Comments on: CSUN 3, Hawaii 1 3-3

By: Hot

Hot — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:11:45 +0000

Steve, give it up. You are creepy and annoying.

By: dedicatedfan

dedicatedfan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:35:32 +0000

Is there another Dave Shoji out there, who the local kids would want to play for. If not, the Warrior glory days has gone down with the setting sun.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:13:31 +0000

and there’s no way Shoji is coming back to coach the men’s team. His next move will be to retire.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:10:40 +0000

DF, I am under no contract obligations whatsoever. Where you got that idea I do not know. I do not work for UH. I have have been pretty critical over the few years. Was trying to be objective.
you cannot compare the Croson situation with Marks. The Wahine had depth, the men do not. and it’s not like they didn’t struggle without her. They beat Cal Poly 3-1, the Mustangs 1-14/0-3 at the time.
swept a not-that-great UCSB team 9-10, 2-2 at the time. The Big West last year was not as competitive as the MPSF is.
Agree that CSUN wasn’t that impressive but they played better, passed better and served better, especially last night. There’s still some players who made the final four in 2010 on the team so that is key experience.
CSUN in No. 6 in the MSPF standings.
Definitely Hawaii has the potential to be the better team but they did not play like it.
My son does radio for 1420AM. his comment last night was that the team gave up.
And as for the Shojis, Kawika went for the academics. His sister was also with the women’s team at the time. Erik, Inafuku, McLachlin wanted to play together and stay together from the JNT. McLachlin’s dad a Stanford grad helped. The Crabbs. Could have been wanting to play for Knipe at some point when he came back from the national team. Baretta … obviously wanted a smaller-school, non DI experience. They’re NAIA, church-affliated (Baretta went to HBA). a number of reasons he may have chosen the Eagles.

By: karmady

karmady — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:32:44 +0000

91, I suspect the reason Kawika and Erik Shoji sons didn’t play for UH is because they wanted Stanford diplomas – and who can blame them? I think the real tragedy is losing Taylor Crabb to Long Beach and Chad Baretta to Concordia.

By: Safinator

Safinator — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:39:16 +0000

Impressed with Taylor Averil. He is strong as an ox and steady for the Warriors. I also prefer Wechsung setting, Ramos sets too low and fast . The location is inconsistent. Wechsung sets higher and steadier, but goes to the left too much, especially late in set 3, that’s why he was yanked. But his tempo the hitters can d something with it. Ramos late in the game is shaky… As for dfense really impressed with Kanetake. He’s gonna be good one for UH later in the years. This isn’t UH year, but they show tons of potential.. Hey look at all the 5 gamers… give em time. Next 2 years all upperclassmen, so no excuses.

By: dedicatedfan

dedicatedfan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:13:55 +0000

Cindy, I know you are under contractual obligations not to say anything bad. You have to leave that up to Fred Lewis and Dave Reardon to do that, just like Stephen Tsai, has to. I get it, and I do not hold it against you.

By: dedicatedfan

dedicatedfan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:09:22 +0000

Warriorfan, recruiting to Hawaii is hard, when Hawaii cannot even keep the best talent in Hawaii to play for them. The good Mainland recruits will wonder why the best talent in the Islands do not stay home to play. Not even Shoji’s sons ever thought about staying home to play for the Warriors. Hawaii needs to get a coach who can keep the best talent in the islands, to play for them. Wondering out loud, if Dave Shoji would not mind coaching the Warriors also. He has shown he can keep the best talent home to play for him.

By: warriorfan

warriorfan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:55:03 +0000

86. I just never will agree that not making the playoffs is okay because they might “fall flat on their faces”
This young team getting playoff experience will be huge for next season even if t hey lose at BYU or Irvine in the first round, they have proven they can seriously compete with Irvine.

I also do not agree that Recruiting to hawaii is hard, sure it’s not as easy as USC or UCLA but Uh should be able to get the same calibre recruits as Irvine, Northridge and UCSB.

If charlie is let go I hope Ben Jay goes for someone that can make UH a perenial top 5 team again and put the fans back in the stands but to do that t hey will have to pay more . But as the saying goes it takes money to make money!
If they can’t do that then I would for someone young with potential like Pepperdine assistant David Hunt or give Mark Presho a shot, it’s no coincidence Irvine has been good the whole time he’s been there.
I would even try to get Jeff fisher back, although that would be hard since he just got hired by pittsburgh.
Maybe Rob Nielsen byu Assistant?

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:27:26 +0000

i guess you can say they are young for as long as they are. This year especially. not a lot of experience out there, at least with the program. Ramos and Olsen first year at UH, Wechsung, Zarkovic, Kanetake true freshmen, Sedore, Timmer, Marks, Averill and Holt sophomores, West a sophomore basically. Cheape senior but not that much experience.
just saying i can’t compare the Wahine with the men. different programs, different in terms of how much talent is spread out in the women’s game, and how much it’s concentrated on the men’s side because of the smaller number of teams.