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Good luck to the Wahine SoftBows!!

yo!

UH is *very* familiar with Arizona Western, with several UH recruits there. An offensive tackle who was a freshman All-American is transferring there from Tennessee…he could be a difference maker for the team that gets him out of Arizona Western.

An All-America at OT would probably start from Day 1 at UH…and since UH coaches already regularly visit Arizona Western I’m sure they will check if Douglas is interested in UH.

Douglas, the promising offensive tackle who quit the University of Tennessee squad March 25, will enroll at Arizona Western College in Yuma, Ariz.

Douglas, a coverted tight end, was starting by his fourth game last fall. He earned second-team Freshman All-America honors and was to be the only returning starter on the offensive line in 2010.

From Arizona Western, Douglas can transfer to a four-year school and have two years of eligibility remaining in 2011 and 2012.

There have been a *lot* of articles about Missouri lately that seem to be openly lobbying for Missouri to be picked by the Big 10. With their HUGE TV markets and geographical match, I’m guessing they will be invited.

Having all football games televised nationally (all available in HD) is definitely a recruiting tool, but having nonvenue sports also get nationally televised will insure that those sports get an even bigger recruiting boost. Sports like softball know that their games will be nationally televised regularly…that must be nice.

The BTN is a joint venture between the Big Ten, the 51-percent majority owner, and Fox Cable Networks, a division of News Corporation. Their 25-year agreement is estimated to be worth $2.8 billion by industry experts.

The BTN airs 35 to 40 Big Ten football games every season, ensuring that every home conference game is televised either on the network or by broadcast partners ABC/ESPN. In 2008, all but two of the Big Ten’s 88 football games were televised nationally. No other conference had more than 70 percent of its games covered nationally.

The BTN features 105 men’s basketball games annually — plus approximately 55 women’s games — and offers Web streaming for games that aren’t televised.

Nonrevenue sports have a place on the BTN, too, giving Big Ten coaches in sports like volleyball, softball and baseball a valuable recruiting pitch.

“Our softball team has been a top-10 or top-15 program the last five years, but until the network came along, the amount of coverage we got was limited to the postseason,” said Northwestern Senior Associate Athletic Director John Mack. “This year, we’ll have 10 to 15 regular-season games played on the Big Ten Network.”

“Penn State is a women’s volleyball dynasty right now,” Hall said. “And they can tell recruits, ‘Great, go to UCLA. But how many games can you see on TV? Probably none outside the Final Four. But if you’re in the Big Ten, you can watch games on the network or on the network’s website.’ ”

This report examines how Big 10 expansion could end the Big East as a football conference and worries about what will happen to the ACC.

Here are the facts, folks, and I hope my friends in the ACC are reading this down in Amelia Island. If the Big Ten goes to 16 teams, the Big East is going to be out of the football business. The SEC and the Big Ten dominate the marketplace. They will get their money while the Pac-10, Big 12, and ACC are going to be scrambling for what’s left.

Because once the Big Ten makes its move, this thing is going to move very quickly. It’s going to be like a high-stakes game of musical chairs and somebody may get left without a quality seat, financially speaking, at the college football’s Big Boy table. And that could be our friends at the ACC.

Good morning Tsai-kos!!

Happy Birthday to Ken Kitamura! One of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. Never thought he’d be friends with ST. nah j/k

Good luck to the Wahine!!

Good luck to all the UH students as Finals Week begins…

Make all the conferences either 16 team, two division or 8 team only. You could schedule 5 Non Conference FB games Pac 10 and Big 12 would revert to 8 team conferences and align just like it is a 16 team conference with a championship game with winner going to BCS bowl. Same with WAC and MWC
This would make the SEC and ACC to schedule up and out to get National rankings

college fb is starting to smell like the pre nfl – afl days, but you can see how the schools east of the mississippi are thumbing their nose to schools west of the river. east coast mentality vs the west.

I don’t want to pay for a ticket.

Aloha Kakahiaka!

Hauoli Lahanau Allison and Ken!

GO SOFTBOWS!!!

I don’t want to pay for a ticket.

Good luck to the Softball Wahine, time to show some folks on the mainland what’s really up!

Thanks for that great link about Colt, Stephen.

