Back to business
It’s back to business . . .
• For head coach Norm Chow, who returned to Honolulu last night. He didn’t sleep much because he was back in his office before dawn this morning. Chow is learning that the head coaching position, at UH, comes with a lot of responsibilities. Early last week, he signed a check to purchase fertilizer for the grass practice field.
• For quarterback Cayman Shutter, who was competing with teammates during unsupervised workouts this morning. Shutter remains on suspension from team activities until his July 20 trial on a DUI accusation. But this is officially the offseason, and there are no team activities until the start of training camp in August, so there are no restrictions on Shutter working out on his own with teammates. He is making use of the opportunity.
• For former UH defensive tackle Vaughn Meatoga, who was released by the Washington Redskins yesterday following the rookie mini-camp. Meatoga has to wait until tomorrow to clear waivers. “It wasn’t the right fit,” agent Michael Hoffman said of Meatoga’s brief stay with the Redskins. “He has the ability to play in this league.” The positive side is the release occurred early enough that Meatoga might be able to catch on to another team before the start of OTAs. As per most NFL contracts, Meatoga gets to keep the signing bonus from the Redskins.
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Happy birthday to Avis.
tasi!
Good luck Vaughn
Top 10.
Morning all!
Top 5
Coach is working hard as promised. Can’t wait for the season.
Great Morning All from the 9th Island!
Hope Finals were successful.
Best of luck to the Warrior NFL hopefuls.
Back to bed to catch up some zzzzzssss….
GOOD MORNING HAWAII!
VOTE! (Looks like some movement for LA and FL)
Best to Vaughn Meatoga!
Good morning, again!
Happy birthday, Avis!
kden morning 808
top 10
Any news on Sam Feheko with the Eagles? There seems to be no information on him yet.
Mr. Tsai has Maar signed with UH volleyball?
Good morning Tsaikos!
Good luck to Vaughn.
Good luck to all taking final exams.
Let’s silence the SEC whiners and vote for Steph!
Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂
Good luck to Vaughn Meatoga!
Welcome back, Coach Chow!
Another day, another chance to vote:
http://www.seniorclassaward.com/vote/softball_2012/
Good morning! Best wishes to Meatoga! Go Warriors! Go Wahine! Vote for Steph!
d1:
9th island, eh!
win back many of the $$$ we left there about 4 weeks ago – and I do mean many!!!
Actually Wash D.C. is the best place to live for a young man
like Vaughn. Hope he gets an offer to play where the sun
always shine…
Darn…I typed in “Wash D.C. is NOT the best place to live” etc
but it came out opposite. Then my internet suddenly shut down
when I tried to immediately correct it. Hmmmmmmmmm….
Government running ads to get ready for a BIG emergency.
Stock up on water and stuff…
Meanwhile they are buying hollow point ammunition to use
in America in a civil war they expect…hmmmmmm….
Lucky we live in Hawaii.
Hope the Redskins signing bonus carries Meatoga thru to his next stop?
Happy Birthday, Avis.
Guess the SEC don’t follow softball program like they do football. GO WAHINES!!
The reverse auction for parking passes has a glitch….it’s 4am here in Seoul…nice, real nice…
Good morning folks!
London…Tokyo…Seoul…Wow! Your job really takes you around the world, 22Seoul! 😉
Hey BG, yes the job’s good, which I am thankful for. In this economic environment any job is a good job.
The Big East commissioner has resigned. Boise State and San Diego State officials and fans must be wondering whether their anticipated move to the Big East now makes sense since the AQ system will be dismantled and the Big East still has to negotiate a TV contract. Hmmm…. Plus all those longer trips. Wonder if they can stay put in the Mountain West without paying a penalty to the BE.
With TCahng back in the islands (I think), it’s great to have a Tsaiko in Korea to represent.
Colleges Football’s best passing and catching duos.
