By the numbers

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Good Luck to all those being recruited: players and coaches!

Is head coaching search progressing? Any idea when they’ll name someone?

Silky Voice of the Gorn. Thank you for your posts. Very interesting points. You should re-post it on this new blog.

Wow made it in the top ten!!!!! Nice

Good Sunday, all!

From reported candidates, Banker is likely the best choice. Experience….you win with defense….it is reported he wants it…..need a fresh face….the turnaround will take time, but theycan win next year. Special teams as it relates to field position was really bad, from KO to punts. Technique in some cases was bad in several phases. This program needs vision and energy….the roster can win with some tweeks along with a leader—I hope the call comes soon get these kids together….get your position coaches in place and starting the marketing plan to get folks into that stadium….I have so much hope it is not funny. Go Warriors!!!!

Re: Change of Seasons, Dec 10

#180-Pride

Dino Babers must have majored in Speech at UH. Only one, “I mean….” and “You know……” in his presentation!!!!! He will do well at Eastern Illinois and make UH proud!!

As was determined last night at Murphys no matter who da coach, I still will be in my seat cheering and crying for da Warriors win or lose dats my team.

Hope the screening, selection, overview, management, and assorted keep-em-busy-so-they-feel-like-they-have-a-voice-and-it-appears-inclusion-is-important committees work efficiently and quickly to identify and hire a coach whose personality and philosophy closely matches what is needed to ensure success.

Only 11 to 14 initial scholarships to offer? Do the 5 or so commits UH has already count towards that number? UH has been offering a number of scholarships to players under the interim staff also, which could cut that number even more.

This is something extremely critical to consider during the coaching search. If the new coach only has 5-9 scholarships to offer, there is no way to get the players he will want if he wants to change the systems on offense and defense. The players on the roster now were recruited for specific offensive and defensive systems/roles, where other systems might look for different types of players.

I cannot imagine a new coach ever having just 14 scholarships to offer. However, from what ST writes, it looks like the number could be quite a bit smaller than 14. That would seem to indicate to me that if the new coach wants to change either the offensive or defensive system, we could see some players being cut like what many coaches do when they take over at a school.

wafan wot who how when why how come not sue too bad neva mind dont no whaddad up and finally m-i-c-k-e-y m-o-u-s-eereeee

Banker looks to me like the DC of a declining program (remember that OSU lost to Sacramento State this year on its way to a 3-9 record) who sees an opportunity to get out before one more losing season results in his boss, himself and the rest of the staff being fired. Plus he’s never been a head coach in his career.

As Obi-wan would say, I have a bad feeling about this.

Just askin – why do we want another Def Coord as the new Head Coach ?

Wasn’t the previous HC a very successful DC ? What happened to him ?

Could never understand how some coaches got not one, but two chances to fail miserably as head coaches. Buddy Teavens (Tulane and Stanford) and Keith Gilbertson (Cal & UW) come to mind.

#20 – Koakane – I wen pau bout 11:30 had for go home so I no turn into one frog LOL

Southern Utah beat a UNLV team which had its way with UH by 20 points. Still brings back bad memories. I’m trying to move on, though…..

Koakane . . .

#23, I jus lik em sumbode gud fas lik wun bannee kine. If dey wen ack fassa mebbe dey woda had moa peepo foa chuse frum. Ahhh, wata unda da brej aw redy. Da UH way, yeah?

With the addition of Kalei and Vicki, Na Wahine should do well in WAC play. Their front line rotation will get stronger and Kuehu will be better in the front court.

pomai you getting to be one night owl parte animal cheeeewoooooo

wafan whom ever is chosen, selected, anointed, given the job I hope bring back that fire to the program we fans used to get excited about.

Former UH coach said that no matter how good you are on defense you still need to outscore people to win games.

One of the many Dick Tomeyism:

“All we have to do on offense is punt.”

I could never understand that statement. He had a lot of confidence in his defenses. Still puzzling.

Nevada plays 22 ranked Southern Miss who beat Houston ending their BCS dreams. Anyone going?

…not the So. Miss AD!