OK Garret now what would be your solution to the problem an make it fair to all schools

I don’t want to pay for a ticket.

I don’t want to pay for a ticket.

Paul M ~ Why didn’t you tell us that you don’t want to pay for a ticket? Are you sure about that? 😎

Nebraska’s Chancellor denied the report…but I’ll bet that something happens soon since they want to have things to discuss at the Big 10 meeting in early June.

Asked whether the report has any validity as it applies to Nebraska, UNL chancellor Harvey Perlman said, “None whatsoever.”

ST,

The NCAA lost power over football conferences when they told every conference to negotiate their own TV deals…but they were forced to do that when they lost in court.

The Pac-10 is missing out right now because their old TV deal has a little longer to go. After they create their own TV network (maybe with the Big 12), they will get much, much more money than before. They will expand to 12 teams if they get the teams they want (Colorado and Utah), but they will NOT expand if it will cost them money. They have been very open about not expanding to lose money.

So, I don’t know why you are talking about college football becoming a regional sport, since Pac-12 schools will probably be just as rich as SEC schools (unless the SEC gets Texas). The gap between the Pac-12 schools and the rest of the West will be *huge*, which is unfortunate for the MWC and WAC.

Jim Donovan is now answering question on a live chat on Sports Hawaii.

http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=35893

OK Garret now what would be your solution to the problem an make it fair to all schools

Pomai,

Define what you mean as “fair”? I *fail* to understand why the media and fans are focused on the BCS bowl system, because in the end it means NOTHING in the funding disparity. Texas’ Athletic Department brought in something like $130 million last year and they made about $2 million for playing in the National Championship game for football. They could donate that entire $2 million to the WAC and *nothing* would change in the funding disparity. Instead, they gave $5 million or so to their University since the state cut the University’s funding.

TV pays for *viewers*, the US public decides what everything is worth for TV contracts. Are you saying that TV should give the same money to the WAC as it gives to the SEC even though SEC games will get *far* more viewers than WAC games? Should we blame the public for not caring about the WAC or look at the *facts* of the TV viewership?

Let us say we blow up the BCS system and go back to the old system. Since everybody here seems to complain about the BCS, I’d bet that a lot of people would like that. What would UH’s chances be of playing in the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl or Orange Bowl be? We have decades of historical data to conclude that the chance would be ZERO. The Rose Bowl would take the champions of the Pac-10 and Big 10, the Fiesta Bowl would take the Big 12, the Sugar Bowl would take the SEC, etc.

Under the current system, UH and the WAC gets millions from the TV revenue from the Rose Bowl, etc. What did the WAC get under the previous system? ZERO from those bowls. We had a completely free market, for decades run by the NCAA exactly how ST and others would like, and the WAC teams had *zero* chance at the big bowls. When BYU played for the national title, did they go to the Rose Bowl or to a 3rd-tier bowl (Holiday) that paid far, far less? Why did the bigger bowls pay more money? Because they got more money due to TV ratings being bigger and attendance being greater. Now, the TV money is far more important than attendance, but the bigger bowls still make far more than smaller bowls in both.

Is it “fair” that people will pay more for a Rose Bowl ticket than a Hawaii Bowl ticket? That a sponsorship for a top-tier bowl will bring in 10x or more than the sponsorship for the Hawaii Bowl or Humanitarian Bowl? That the TV ratings for the bowls with bigger conferences bring in far more viewers than bowls without a team from a big conference? ALL of the bowl games with WAC or MWC teams are in the bottom 10 all-time for BCS TV viewers…put more teams from the MWC, WAC, C-USA, or Sun Belt in BCS bowls and you’d see the BCS bowl money drop quickly.

Garret:

What would be the plusses/minuses for all D-1A football conferences West of the Mississippi, excluding the Big 10, to work their own “net work” deal with a TV network?

Most of them recruit within their region anyways and cutting deals with 1 or 2 airlines to reduce travel expenses may be a major factor in profit. For example, Hawaiian Air has direct flights to Phoenix, LV, LA, and Seattle and this could be the “hub” for all teams traveling to Hawaii. Further, Alaska Air is expanding its flights to Hawaii from several new airports along the West Coast. The airlines could use a % as “donations” for tax purposes.

What to do with LaTech? How about the WAC and MWC swap schools – La Tech for San Diego ST.

