A bonus victory

Holy Moly Andy:

first!!!!!

First? Great game Warriors!

Cngrats to the Warriors for a good win! Now get ready for Cincy …. lets fill the stands.

I hope the warrios work on their red zone offense. They need a bread and butter play when their in the red zone or at least a go to player. We probably should have scored around 40 points last night.

Congrats to the Warriors for a big win last night and making it to the Hawaii Bowl! It wasn’t pretty, but a W is a W. Sorry we missed the last few Tsaikogates, but had to show up late to the games since the kids weren’t coming due to the weather. Its great to know that the Tsaikos are going strong!

what? go mules

Top 15?
Aloha kakahiaka!

Wow, at leasat I made the top twenty!

Good Morning everyone!

who is in charge of the pro games we get on tv.who makes that decision.who is the program director for the tv station that chooses which games we fans watch on fox and cbs? whoever it is ,is an idiot homer of terrible games.why are we watching the boring game of the giants beating the ‘skins..and not watching the exciting game of the packers and the panthers.enough already with these terrible decisions.we need a better system so that this crap stops happening.

ST, you’re right…a certain person is relentless!

Congratulations to the team on the win. Let’s get ready for the Bearcats!

I noticed that Stretch is getting too big to visit us at tailgate anymore. By big, I don’t mean mass.

Hi Ronnie…can’t wait to have you the boys and Asports and Ajoe cheering up in the brown with me next week. I think that Ajoe will spend most of the night dancing to the drum cadences. He was lovin’ it!

Congrats Warriors!

Love to see players play when they are “feeling it”. That goes for
Sol, Veikune, Josh Leonard, and Keala Watson. They are “in the
zone”.

What was also impressive about last nights win was that it wasn’t “our night”. The wind was blowing the wrong way, there was a feel of something can go wrong, the spirit wasn’t right. But then Alexander hit Washington for that clutch TD and well, ….it was Colt like. We pull out a win on a night when earlier in the season we would not. I think the Warriors will come out and play a great game against Cincy.

Speaking of Manley, did you guys see that winning TD pass against Kahuku? Now that was Colt like as well.

Morning/afternoon, Tsaiko-Nation and Tsai-Meister.

I’ve had the feeling all along that this game would be a little tricky. The pressure to make the Bowl, the easy lead, a somewhat subdued athmosphere, a nothing to lose opponent, it all all adds up to a more difficult game than it should have been, we all know that.

But let’s be realistic here, even last years team had quite a few struggles against inferior teams, road or not and we easily could have lost a few then, but who among us would have thought, after starting out 1-3 and losing to SJST and USU that we we would make this bowl, with a game to spare?

I thought so and I’ll refrain from criticism and just savor this victory for what it is, a wonderfully salvaged season that could easily have gotten away from us.

Great job, Coaches and players, I’m happy to be a Warrior fan, warts and all.

Next year will be exciting and extremely interesting.

Thank you to the Honolulu Advertiser for upgrading my seats to the brown section. What you failed to tell me was that there was hole formed by rust in the ground that separates the red from brown that was dripping, sometimes streaming water down below–right down the center of one of the seats you hooked us up with. Message to the people that run the stadium–Straight up ghetto.

On the contrary, I was literally the last car in the parking lot before they shut down Gates 3/4. They directed us to the outer ring of the inner circle. Not only was I close but I was able to breeze out of there despite having stayed till the very end. Message to the people that run the stadium–Thanks for the hook up.

And did anybody see the 11-12 pound live lobster that was cruising the parking lot? This huge as$ lobster was getting a lot of attention through out the tailgate time.

Good job Warriors. We don’t need no F’n Gatorade.
To any groupies out there…go show the Bearcats a good time this week.

I honestly expected the Warriors to earn this bowl berth. The only thing I didn’t know was how it would play out. The Warriors are to be commended for rising to the occasion, the coaching staff are to be comkmended for grtting them here.

good morning tsaikos!!

