin’s first two full recruiting classes (2009 & 2010) recruits are playing significant minutes this year? I counted only NINE… two of which are Dunnachie (P) and Hadden (K). So that means 7 position players, which equates to a meager (13%), of his 1st two classes are playing significant minutes….. That’s horrendous by any measure.

As usual, Jeezy makes the most sense. Very insightful, and very good evaluations of talent.

To have a good football team, you have to be good at the “point” of attack, both on offense and on defense. On offense, we don’t have the QB. On defense we don’t have the top grade defensive linemen right up the middle. Our middle linebacker play has been inconsistent. Our center is a freshman. All of the problems is not Chow’s fault. He needs to recruit the impact players in those key positions and a few more. I will guarantee Schroeder will not the be starter next year. It will be Taylor Graham, or maybe even the incoming freshman, Aaron Zwahlen. Schroeder can’t throw the ball with enough pace to it. His reads are slow. He’s slow afoot. He panics when the pocket starts to break down. The result: he gets sacked, or he throws an interception. Passing accuracy won’t do it. And this is against Colorado State. Now, we are coming against Fresno, Boise, and Air Force.

Pomai, let me make the first prediction for this Saturday: Fresno State – 66, Hawaii 10.

Former UH Athlete mahalo for the insight, much appreciated…

Good Morning Tsaikos!!!

Welcome to Mr. Manoa!!!

Hope all have a great day!!!

Exactly what we need more Manoa Warriors!

Chicken Grease,

Have I ever said anything about Chow needing to be replaced??? I know this is his first year as a head coach, I know there will be growing pains, that’s a given. Again, don’t read too much into it buddy, I was being sarcastic. Since you’re an avid reader try looking up the term it’ll explain. What you’re not getting is that we all know these issues already. Still its no excuse for the same mistakes happening on the field, the same mediocre product of football from week to week. All of us just want to see respectable football, guys going balls to the wall, adjustments made when needed, etc… When you see the same issues from game to game happening yet the Coach is still clueless… I mean it makes you wonder where all those years of coaching experience is at? The main issue we all talk about and ask for a shot at is another QB to get in the mix and make something happen. Are we really going to be any worse than what we already are? Maybe Schroeder needs to observe the field from the sidelines for a few see what’s happening then apply it to his game when he gets back in there. I mean everybody is saying Graham is the holy grail and all that for next year anyway and Schroeder has already had half the season to prove he’s not the guy so why not try another QB. They all have eligibility after this year so maybe a light bulb will go on during the game if given the chance? Who knows we may something but if we don’t play them we’ll never know. I understand that you’re going to give the practice guy doing all the right things the ball but if he ain’t producing it doesn’t hurt to try someone else. I mean really a 3rd string Duke transfer is light years ahead of every QB on the roster…I highly doubt that.

If we can muster 3 more wins this season, the Temple idea could work. If we lose every single game, it will probably be a horrible idea. Too bad UHAD can’t tell the future haha.

I’m leaning to just leaving it at 12 and focus on recruiting the players we need, healing the players that are injured and everyone just getting their minds off this season for a bit. Nuff already.

I guess if they want that extra week of practice they should do it, but I doubt one week of additional practice is going to do much.

#114 I know you are dreaming, which is okay, but trust your eyes. Do you really think we can even win 1 more game. Be real. We will get blown out at Fresno and at Air Force. We will be mince meat at home against Boise St. UNLV is a better team than given credit for. They beat Air Force and they played hard and tough at Boise and at San Diego State. We will not beat UNLV. If we’re lucky, because we are at home we might win against South Alabama, but these players down South are good football players so I would say it’s 50-50.

It’s either 2-10 or 1-11. Forget the 13th game. Mercy. Bottom 10 for sure. Like I said, trust your eyes.

And if you want to look forward to next season, the first 2 games are against USC at home and at Oregon State. The good, Matt Barkey is gone. It’s still USC and OSU. It’s still the PAC 12. Doesn’t be a good prospect, does it? But spring brings eternal. And hope, and prayer!!!!

To those commenters who advocate Coach Chow continually change what he does for future games based on the past game’s results: You must steer your car using your rear view mirror all the time. I know your results will be ALWAYS positive.

my allergies are killin’ me 🙁

wafan,

Right now I bounce around from Texas to Arizona and occasionally stop in Cali and home from time to time. Right now I’m in Texas area where RGIII’s old stomping grounds are. Lots of football talent in this area and some monsters down here. Don’t know what these Texas kids are fed but you can see the difference in size and speed these kids have. Coach Rauscher I know has his sights on a few players down here, but this state has a plethora of ballers, and a huge Polynesian influence in certain areas. Pretty cool to see some of the teams perform their version of the haka too.