Garret:

Your #44 and #45 – “working together” reminds me of the current Democratic party situation in Hawaii with 2 primary candidates for the vacant 1st congressional disctrict and a republican rounding out the top 3.

Many realize that the Democrats will lose the position vacated by Neil Abercrombie should democratic candidate split the votes allowing the republican to garner the most votes. While this may last for only 6 months until the “mid-term” elections when 1 democrat will face off with 1 republican ins ot the point. What matters is the “national perception” that President Obama’s party lost in his “congressional district” to a republican. Just like Mass!

Problem started because Ed Case decided to run against Akaka for the Senate seat which I thought was a good idea to give Hawaii more time to build “seniority” within the US Senate. When Inouye and Akaka both depart, Hawaii will be at the absolute bottom of the Senate barrel and many senior Senators are gleefully rubbing their hands waiting to move up.

So, it comes down to WHAT IS BEST for the State of Hawaii? or what is best for the survival of the MWC and WAC? Tunnel vision is not what is needed now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t want to pay for a ticket.

Pomai,

Bad football and basketball record over the past 2 years + high travel costs + low TV ratings = less than ideal situation for this round of conference realignment.

If (not likely, but possible), everybody waits until next summer to expand, then UH has one last season to do well in both money sports. With the record over the past 2 years, the simple fact is that any conference UH wants to be in would have to be happy with getting *less* money for their conference schools in order to add UH.

ST,

The tournament *did* expand a little in the recent CBS/Turner deal. It will be interesting to see which bubble teams get in because of that.

I don’t buy the argument about how bigger conference teams have a better chance to make the tournament because when you look at nonconference records, the bigger conferences just *kill* the mid-majors. If you look at success for teams in the tournament, what is the WAC’s win percentage compared to the Big 10 or Big East? The WAC even got multiple teams in this year, for all the good that did for the win percentage.

The WAC’s win percentage in the tournament looks really bad compared to the MWC or even the WCC. Gonzaga can get into the tournament without winning their conference because they had success already in the tournament and that brought them better recruits and national respect.

al:

Cody Clements is the QB I watched last season and thought he would be an excellent recruit for his size, arm strength, grades, and athletic abilities. He reminded me a lot of Colt in his mannerisms – 3/4th motion; side-arm gunslinger!

La Habra was playing one of the other power houses, whom ever uses the Oakland Raiders color scheme, in their conference and won.

Maybe a “red shirt” for 2011?

Amazing. When I was still in school not too long ago, 4:30am did not exist as a “waking” time.

Doughnuts are indeed essential to the food pyramid.

They are the adhesive that keeps all the blocks together.

ST,

Is Kate Robinson still playing for the Akron Racers?

Sweet! Does Coach Wade get to drive that car with the giant Red Bull can on top? 😆

she is listed on the roster, Liane Horiuchi, Purdue, is a 2010 draft choice. Stephanie Ricketts older sister, Samantha out of Oklahoma, is also on the team.

Good luck to Coach Coolen and the wahine softball team as they continue to embark on a wonderful season thus far.

Also, good luck to Milca on her future endavours!

Ralph,

I don’t drink them as much as I used to. Besides the 5 Hour Energy shots work better for me.

FYI, the “Rockstar” brand tastes terrible. I remember resorting to drinking that during that odd doubleheader against Troy earlier this season.

Congrats to the mvb Warriors! Final poll has them 4th, *ABOVE* Penn State and Pepperdine. Stanford #1, BYWho #2, Northridge #3. 😀

Just in case no one has read this yet from sportshawaii. Here’s what JD said about the non DI team we’re playing in the future

