Change of seasons

Next!

Perhaps?

No FB, no VB, what to do, what to do?

Shucks, I got cut off. nah, nah, joking.

FCS, DII and DIII playoffs continue today, too.

those are two schools that rolo recruits from.

toss up.

#11 ST:

Go Mounties!

Go Rams!

(Unless it is the Warriors/Rainbows, I don’t play favorites!)

Notice exclamation points!

Army has the best rushing team in the country the tv announcer said.

Reminds me of Wisconsin’s attack.

Good coaching…

mornin: moving forward.

UH is officially moving to the next stage of its sports schedule.

Fumble.

So, does anybody know if Ostrowski is practicing with the BB team at all?

Hopefully Ostrowski fills that missing element for the BB team. They need to start stringing the wins together.

Still go a slight headache from watching that blurry ESPN3 last night. Was worth it though. What a game. Too bad we had to play each other early in the tournament.

Is there a banner for that?

Tougher conference competition will be crucial to prepare the Wahine for matches like last night’s battle. I hope that the Big West helps sharpen them better for the tournament, the long WAC win streak was a sign that the WAC wasn’t up to the level of competition UH needed. I’m happy that SDSU will join the Big West.

San Diego State is expected to announce on Monday that it is joining the Big West Conference in all sports other than football, effective July 2013.

The Big West has TV contracts with ESPN and Fox Sports. By contrast, most Aztecs games in recent years were shown on the Mountain West’s TV network, The Mtn., which is not available to about 200,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers in the northern part of San Diego County.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/09/sdsus-big-west-move-soon-be-official/

Army 14 Navy 14 at half time…

Did I hear the announcers right? Navy had a game this season where they didn’t even attempt a pass? Uh huh. Don’t know if I could stand a whole season of games like that.

PolyMom:

Maybe they have to have a minority in there… his name was tossed into the hat the last time around, too.

Rolo also played for Rush… so offensively, both understand and appreciate each other’s acumen for the sport. Would he keep Aranda or bring in his own? I don’t know.

Interesting historical background on the MWC’s TV deal. It provides insight on why BYU decided to leave. It is interesting that the MWC’s TV deal would be just about over now, but the MWC decided to extend the deal. I really hope that CBS/Comcast doesn’t have the right to extend the deal to 2020!

The presidents met with the TV partners and agreed in principle to the various terms and provisions of the deal. The presidents then delegated authority to Craig Thompson to sign the final deal. Prior to signing, certain provisions, especially a few of importance to BYU, were left out of the final contract. After CT’s review of that final document, he prepared an executive summary and sent it to the presidents. His executive summary made no mention of the changes to the final document. It wasn’t until BYU moved forward on some things with BYUtv (things which had been approved verbally prior to signing), that Comcast stepped in and enforced the terms of the final agreement, terms which BYU was not aware had been changed.

BYU, after unsuccessfully trying to get Comcast, et al to restore the provisions that had been verbally agreed to, and after unsuccessfully trying to get Comcast to stop using the TV deal as a way to leverage cable customers in Utah, hired Kelly Crabb’s law firm in 2007 to see what remedies might be found. The hiring of Crabb’s firm and some other pressures, including CBS’s purchase of CSTV, finally led to getting the Mtn on DTV, but BYU couldn’t get Comcast, et al to address the other issues.

BYU then began fundraising in earnest that year (2007) for the new TV production facility and the groundwork was laid for independence, an option that had been studied off and on for years by BYU. Utah’s departure may have accelerated the timetable a bit, or better stated, removed some of the reasons to stay any longer, but given the length of the MWC deal and Comcast’s complete unwillingness to work with BYU, the timing then became right, from BYU’s POV, to go indy.

BYU was on board with the original deal agreed to with CSTV but was not in agreement with what the deal eventually morphed into. You can criticize BYU for allowing some of the things to transpire, but in fairness to BYU, at the time some of this was going down, BYU was changing its President, AD and both football and basketball HC’s (as well as some other key administrative positions). Things slipped through the cracks that might not have at a different time.

The very nature of how the MWC TV deal went down informed BYU’s recent negotiations and prompted BYU to want everything clearly locked down in writing when talking to the Big East (and the B12 for as far as the talks went).