HawaiiMongoose #25,

Unfortunately we will probably be stuck with a coach that has no head coaching experience. So with that stated, you need to look for the best Assistant/Associate coach there is out there and with that said, I think Banker is one of the top one’s out there that still has strong ties to the Hawaii recruiting grounds. The name would be Duane Akina.

The final sentence should read,

The other name would be Duane Akina.

#45 Shoko

S. Mississippi lost their head coach (as did Houston– went to Texas A&M).

Assistants and coordinators from these teams– especially offense are being heavily courted and by the bowl will probably be hired somewhere else.

DPK,

Great Morning!

…and as a former collegiate athlete, I wonder how he ended up in that discipline? 😈

maddog, you said it! VISION AND ENERGY!!

ps. whats with commenting on what number comment you are?? who the f*ck cares

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJwgqe975rw

(That was for you, “Dave”)

Congratulations Nicholas Chelimo…

better luck next time Patrick Ivuti.

ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs:

Mahalo to the organizers of the Tsaiko Xmas Party. If we had a more successful season, I think things would have been even more festive and with the outlook for the coming season. Unfortunately, we will have to be content with “maybe next season” hopes.

d1 & Ralph

I think Whitey scouting the dark side for a point guard and a shooting guard.

JMO

#1 recruiting need: HC

#69

Hopefully there are not numerous reports of stolen buses

Warrior fans…you got to BELIEVE. Who the heck is this guy who says football is not important? Wow we have one game in town…and to him it is like Dancing with the Stars? Come on!!!!

Can’t complain if they hire Norm Chow either.

If he doesn’t make too much more than our illustrious guvernor…

C’mon, you guys should know by now that when an academic-like individual speaks out against athletics and it’s financial and overall role in the university, it’s all bullshhheeet.

Much like this one annoying lady yelling at the big screen at the SSC last night during an NCAA ad. She kept screaming about “what about money for the performing arts”?

Dumb ****.

But hey, it’s freedom of speech right?

I forget that freedom of speech has given and ALLOWED the rest of us to see who the REAL idiots are in our society.

Where are you getting this news about the prof, Kevin?

I don’t see it on this blog…

Ipu Man,

I was too was trying to figure out what D1 and DPK were referring to. It’s a link in NYUH’s post #32.

A-house,

The next article regarding such individual I MIGHT care about probably will be an obituary.

The world is too crowded as it is.

Proves the ivory tower theory AGAIN. Guess he doesn’t read much outside his chosen field. How many studies have shown that success in athletics relates to more money, more applications, etc, etc. for the school. Besides, how can he diss all those student-athletes he has in class…

Honor System

Sounds good! We go try ’em at the Stadium, too! 👿

DrDoc and I planned to stop by Murphy’s last night after the five-set Regional final, but a combination of having been up for 16 hours and the carpy weather made us decide to go directly home instead. A normal 30 minute drive from lower Manoa to Kailua actually took nearly 45 minutes because of two accidents and really heavy rains in los montanas.

BACK TO HIRING PROCESS: At the end of a community meeting yesterday morning, I was able to speak with State Senator Jill Tokuda who chairs the committee overseeing higher education about the hiring process. She made it very, very clear that the Legislature is NOT directly involved in the hiring process for any administrative position in the UH System – especially in the Department of Athletics.

The Legislature appropriate CIP funds for physical improvements, but the department’s operating funds outside of HGEA and UPW employees assigned to the Lower Campus are the its responsibility through ticket sales, student fees, and donations/contributions/sponsorships.

Does that mean that there is no communication between Downtown and Manoa? Of course not, but the the Downtowners have no more influence than any other group or individuals.

The decision to hire a new president or chancellor or athletics director or coach is set on campus because of the semi-autonomous status of the UH System.

Again, the Advisory Committee meets late Monday afternoon – probably in the third floor conference room. How they’ll set the criteria & evaluate the applications are not known at this time. Meanwhile, Donovan is going through his own set of decision-making standards so that when the Committee meets up with him later in evening, the process is set in full motion.

The authority is in Donovan’s hands although he will certainly be considering the input made by others in the System as well as people who have taken the time to contact him directly with their suggestions and thoughts. Frankly, I have no idea if or how the anonymous comments by people who post on the various sports blog will have any impact.