I think it would be awesome for Manley to come over to UH. When he starts school, Rausch will be a Senior and others are Fresh/Soph. He will have an opportunity to get some PT.

Yea! I got to finally see a Skins game! I am wearing my burgandy CB5 jersey today and got a front row seat at the Hickam food court to watch the 3 and 4Q.
It was fun talking story about the skins and Warrior fans there too. We are all high on GA and the upcoming games.
Mahalo to Kekoa and BG for your kind hospitality and transportation !

Stephen- thanks for taking off the picture 🙂
Now I just need to get season tix where the wireless signal is strong!

I got so excited to hear the Warrior Bsat announcement that I tried to video it. But it plyedy only twice.

Proud to be a Tsai-ko !

Yikes! Had to work this morning and forgot to set the DVR….lil’ help, please 🙂

Just got two words for the rest of the season….
Nine
and
Five

I’ll bet a lot of the players (and their spouses/girlfriends) prefer to be at home and get the Bowl stipend, too.

Agree with all the posts on “letting the players” enjoy the moment.

Think it’s an “ego” thing with Ariel. Perhaps the UH FCU donates the plaques or pays for it, but that don’t mean that a certain person must do all the presentations – remember Mr. Miyagi – he stayed in the back gound while “daniel-san” got all the glory.

d1- if my dvr worked I can make you a DVD when I get home.

Hi bhf2! Just think- we will also get to see Ronnie and gang next week too. And the Choys and Kamry/Nissan/Datsun (grin).
Old home week!

We could have a split national title this year: Oklahoma can win the BCS and Texas can win the AP. Both with only one loss but Oklahoma’s will have been to Texas. It’s a BCS hater’s dream! 🙂

I’m happy, we now have two Bowl games to look forward to, yessss !

Ukuleleboi ssys Mahalo to MeiLing 🙂

Hey Liz is pretty good. She can sleep and blog at the same time! 😀

Zzzzzzzzz.

Ok. On the plane now. Time to single task!

Zzzzzzzzz.

congrats on the win! bonuses are much deserved. beat the beercarts!

When is someone going to tell the credit union lady that the seniors are the “stars” of senior night. On second thought I’m sure she knows this, but still wants to hog the camera time (notice how she appears on every commercial, also.) Why doesn’t someone at UH tell her to stay the heck off the court/field? If it’s because she paying a lot of the credit union members’ money for vanity’s sake (hers), isn’t it like bribery?

I don’t know how much the credit union gives UH for taking over senior night. Is their money really needed? Senior night was surely enjoyable in
the good old days.

I wonder if the credit union lady reads the WB. She might be feeling a bit uncomfortable. And, perhaps, rightly so!

If the premise of Senior Night is to focus and honor the seniors then someone forgot.

They need to get Cooke- Chang field ready so Kelly can practice kicking during practice. ST has pictures of the iceman looking too laid back while the boys are practicing.

Inch for inch, pound for pound, I thought Richard Torres played an outstanding game last night. That UH fumble recovery on the kick off return was crucial as well. Maybe next season he should train to be a running back or slot.. he’s fearless enough to block … probably fearless enough to catch a ball even when the defenders are closing in on him.

sjmacro …

I remember the groundbreaking.. but I haven’t heard whether or not the turf is in Hawaii. I assume it is because there was mention that the poor weather conditions were preventing further progress.

Congratulations Warriors!

With hints that Hawaii’s top prospect may be now having thoughts of staying home, could Charley Weis have enough “gas” in his ND tank to influence that UH-ND Hawaii Bowl?

mih – isn’t the game on espn? they own the bowl don’t they?

d1 – huh? where’d you hear that?

alnbama – 5pm HST is the selection “show” on ESPNU. One can only hope that we get to host a subregional. but, it’s the no clue at all organization, so…

thanks jm, hopefully the Ncca does the right thing, but not holding my breath.

d1 – planning on coming Sat. Missed you at the 3 I’ve gone to.