Jane Croson to return Thursday night per Rob DeMello via Twitter.

“Ready to go but will have to earn her spot” – Dave Shoji

skimming through yestadayz blog posts, it seems there’s a lot of very petty pent-up frustration, venom, immaturity, and malice exhibited by an unlikely source. deep breath in, hold..hold…EXHALE…. better?

Shoji’s way of saying Jane will play. I am very happy to see that she is back.

Pauoa Boy, i for one enjoy reading your posts. no worry about folks that read it the wrong way. keep posting!

Braddah Kimo,

It’s all good, I think Chicken Grease means well but is a unique individual with some off the wall things sometimes. Still as long as we talking football then everything is pono.

RedZone,

Having Croson back is good. With her coming back, she did what Shoji asked of her to make up for whatever she did or didn’t do or whatevers so all is good.

Still can hear some people demanding to know what it was that cause the infraction and saying “the public has a right to know”… yeah, right. 🙄

135… Completely agree..

I think Chow does and did need time when he was hired. But time meaning as long as the team is improving and moving in the right direction.

I am not even mad about our record. I am mad about how poorly prepared we look on the field. Every week other teams expose weaknesses in our team. We never seem to find an identity in ourselves and we dont expose any weaknesses in other teams.

I am looking to see us progress. And all I have seen so far is regression. Its amazing what Fresno St. has done in a quick coaching change.

I observe the UH football coaches and cannot help but think back to Von Oppen and all the excitement of “pro-football” experience, yet it was a complete bust!

Hope it does not happen again.

A prevailing decision amongst nearly all the football coaches the past 20 years is the unwillingness to “pull” a player – whether it be after a long pass or run, the same player stays in the game – others pull the player for whatever reason(s) and allows the “back-up” player some field time – certain schools, the player ( RB or WR ) automatically trots off the field and goes back in on the next play.

perhaps those schools have the luxury of talented players compared to UH – however, those schools have the opportunity to “reload” quickly as many of the skilled players have significant field time compared to UH – I would think that UH needs more time to develop players and thus an immediate need to give them “field time”. one play will not cause the team to lose a game.

mark my words. we are in for Von Appen

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HI KEKOA!

Happy Monday, everyone!

GO WARRIORS!

Coaching at UH after coaching Navy would be a step down, not a step up, for Kenny. Makes absolutely no sense. Ain’t gonna happen. Only place for Kenny after Navy is a bigger, badder program like Notre Dame or USC, or the NFL. Moving from Navy to UH would be like moving from a Harley to a moped; like moving from a BMW to a Hyundai; etc., etc.

#144 very funny…and I have to agree with you.

I tend to see improvements albeit small ones and I understand that philosophical changes are tough; the head says one thing the body after years of doing it another does not operate on the same level. Change is difficult for some.

I like Paipai’s whole demeanor as a leader. He is a senior, acts like a leader, plays like a leader and while I am certain there are those who are unhappy, that young man seems to have the ability to push the “noise” aside and play hard all of the time. I liked him as a freshman and think more highly of him at this point: when things are tough.

I am willing to give our coach more time. Establishing a new base is never easy.

Kenny makes $1.5 million a year and has great facilities. Explain to me why a guy not even hitting his prime would go chose to leave that to work under Wonder Blunders with under budgeted facilities and a stadium that is out of date.

Wait I know the answer! He can work half his contract and get paid out when he leaves. Nah, only kidding.

BIK…I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve been a season ticket-holder since ’77 and I never stopped going to games to cheer on the boys. However, this year is the first time I’ve ever given thought to giving up my tickets…Maybe its my current depression, but I’m not happy with the responses we’re getting from Chow and his lack of resourcefulness in improving the team.

The evidence is clear…Losing isn’t something we want or desire, but there should be improvement from game to game. Problem is, we’re not seeing that improvement. Like you’ve indicated the cupboard wasn’t “bare” and there are still alot of good athletes on the team. Whether the players are being used or coached properly is what we are questioning.

Bigislandkurt:

October 29th, 2012 at 1:41 pm

To all thoughtful critics of this UH football team: KEEP POSTING.

We are NOT haters. As a matter of fact, we got GREAT ALOHA for UH football.