1. Duo: Matt Barkley to Robert Woods (and Marqise Lee)
Buzz: That brings us to the Barkley-Woods connection, which should be the next pass-catch duo from the same team to go in the first round. Barkley almost certainly will leave USC with most of the school’s major passing records, and he also could leave with a national title ring. Woods had 111 receptions for 1,292 yards and 15 touchdowns last season, and has 176 catches for 2,084 yards and 21 TDs in his two-year career. He likely would’ve been even more productive last season if not for Lee. Lee had 73 receptions for 1,143 yards and 11 scores; he had 46 catches and seven TDs in the Trojans’ final five games. That sets up the big conundrum for USC opponents this season: Who do you double?
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We’ve got 117 days to get ready.
-Lift weights!
-Run!
-Watch game film!
-Study the playbook!
-Practices techniques!
-Do cross training!!
Repeat each one for 115 days!
Absolutely NO FRICKEN EXCUSES!!!
Good morning Tsaikos!!!
Belated thanks to Stretch, Mrs. C, and all the others that went into planning the Karaoke night….Good times.
Nice to see old friends once again…. 🙂
Happy Birthday Avis…..
TCahng=TChahng??? It’s been a while…would like to see him and his nephew back at the t-gates.
And for all the support she’s given the Tsai-ber network…HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AVIS!
Good morning (J)J…and it’s time to get some work done…bbl
Happy Birtday, Avis!
Ralph- never fear where the Wahine are ranked. Never hope to get a weaker team to help us advance in the playoffs. Who cares what the NCAA throws at us! Don’t buy into the hype! Leave all that nonsense to the prognosticators.
True champions take on any opponent. Anytime! Anywhere!
God I wish the NCAA sets up Hawaii in a bracket where Hawaii must face every single top team in the nation! I want California, Arizona, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee! Right on up to the championship game! I wanna leave NO DOUBT!
No sked Ralph! No sked!!
Happy Birthday Avis
morning again howzit going Hawaii, just pau voting and these are the results as of 5 minutes agao.
Name School Votes
Valerie Arioto California 18.9%
Katelyn Boyd Arizona State 4%
Mallory Duran-Sellers Southern Illinois 3.5%
Julie Fernandez Lehigh 3.6%
Ashley Hansen Stanford 3.4%
Michelle Moultrie Florida 6.3%
Christi Orgeron Louisiana 7.9%
Cassie Reilly-Boccia Alabama 18%
Stephanie Ricketts Hawai‘i 30.8%
Niki Williams Washington
#10 his mother confirmed it and it was all over her facebook page everybody was congratulating her but their is nothing on the philadephia Eagles website and today his moms facebook page is completely off something is not right she probably jumped the gun as alway’s and can mike cherry make sure he confirms his report and get his facts straight before reporting it on the news.
Nanakuli:
Nope. Haven’t heard anything since spoke to Linda Fehoko.
CONGRATS to the warrior men and wahine ladies for the wins this weekend and for accending to numba 1 in the WAC. continue the winning ways now
waiting to hear how much the wahine has gone up in da ratings
on a side note mahalo to all those that made cinco de mayo a great event. once again with the pink side the event was fabulous. fun does not describe it……. just had to be there. took me almost all sunday to recover.
e kala mai kudo to stretch and mrsC … excellent
Linda fehoko is full of it that baloney.
But, yeah, I didn’t double-check, either.
Cindy told me Fehoko reached an agreement with the Eagles, so I called the mom.
He’s a nice kid, so I hope it works out.
Players’ parents are usually reliable. I hope that’s the case.
Off to Lihue to play in the HHSAA High School State Golf Tournament. Will be at Wailua for the next three days. IMUA KAMEHAMEHA !
You guys should sign up for Matt Barkley’s tweets. He’s witty.
Duffer:
Best of luck.
Haleakala #25 – follow up on USA Today
“Marinatto was forced to resign by university presidents after growing unrest among member schools and after continual defections, failed TV negotiations and geographically puzzling expansion, including San Diego State, Houston, Southern Methodist and Boise State. One official from a Big East school who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation said Marinatto’s ouster was long overdue, citing the lack of a clear strategy and poor communication. The official said Marinatto’s departure has been on the agenda for some time.