(BTW, the original deal with CSTV was for 7 years. The conference chose to extend it when Comcast bought in and there are several credible sources who have heard that CBS/Comcast received an additional option period that could extend the contract an additional 4 years beyond that, under certain parameters.)

http://www.mwcboard.com/www/forums/index.php?showtopic=37947

I forgot to add that in 2005, Rush’s team went 11-1 with only one returning starter on Offense.

The more I read about this guy, the more intriguing he becomes. Only question is, can he do the same at the D1 level? His players have demonstrated time and time again (95%) that they can. So why not Rush?

Good morning (still), gang!

Saw you in the stands, ST, with Wena and the “boys”.

GO NAVY!!! (Sorry, Kekoa)

Maybe our powers that be should talk to BYU as to how they will survive being an independent. Navy will now belong to a onference, thus making the independents number doen to 4. If it can work maybe that would be our route. Losing money from the MWC for us not having PPV and having to pay travel costs to a conference that is not was it was when we agreed join. “Treat it like a business.” Business looks like it will lose money in the MWC.

Fumble

like high school div 1 is to pop warner.

…and a lot choose to make coaching DII/DIII a career for many good reasons.

Tend to agree with al though, 2-yr and 4-yr schools are different animals.

#58 al – sorry al football is football be it High School or Pro, you work with the players you have you teach it the same way. I’m surprised that some have brought up the name of local High School coaches but question a JC coach?????

Wish knew the whole list of apps. Isnt there a act for that? Like freedom of information act?

I agree with you guys that success at the JC level does not necessarily translate to the D1 level, but motivation does. Yet, to win 7 nationals championships, and 19 conference championship in 21 years at that level is still pretty impressive and more importantly, it shows consistency and a coach that knows how to maximize his personnel. Furthermore, the teams we will be playing for the most part, in all honesty, are on the lower spectrum of D1 — and that’s what makes him, in my mind, a viable candidate.

808Bowler…

I think some of the applicants may want to keep it confidential until they are finalists. (May want to keep their present jobs, just in case.)

Besides when you ask UH if there isn’t an ACT for sometin’ lik dat… dey will respond.. “Yes… it’s called the NO ASK, NO ACT! … btw have you donated to the Alumni Fund, yet?”

MIH – It’s are you a Na Koa member or have you donated to AKA.

Did Ron Lee throw his name into the hat, too?

🙁

No practice update….

Hmmm George Rush was here in July…

July 26—Ethics in College Athletics (and how it relates to professional sports), with George Rush, San Francisco City College head football coach; Jim Donovan, UH director of athletics; Nick Rolovich, UH football offensive coordinator; and Dick Tomey, former head football coach, UH and San Jose State University

http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2011/07/ethics-conversations/

73…joking right?

UCLA Women’s VB team just beat “#1 seed” Texas in 4 sets.

Hey Miano said if you add a “y” to his name he would be nippon.

Come on…you thought it, too!

Yeah, you! 😈

jeeze… Rush had a win streak of 42 games!… considering that he doesn’t keep his players all that long, that’s pretty durn good.

The thing about Rush or any other JC coach, to me anyway, the biggest difference is no rules.

It’s almost like the old school NAIA, JC has no NCAA guidelines, not recruiting restrictions etc.

I’m all for a JC guy getting a chance, but let’s start them off as assistants, maybe G.A.’s……

Ralph,

maybe it’s duffer! 😯

D1 you may be right, all of them are taller and faster than Duffer, so he thinks they ought to be good basketball players. No wonder we are getting beat in the transition game, Duffer way too slow.

A good year for the Wahine! Could it have been great if coach had more consistency with his assistant coach? Maybe UCLA vs USC for the NC the only two teams they loss to

I’m sure if Rush is not capable of making the jump or otherwise, Rolo and JD’s commity would have more of a clue. Whoever they chose, I can’t wait for all the recruiting news, spring ball, and next season. Best of luck Warrior Nation!!!

I would like to share an experience with you all, about drinking and driving. As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from the odd social session over the years.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends and had a few too many beers and some rather nice claret. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I’ve never done before – I took a bus home.