Finally, here in Hawai`i, there are explicit and clear laws and administrative procedures on hiring public employees – about the only exception to these are staff members working directly for legislators and high-ranking administrators. However, even these folks have to have the skills to do a good job. Comparing the University of Hawai`i’s head coach hiring methods to other US schools – state institutions or private – makes no sense. If you do not like the methods used, then work with your legislators to change the hiring laws.

rb,

Been following Hal Mumme off and on since he landed in D3 ball in Texas. He took a struggling program at McMurry U. to the playoffs this year with a 2nd place finish in their conference.

He is leading them up to D2 next year with his Air Raid offense.

One really interesting thing early this season when they played FCS Sam Houston St. and were WAY overmatched was that he kept going for it on 4th down…even from deep in his own territory!

When asked to explain it he basically said that SHS spreads the ball around so well that he thought he could help his defense out by shortening the field that they had to defend! 😯

A-House:

From the UH System website:

M.R.C. Greenwood became the 14th president of the University of Hawai‘i in August 2009. She unites strong belief in the exceptional caliber of the UH System with determination to develop the university’s voice as a national leader in higher education.

The Department of Athletics in January, 2008, was in turmoil. June Jones had left, Herman Frazier had been fired, the Chancellor had been on the job less than six months, David McClain had given notice that he would be leaving his position by June, 2009, and the entire UH System was just beginning to feel the economic downturn.

However, as reported elsewhere, the decision to offer McMackin was a collective decision of the people who were trying to get things moving forward. In retrospect, it turned out to be a bad one, but, at the time, there was not much choice.

By the way, for those of you who want to know how many grants any professor has brought into the UH System, that information is available. Contact Gregg Takeyama, Director of Communications and Government Affairs – his phone number is available at www dot hawaii dot edu slash dir – and ask for help in tracking down the data.

Funny scene from the movie THE PROGRAM: Faculty academic rep was cutting down and criticizing the money and emphasis on football in front of a panel of university administrators. The football coach shot back, “When’s the last time you had 80,000 people attend a frickin chemistry experiment?” Just a movie, but it does make a point.

The Flutie Effect, it is called?

Capitolist/WassupDoc:

Just curious – Are the coaches participants of the State retirement system?

2nd century, too!

How much did UH get for paying Mack $1.1 Million all these years? Lots of negative publicity starting with the remarks about Notre Dame. And several “bombs” in his public speaking at community events (where he was an invited guest speaker).

I think some of the faculty did a lot more for less than Mack.

You know, I just feel so sad about Khloe and Lamar having to leave LA.

Tom & Others

Check out the following story in CIVIL BEAT – there is a paywall, but anyone can read one story a day.

http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2011/12/09/14154-how-much-will-uh-football-coach-earn-in-retirement/

Here’s a brief excerpt from the story:

Despite a seven-figure salary that ranked him as Hawaii’s highest-paid state government employee the past four years, University of Hawaii Football Coach Greg McMackin won’t be drawing a state pension anywhere near his working pay.

That’s in part due to a cap the state’s public pension system adopted last year, as well as the fact that McMackin only worked for the university for six years. Retirement benefits are based on an employee’s highest three years of pay and length of service.

But he might still get nearly $30,000 a year out of a Hawaii pension and, because he’s 66, could take it anytime.

Manoa2:

Truly, I was not aware that the UH-Manoa “administration’s policy” was that each academic department had to be self sufficient and raise its own operational funds (I will assume from donations, grants, and awards) for all department expenses including salaries for all staff( clerical, maintenance, etc.) and professors.

How well is each department doing? Should the “administration” publish each department’s (college) end-of-year fiscal position/statement as they do for athletics? If a department has a short-fall, how does the “administration” make up the deficit? Which academic department is the most successful? Least successful? Every year, the College of Business Administration sends me a letter soliciting funds.

By the way, do you know how the “administration” will allocate the millions that were pledged/collected in their 10-year drive from individuals/business community.

Pensions:

I believe the Federal law stipulates that upon completing 5 years an individual is entitled to 50% of those funds.

Further, if you continue working, say 7 years, you recieve 70% until 10 years after which you a fully vested in your pension.