It’s now unclear whether some of those new members will pull out from their commitments since Big East will not be given automatic access in the future Bowl Championship Series format, which begins in 2014. BCS officials will decide next month about a probably four-team playoff; automatic bids for the six major conference champions will not be part of the agreement. Revenue distribution will be a contentious debate in upcoming negotiations, and it’s questionable whether the Big East deserves to be among the top conferences receiving the larger shares.”
after watching The Avengers yeterday at Windward Mall, using my brand new “smart phone”, which giving me all kinds of problems, or is it me that’s the problem, I sent a “hello” message in the blog.
it appeared on my screen, but now it’s no where to be found on the blog – ha, me and computers and now smart phones just fail to connect!
Jesse:
As of last week, Maar had not signed his letter of intent. Or if he signed it, he didn’t fax it.
I know he was busy with the Provincial championships, but that’s completed.
I wasn’t able to reach him last week.
I’m not sure if this is a concern or not. Should know more about it in the next couple of days. UH had some recruits in this past weekend.
A-House:
It showed up on the blog, but it was tagged as suspicious because you used lower case for your name.
So it got zapped.
Then after a check, the addresses matched.
So, oops, li dat.
Saw this on ESPN (Report)
“Consequently, the Big East is left with this mishmashed mess, an Ellis Island of football expats, their basketball carry-ons, and signs it could get worse before it gets better. There are rumors that San Diego State and Boise State want to make like Texas State and UT-San Antonio and bag their new league before even playing a game in it; and that Connecticut still has eyes for the ACC and Louisville for the Big 12.”
Where is GARRET when we need him to make sense of what is going on?
Boise and San Diego State should remain in the MWC.
Especially if there’s a four-team playoff because that would pretty much eliminate the Big East.
If BSU & SDSU want back in to the MWC, they need to make some concessions, like a written contract to stay put for at least 5 years (or face a large monetary penalty that will not be paid by the new conference), no travel subsidies, no more smurf turf at BSU. Not sure how much of this is enforceable.
ST #51 – how will the MWC with 12 football teams affect our scheduling?
What happens if BSU and SDSU abandon the Big East assuming the Big East folds (BSU and SDSU doesn’t have to pay the penalty for leaving)?
14 team football league?
Just to make it more confusing, BYU doesn’t want to be an independent?
jm2375: I have no problems with the blue turf IF the BSU players wear white uniforms.
I doubt BSU and SDSU will make a final decision about going through with their planned move until after they see how much money they can earn as Big East members. An exclusive contract renegotiation window between the Big East and ESPN begins in September. I can’t remember whether it’s for 30 days or 60 days, but afterwards the Big East will be free to negotiate with all of the networks, including NBC which is rumored to want Big East games for its new NBC Sports Network (formerly Versus). So by the end of the year, BSU and SDSU should know for sure whether the big payoff they expected from joining an eastern-based conference is going to materialize or not.
Normally that would be too late for them to notify the MWC that they changed their minds and want to stay for 2013, but seriously, is the MWC going to turn them down? Not a chance.
Happy Birthday, Avis! Winnah winnah chicken dinnah-picker!
Go Vaughn! Find a BETTER FIT…!!!
thanks, ST:
I used “lower case” because I do not know how to capitalize using my new handy, dandy smart phone!
I guess i will need remidial training on how to use this new gadget.
tommui:
if the Big East folds for football, why would BSU and SDS have to pay a penalty?
Were they not in the Big East only for football?
I should listen to Mrs A-House who constantly reminds me “why is it yours to question why, yours it but to do and die”.