The “great aloha” part is especially difficult to discern. Seeing the return of the popular 1990s characterization of the Warriors as a “high school football team” (geez; when does the “I left my UH football tickets in the car. Somebody broke into my car, stole everything in it, but left the UH football tickets” joke start coming back?) lately, too.

This, supposedly, is “aloha” by these “thoughtful critics.” Right?

Give a Grease a break; he was born in the day, but, a Grease wasn’t born yesterday.

A Grease is almost done addressing all this, heahahah. A Grease is content w/seeing just how constructive the, uh, “thoughful critics” can be. I mean. That’s their whole point. Riiiiight? We’ll see how much pono and aloha they accord going forward.

Grease….

Ok, I get it.

The world is great…….so long as we look at it through your lens only. Seems like the Grease’s definition of Aloha, thoughtful, and critic is the only definition we should use now.

Ok, I get it. Thanks!

BIK

it will be an interesting to see folks score predictions for this weeks game versus FSU. we are 32 point dawgs.

159, thanks for the inspiration. 🙂

Pomai,

UH 32-30

Thanks

Guy gotta be pretty greasy when he refers to himself in 3rd person and then faults prez & vice-prez for being unpresidential and un-vice presidential. At least they know who they are. Not like they saying “We were nice to Mitt; was dem other guys who spanked his okole.” Whereas Mitt would say, “Mitt doesn’t lie. Mitt doesn’t flip-flop. If u say da earth is flat, Mitt says da earth is flat. I am u. U are me. Grease is free for u and me.”

Jesus Christ… if people’s comments pop up on here and don’t get deleted then people have said their peace without having their “freedom of speech” effected…

RIGHT?

Even then, the people that get deleted.. are for things over the line or just straight up BS since the administrators can track IP addresses from continuing offenders.

Dunno why people keep harping and thumping their chest about being allowed to say what the want because those comments stick here and are out there for others to read.

Now, if people are such panties about people accepting their so-called negative or positive opinions, then the problem is you.

Write what you gotta say and regardless of the response, grow some balls and let it be.

Not that its a big deal, but how come Darius didn’t call the coach himself, or at least leave a message?

ST rarely deletes post, unless your name is steve.

Pomai’s Picks:

59-13 Fresno

Sometimes I love Alex Smith and sometimes I really hate him. Typical love hate relationship, I guess.

that is right San Fran has a chance to be NFL champs to go along with their MLB championship.

Don’t jinx! 😉

#86 Shoko thanks for site. enjoyed the interview

WWF believes that Chicken Grease would have more credibility if he didn’t refer to himself in the third person or refer to himself as A Grease.

BIK, No worries, you are not a Hater in my book. (And my book is not the same book as Mr. Grease’s.)

i like a Grease, and not because of his political views, but because of his much different writing style. CG keeps this blog interesting. IMO

Get well Darius Bright.

Just saw this part:

Manoa to Manoa.

David Manoa, a defensive end from Aragon High School in San Mateo, Calif., has accepted a football scholarship from the Warriors.

Manoa is 6 feet 4 and 225 pounds.

He’s the nephew of former Kahuku High and Penn State running back Tim Manoa.

Manoa was under the radar because he had to sit out half the 2011 season after transferring from Hayward High.

“He’s freakishly athletic,” Aragon coach Steve Sell told the Star-Advertiser. “He probably could gain another 50 pounds and still be as athletic. Hawaii is getting a great one.”

Don’t look now. But, Chow is building. Like how some us believe.

He’s recruiting some good players.

SAWARRIOR:

October 29th, 2012 at 4:11 pm

i like a Grease, and not because of his political views, but because of his much different writing style. CG keeps this blog interesting. IMO

Ah, again, thank you, SAWARRIOR. A Grease is humbled. A Grease is not always humbled, but, he’s humbled enough at times, heh. Learn a lot from SAWARRIOR’s posts as well.

Folks, a Grease doesn’t claim to be always correct. He only says, “well . . . consider THIS part that doesn’t seem to be being considered.” “Consider THIS part because THAT part is being addressed to the point of it being rubbed raw, for mercy’s sake.”

Don’t hate a Grease. 🙂

And let’s always thank Mr. Stephen Tsai and any The Warrior Beat staff for keeping this ship — with the “H” logo on a flag high atop — on the correct path.

PB . . .

Safe travels where ever you go.

Sounds like a rough but interesting life. Remember to have fun, too!

Yay! Glad Darius is still with the team. We need that tall target.

