The Hawaii football team is hungry coming off its 28-21 loss at Army. UH is in preparations for a homecoming meeting with FCS opponent Duquesne at Aloha Stadium this Saturday. The 2007 Sugar Bowl team will be honored at the game. Head coach Nick Rolovich, defensive back Ikem Okeke and receiver John Ursua weigh in.
Before today’s practice, quarterback Cole McDonald called over several of his teammates. McDonald reminded the players of the feeling following Saturday’s 28-21 loss to Army, their first defeat of the season. “Remember how that felt,” McDonald said he told teammates. “I know I don’t want to feel like that again. I don’t want to let the team down or let Hawaii down again.” The Warriors had an upbeat and seemingly determined practice today. Duquesne is set to arrive tomorrow on […]
How does that country lyric go? It’s wasting time to waste time? (And if that’s not a country lyric, you’re free to use it.) The Warriors wasted little time in preparing for Duquesne. The coaches watched videos of at least two Duquesne games on yesterday’s flight home from New York. By last night, they had studied videos of all of Duquesne’s games. The prep time was so important the Warriors did away with the weekly coaches’ cook-off competition. The Warriors […]
Yes, a loss is a loss. But even after the frustrating 28-21 defeat at West Point, this is still the University of Hawaii football team’s best four-game start to a season in 16 years — with the notable exception of 2007. Other than that Sugar Bowl season, you have to go back to 2002 for the last time the Warriors started at 3-1 or better. Like now, the Warriors had a third-year sophomore at quarterback. But Timmy Chang had a lot […]
NEW YORK >> The sun came up today. (Well, this being perpetually overcast NYC, you’ll have to take our word on that.) The point is, the Warriors are 3-1 when most of you — yes, we’re looking at you — had only hoped they would be 2-2. So here’s the rose-colored view: > You’re trying to exit an airplane. You’re behind a person pulling a roller bag. He stops. Your shins get hit. He moves, then stops, then hits your shins […]
There would be no “Miracle by the Hudson” this time for Hawaii. UH’s bid for a late comeback at Army, like the one it pulled off in its only previous visit to West Point in 2010, came up just short in a 28-21 loss to the Black Knights on Saturday. The Rainbow Warriors’ first loss of the season put them at 3-1, while Army improved to 2-1. Army recorded its first win in the series, which now stands at 3-1 […]
WEST POINT, N.Y. >> Cole McDonald’s fourth-down pass into the end zone was broken up by linebacker Cole Christiansen, ending the Warriors’ comeback hopes in a 28-21 loss to Army today. McDonald and John Ursua teamed on an 80-yard TD pass to close the Warriors to 28-21, then made a a fourth-down stop to set up the final sequence. UH advanced to the Army 11, but could not get the tying touchdown. * * * * * Hawaii makes a […]
As Hawaii prepares to face Army today at Michie Stadium, it’s a good time to take a look back at the Rainbow Warriors’ only trip to West Point to date. That Sept. 11, 2010, meeting sure left some lasting memories. In this week’s “Football Throwbacks,” UH’s 31-28 road win is remembered as one of UH’s most remarkable under coach Greg McMackin during a his most successful (10-4, 7-1 WAC) season. And it was by far the most closely contested of […]