I arrived home safely and without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got this one.

Happy Holidays, one and all.

A friend of mine only took a moped on a drunken night in Spain and was rewarded with complimentary stay in Spanish jail.

Rush is an intriguing prospect. But remember a coach named Kraft? He also was a very good JC coach that was hired by SDSU. Son is Kevin Craft that UH (JJ) was recruiting before he left. Craft could not make the adjustment from JC to SDSU.

@tommui…thanks so much for taking the bus home. Some of us have lost loved ones due to drunk drivers. I am always the designated driver as I do not drink alcohol or caffeine. Then my husband can enjoy his scotch and whiskey. You drink whiskey tommui?

@marek Hawaii…LOL! You so funny.

…and next time don’t park the bus in my stall.

Well deserved Heisman for Robert Griffin III. Hats off to him for breaking Colt’s QB Rating record…

Illinois earns berth into the final four by defeating Florida 3-1. Stephanie Ferrell hit 4/4/13=0.00 in 4 games.

For comparison sake…

Tom Craft compiled an overall record of 115-56 and three national Junior College football championships at Palomar.

George Rush … Record as head coach: 296-86-4 20 conference, 12 Northern California, six state championships, six national (decided by vote) championships won at CCSF…

If Fresno can go after and presumably afford a big time coordinator from one of the biggest programs in the country, so can we.

Last time I checked, Fresno is suffering in the pocketbook just like we are.

Again, I found it interesting that JD has left the issue of the new HC’s salary open. “Depending on the quality of the finalists,” according to Reardon.

I throw my name in for Warriors next HC.

Here’s my playbook…

Pass

Pass

Pass

Punt!

Pass

Pass

Pass

Field Goal! Uh, no punt!

On second thought, I don’t think I’m qualified.

(#99)

Tommui:

I’m laughing my butt off, great story, funny as heck!

(#102)

Pride:

Thank you! I thought I was the only one to have such a concern. From the beginning of the week post McMackin, I have had the same thought and have asked the same question. For whom are Hawaii assistant coaches recruiting?

#121 – Eh Bleed Green. Das paht of da interim head coache’s politico campayn.

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Also, and I gotta add this.

Only Hawaii, maybe only U of H, force out a coach and then seemingly it’s gonna take forever to get a replacement named.

Committee this, committee that, why can’t someone in power just make a damn decision?

I mean at most other schools, in my opinion, they do it right. A plan seems to be in place before you pull the trigger on one guy.

Most credible institutions have a replacement plan don’t they?

It makes me sick almost, that we, Hawaii, always have to go thru such non-sense. One day, one day, I hope someone makes a stand and says hold me accountable, and than that someone makes a damn decision.

A little hope.

Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin provided much-needed perspective afterward.

“On our side, on their side, guys need to grow up. There is zero excuse for that. The world doesn’t revolve around them.” Cronin said he made his players remove their jerseys immediately after the game, and doesn’t know when he will allow them to wear the jerseys again.

“That’s so they have a full understanding of where they go to school, what the university stands for and how lucky they are to even be there. A whole lot of kids can’t pay for college.

“(Players) need to have respect that they are on scholarship and people come to see them play. They’re (representing) institutions of higher learning. I go to a school where they discovered a vaccine for polio. I think that’s more important than who wins a basketball game.”

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/paul_daugherty/12/10/xavier.cincinnati/index.html#ixzz1gBxSfPzJ

Bleed Green and White:

I think maybe they are taking a page out of the PAC 12 way.. like ASU….

BLEED G&W #129

From what I read in the papers – and it must be true – some decision will be made on Monday.

Coach Mac was let go Monday past. State law requires an ad (five days) that a vacancy exist and to submit an application. The Committee presumably looks at the applications that come in during the five days and thereafter and make a recommendation in numerical order as to preference. The AD can accept it (or reject it) and select whoever he thinks will be best.

It is like Civil Service as to a listing of, say, the top ten candidates.

Essentially the committee is just a screening committee.

In theory you can make the choice after the five days publication but the interviews may take more time. I think (but not certain) if you can interview candidates during the time the screening committee goes through the application.