Ok, nitpicking here. Who has made the choice to wear the green pants the last couple of home games. I got one word. Yuck! They look good with the whites, but I think they should go back to wearing the black pants. If the team has been deciding on it, so be it.

Congrats Hawaii Rainbows on your win over Washington State Cougars.
I guess that Manoa Mist that hovered over the game served you well.

Hawaii Bowl vacancy will probably be filled by Arizona State.
I don’t think Notre Dame will consider the invite; not enough money.
Those Catholics would prefer money in pocket instead of sand, surf,
sun and aloha (God’s most precisous gifts). Neither will UCLA. With
a game coming up with USC and a shot at the Rose Bowl…well.
Arizona State is the more likely candidate and, I think, a better choice for
the Rainbows anyway.

the wahines throw the ball away as much as the men….must be the court….

well I gave the bb a shot, time to switch to nfl game…oops, to struggling nfl teams-go bears…

Ralph,
At least you got to see a 99-yard TD pass, speaking of Fresno St., to Bernard Berrian.

Wouldn’t it be something if the dream I posted some time back becomes reality? And, if it doesn’t then the dream journey continues for the next #1 prospect from Hawaii.

Whoa, what will that say to all the recruiters nationwide and recruits for Warriors now and in the future – that the Warrior Ohana is truly great and a fantistic place to play football.

From that Bob Condotta’s Husky Football blog about Hill’s meeting in Seattle:

He said he spent Saturday at UW talking with Husky athletic officials.

Hill called it a “great” meeting in an interview played on KPGE-TV in Fresno and also reported by The Fresno Bee.

“They talked about their goals, their expectations, the facilities they’re going to (build) and the things they’re going to do to put Washington back on the map amongst the best teams in America,” he said. “That’s what they want to do.”

“They asked me about what my blueprint for success was, what my expectations and goals were. It was a great conversation,” he said.

Sources have said Hill was not offered the job, and Hill appeared to confirm that when he discussed where he thinks the situation is.

Hoohiki:

I’d have to agree with you on the UofA pick. Do we really want to see ASU again since they were here 2 years ago? Do we want to see a team that scored 4 defensive touchdowns and had total offensive yardage of like 120+ yards? Hawaii will most likely win, but it may be a fugly game, a blowout most likely. I prefer UofA and Tuitama too over Carpenter and crew, the game will be a bit more exciting. With an ASU win at Tucson, UofA will be 6th. ASU was over rated at the beginning of the season and their play has proven it as the season progressed against decent teams. With the state/ASU budget and the local economies huge short fallings, administrators/fans/alumni/ planning to spend the holiday in Hawaii may not be as willing to travel. Remember in ’06, they did not bring their marching band.

Ralph: I only go to footbal and men’s basketball. Would take too much time out of my schedule to ride TheBus to every event at UH. I would if I could, but I’m just not able.

And that explains Coach Mack’s comment on the radio post-game. I figured something secret was in the works … 😛

Hooiki & Anklebiters –
Mahalo for speaking my opinion with a possible A.S.U. matchup in the Hawaii Bowl.

notre dame would come.

it would be a slap in the face of their program without a bowl to play in.

it would help their chances with their number one recruit from laie.

it would help us sell out the stadium and help out our recruiting efforts in the future.

it would help us measure just where we stand with the elite programs.

Did anyone look at the moon tonight? Is that the big dipper off to the left at about 11:00 ‘o clock? If it is it is looking offly bright tonight.

Sorry for the non-football comment. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Wow… Pride must be laying down, looking up at the stars…. How romantic. I didn’t know he was that kind of guy

See everyone later, time for me to go eat dinner.

Those two stars are very bright. I’ve noticed them the last few nights, and they seem brighter than usual. I’m not positive, but I think the brighter and bigger star is one of the planets.

I’m looking forward to the Cincy game at this point. It would be awesome to beat the 13th ranked Big East champ here at home.

The bowl game would be gravy after that. ND is a big a big draw, and would be more exciting than the other possibilities.

