Comments on: Happy birthday to Coach Ah Mow-Santos

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 04:17:30 +0000

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=44682
new thread up for Friday match

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 04:06:39 +0000

thanks all for the comments. Will have a new thread up in a bit from the arena

By: Hot

Hot — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:25:28 +0000

Scholarship:
1. Howling
2. Koelsch
3. Granato
4. Burns
5. Lipscomb
6. Williams
7. Sibley
8. Iosia
9. Greeley
10. Kahakai
11. Castillo
12. Maglio

Walk-on:
1. Anderson
2. Gong
3. Guinasso
4.Ma’afala
5. Okino
6. Ross

By: todde

todde — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 02:17:04 +0000

No 22, I don’t understand your statement about the one dollar bills. Please explain. I am a TV viewer because I live on The Big Island. Otherwise, I would attend the SSC games as well at the UH football games for support.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:54:18 +0000

21. I define Power conference through the lens of college football, which is the most lucrative sport by far in terms of post-season and TV revenue. I think of Big East as similar to Big West–one or two top teams (Creighton vs. UH/LBSU) and a lot of middling to forgettable teams (Marquette is now 5-5; boy that loss hurts). For RPI fans, Big West was the 11th best RPI conference in 2016; Big East was #10.

But no question in men’s basketball, Big East is a top 5 conference.

By: islandman

islandman — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:51:04 +0000

but two are walk-ons ?

By: islandman

islandman — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:49:26 +0000

Who are the current walk-ons ? We have 18 players on the roster with 12 on scholarship.
Gong, Okino, Ross,Guinasso,Ma’afala,Kendra or ?
Six seniors, but three are walk-ons.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:44:08 +0000

Na Wahine have been great at recruiting top local talent, but you can’t get them all. UH landed Danielson, Taylor, Kamana’o, Higgins, Granato and recruits like TMO who were the best in Hawaii although nationally unheralded. Issue is that the local talent pool is too small to provide all the top notch recruits to compete with the Stanford/PSU/Nebraska/Texas/Washington/etc. programs.

Where UH has fallen behind versus the days of assistant Charlie Wade and prior are internationally and on the mainland. Growth of global professional volleyball makes it challenging to land top foreign players. Not impossible, though you need the right people with the right hunger and salesmanship to attract recruits to UH.

Because of the growth of college volleyball, mainland recruits can stay close to home and play for a top program–also helps that many of the top programs are fed by football money (better facilities, big school college experience and academics, etc.). Can’t get a Willoughby right now (top 10 mainland player located far from Hawaii), although I have no idea why UH didn’t go after Jazzmin Babers (daughter of UH alum). Domestic focus should continue to be on the West Coast, and Cali in particular, plus daughters of UH alums and those with some connection to Hawaii.

Also not clear why Robyn shouldn’t save her scholarships for 2020 or 2021, rather than using them on more projects. Getting more projects is not the answer, even if it means having another down year in the hopes of landing a couple of top recruits. The real test case for Robyn is Ogilvie.

By: islandman

islandman — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:33:34 +0000

Big East is often considered a power conference in basketball especially in men’s basketball and in women’s volleyball it is close to the power 5 conferences, i think.

By: vbfan

vbfan — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:17:27 +0000

16-Almost all recruits have already committed for next season (2018). The two remaining scholarships will probably go to a foreign player or transfer.

I really think the women need to follow the recruiting strategy of the men’s team and find some impact foreign players along with getting the best local players to stay home. When Wade first started he tried to go after the top California players with limited success, recruiting has been much better since he hired Zarkovic and opened to the pipeline to European players.