Perhpas this a contributing factor why Coach Mack would receive nearly $30,000/year in retirement pay. This would be $2,500 monthly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg

Yep.

Unreal.

For those of you who are interested in getting the current status of funding – private as well as public – that information is available from several different sources including the three public employee unions representing UH System employees, the Operating & Capital Budgets, the Board of Regents, and the Department of Budget & Fiscal Services.

Funding for higher education comes from many different sources, but public institutions such as UH receive significant f$$$$ from state income taxes & the GET for core/basic coverage; however, research in any field almost always is covered by grants & subsidies from other sources – including federal dollars, taxes on booze, oil, ciggiebutts, etc., foundations, donations, endowments, etc., etc.

The difference between the Department of Education and the University of Hawai`i System is the latter’s semi-autonomous status. Don’t forget that this has only been in effect for a decade so that how things were done “back when” cannot be compared to how higher education is funded today.

As I’ve pointed out several times over the past several months, the impact on the UH System – primarily the Manoa campus – in losing earmarks along with reductions in federal grants and private donations because of the economy and the teapartytypes in the US House has had a profound impact on moving forward.

Frankly, even if UH had won all 13 games and was on its way to a bowl game in Nowhere, Nebraska, the System would not be in much better shape although maybe the Department of Athletics would probably be able to reduce its debt a little bit and add a few more summer school tuition scholarships in all 19 sports.

Essentially what I am saying here is that the issues are hugely complex and are not simple to solve. It takes ALL of us – taxpayers and ticketbuyers and Hawai`i residents and business owners and _________(fill in the gap) to pick up the Higher Education Wagon and carry it forward.

WDoc, you’re amazing. Thanks.

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Whoops!!! In my #119 I should have used the title Budget and Finance. Budget & Fiscal Services is the department title used by the City & County of Honolulu. Same general functions except B&FS also handles taxation and other revenues whereas the State Department of Taxation handles tax revenues. The third state agency dealing with $$$$ is the Department of Accounting & General Services.

I guess that we have these checkpoints to avoid situations other states have had to deal with over the years such as Illinois.

I don’t envy Jim Donovan – or any of the coaches.

Can you imagine if your job is dependent on a bunch of 18-22-year old kids?

If the youngsters don’t perform, you are out of a job.

It is true that defense wins games but it didn’t work with mack. He is a dc by trade. jj was a offense guru and it worked. Maybe go offense again?

numbers…a new coach does not have to uphold any oral commits by the previous hc.

anyone on scholie now may ask for his release.

anyone on scholie may be released at anytime.

anyone on scholie mat be released due to violation of code or academic failure.

expect at least one or two qb’s to leave the program at the end of spring training.

same applies for anyone who slithers too far down the depth chart.

we could have more openings.

too many greyshirts have come back to haunt us. this is another one of those problems born by too much procrastination by the exiting coach.

808bowler…I see your logic. however, the best candidate is my choice. I’m banking on banker. if he could bring cav and others and keep rolo, tuioti, he’d have a solid core of recruiters.

Wonder if all of Southern Mississippi and Reno Nevada

will come to our wonderful warm weather?

Being interim coach is like being the interim Captain of a ship in the middle of the ocean knowing you and your crew my be asked to walk the plank in a couple of weeks.

I doubt if Cav would want to leave the job he has now.

All these complaints about how much the football coach is/was making.. sheesh.. didn’t the Athletic Department balance last year? Doesn’t football pay for the expenses of a good number of other sports? If that professor thinks it’s unfair, he/she should become a coach and see how “easy” it is for him/herself.

“Agree that defense wins games” Last time I looked the team that scored at least one more point than the other team won????

We’ve tried DC’s for HC’s and it’s not been that great, just say’in.

#141:

don’t count of Reno or Southern Miss bringing a lot of fans to the Hawaii Bowl – most will be Hawaii fans who are there to support the “bowl” so it’s here when UH qualifies for a bowl game.

When Reno played SMU, it believe there were less than 200 Reno fans in the stadium.

For Southern Miss, their Athletic Director resigned because of all the complaints about accepting a Hawaii Bowl bid which is so “far away” and so expensive.