Brashton Satele cut by Cowboys
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4692678/cowbys-cut-brashton-satele?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
got a good feeling that the wahine softbows will move up into the top 16 this week.
okay…let bsu and sdsu back in the mwc.
hawaii gets a reprieve by not having to pay travel subs to the bouncebackers.
byu comes in the back door same scenario.
hawaii also gets to bring the mbb team to the mwc.
life is good.
12 team league = two divisions.
another good thing.
Hawaii Jake Sisto, a senior from Anaheim, Calif. (Cypress HS), named WAC pitcher of the week. He pitched seven innings in a 5-3 win over New Mexico State. Sisto foiled the Aggie order for much of the game, working seven complete innings while allowing one run on five hits with four strikeouts. He picked up his league-best eighth win of the season.
Hawaii Karem Guravska, a senior from Riga, Latvia (Cerritos College), named track and field POW. She captured the javelin title at the Oxy Invitational in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday with a career-best throw of 150 feet, four inches (45.82 meters). Her mark currently leads the WAC and ranks No. 2 all-time in the event in school history. Guravska also competed in the high jump, posting the ninth-best mark in the conference so far this season.
Hawai‘i’s Kelly Majam has been named the Verizon Western Athletic Conference Hitter of the Week, respectively, for April 30-May 6. This is the first honor of the season and third of her career for Majam and the first-ever honor for Almond.
Majam, a junior centerfielder from Pine Valley, Calif., hit .800 with three doubles, a home run and four RBI as the Rainbow Wahine swept the series at Utah State to clinch their fourth WAC regular-season title. She had at least two hits in all three games and posted a 1.400 slugging percentage and a .769 on-base percentage for the week. In the second game of the series that clinched the WAC title, Majam tied her career game-high with four hits, as she went 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles with two runs scored and two RBI. In the series finale, Majam was 2-for-2 and tied her career-high with three runs scored to go with two RBI and a solo home run.
delete after Majam rest of sentence ….. mahalo
shoots I mean third paragrpah last sentence
Matt Sisto? koakane, still hung-CHOW? 😉
#19 Ipu Man just a thought. Washington DC is probably one of the BEST places for a young man his age to live. Its 7 women to every one man there. LOL I’d love to see Vaughn get picked up and given a chance to prove himself. Great kid.
Conversely, Anchorage isn’t too good for a single guy.
A-House:
I know what you mean.
My top posts don’t capitalize, either.
Now, if only ScottM could get me that iPhone . . .
LAVON COLEMAN RB, 5-11, 210 lbs.
(Lompoc HS – Lompoc, CA)
(Offered Scholarship)
Thanks to Sportsbow.
http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42194
A-House #59 Sorry – should have made it clearer, that should Big East fold, BSU and SDSU would not have to pay the penalty clause.
If they should abandon ship now and the Big East Conference is still in existence, they would have to pay big bucks – just like TCU when it jumped ship without playing a game in the Big East.
I forgot how much the penalty was, but for some reason, I thought it was about 20M – which is a heck of a lot of change.
I thought when Meatoga chose to sign with the Redskins he and his agent said it was the best fit? Oh well, I don’t trust that organization at all anyway. Here’s hoping that Vaughn finds a new “best fit.”
I do hope that Jim D is successful in defending Hawaii not be tagged with all the “travel expenses” for all football teams coming to Hawaii.
al: if UH’s mens BB team goes into the MWC, will UH be tagged with travel expenses? Appears Craig Thompson is hell bent on making Hawaii pay through the nose!
And we think our pro players are overpaid…
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/05/07/152200935/soccer-stars-are-paid-the-best-and-indian-cricketers-out-earn-nfl-players
didn’t pay attention at first, but ST probably hit it on the head when he said wait till the big east schools have to travel to and from boise. Basically boise has air service from Alaska, United, Southwest, and Delta, but all of those flights are serviced from the west except for Denver. Right now going from Memphis to Boise is over 5 hours with connection and the fares range from $650-$1170 round trip. The schools will have no problem paying for the air, but it will be most intereting for their traveling fans.