Welcome Manoa to Manoa!

189. im surprised at chow’s response to bright “disappearing”. i would be concerned if one of my kids were not at the place they should be.

welcome back darius, and welcome mr manoa!

3.1 million folks without power on da east coast. be safe all our warrior folks out there. warriorNY, i hope you guys okay out there.

I’m not a real BB fan but I can’t wait till Men’s BB starts this season. Go BOWS!

Niumatalolo? really? nice thought but would you if you where in his situation? 1.5mil? no way!

The theory is good though.

It’s no surprise to me that the only systems that have “so far” had any success at UH is P Johnson’s spread and JJ’ s R&S. Two systems focused in completely opposite directions YET with identical ideas. Practice one thing, running variations in the spread and passing variations in the R&S, and you practice them till you can do them in your sleep. Both utilize smaller, more agile linemen, smaller, quicker skill players and that special QB to run it. IMO both are “all in” type of offenses.

If they wanted to go in this direction, I say go back to the R&S.

IMO the key to Chow’s success here is recruiting the top local kids. And therein lies a HUGE problem. The perceived rock craziness of our top local players and their parents. If you are a good student or a good football player the pressure is to go away not stay and play/study for the state.

Contrast this with someplace like Alabama. If you are one of Alabama’s top HS players there will be tremendous pressure to stay home. Not only on the player but his/her parents, friends and family too.

The last players that I recall where there was significant public pressure to stay home was Micah Matsuzaki and Leroy Lutu Sr. That was decades ago!

For NC to have a shot at these players, this has to change. Of course not pressure that will result in NCAA sanctions. More of the local kine style talk story pressure. Everybody knows everybody here, go to the game and do your part to help NC get the kids that will make the program successful.

I’ve done my share of this myself, talking to the mom of one of the top players in the state. It takes a lot but it’s something everyone can do and it doesn’t cost anything.

It’s funny you know, how we get what we ask for.

To all of you who wanted NC-You are getting what you asked for.

To all of you who wanted Mac to run more-You are getting what you asked for.

To all of you who wanted to dominate time of possession-You are getting what you asked for.

To all of you who wanted hard hitting in practice-You are getting what you asked for.

To all of you who wanted man to man bump and run coverage-You are getting what you asked for.

To all of you who wanted stern discipline, no excuses coaching-You are getting what you asked for.

Yea this season has been really hard for me to swallow too. NC wasn’t my first choice, he wasn’t even my second. But the bottom line is I still bleed green. This season hurts bad, really bad. But I still support the team, I will continue to go to the games. NC is the coach and I will support him and do what I can, whatever little or a lot that may be.

Till the end….

if you guys tired of ketchup based BBQ sauce, i highly recommend Cattlemen’s Carolina Tangy Gold BBQ Sauce, it’s great on pork ribs, wings, brisket, pulled pork. da bugga tangy and sweet. mustard based bugga.

Niners 24-3. CNNSI called it a “Desert Demolition”.

Oof in a hurricane…

Add that one to da bucketlist.

i thought we play FSU this week?

I always felt that the new UH head coach should be a younger person. Personally, I had hoped that Rich Miano would get the job, but he did not. Chow did, so we will see what happens. So far, I don’t like what I am seeing. Seems like we are getting worse rather than getting better. Mind you, the last 2 teams (New Mexico and Colorado St.) aren’t exactly considered even top tier MWC type teams and we played horrible. Chow said he hears the criticism about his QB and he said he is pissed off about it. Well, I think a lot of die hard fans would say to him “ditto”. He won’t change unless Schroeder gets hurt. And Chow boxed himself in a corner by making him a team captain so he would look like an idiot if he admit he made a mistake. Chow can get off the hook if Schroeder does get hurt, by then making a change at QB because of injury. Just a thought. Myself, the are not going to a bowl game and the season has been a big disaster so far, so why not give some other QBs a chance like he is playing a lot of freshmen and sophomores at other positions. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Now is the time to do some experimenting.

Good to see posts from those mentioned by Tsai late last night/early this morning, Kevin (particularly funny, hahaha, # 204) and Derek’s # 208.

Wait a minute.. how is it that Bright goes missing from practice for two days and neither he nor his teammates can relay the message to Coach Chow? TWO DAYS! And Chow doesn’t follow up? Assumes the kid quit? What?????

Major disconnect.