Tell Spencer that I said hello.

Okay not the big dipper. I think that they are Jupiter and Venus. No time to look it up, doing an Esme and out.

while the players may have preferred to go to the Hawaii Bowl, I am sure all of them know that they made history not just for UHM but for our state. the bcs bowls although “young” play great importance. the warriors are always mindful of the greater role they play. selfishness is not tolerated on this team and thats why they are so darn special.

while its terrific that we aim to be invited to a hawaii bowl every year. lets not forget the saying “bigger and better.” If Boise state can do it, we sure as heck can. I BELIEVE. the outcome of the sugar bowl means we have to go from working 5x harder to 10x harder to prove ourselves to the rest of em. oh well such is life.

on another note. i really hope boise does not decide to leave the WAC. if they do….in my honest and humble opinion…there goes our conference. Only Boise and Hawaii has made a big impact on our conference in recent years. losing them would mean losing much more than just another team.

BG ~ Thanks for your help this morning. I hope Betty is feeling well enuff to come T-gating this one last season game.

In fact, I hope every Tsaiko on the planet can be there at least in *Spirit*

anyone planning on getting a block of tickets for the Sheraton Bowl for th Tsaikos to seat together, just wondering before I decide on ordering tickets.

game highlights and post game press conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrTA6MtO2E

Ralph — I’ll bring my knife sharpening stone next week if needed.

Notre Dame would be great for the Hawaii Bowl…but I don’t think it will happen.

Rodney Bradley leads the Navarro JC team in receiving with 29 catches for 555 yards and 9 TD’s in 11 games played this season.

Is he the WR from Texas that ST was hinting at?

The same guy that broke the Liloa commit first dropped this one, as well.

Even better, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has an article titled “Bess plays big”.

No one drafted Davone Bess, and yet the Dolphins’ fill-in starting receiver played a more relevant role in the outcome, a 16-12 Dolphins win. “It was pretty depressing not getting drafted, but I put that whole experience behind me,” Bess said.

Sunday, he put some Rams behind him, leading the Dolphins with six catches and showing the same stamina, sharp route-running and run-after-catch quickness that made him a staple of the free-flowing Hawaii offense. He gained 19 yards on a cross on third-and-9 to set up the first touchdown. He caught a 21-yard floater down the right sideline to set up the first field goal. And he got the Dolphins across midfield for the first time in the second half with a 37-yard reception.

“They lined up exactly how we thought they would,” said Bess, who was starting for the injured Greg Camarillo. “So Chad [Pennington] knew exactly where I was going to be.”

The Miami Herald has the best article on Bess, with the title “Miami Dolphins receiver Bess makes most of start.”

Bess caught six passes for 84 yards, actually looking much like Camarillo did during his first 11 games as the team’s leading receiver. But aside from more repetitions, Bess said he didn’t necessarily notice much change in his role Sunday.

”It felt like a normal game,” Bess said. “I didn’t see a big difference. Similar routes. I think I was just really in a few more plays. I just needed to continue to grow, and I had more opportunities to do that.”

Bess looked smooth on several routes across the middle of the field, but he also was utilized on a deep route on the right sideline that resulted in a 37-yard gain, his longest of the day.

Miami’s coach was concerned about how Bess would handle an every-down role…Bess sure answered his concern! Anyone surprised that Miami’s head coach was impressed with Bess’ run after the catch ability?

Earlier in the week, coach Tony Sparano expressed concern about how Bess would handle an increased workload. In the past, he has been utilized mostly in third-down situations as a nickel receiver.

Now, in addition to still returning punts, he also was an every-down receiver.

”We wanted to get Davone involved,” Sparano said. “It was a chance to evaluate him and see exactly where he is in this full-time role.”

Sparano thought he handled man-to-man coverage very well, adding impressive runs after the catches. Bess, an undrafted rookie free agent, said he never really felt winded.

