Comments on: Hawaii 3, CSU Fullerton 0

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:02:09 +0000

She was pretty funny this past weekend. She’s enjoying her ‘retirement’ I think she tells it like it is and was very brutally honest on and off camera.

By: High N Wide

High N Wide — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 03:50:05 +0000

Ahh… Kathy Gregory. Just love how she moderates these matches for ESPN.
They need to give her more exposer. Her comments as a former player and
veteran coach are sooo… on point!

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:55:56 +0000

42. Shoji has said all season the goal is to make the tournament. He is being realistic when looking at the standings and seeing that it will be tough to catch The Beach. And he has long said that they have to control what they can control, which is winning. His comment about losing to UCI was, with their RPI of 106 in this week, it would be considered a bad loss and UH’s lower RPI could knock them out of an at-large bid

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:52:40 +0000

43. Do not understand the obsession with the travel schedule. This is how they’ve done it for 30-plus years. Sometimes they take a redeye, sometimes they take the afternoon flight that gets in around 10 p.m. As someone pointed out, no on was complaining when Hawaii was winning all those road matches all these years.
The travel is pretty tame in the Big West compared to what it was in the WAC and they had to go to Ruston, LA.
Besides, Hawaii’s been having slow starts when playing at home. can’t blame the travel for that.

By: blunite

blunite — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 08:00:41 +0000

@OrbitalRipZ: this is why winning away from home is so vital, to impress the NCAA selection committee. Hawaii’s travel schedule may well be the cause of their slow starts (based upon last year’s 3 losses on the road and this year’s 2 losses.) Even if Hawaii wins out and receives an invitation they will be sent away to play. If Hawaii uses the same travel schedule the results may be the same.

By: OrbitalRipZ

OrbitalRipZ — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 06:43:03 +0000

So UH beat a team with a rpi 193, which is one spot weaker than Kent State (192) of the Mid-American Conf. but one stronger than Chicago (194) of the Horizon Conf. Can’t see this road win helping the Wahine’s NCAA rpi. But I do think the 3-2 win over UCI (rpi 106) will be factored in negatively in systems which take into account sets won and loss — such as Pablo’s?

BTW: Glad to hear Coach imply (to my way of thinking) that his team’s goal right now is to win 1 of the 33 at-large bids. LBSU is in the driver’s seat to secure 1 of the 31 automatics, and there’s no way the NCAA Selection Committee is going to award more than 1 — if even 1 — at-large to the Big West this year . . . especially after last year’s tournament, in which none of the 3 Big West reps made it out of their respective sub-regionals.

Sure there’s still hope that LBSU will be upset along their merry way, and the automatic berth could still go to the Rainbows. About as much hope as Pele changing her mind and — just before running over Pahoa Village — stopping dead in her tracks.

Go Bows! Be gone Pele!

By: Kazu

Kazu — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 06:37:19 +0000

38. My guess is there’s some coaches out there waiting for Shoji to retire so they can apply for that position.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 06:32:25 +0000

He did call a timeout, in part because of all the subs, but it was more to avoid being given a yellow card for delay of game. He wanted to make sure everyone knew where they were in the rotation because they could have easily been out of rotation when he used a different sub pattern.

By: 'ohanaInBellingham

'ohanaInBellingham — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:54:56 +0000

I hope that Olivia gets the nomination and nod for the BWC PotW.

By: Joann

Joann — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:49:12 +0000

Let’s hope Dave doesn’t retire at the end of this year. Otherwise, UH is going to be looking for a football, basketball and volleyball coach. Ouch!!!