#36
what is interesting is that you just pointed it out, look to the source. what i find befuddling or amusing, depending where you stand, fehoko quit Texas Tech because he was unhappy about playing time etc., by the 2nd game of the season. he then plays in a post season bowl game in AZ representing the school he left, that was interesting, Casa Del Sol game or something.
there has been no press release from the Eagles or his agent in NYC, so it is what it is. funny that local media would run with the story…….without verification. all in all, he’s a good kid, and hope he does get a fair shake…..
GO WARRIORS
GO WILDCATS
Delta will service Boise out of Minneapolis
and we going save a ton of money to not pay air subsidy to boise after this year.
Wahine rpi going be #20.
If the redskins can drop Vaugh Meatoga, so they can sign other players, maybe the MWC might want to cut Hawaii so they can
welcom back Boise, etc…
50. Tom Mui-
I’ve said it all along:
Boise Not Going.
=)
ratings out and wahines 12 in coaches voting, 14 in ESPN ratings and NCAA has them at 20. NCAA wot up with dat?
63: Al
Remove the, “M” and place an “A” between the “W” and “C” and we’re right back to where we left off in ’99. =)
Sooo, if it costs that much from the East to Boise, and visa versa, why not demand subsidies just as MWC did of Hawaii. Yes it is on the continent, but it seems that the cost to travel to and from Boise (East) is more than or equal to what it costs to come to HI.
Is the answer that we are “not pretty enough” and BSU (and SDSU for that fact) more pretty?
coaches and ncaa polls come out tomorrow.
that should be coaches and espn poll come out tomorrow.
Koakane- I know what you mean. We need to be ranked lower! Preferably LAST in the entire nation!
I wanna see our Wahine systematically destroy each and every best ranked team in the nation! Then, when the Wahine win it all and the NCAA goes to rank us, we tell them, “Naaaaaaaahhh! Take us off your silly list. We don’t want to be part of it. Go back and play with yourselves!!”
#94 ajoe
Travel to B$U – don’t the BE teams travel by charter? I’m pretty sure they have enough money to do that. I mean, besides UH, what other FBS teams don’t travel by charter?
John Marinatto is an idiot! He ran the Big East into the septic cavern it is today. He completely destroyed all the work and foundation Dave Gavitt
and Mike Tranghese built over the years.
The Big East has been on AQ life support status for a long time. They would’ve been canceled long ago were it not for Mike’s inside connections with the BCS (who constantly gave the BE reprieves) When Mike left John had no ties to call on.
Worst off, the Big East is a basketball league. Longtime powerhouse basketball members could care less about football.
Poor leadership with no direction has led to crap the Big East is today.
And even worst yet, braddah wen quit today. Neva even bother to flush the toilet and wash his hands. Just dig!
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/john-marinatto-resigns-commissioner-big-east-conference-joseph-a-bailey-iii-takes-interim-basis-article-1.1073695
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A few new pieces of information that surfaced today on the BSU/SDSU/Big East front:
– Both schools have until the end of June to back out of the Big East deal without paying a big exit fee. After that date it could cost them millions to change their mind and stay in the MWC. So I take back what I said in #56 above; if they’re staying, they can’t wait too long to make a decision.
– ESPN’s Big East blogger, Andrea Adelson, was quoted on a Boise radio show saying the conference has only been offered $75 million annually for football broadcasting rights WITH Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia on board. With those schools leaving, my guess is that the offer could be as low as $60 million. Split 14 ways, that’s only $4 million per school, a lot less than the $6-10 million windfall BSU and SDSU have been expecting.
– BSU’s estimated travel expense in the Big East would be nearly $4 million per year compared to $2.2 million in the MWC. Presumably the math for SDSU would be similar.
– BSU and SDSU will likely each earn half a million dollars more per year in NCAA basketball tournament money by staying in the multi-bid MWC than by joining the single-bid WAC and Big West.
Taking all of the above together, it’s not surprising that BSU’s and SDSU’s move to the Big East is no longer considered a sure thing.