”I take a lot of reps in practice, so I took that over to the game knowing I had to be physically ready,” Bess said.

What’s this word patience 😉

chawan_cut:
November 30th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Stephen,
I think I have too much patience.
Maybe that’s why I’m slow.

Let me revise that for you…. Maybe that’s why I’m lame

Happy Birthday JƏJƏ!!!

Happy Birthday JoJo!

Momo posted a comment and never saw it posted…he didn’t realize that he actually posted a comment on November 27 on the November 23 blog. He meant to post this after the Tsaiko-gate for the Idaho game, but it still applies after the Washington State game.

I had a grand time at the last week and it made the game more special . We have been season ticket holders for more than 20 years and we never tail gate with others.Thanks for the fellowship.
It was nice having my grand kids for a week. It made us feel young again trying to keep up with them.We will miss them when they return home tomorrow. See you sat…momo

Stretch, you are correct in your revision as well.

Happy birthday jojo!!

shhhh, Sage Nua LB Vegas

Stephen Tsai:
November 30th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hey, it’s JoJo’s birthday.

Almost…I thought jojo’s birthday was on December 1…the same day as Mei Ling…but I maybe I have it wrong… 😕

Happy Birthday jojo!
Happy Birthday Mei Ling!

(whenever they may be)

Ralph:

November 30th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
anyone planning on getting a block of tickets for the Sheraton Bowl for th Tsaikos to seat together, just wondering before I decide on ordering tickets.

I’d be in for four tix.

Can’t wait for Monday to roll around…..

i was speculating a tweed.

Yeah, Facebook always does that. It says it’s a person’s birthday, when it’s not. IDK why it’s like that. Yeah, jojo’s birthday is tomorrow. 😀

jm – no can market everyday, need to work once in a while

ST — at least we have the elusive jojo’s birthday within 48 hours. 🙂

The more interesting challenge is finding homey’s real birthday… any clues?

I’m in Section J Makai Orange. 😀

BG:
November 30th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
OK, time to go pound on Betty…her back that is. Loosen up all that stuff so she can cough it up. She misses everyone and doesn’t want to miss the Cincy game.

okay BG, whatever you say.

Hiflyer don’t have a section in mind….maybe we can start thinking about it and figure something out at this saturday’s tailgate…..

Do we really want to see ASU again since they were here 2 years ago? Do we want to see a team that scored 4 defensive touchdowns and had total offensive yardage of like 120+ yards? Hawaii will most likely win, but it may be a fugly game, a blowout most likely.

LOL. Mind you, that’s against a bottom half Pac-10 opponent which would still beat half of the WAC teams. Hawaii didn’t look all that good against a pretty bad Washington State defense which is one of the worst in the nation.

How often was Alexander scrambling and sacked in the game? Arizona State goose-egged WSU 31-0 while Hawaii gave up 10 points to that inept WSU offense. ASU has more talent and speed than Washington State.

WAC to Pac-10 translation: A 6-6 ASU would give UH fits. And people want Arizona? UH would be out of their league and taken to the woodshed in an Oregon State style whipping.

Hawaii’s offense has only looked better in recent weeks because of the opponents they were playing. Watch what happens during the Cincinnati game. That will show everyone just how little the offensive line has actually improved as I can guarantee you Alexander will be scrambling, rushing to throw, and being sacked by Cincinnati’s speedy defense.

Notre Dame to the Hawaii Bowl? ND’s athletic directors have turned down playing in a bowl in the past because it was not a prestigious bowl. The chump change from a lower tier bowl like the Hawaii isn’t something they need. They did play the Insight Bowl when they were 6-6 in 2004 but lost to Oregon State. Institutional pride may get in the way of them deciding to go this year and Weis who wants to go bowling may get overruled by the higher ups at ND.

I’d love to see Oklahoma lose a second Fiesta Bowl to a non-BCS conference team.

