Comments on: Can’t blame them for leaving

By: Jiujitsu_Fighter

Jiujitsu_Fighter — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:04:04 +0000

Dave, Are there rumors they’re leaving because UH will rehire June Jones next year? And they won’t be retained on the coaching staff?

By: oldyobo

oldyobo — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 06:49:35 +0000

Wow, people are actually waking up to the FACT Chow is destroying, if he hasn’t already done so, UH athletics (not just football), all with the blessings of the other clueless one, BJ.

By: hatakeman

hatakeman — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:59:16 +0000

It’s the timing of their departure that doesn’t sit well.

By: bigislandkurt

bigislandkurt — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:37:46 +0000

It was painful listening to Chow on the Animals yesterday.

By: kev-1

kev-1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:18:56 +0000

#26 . . . I would argue that landing a coaching job weighs heavily on connections. You cannot be serious and think that other schools are thinking that they want what UH is putting out. Does that mean that the coaches that are leaving aren’t good coaches? Of course not. The ones that left have been good. The point I am making is that Chow actually sees it a reflection of the job that his program is doing. That’s not the case.

By: Mr Pacheco

Mr Pacheco — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:16:32 +0000

Agree with Kryon. DR’s job is to sell papers. He reminds me of another former sports writer:

http://archives.starbulletin.com/97/06/04/sports/fitzgerald.html

By: sofaking_blk

sofaking_blk — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:55:12 +0000

You can forget about Babers, that ship has sailed and besides we can’t afford him now. But there are some good up-in-coming coaches out there. One in particular, Beau Baldwin, E.Washington

By: Whats up

Whats up — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:02:25 +0000

It obvious to see why they are leaving, just as when rats/mice jump off a sinking ship. After 3 dismal seasons and next season schedule is full of almost certain losses and body bag games. It’s almost predetermined that Chow and most of the coaches will not back for the 2016 season. I wouldn’t mind seeing June Jones back as Head Coach, I wouldn’t mind seeing Dino Babers as head coach either.

By: Shoko

Shoko — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:46:21 +0000

5. Yes, one assistant left on Chow’s original staff is never good and makes it difficult to maintain continuity for a program. However, I wouldn’t compare Clune and Jones departure with the other coaches that left. They left under different circumstances (i.e. retirement, termination, or one-year contracts not being renewed) if I remember correctly.

What I do find interesting is Chow’s struggles in assembling an experienced staff, especially on offense. With the exception of Chow and Wayne Moses, there really isn’t much Division I coaching experience on that side of the ball. And with Chow’s job status in question after this season, I would guess the list of candidates to fill the vacancies left by Clune and Jones might be on the short side. We’ll see…

By: kryon

kryon — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:01:28 +0000

It does say a lot that other schools r interested in our coaches. They wouldn’t have interest if they were not seeing something good from their work. Seriously if they were so bad would u pay them 100000 more to go to ur program? No way. So something is being seen as good in our program. I don’t understand how DR can keep pushing for chows head? Man, b positive n support til the end. If the end comes, it comes. In the mean time support the program n show we better then negative call outs. Future kids read n c ur words n Im sure it doesn’t help. Ur voice is louder then most so use it to grow the program. Use it to promote a positive state. Use it to show that even in down times we Hawaiians stand untied n strong, positive all the time. Tired of the negative whining. That’s not Hawaii.