I appreciate your thoughts and opinions on our football schedule. That said, it is getting more and more difficult to schedule home football games against out-of-conference opponents. This is primarily because the SEC, Conference USA, Big 12 and ACC all have season-ending conference championship games on the first Saturday of December. That really only leaves the Pac 10, Mountain West and Big 10 available for what you suggest. On top of that, the Pac 10 and Big 10 schools are more interested in having us or another non-BCS football program play them at their place versus them travelling on the road — even to Hawaii. We have been fortunate, and maybe even downright lucky, to have BCS programs like USC, Washington and Oregon State agree to play us in home-and-home series — this is not true for almost every other non-BCS program (most of them at best have been able to get a 2 for 1 deal, where they have to travel twice and the BCS program will come to their place only once). As I said before, my goal is to try and schedule two BCS teams per year, two mid-major teams per year and one FCS team per year — along with our WAC Conference schedule. I believe this gives us the best chance to participate in a BCS Bowl if we’re able to go undefeated, while at the same time, if we don’t go undefeated, it can be an attractive schedule for our fans and give us a real shot at participating in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl on Christmas Eve. Bottom line the days of us finishing the season with a Bowl-like opponent (i.e. Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, etc.) is just less and less feasible.

And here’s what he said about the admission fee for Softball

This is a concept that we are discussing and exploring. One line of thinking is that we could charge for attendance and bring in some much needed revenue for the Athletic Department. In fact at one time, we did charge admission for Wahine softball, and unfortunately, the average attendance dropped off to approximately 150-200 fans per game. At that point, it became uneconomical for us to continue charging attendance because the cost of ticket sellers and security became equal to or greater than the revenue that was being generated. On the other hand, by not charging for admission, the average attendance has risen to approximately 1,000 fans per game this season. This has created a great atmosphere for our student-athletes — the large crowds certainly create a “friendly” environment for the Wahine and a “not-so-friendly” environment for their opponents — which I believe has helped us win at least a few games this season that might’ve gone either way if we didn’t have such large, vocal and supportive crowds. Therein lies the dilemma — do we start charging admission again and possibly driving down attendance and therefore diminishing the “friendly” environment that’s helping our team or do we keep it free and forego the net revenue that charging for admission would create? As I said, this will continue to be discussed and debated…

Hey ST and Liz,

Thanks for the b-day mention. I feel special.

This is the “3rd” season for the Wahine. Before the WAC regular season, they called it their “2nd season” of sorts. They got off to hot start in the WAC as everyone knows and haven’t looked back all regular season long.

Time to wipe the slate clean again. The pitchers in the WAC know the Wahine by now, some pitchers are more capable than others in attempting to continue pitching around the Wahine. The playing field is a little more “leveled” now, everyone has seen each other.

so who were the recipients of any awards given out to the men’s volleyball team?

Four teams will be extended an invitation to join the BIG TEN, (Missouri/Nebreska/Notre Dame/Rutgers), according to ESPN just a few minutes ago.

jm2375…
brennon dyer returns and could find himself permanently there at undersized mb.

shane welch and shane popelka two incoming freshmen stand 6’8″-6’9″. hopelfully they will be the longterm answer.

i often wondered how 6’5″ steve hunt would do at middle in a pinch. since the other fab50 recruit is a 6’5″ oh.

I don’t want to pay for a ticket. Really : )

al – hoping that the new middles will be able to handle it next year. still think Lofy is a “project”.

wonder if they’ll redshirt that new OH and eventually move him into Walker’s spot after next year.

@ 89

A-House

What kind of program? If it’s in Excel I can help.

i haven’t heard if the mbb recruit came in to town. perhaps being mother’s day and all…it could be delayed a week or two.

Winning breeds attention.

The 1000+ fans attending softball had nothing to do with free admission. Well… mostly…

Its hard to come across a team doing what the softball team has done this year. So much so that I truly believe that even if the Wahine had the same record without the HRs I still believe the crowds may not have been as big.

Truth be told. Extraordinary play brings out the bandwagoners and maybe and consistent play will keep them.

But hopefully WHEN attendance us charged for softball, sign me up for season tickets!!! 😎

It appears the pirates just fired a shot across the bow of NCAA FB.
After reading all the well thought out posts, I lean towards limiting conferences to 8 teams ONLY, If you want more make it a subdivision
Revenue generation discrepancies in MLBaseball were resolved by Big Boys writing checks and I think it was fear of the courts that caused that to happen
Beware College Football Fans!

#78 JD wants a friendly environment for the Na Wahine softball team, great, Coolen is grateful, but bottom line, how long can the UHAD carry the red line from softball, soccer, etc. Football and men basketball can ease the burden if they win and put butts in the seat, increase advertising revenue, tv revenue, etc. Winning in the low 50 percentile won’t generate a surge in ticket sales, fb at 7-7 or 6-7 just won’t appeal to the masses. Advertisers won’t ante up more money for the same level of performance, the pressure is on coach mac and coach gib to produce winners sooner than later.

