“Several” didn’t cut it for Nick Rolovich. The Hawaii football coach stopped a reporter who was in the process of pointing out the 3-1 Rainbow Warriors had succeeded so far despite several turnovers. “More than several,” Rolovich said after Tuesday’s practice on the artificial turf of the TC Ching Athletic Complex. UH has a turnover margin of minus-12, worst in FBS football — 130th of 130 teams. New Mexico State, the second-worst team, is minus-9 in turnover margin. UH’s 15 […]

Hawaii pits its 16-game winning streak against FCS opponents against unbeaten Central Arkansas at Aloha Stadium today. Unlike last year’s Hawaii Football Throwbacks entry on FCS teams, there is actually a past meeting to potentially look at in this series — UH came back to beat UCA 25-20 to open the 2009 season. But, that being only 10 years ago, we’re focusing on a different game against an FCS foe today. How about the one that launched the winning streak? After […]

Kana‘i Picanco had dirt bikes to ride, cattle to raise, and corn, squash and flower crops to harvest. Football? He had more important thing to do in rural Kahaluu. “My dad them were farmers and stuff, you know, when they were young. That’s how they grew up. They grew up that way, we grew up that way too,” said Picanco, the youngest of six siblings. “It wasn’t like my first choice to play football when I was younger, because I […]