That’s been my word for this entire season… “Disconnect”…

… “from now until Nov. 3, 2012 …”

you can read the on-line SA fo’ FREE !!!

generous of the SA – I guess trying to generate voter interest by making the political news available through this media.

214. i just tried the SA, still need log-in.

Loving former uh athletes posts. Keep them coming, spot on.

Sorry s/b for Saw….hehe.

First and foremost, gotta give prayers to those affected by that beeyatch Sandy. I am definitely thinking of those dealing with that storm.

Looks like I missed a lively blog today. Unfortunately, two of my favorite reads were involved in a spat.

Chicken Grease . . . you are fun to read, and insightful, and often test my reading/comprehension abilities. And you’re thoughtful. Remember though, not all criticism comes from the dark side.

Pauoa Boy . . . I appreciate your perspective too. I agree very strongly with your point about it being fair to be so critical of other position players, but the QB gets a pass, just because it is too easy to blame the QB. If he is the guy, then fine. But that doesn’t mean you can’t yank him from a game where he is obviously struggling and your defensive keeps giving you chance after chance. Give another guy a shot at least in that game. You can always start your guy again the next week.

Look at what Brian Kelly has done at ND this year. He is dead set on his starter, even though there are many that say Rees should be the guy. Kelly has stuck with Golson over and over (who has played well, but at times has struggled in the passing game), but when he felt he needed to, he has pulled him and put in Rees to either lead them to a win, or preserve a win. Many times. And there is no QB controversy there. Every time he is asked, he says “Golson is my starting QB.” And sure enough, he starts.

Schroeder threw two pic-6’s to put the game out of reach in the 4th. So why is it that Chow is angry that the fans want to see another QB? We fans don’t know all the intricacies in grading a quarterback. We just see the results. Whether a receiver ran a wrong route, we usually don’t know or realize it. We do know that sometimes another QB brings different intangibles that works with the team chemistry. The way things are going, it might not be a bad idea to see whether another QB can change the chemistry. What’s to lose? The team is finding so many ways to lose anyway and Schroeder was a big part of that this past game.

Chow doesn’t want people blaming one person. Right? Yet on one of the INTs, he blames the receiver, over and over. That doesn’t make sense to me. He doesn’t even give any blame to Schroeder. Actually gives credit to the defense for reading the check, then kind of shoulders the blame by saying they probably ran that check too many times to make it obvious, then blames the receiver several times for not turning into a defender to prevent the INT.

I am not a Chow hater in the least. I agree that this will take time. I KNOW that Chow knows more than I could ever wish to know about football. And I do believe that our time will come. But guys, that doesn’t make sense. There seems to be a double standard there.

kev-1:

October 29th, 2012 at 8:16 pm

. . .

Chicken Grease . . . . . . Remember though, not all criticism comes from the dark side.

It doesn’t?!?!?!

Ah, $#17. You just ruined my self-persona as Jedi Master on this board. [a Grease goes out to the yard to cry.]

Bwaaaaahhhhhh, kev-1!!!!!!!! 😀

AHaahaahh, no, no, kev-1 . . . a Grease was just making a joke . . . on your . . . mention . . . of . . . dark side.

Pauoa boy is really a man who has been here from the beginning of the blog. I love to read every post everyday. Keep on posting and enjoy both the positive and negative comments. Pauoa boy keep it up. When people don’t make a comment we are not being stimulated on UH football.

Wow… I just watched Charlie Tua’ua’s YouTube highlight video, and he’s going to make an immediate impact when he arrives next season. He is a beast… (6’3″ 270lb DE) quick off the snap, and plays with a nasty streak (which is lacking on the DLine this year). He also shows speed to chase down plays from the back side.

I read that Nebraska offered him a scholarship but Chow was able to get him to commit to UH. It’s not set in stone until the signature hits the LOi, but it appears that Chow landed an excellent player.

This Manoa kid looks good too. Very athletic for a DE. He will definitely need to add weight to compete at the D1 level but he appears to have the frame to add weight and not lose too much athleticism.

DT commit David Moala (6’2″ 305lb DT) sounds like he can contribute. No video that I could find. If nothing else he’s a big body that can plug the middle, which is a major problem this year.

WR commit Marcus Keml (6’4″ WR) is a nice tall body but doesn’t have much speed. Shows good hands but is a so-so route runner. Could be useful in red zone, but I don’t see him making a major impact. I think he should consider gaining weight and convert to TE.

