As expected, the Hawaii football team will stay home for the holidays and face BYU in the SoFi Hawaii Bowl on Tuesday, Dec. 24, at Aloha Stadium. The official announcement came earlier this morning. Hawaii (9-5) will play a 15th game this season after losing to Boise State, 31-10, in the Mountain West Conference championship game on Saturday in Idaho. The Cougars (7-5) accepted their invitation to the bowl game last month. This will be the ninth appearance by the […]

Week 2 of the NFL preseason is in the books. Here’s an update on some of the ‘Bows in the pros. >> Kansas City Chiefs receiver Marcus Kemp will miss the entire 2019 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in the same knee suffered in Saturday’s preseason game against Pittsburgh according to The Kansas City Star. Kemp had an MRI that confirmed the injury. Kemp was hit low after catching his first pass of the […]

In his first three years with the Hawaii football program, junior receiver Kumoku Noa has redshirted twice, played in just six games and started once. He was on the scout team last year during the first season of the run-and-shoot offense under head coach Nick Rolovich. But when it comes to knowing the system, the Kamehameha alumnus, who holds the Warriors’ single-season receiving yardage record with 1,200 yards and 15 touchdowns in nine games as a senior, is as knowledgable […]

From head coach to coordinator to quarterbacks and receivers, the theme of Day 1 of Hawaii football spring practice was the same for everyone. In Year 2 of the run-and-shoot offense, the Rainbow Warriors are much further along now than they were a year ago when they broke camp in the spring. But what does this actually mean? Is it an opportunity to add to the offense, make things more complicated for opposing defenses, focus on more sophisticated concepts instead […]