#136:Falyn Fonoimoana is the ex USC Vball Player,her bf is Siaki Cravens

@tommui, you are hysterical! You are a Jewish woman’s dream. Only telling lies means you work with the Wall Street types. So attractive to Jewish women. Can not wait to meet you someday with Don.

Stuck in the house on the big island. I have not seen rain and wind like this since hurricane Eva. I hope the trees on Shipman property does not fall on me. Was supposed to attend a fundraiser tonight. No way, going to bunker in. Way to dangerous to be on the road tonight.

Keep safe and dry everyone!

really…

It may mean more of Rolo offense let loose…

Really?

Tells you how much confidence we have in some of the other options, too… 😉

More people turn out to be utilizing safety signs Darwin

Finally updated John Collin’s (las vegas, rasu begasu) Tsai-ko bio page…

http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/bios/bio-lasvegas.html

I will append any short comments or farewells to the page if you wish to send any. email to: stevem.hnl (at) gmail.com

Hoping the attending Tsai-kos and Tsai-kettes are having a great time at the Christmas party! Maybe next year. Tsigh . . .

Nytal.

@77 MIH you are impressive! Good investigative journalism.

Been reading a lot about the coaching search on various blogs, etc. Saw a poll on one asking what people wanted in a coach and the results were overwhelmingly in favor of “strong recruiter.”

What do you guys think? I know that a good recruiter recognizes talent and is a good salesman, but don’t you think the school that the guy is recruiting for makes a huge difference?

For example . . . people are talking about the recruiting skills of Banker from OSU, especially that he recruits well out of Hawaii. IMO, his recruiting of Hawaii kids to OSU won’t translate to potential Hawaii recruits because a lot of the Hawaii kids that end up at OSU want to play for a better conference than the WAC or MWC. They go to OSU because its not that far from home. Bringing Banker here is not going to make those kids stay home. This is just my opinion though . . . I could be wrong.

Just thinking a little too much credit is being given to the recruiter instead of the school they are recruiting to.

#155

Never thought about it from that angle but You make a good point.

#158 . . . true dat. They need a boost. I think they’ll be okay this season, but I was expecting a better start. Can’t wait to actually watch some Warrior hoops.

Wish the mens hoops season was longer. It goes by so fast.

JM, missed ya at the Christmas Party. It was a fun time, see you soon at MVB?

er……….um…… who won the volleyball game?

#117: If Fresno can go after and presumably afford a big time coordinator from one of the biggest programs in the country, so can we.

Jim McElwain was Fresno’s offensive coordinator during the 2007 season. Nick Saban contacted him for the Alabama job when Major Applewhite left for Texas. Pat Hill ironically said at the time that McElwain would one day be an excellent head coach.

Is there any interest by Hal Mumme to head coach Hawaii

always a big fan of linking to bloggers that I love but don’t get a lot of link love from……

Does your blog have a contact page? I’m having a tough time locating it but, I’d like to send you an email. You have a great blog and I look forward to seeing it develop over time.

Pride.:

December 10th, 2011 at 3:04 pm

I’m somewhat concerned about the interim staff making offers to recruits. I think that they should maintain contact and dialogue, but allow the next staff to tender the offers. Hmmmmm.

#172 – Is there anything in my statement that differs with what you said in yours? Maintain contact and dialogue. Let them know that we are extremely interested. But don’t make any offers. Allow the next staff to make the offers based on their assesment of the athletes and how they fit in with the recruiting strategies of the new staff.

As Derek points out below, the new staff will come in with 5 or 6 less available scholarships to offer. They should be allowed to make the offers based around their own recruiting plans.

Derek:

December 10th, 2011 at 5:06 pm

2012 Recruits committed:

Dustin Austin, OL

Justin Turner, DB

Ikaika Woolsey, QB

Ipulasi Eselu, LB, DE

Ellis Henderson, WR

Justin Alo, QB (maybe)

Charlie Weis’ deal will around $2.5 million per year for 5 years (before additional incentives). His wife and daughter (who will continue to live in Florida) will also reportedly have unlimited use of a private plane to shuttle them back and forth as desired.

We should add a private jet to our compensation plan.