UDUB drew 1600+ friday, 2000+ saturday and sunday when Stanford came to their park.

Fresno state charges $240 season tickets for lower deck seats, $15 for single game tickets. there is a lower fee for general admission.

Regarding #75

{Did you see the latest debate. DJou’s closing statement made a lasting impression on me. He said he was given a t-shirt that wrote I’m only three years old and I already owe the federal government $43,000.}

Djou did mention of course 80% of that $43,000 was accumulated under Presidents Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2. Nope didn’t think so.

It appears the pirates just fired a shot across the bow of NCAA FB.
After reading all the well thought out posts, I lean towards limiting conferences to 8 teams ONLY, If you want more make it a subdivision

How do you pass those rules when all conferences want more than 8 teams? Scheduling is hard, especially for lower budget schools, if you only have 7 conference games. The big-budget schools would just get their checkbook out and pay non-AQ teams $1 million each to play in their stadiums…they would win 99% of those games and the lower budget schools would never get enough home games and would never get ranked.

Revenue generation discrepancies in MLBaseball were resolved by Big Boys writing checks and I think it was fear of the courts that caused that to happen
Beware College Football Fans!

In MLB, you have a *small* minority of teams that have a real chance to win. In D-IA football, you will end up having 70% of the teams in one of the big conferences sharing the big money. Do 70% (or even 30%) of MLB teams have a real shot at the championship?

Garret–

NCAA should arm muscle the BCS conferences to make an even playing field. Sort like the salary cap per teams in the pro. Of course, you and I would not be having this conversation if UH was part of the big conference.

Old Diver–

I wonder how much I owe the government at this stage in life

well Coolen has now won his third, UH’s 4th, WAC crown in 19 years. Do it more often then the crowd will come, look at Na Wahine VB, winning against good competition since the Klum gym

Kazz–

Thanks to you along with Ralph, Pomai and the rest for the continued updates. I certainly would not have noticed the softball team this much if it weren’t for guys like you. Mucho mahalos. You tsaikos deserves every bit of commendation from your fellow tsaikos and UH. Again, mahalo with a shaka!

Kind of a cool and partly cloudy day. But the week should begin turning into a scorcher tomorrow! Expect temps up in the mid-70’s this Friday!!!

Dang, it is going to be like a sweatbox.

And, do well on your finals. No luck involved here! Just good old-fashioned knowledge and application.

Nice job for the VolleyBows, too! 4th is not too shabby.

Next year just need to take the big step forward to #1. Whoo-hoo!!!

Get well soon W-Doc!

Geez, nothing worse than dripping snot all over the keyboard.

I have a question, why do the fans that follow baseball not follow softball? It’s basically the same game? I have to agree with Kazz I feel the HR derby that the Na Wahine put on this year put more fans in the seats.

Also I think they need to keep it free and continue with the donation jar, I really liked seeing the kids softball teams at the last few games although a lot of them didn’t watch the game as much as I would have liked but then they are kids.

wafan

be a tita
be a hittah

Pomai,

Big fans of both baseball and softball won’t have any problems with the differences between the two sports. The differences are obvious but subtle too. Softball is faster and has the ability to provide more action than baseball due to the “faster” dirt infield and the smaller distances all around.

But I’ll tell you what the biggest difference is and it’s staring at us in the face. One sport get kane one sport get wahine. It’s as simple as that. I’m just being honest.

The second you say “softball” it’s disregarded by a lot of people as a recreational sport or a secondary sport. Gender biases will stand the test of time no matter what society, country, etc…

For those of us that are blind to it I say, more power to us. The ladies work just as hard as the guys do and with little to no recognition, let alone the financial support.

Is there a difference in the game of basketball in which the men and women play? No. In fact the differences in the game are even smaller than softball yet look at the attendance numbers nation-wide. Uconn is an exception though.. 😎 Many of us have been to both men and women’s basketball this past season and most of us have been to way more Wahine bball games this past season for um.. Various reasons.. Plus it’s easier to spend 7.00 on a ticket than 26.00.