Sports Illustrated said: “The Southern Miss football team is in the midst of its first 10-win season since 1988, and won its first Conference USA championship since 2003. The 69-year-old Giannini said in a statement that the recent success and Fedora’s departure made this “a perfect time for me to retire.”

Nothing about fan discontent.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/wires/12/08/2060.ap.fbc.t25.southern.miss.in.limbo.4th.ld.0170/index.html#ixzz1gI8uY69K

By the way, Lake Oswego put a beat-down on Sheldon to finish 14-0 and win their first state championship. The running back for LO rolled up over 330 yards I believe as well as 4 TDs — two of which were on runs longer than 50 yards. The LO offensive & defensive lines were completely dominant and Sheldon was shut out in the 2nd half. The LO punter was the only loser as he had no opportunity to practice his art.

I sure hope UH had a coach at the game.

Banker knows at least some local style as the beavs regularly recruit Hawaii, and they recruit Hawaii well

Mac was good in 2010, too…

Of course Ivan Jasper has pretty good national credentials…

How did Akina do?

I think Banker had a good pass defense but a very poor run defense this season. I think his run defense was 11th in the PAC12.

Dallas has special teams problems too.

@165,

Lol I was thinking the same thing…

Rolo “unleased”? He was given the job after coaching for two years, one in JUCO and Ron Lee was fired to give him room to be “unleased”. He had Mouse Davis as an assistant coach who in case you forgot Ipu Man INVENTED the offense Rolo is trying to run.

Now I like this blog, the posters are witty, friendly and knowledgeable. But some of you are personal friends with these assistant coaches and quite frankly the overall health and future of the program is far more important than lobbying for coaching retreads. When you hitch your wagon to a head coach and the wagontrain falls off a cliff, you take your responsibility and move on to another wagontrain or if you are lucky stay on in a demoted position and wait your turn again.

No top notch head coaching candidate in American wants to inherit 4 or 5 guys who come from a failed prior regime with longtime local ties, political clout and media connections. Especially in the coordinator positions which make or break a head coach’s future and positions he is going to want to name himself.

Quite frankly it’s obvious that one or more of these so-called loyal McMackin regime assistants who are ultimately responsible for his failures by not taking care of the positions they are paid to coach are now throwing him under the bus, leaking out information stating that he “held them back” or “got in their way” and lobbying strong to stay with the next head coach. It’s typical UH small minded nonsense and another reason why we continue to look in the rear view mirror trying to recreate glories of times past and can never seem to have vision and hope for new rebirths and new victories in the future. If June could bring in the run and shoot after years of running the football why can’t a new visionary scrap the run and shoot and bring in a fresh look on both sides of the ball and win games and recruits?

They had their chance, they didn’t get it done (all of them as a staff) and now is not their time. They lost those privileges with poor execution, clock management, suspect recruiting, a terrible kicking game, bad schemes, non existent half time adjustments and overall a very loose, undisciplined product. I support the new coach, his decisions on his staff and his schemes and until he proves otherwise do not feel he should “inherit” anyone from the old staff unless he sees fit.

Nobody from any football staff is irreplaceable, and nobody is more important to the program. We seem to forget that on this island as we make assistant coaches Kings of little kingdoms and give them much more clout than they need or deserve. It’s all about the program, not cult of personality. Simple as that. Go Warriors

Dear Mr. Really sir or Madam,

I in no way know Rolo or any

of the coaches or as you so

vomit out: ” But some of you

are personal friends with these

assistant coaches.” Don’t try to

“BULLY” me. I am 72 years too old

for your crap. If you are so upset

with Rolo, then you have a problem.

Not me. I am good with whoever

Donovan picks. But I happen to

preferRolo and his offense style.

And you are certainly free to show who you like

and I in no way will try to DUMB you down.

Now I will forgive you this time for your

arrogance and unfriendly attitude because

you are supposed to be a Tsaiko… I hope

you will be more kind and considerate of

other people’s comments. Shame on you.

evening how’s did it go everyone

nice pics st and like I said earlier nice kalikimaka gathering last night

good luck to warrior men in bball. any update on the outcome?

watching wahine sball on k5 greatest UH games

enjoy the nite

waiting patiently for the announcements, hope this weekend some final list or choice named. nuff with the speculations move forward already

Koakane #173 – darn – forgot the score but UH did beat UC Davis by about 15 points. The UCD team did lead = mostly by 3-pointers.