OT John Wa’a (6’3″ 280lb) looks pretty good on video. I can’t put too much stock when watching him pancake OIA DEs (D1 is a whole new level of athletes) but what I do like is his mobility. After a year in the strength/conditioning program… a 300-310lb Wa’a looks promising.

Based on who’s committed and on the radar, Chow is focusing on Defensive line recruits. Which is the biggest area of need for UH along with WR. Again, I think UH has some very nice freshmen playing, but physically aren’t ready for 2012. A full offseason of Tommy’s strength and conditioning will make a world of difference next year.

I’m going to go ahead and stick my neck out and predict UH competes for a bowl birth in 2013. I predict big improvements on defense with the addition of Tua’ua and Moala along the freshmen gaining experience and getting stronger. The RB corp is the real strength of the offense and UH will actually have one of the best backfields in the west coast. As long as the OLine can keep Taylor Graham on his feet, UH should see big improvement on offense. Believe me when I tell you… You will be very impressed with Graham’s arm if you haven’t seen it yet. He’s got a smooth effortless release and the ball explodes out if his hand.

The main question marks for 2013 on offense is if the Young OLine improves and if Chow can land a couple playmakers at WR. 2012 is easily the worst WR corp since the Von Appen days (I believe the dropped TD pass tally is at 6; Miah dropped a critical 3rd down pass in the forth quarter, killing a nice drive). Repairing an awful DLine and adding playmakers at WR is a tall task for Chow, and its probably too much to ask for in one year.

Former UH Athlete’s 2013 prediction: (6-6) and a Hawaii Bowl birth… As long as UH doesn’t get crushed by injuries like this year.

By the way,

Uncle Kenny will never come. Uncle Rich could not even run a defense let alone a whole team. High School coach uncle Rich can be. College Coach Uncle Rich can not be.

Eh and Former UH Athlete,

I like you insightful post. For the most part I have agreed with most of what you have said. I thoroughly enjoy how your able to breakdown things to the T. And I like how you explain yourself in football terms rather then just saying scheme gotta change or so and so player gotta change without giving a real good reason. I know that most here do not have the extensive background that others have but it is good to have someone here that is willing and knowledgeable enough to go into detail about how they feel about the team while giving solid football explanation with solid football terms. Mahalo much

Any word on Dejon Allen? Will he be Here next year?

Former UH athlete, I think next year we will be very good… We will add Tepa, Samia, Puu- Robinson and Tachibana on the D-line. Add Edwards(if he comes back) Tuliau, Jackson, Phillips in the secondary and I really think our D will be solid.. Mix in Gregory and Iosefa as running backs with Graham at QB on offense and I really think we could go 9-3 or 8-4.

I think there are going to be a lot of parallels to SMU’s second year under JJ…

I’m quietly optimistic about next year. Could see it going either way. Just gotta see how we end this season to see how we will fare next season.

Anybody know who has the stongest arm of the active quarterbacks?

Sean

100% chance of rain today.

Not showers.

Rain.

There are some interesting points in this clause but I dont know if I see all of them eye to heart. There is some validity but I will take hold legal opinion until I look into it further. Good clause, thanks and we want more! Added to FeedBurner as well.

Meet the new Boss! Here is a kid who will be playing on Sundays in the future. Boss Tagaloa, 6’3 252 Freshman at DeLasalle, Concord. #1 team in California and nationally ranked. First freshman ever to be lifted to varsity. Saw the film link on the Spartanhood blog and realized after a few minutes — he flattens everyone he lines up against and tackles any ball carrier within reach and is sprinting along side wide receivers. This was JV film but he is doing same on varsity now. Would love to keep the Boss in a green jersey.

http://www.hudl.com/athlete/1689806/highlights/16789380

Morning, krew!

GO WARRIORS!!!!!

Pomai, i give up… who is CO?

UH vs Fresno

10    –    66    Derek

13    –    59    IWWTHM

14    –    56    3-Prong

17    –    49    HiFlyer

27    –    24    Bugaz

31    –    28    Rodney

32    –    30    greenthumb

35    –    31    protector

47    –    13    Pomai

56    –    14    d1shima

Very good post. Really Great.

Former UH Athlete, you will have to revise your 2013 prediction from 6-6 since there will be 13 games; 5 non-conference and 8 conference games. Also enjoyed your assessment of the current 2013 commitments. UH, however, seems to be recruiting much more heavily towards safeties and corners on defense.

As for this season, I feel for seniors like Pai Pai Falemalu, Haku Correa and Sterling Jackson whom have had to endure this debacle. Perhaps there is a silver lining.