But yes, I’m just being honest here and saying stuff others may not want to admit.

Bottom line, regardless of how some may feel about women’s softball, the FACT is a lot of those girls would put a major ____ KICKING on most of these slow pitch men teams and mountain ball teams. Heh, I’d like to see 40+ year old John Doe with the beer gut try to hit a riser or an off-speed pitch from a D1 NCAA women’s softball pitcher!!!!

Someone PM’d me on another forum why I keep mentioning non-revenue sports and not giving any “love” to the tennis teams.

Well, mens and women’s tennis is not for me, the sport itself is not for me. Not a fan of watching something in a “library-like” setting.

Kazz- I loved to watch swimming when my son was swimming and flights were cheap. Mark and Nadine Takai were our heroes.

AWESOME!!!

Can UH Na Wahine become a #1 seed, very difficult. 16 regional sites, only two were on the west coast (Pac 10), next closest sites were Waco, Texas, Norman, Oklahoma and Tempe, Arizona. There are too many pac 10 and Big 12 schools ranked ahead of UH. Eleven sites were on the east coast, south or mid east-ACC (2), SEC (4), Big East (1), Big 12 (3), big 10 (2)

Good afternoon/evening Tsaikos!

Kazz – problem with some of the other non-revenue sports, tennis in particular, is that they are hard to watch. There are no bleachers around the UH tennis courts and fans are forced to watch hanging on to the fence like little kids looking through the window at the toy store.

I like watching softball better than baseball because it’s faster and in a more intimate setting.

Ralph,

No doubt, even if Na Wahine win the WAC tournament I doubt they’ll be awarded with a #1 seed.

Maybe #12 yeah? 🙄

Yup, I am still bent out of shape from the Wahine volleyball team getting shafted last season.

Not gonna get over it anytime soon. I find it best to let it build up inside me. 😆

pomai…and the govt broke its own president’s (fdr) promise of never having to be taxed on ss income.

Al,

No doubt the pitching motion for both sports makes a big difference right?

#142 al
They also where not to touch the fund for anything other than what it was set up for, but they got around that, they have stole, yeah thats right stole one he!! of a lot of money from the fund an they won’t pay it back, so much for poli’tics.

Pomai,

I think a softball player would have a better chance of hitting or at least making good contact off a baseball pitch than a baseball player successfully making contact with a softball pitch without it going foul.

actual after golf quote while looking at the menu in the clubhouse:
golfer #1 to waitress,”what’s the difference between the ahi and opakapaka.”
golfer #2 quickly, “one has salmonella the other has cigutera (sp?).” bwhahaha.

I’ll gear this review to 2 types of people: current Zune owners who are considering an upgrade, and people trying to decide between a Zune and an iPod. (There are other players worth considering out there, like the Sony Walkman X, but I hope this gives you enough info to make an informed decision of the Zune vs players other than the iPod line as well.)

Pomai..I was kicking around an idea that if people don’t want to be in the social security system, then maybe we should allow them to opt out.
If they get into trouble, ie.. disability or other unforseen financial/health bog, then they fend for themselves or turn to charities.
It would be great if we all could have foeseen the Intels and Microsofts of the world. Then we would all be millionaires.
I wonder how it would look like if we had voluntary social security participation. I know my next door neighbor would be on welfare now if he had no social security coverage. He has a permanent disability that makes it hard for him to work/walk.

Papajoe..me thnks I got one ahi belly today that had both of them things…my tounge went tingle like crazy after one bite…had to throw it away..

furlough Fridays supposedly created to “lessen” the State deficit for 2010 and 2011; who decided to make the furlough day on Friday? Why? why could they not used “holidays” for the non-paid furlough day? what role did the HSTA play in selecting Friday?

yet, the legislature now allocates money from the Hurricane Relief fund to suspend furlough fridays. take money for one to feed the other. make sense?

how will the legislature restore funds to the Hurricane Fund? those excess funds exist because the State deemed in necessary to “over charge” participants because the Fund had no $$$ to start with and the high premiums (some 3 -4 times more than we were paying) continued until it “went out of business” – the $$$ in the Hurricane Fund are from premiums that most of us paid – it is not a tax or fees collected. Yet, as I understand, the legislature made sure, within the law, that any excess funds would belong to the State – they knew, actuarily, that if no hurricane hit, the Fund would have millions of surplus dollars – thus, giving them security and a safe haven to “use funds as they see fit”.

all the parties involved made a “mockery” of the current financial situation for the State govt – although not yet signed by Lingle, it will probably pass.

too bad, HSTA nixed the 5% pay cut which would have prevented furlough Fridays and all state employees affected would not be faced with un-paid days off. which way will the union members lose the most $$$ over 2 years – 5% pay cut or furlough Fridays?