Miah did well – 7 or so assist.

Hawaiian #172,

But isn’t Hawaii recruiting a problem for Hawaii? That’s all that matters. Hawaii has a hard time recruiting. If we can’t hold down our own state then we do not deserve to be a D1 program. Cause guess what, we have some very solid prospects year in and year out and a whole bunch of them have been going to OSU because of Mark Banker. So stating that Banker recruiting Hawaii is really not a big thing, than I guess you really don’t know what team your talking because the last I knew we where talking about Hawaii football which has had a hard time recruiting Hawaii and Banker recruits Hawaii well.

nice seeing you last night kama, to bad wreck stood you up, his lost

we had a good time

mahalo for the info al waiting to see what direction UH goes and what kind of commitment to excellence will be made

missed you and the fam last night

Koakane #181,

Yah was one solid night. Was so nice to see everybody again. Hopefully can put together some K-Calls so that can catch up with everybody more often. Was kind of funny when seeing everybody last night. When look like they saw one ghost of Christmas past or something. Anyway was good for see you and everybody else.

ipu man…didn’t you win a contest last year and did not collect your prize?

al, true dat gotta make fam first

after the word we do a lunch

getting cold and a hot bocha would be nice

lattas good people

relaying on your birdie info, no can see this carrying out for the month of december.

best choice with the best in mind for the program..akua’s blessing and guidance on da committee

palolo…i got a bet with one of the birdies that banker will be the one.

and the rest of your stuff is true.

Duane Akina or Norm Chow, …..and we need to find the money to do one or the other.

They decide 100% about their staffs.

jd is just asking that all current assistants be interviewed by the new guy. nothing else and nothing to read in to this either.

should have 100% autonomy.. but will UH allow that? I dunno.. maybe they like having ears in the locker rooms.

Manta Te’o coming back for his senior season… Good for him!

Kama Krab #179,

READ my points again and do your research! These kids would’ve gone to the ‘other’ (better) schools in that conference if they were offered but they settled with OSU! They weren’t going to UH or any other WAC school.

Do this for yourself, tell me what year (hopefully in the last 20-25 years), did UH ever out recruit everyone else (for the TOP 10 players in the state). THE BEST PLAYERS HAVE ALWAYS LEFT TO PLAY FOR THE BIG BOYS!

I love Hawaii, grew up here on the Leeward side, went AWAY to play football and came back home because I love this place! I’ve got season tickets for my family and I…and I don’t miss a game for any reason! I want UH to be very good but I am a realest…we will get some kids but our main source for great players will always be from the mainland. Only because there are not enough good local boys to keep home…I wish they all good stay home!

199…he will.

202…shoots.

reveal yourself??? well, i am al. but, for sure we have lunch. it won’t be miano.

Okay al….my grandson is Paipai, we share the same name.

Hawaiian #201,

Um you just made my point. First does it matter who didn’t give offers and who did. OSU made the offers and the kids accepted. Who is the point recruiter in Hawaii, ah how about Mark Banker.

With regards to recruiting Hawaii. Didn’t that what i said. HAWAII HAS A HARD TIME RECRUITING HAWAII. Man before you respond, you gotta read what is being said.

Mark Banker recruits Hawaii hard year in and year out and always, I repeat always comes out with a solid top ten recruiting class in Hawaii. Could he do that for UH, definitely. The man has connections across the state. This does not just mean Oahu, it means across the state.

Right on d1shima…I apologize for scaring everyone away…LOL…I won’t post anymore 🙁

but the bet’s still on al, if you want it.

kama krab…plus banker has a passion for plate lunches.

Forgot to ask earlier in the week……what is the purpose of tomorrow’s lunch? Is it By Invitation Only? If so, then why is it being discussed here on an open-2-the-public blog? If not, then where is it being held?

Great game this evening – and yes, for the doubters at the BYU Post-Gate, Miah Ostrowski is here in person playing a great game despite only practicing four times with the team starting on Thursday.

One thing that bothers me, however, is that there are rumors going around that Shaquille (sp?) Stokes is not a Happy Camper & may quit the team. Anyone here got any fo’real information on this?

