IF committee does Top 4 seeds based on this week’s RPI, the top regional sites (baring upsets) will be Nebraska, Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not Washington
There will be 16 subregional sites with the top four remaining seeds from each region hosting the regionals.
as mentioned previously top 16 coming into this week
Wisconsin, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, BYU, Stanford, North Carolina, Washington, UCLA, San Diego, Michigan State, Western Kentucky, Kentucky.
we’ll see how much the new ‘advisory’ to the committee takes place.

Conference affiliation: Hawaii left the WAC, placed it’s women’s and most men’s teams in the Big West. Football to the Mountain West. some to the MPSF.
Hawaii has long wanted to be in the Pac-10/12. there were serious discussions when Stan Sheriff was alive. If the Pac-12 expands again to 16, they likely pick from the Mountain West.

The WAC was rapidly disintegrating. Too bad since Commissioner Benson almost had some of the old WAC members on the verge of coming back, think it was UTEP that spilled the beans and the Moutnain West made a big move to solidify its membership.

Burns … I mentioned earlier in the week that Burns was fine. knee taped. told Taylor they were ‘twins’ now with the bandages. although Taylor wears a brace most days and Burns still refuses to wear knee pads.

Players have not said anything about Shoji retiring. Incoming recruits, which included this class, all understood that he might be at UH for their entire careers.

new thread up

http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=40404

primarily though, i would say football is the biggest driver, and to a lesser extent, basketball … that’s because those are the sports that dictate revenue on many levels … through attendance, and most importantly, television contracts with the big cable sports networks, like espn, fox and cbs. some conferences have even launched their own channels, like the pac-12, big-10 and sec.

hawaii got out of the WAC a few years ago, essentially because it was crumbling. a few members fled the conference. hawaii followed suit, because there was a question whether the WAC would be left with enough members for automatic NCAA qualification. at the time, other larger conferences had started to re-align, and it caused a domino effect, causing schools in other conference to move. it just so happened the Mountain West was open to taking the football team, and the Big West was open to taking all of hawaii’s sports teams. and that’s the present alignment … i may have missed some details, so i’m sure others can chime in…

it just goes to show that hawaii being seeded in the post season is still not out of the question. hawaii fans can still have hope! haha… of course, the stars still need to align a little… the right non-conference schedule, players healthy, and the big west teams have to do just enough to not drag hawaii’s schedule down. for the most part, 2 of those 3 factors were present this year. unfortunately, we faced some health issues at the start.

it’s nice to see what could have been in terms of the RPI and hawaii’s chances at a seed. but i’m glad to see this team healthier. a deep postseason run is still in the cards, and that’s all that matters now…

His model can be found here (the tab that includes experimental bonuses equates to what the NCAA reports each week–UH is currently estimated to be 28th):
http://ncaastats.figstats.net/volleyball-rpi.cgi