HawaiiMongoose,
Good stuff. I wonder what the MWC’s perspective is on a possible return of BSU and SDSU? It definitely makes them a more attractive conference should they return. Hmmm . . . it’ll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Haw’nMongoose . . .
Whoa. Going to be an interesting two months.
Breaking News:
Boise St. and SDSU join the WAC. The two Texas schools stay put in the WAC. BYU re-joins the WAC. Fresno St. Nevada, AirForce, and Hawaii follow to round out the rebirth of the new 9 team WAC.
MWC tries to poach teams from the sunbelt, begs Benson to form a “super conference”
Hehe….what if???
4*d wide receiverd sebastian larue has been offered by hawaii.
what happened? my fat fingers got in the way. sorry.
here’s video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96AfhZUqtU
Chargers cut LABOY…hope he catches on somewhere
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/05/07/chargers-cut-travis-laboy/
…and a crespi hs safety, brandon arnold.
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=5590235
good one moocher. haha
A song for the big east and the iddy biddy wac…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyeP_WnPhyU
happy birthday to avis…even if you never picked me in a drawing.
And Happy Birthday Avis!
And thank you for picking me (twice?) in a drawing!
JMHO that Warriors probably have virtually no shot at landing WR Sebastian LaRue (2nd highest WR prospect in Cali)…..but I give them credit for at least trying (just like with Su’a Cravens)….
http://hscalifornia.scout.com/a.z?s=153&p=8&c=1&nid=5503046
Brandon Arnold’s teammate S Tyler Foreman looks like the more highly sought after of the 2 DBs….
http://hawaii.scout.com/a.z?s=219&p=8&c=1&nid=5311232
Let’s win with the ones that do want to be here, first. Once we do that, we’ll be cherry picking from the Blue Chip Tree.
stranger things have happened and the possibilities always exists.
boise fans drive a lot to away games cause they are within reasonable distance. from 2013, the shortest drive will be san diego, 16 hurs. dallas is only 1 day 3 hours away driving.
they can fly to reno and take an 8 hour drive to boise and hope it doesn’t snow and close the roads.
at least the drive from san diego to dallas is only 21 hours.
don’t you just love it, visuals ahda donks coma crawlin.
yes i do. yes sir, I surely do. 😀
i still tink we jus gotta slap da heads coupla times, an a few extras fo good measha!
voted. yes i did.
imma thinkin dat da MWC is keepin all pipteen eyes on us, watchin da Chowman, wondern ifn we gonna be all spooky an stuffs come 9/1.
as A-joe says in his most polished Kau english, a n let me interpret fo him, “yu fricken right we gonna be mean mean mean.”
so, each phase of Coach Chow’s progress to first game looks good. I don’t mean that everything is ok, but mean that he and his assistants are putting together the team with much thought. Now it gets very interesting because most of da warriors had a taste of what to expect and what is expected. I think most of da warriors will accept the challenges to prepare for fall practice, so kinda expect fall practices to be quicker with more impact. Too bad that most practices are scheduled to be closed sessions.
the incoming recruit class looks good on paper and they may surprise a lot of people. I hope they do.
duffer, how is the course shaping up for the team?? Assume was windy. Best wishes and enjoy the HHSAA Championship on Kauai.
The course looks real good! Not that windy.
OK, course management and get good night rest.
Good luck, duffer!
Wow, spam getting super-sized.
The Star-Advertiser photo gallery today shows the visiting cruise ship Disney Wonder… a medium large ship around the size of the local Pride of America ship. Nice photos.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/multimedia/photo_galleries/20120506_Island_Images_Disneys_Wonder_Maiden_Voyage.html
I was wondering if there were going to be more voyages in conjunction with the Disney Aulani resort and Disneyland in LA. Looks like only one other sailing later this year, at this time.
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Avis
Happy Birthday. Hope you had a good one.
Duffer
good luck to you and your team.