Put the softball challenge out to Coach Trap…fundraiser game…gotta find one fast pitch pitcher for them though…not sure basebows pitchers can make the adjustment to fast pitch..

A-House..the furloughs come out to about a 8-9% pay reduction..the 5% paycuts won’t give the state enough savings. Paycuts would have to be about 8 -10% to equal the furloughs. Then again, we could just cut them enough to take care of the deficit. Simple soulution for a complex problem huh?

#160 NSF
Yeah but that would be half the fun, watching the basebows try for switch to the fast underhand pitch. But even more fun would be seeing the boys swinging away at air. LOL

A House, the best way was to eleiminate the management level. Only in Hawaii do we have 70% management and 30% teachers.

kazzy, you one good observer. maybe should be cia agent.

dang, no wonder i no can play fastpitch softball.

kazz, probably true, but like the old axiom, if you no ask, then you not going know the answer. and if you don’t know the answer, you made the wrong decision because you will never know what was decided. but with the nfa in charge, what can we expect?????

but if you or i are in charge of women athletics at UH, both of us would go out of the way to make sure we are at each game or contest. or if two games were being played at different location, we would at least try to catch portion of each game. buy most important, we would call the coaches before the game to let them know we wish them the best and will be cheering very loudly for them.

NorthShoreFan,

I saw that episode of “Sports Science” but really, I think its what you’re used to I think.

Anyone can attempt to throw a baseball overhand and make it look ok. Not everyone can attempt to throw a softball fastpitch style and make it look ok. Fastpitch pitches are awkward and are like an “aquired taste” i.e. not for everyone.

Fastpitch pitchers can throw a variety of pitchers all off the same motion which can handcuff batters acustomed to what a baseball pitcher will do.

Plus the simple fact of a ball coming at you in an upward motion requires different timing and I can imagine, and a baseball player told me this, that it’s just more “natural” the way a baseball gets pitched that it can get hit a little easier.

Kazz – so, what the Wahine are doing to the HR record is even more remarkable? 😀

Kazz…yup it is a more natural way to deliver a ball easier on the arm.
That being said, you looking at a 90 mile + ball given the distance and time it takes to get to the plate. The ball breaks a different way. Remember the King and his Court? I forget his name but he played with only three or four players and he was awesome! Full teams had a hard time beating them.

Whitey..ae age has nothing to do with hitting the ball. We have the makule league and some of them guys are really good. Hawaii used to send a team up to Vegas for the senior tournament and they had a lot of success. Some of those guys are in their 70’s and still have the passion for the game.

JM,

What the Wahine are doing this season with the homers is remarkable.

whitey,,,now dat is ball players!…they did Hawaii proud!
I cannot think of running to first base let alone chasing down a fly ball in the outfield! I get winded walking up three flights of stairs now days!..

Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!

Re-Per Diem

Question to compliance people are athletes allowed to receive mystery envelopes containing a lump sum of their per diem monies before the trip?

I don’t want to pay for a ticket…..just wanna hit the BIG ONE!

(But if I do win the contest, give the tickets to Pomai;
if I hit the BIG ONE, don’t call me Pomai! 😆 )

you can get your advance per diem if you put in your request early and i am sure coach coolen did that knowing that they would be on a long road trip.

d1, my man, are you in lv??? come on hit the big one, so i can help you drink some of the money at tg this upcoming season.

state guidelines for per diem are similar, so no problem.

NorthShore re: 156. If I were working still and the difference of getting, say $40.00 more in my paycheck, than being forced to pay Social Security taxes, most people (if not all) would opt for the increased money in the paycheck.

Then we will have the grasshopper vs. the ant – one who has not prepared for old age and one who has. And of course all the charities in the world will be overwhelmed by people who will need help. All one has to do is look around Hawaii today – charities and government can’t tackle the problem of the homeless.