Utah is not that good and are in fact an overrated fraud. That became evident with how they barely got by an offensively inept Michigan, beat Weber State by about the same margin as UH did (and that is with an inept half on UH’s part), a terrible New Mexico, were dominated by TCU (TCU would have handily won without all those missed field goals), and had an equally overrated BYU giving them the game. Utah would get their clocked cleaned by Boise State.

Texas, Oklahoma, or Missouri against Utah equals smash job worse than the beating Hawaii received in the Sugar Bowl. But the Mountain West Conference needs to be exposed for the frauds they are this year anyway.

I was listening to Over the Rhine’s album “Patience” today. Apparently for once I was being appropriate…

Just because one team struggled against another while a different team waltz through them doesn’t mean the waltzing team will defeat the one that struggled.

It’s all about play calling, personnel, and which team is peaking that day. Few teams, if any, have no inherent weakness that cannot be exploited with the right personnel. Washington State had the personnel to sack, but they couldn’t come down with the interceptions or put up the necessary defense against our receivers to contain Hawaii. They didn’t have an explosive enough offense to really threaten UH.

Hopefully Mouton and Pilares will suit up against Cincy and everyone will be healthy for the Sheraton Bowl.

I would expect the team to play differently next week. They have nothing to lose since they already have the Bowl bid.

lv – so that’s what those characters mean? think he lost money on the game?

I love Coach Mack – Greg Alexander is a “tough mother”. 😀

jm2375,
Yup Monku means complaint.
My mom used to scream “Monku! Urusai!” at us kids and call dad “Monku Jiji”

btw stones are still coming out, over twenty in 4 days.
some were much bigger than they should have been, ouch!

Happy Birthday MeiLing!!

ESPN’s Mark Shlabach predicts Hawaii has a shot at Notre Dame in the Hawaii Bowl.

Happy Berfdey Mei Ling

MsLiz, glad Ukuleleboi could use my ticket.

I think Jojo & I have the same b-day, tomorrow.

I am planning on going to the Sheraton Bowl game if my nephew is playing in the marching band. My bro. won’t be able to pick him up, so I volunteered. My son will be in town, tho… hmmm, he doesn’t go to football games. If anyone is planning on a block of tickets, let me know.

las vegas,

This too shall pass. Hope it’s over. Take care. Night!

jm2375,
the stones coming out is not too bad, imagine drinking a milkshake and one piece of strawberry get stuck in the straw.
all you gotta do is blow, Fffflllluut! and out pops the berry!
just imagine the “da kine” as one funny looking straw and the shi shi as air pressure, Fffflllluut! and out pop the rocks!

Howszit Tsaikos everywhere!

Great win yesterday.
Great Mack Show tonite. Cheee huuuuu!!!

sjmacro,
kekoa,
Mei Ling,
Liz K,
AHouse,
D1,
DPK,
Koakane,
Las Vegas,
Robbie,

and to all Tsaikos everywhere, Ted, Alnbama,Wafan, McTruck
the ride has been great, its gonna get better, and I am so looking
forward to representing all of us at da Cincy game. i can promise you i going be yellin like hell fo all us.

Go Warriors!!!

hey is it past midnight yet?? (at least on the blog clock)

las vegas:
December 1st, 2008 at 12:07 am
I’ll have to join the whip, chains and leather underwear group.

sad to say but somehow I can imagine that

Happy Birthday MeiLing.

I couldn’t wait anudda 10 minutes. 🙂

Kekoa,

yep, dats me.

Hawaii Bowl, I would really like to see Notre Dame come here. How about you? I’ll see you this coming Sat.

okay, my clock says 12

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEI LING,

wherever you are. 🙂

HiFlyer – now I can go sleep

Primo…

In the fine print it reads something like this…

Assist Coach A: passes $500 to Assist Coach B.
Assist Coach B: passes $500 to Assist Coach C:
Assist Coach C: passes $500 to Assist Coach A:

UH ADMIN does a double debit accounting on all transactions and all the Assistant Coaches look $500 richer and the Athletics Department is several thousand dollars deeper in debt.