211…stay in touch. nobody is scared.

i hope paipai gets all healed up for his senior year. most folks don’t realize that he has been banged up these past few years.

#208 d1 dey think you said relieve yourself

Madeinhawaii #218,

You would think UH would want a head coach in place by the ending of the week cause it’s probably going to take a week to get some of the coaches in place and recruiting. Feb. 1st is right around the corner.

Thanks al… missed that post.. good to know they are fast tracking it…

BUT I can wait till Thursday or Friday if they need a couple of extra days to mull over the best out of the top 5…. I just hope their decision is one leaning towards giving the Warriors the best possible chance at success and not so much one of cutting costs…

As you know, I’ve been posting up a storm about my concerns regarding any cuts in what it being invested back into the football program. With the new Conference and all the Conference realignments, this is not the time to be cutting back on the Football budget but the time to bolster it.

job searching i would think.

so one of the big olinemen we tendered offers to committed to colorado.

228…you like that one don’t you.

banker minus Cav = deal breaker.

Banker alone won’t be enough to energize the fan base. Cav is a guy a certain amount fans really want back. With both recruiting in state there’s a greater hope more of our quality big boys will stay home.

Every candidate is going to say that recruiting is going to be their top priorty. That they’re going to put a staff together that’s going to accomplish this. That special emphasis will be given to keep as many local prospect home.

If Banker was smart he’d say recruiting is his top priority with special emphasis on O and D linemen. That he’s going to build his team from the ground(trenches) up. He’ll get Cav to recruit the O linemen and coach them up. That he’ll retain Tuioto to recruit D linemen and coach them up.

That he’ll stockpile the bigs until we reach a reloading rather than a rebuilding situation in those two areas.

RE: Cav.

Don’t know the guy, but my impression of him is he’s a top NCO. Great in his area of expertise and a good leader of the men under him. But he’s not cut from the same cloth as

officers(HCs or cooridators).

I’d be uncomforatble with him running the whole show.

Me too, Slugger!

Baked cookies all night.

The party pics are awesome!

Nitey nite!

Good morning!

Four wake ups to go!!!

Energy and Vision….may the best man win. Regarding the Defense wins comment…..popular opinion aside…..anyone who knows football played coached or whatever knows defense wins games. Can not judge someone on anything other than the overall body of their work….experience, accomplishment, ability. I like offense and I love points but a lot of what has gone on and the results tie back to team speed and defense. This roster properly deployed can win next year…..now we just need the right guy outfront and some folks at certain positions…..change is good when it is done with purpose and intent…..Go Warriors!!!!

I’m sure some of these OSU coaches are being pro-active in thinking about their futures. Another season like they had this past year might signify an end to the Riley era in Corvallis.

I have to believe that EVERY coach on the UH staff is now looking for a job. To sit back and cross their fingers would not be a good approach to take.

Good Mrning Tsaikos.

BIK

Is coach Mack going to be reunited with Leach in Pulllman and become his DC? Just some rumblings from the Cougar faithful I work with.

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂

Great point, Manoa2!

#246 – +1

Morning folks!

Maybe ST knows, or maybe they are being pretty tight lipped about the hiring process.

Inquiry minds need to know!

DPK…

Trying to get da In-tsai-da tips, huh?

Here’s what some people from the Coaches By the Numebers website think who might be a good fit for Hawaii. Noticed that they think someone with Hawaii ties would be successful.

http://coachesbythenumbers.com/hawaiis-mcmackin-retires-who-should-be-wearing-the-lei-in-2012/

Hmmm.. on whose face is that Fu Manchu mustache on?

RC was really hyping up Miano. I was surprised that BC didn’t jump all over it as much as he’s been on the Miano bandwagon. Anyhow RC comments towards Miano makes me think give Miano a chance. Good luck in choosing the right man JD!!!!

Didn’t RC have a spat with the high school coach and his son transferred to another school?

#214, yes but he is recruiting to OS which is a BCS school. Will he still have the same points to pitch at Hawaii? Pac 10 vs MWC….

I would hate to be in JD’s shoes.

With a white crane offense, eagle claw defense and a drunken boxing special teams.