Of course I think it was Jonathan Swift whose modest proposal was let the unworthy poor to die off – thus solving the problem of the homeless, the hungry, the starving.

So WassupDoc’s mantra of “the greater good” has to be what we must strive for – the brother’s keeper.

Nuff said.

i going remember that. make mine Miller’s Lite.

NCAA Manual Effective August 1, 2009

16.8.1.2.3 Meal-Allowance Limitation. All student-athletes on the same team must receive identical meal allowances on intercollegiate trips and during vacation periods when student-athletes are required to remain on the institution’s campus for organized practice sessions or competition. Such allowances may not exceed the amount provided by the institution to institutional staff members on away-from-campus trips and may not be provided for a particular meal if the student-athlete receives that meal (or its equivalent)
from another source. (Revised: 1/14/97 effective 8/1/97)

Are those doughnuts in compliance with an official NCAA mandated vendor? 🙄

hi Mrs LTUHF!!!
How nice to see you!

Good to see our long time friends tonight on the blog. Take care and have a great evening.

LizK, just missed you cause I think i retired from swimming around 1988 after putting 17 yrs into it. We neva did do a trip to Kauai, but I took the kids Hilo and Oahu about 8-10 times a year, twice a year to the mainland, and once every other yr to Japan. Those were fun times.

Glad to hear the SoftBows are safely landed. Time to go nigh nigh. TSWEET TSOFTBOW DREAMS!

Liz and Whitey: Your blogs bring back really great memories. I knew Cory. In fact, I was “assigned” to him when he was a senior. High School States were at UH that year and afterwards he did a recruiting trip to our school, which including spending time with us swimmers. Needless to say, he decided to swim for UH. He was such a great sprinter. I remember his huge hands and arm span. Looked kinda like Michael Phelps. His life was way too short. I don’t know if you keep in touch with his parents, but if you do, please let them know that I said “HI.” Thanks.

kazz…different way to throw is true.

however, i still contend that trying to hit a major leaguer’s fast ball at 95mph and one that moves a couple of inches from its original flight path as well as the one located on the inside or outside corner is still the single most difficult task in all of sports. if things are relevant to money, it is why the average major league pitcher gets paid more than any other position in baseball.

Kazz Campbell HS list a player that will play sb at UH next season-Gerika Pantohan, 3rd base.

#184 might be a good “read” for some.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

The anti-Christ. Sheesh.

Great Morning All!

Glad the SoftBows made a soft landing.

whitey,

The Orleans….gotta work on loosening up the cr4ps table! 🙄

Hope the Tsai-ko Volunteers have a lot of fun at the PIAA Golf Tournament!

It took the Na Wahine 17 hours to get to their destination in Las Cruces, maybe next year the WAC needs to pick a neutral site that is destination friendly. A major hub with hotels and playing field close by would be nice.

This daily countdown has NMSU as the #115th best team in D-IA. It will be interesting to see NMSU’s new spread offense, though it might take a year or two for them to get recruits that fit the offense and be able to run it smoothly.

New Mexico State has had only three winning seasons (1992, 1999, 2002) over the last 30 years, a stretch of incompetence rivaled only by Kent State and Vanderbilt, each of whom have a pair of winning campaigns over the same span. Temple also had three winning seasons heading into 2009, but the Owls broke out with a nine-win finish a year ago.

In an effort to improve upon his team’s awful offense, Walker tabbed Mike Dunbar as N.M.S.U.’s new offensive coordinator. Dunbar has coordinated offenses at major stops in the past, spending time at Minnesota (2007-8), California (2006) and Northwestern (2002-5). Dunbar was fired at Minnesota not for his failures — though the Gophers did struggle at times on that side of the ball — but because Tim Brewster wanted to move away from Dunbar’s spread philosophy to a more pro-style attack. However, Dunbar has had success with the spread at a school like Northwestern, which, like New Mexico State, was forced to move the ball without a commensurate talent to its opposition.

Aloha Kakahiaka!

Congrats to Rep. Mark Takai for his National Guard honor! I cannot copy from fb from iPhone so perhaps ST or another fb friend could snag it for a repost.

Have a great Tuesday and hiho!

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