Can’t believe that no one has taken a stab at hiring Wisconsin’s O.C. Paul Chryst to become a head coach. Kansas hires Weiss, and UCLA hires Mora Jr. I would have rather hired Chryst for about a million less.

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Great Morning All!

Great time at Murphy’s last night. Really nice to get together with everyone.

Big Mahalo to (Jesse)James for getting the event setup; UHFan808 for the fun entertainment; Addahknowjoe for his spirited MC duties; the Blog Host for creating the context for the whole thing….

and Pomai for not falling asleep because he woke up too early! 😉

Hank: 
December 10th, 2011 at 8:59 am

Curiosity shouldn’t be a reason for “cleaning house”

If you are going to provide an opposing view, at least elaborate/qualify why. The above is no better than the trolls who swing by after a loss posting “fire the coach” one liners.

And obviously, I did not do a good enough job the first time so let me try again and maybe spell things out in some order so that even those with poor comprehension skills can at least follow along.

1) If you didn’t notice, attendance at Aloha Stadium dwindled over the season. Why? Not only because the team was losing but how they were losing. There are no excuses for the way we lost some games this past season and I placed that solely on the coaching staff.

2) If you go back to what I originally posted, you will notice that I said successful head coaches surround themselves with quality assistants. Translation: they are the ones who are responsible for their individual areas. The head coach oversees the entire operations (usually at a macro level; though there are some who micromanage) Taken together with the student-athletes, they are supposed to operate as a team.

Now, coaches including McMackin always say that injuries are no excuse as the next person in line has to be ready to step up. Anyone with half-a-brain knows that depends on how well they’ve been coached and prepared since that ends up being a key in determining the quality of a teams depth. The assistants again are primarily responsible for this.

3) Now look back in general over the past 4 seasons at the overall picture and tell me honestly that you did not see any issues with this coaching staff. Can you even justify the way we lost on national television under this regime? Oh, and when I say coaching staff, I am primarily referring to the ones who were there from the start right after Jones bolted (so you can disregard certain individuals like Tomey, Tuioti, etc) Or in your mind, were most all of the issues solely on McMackin’s head and not his assistants and coordinators? Which would then justify why the red flag went up early with regards to McMackin in terms of his overall competence as a head coach. Remember, I also said earlier in my other post that these guys are highly paid professionals who have to coach up and teach these student-athletes. They have to provide the necessary leadership, guidance, and discipline. If you notice, good teams are able to execute in all facets from the coaching all the way to the offense, defense, and special teams play. Or am I seeing this all wrong and out to lunch? I’m all ears to hear how wrong I am on this front.

4) After 4 seasons of inconsistent (product on the field — not talking about the consistency on the sideline with questionable clock management or the inability to make timely adjustments) results, what is your personal explanation for this? I stated my opinions before and tried to elaborate why. If you and others can’t be bothered to read and comprehend the entire posting, then don’t bother responding with useless one liners. My answer (again, a personal opinion for those who need to have that aspect spelled out) is that the results are due primarily to the coaching staff. Don’t agree, then you are free to qualify why you feel otherwise. That, I can respect.

5) So based on logic, why would anyone expect things to change drastically by keeping said same people employed? Furthermore, how do you convince the general public which decided to stay away (a vote of no confidence by their actions) that things will get better with a coaching staff comprised of those from the previous regime; the same ones who failed to deliver a consistent (in terms of winning and/or competitiveness) on-the-field product over the course of 4 seasons?

Take off the green and white colored glasses for a second and look at this from the perspective of those who stopped going to the games. Can you honestly say that Miano is a compelling enough reason for these people to jump back on the bandwagon? If so, I want whatever it is that you are smoking. Reality check = every program has bandwagon fans but the issue is more noticable with mid-major programs — regardless what you or I may think of them, they are an important lifeblood to these programs. They fill those seats that would otherwise be empty. They generate additional revenue by the purchase of merchandise which otherwise would just rot on the shelf. Which is why winning or at least being highly competitive is crucial. Or was I just hallucinating and all those empty seats that I saw were actually people masquerading as orange, blue, brown, red, and yellow seats?

6) So based on what I’ve written so far, provide me your explanation as to how you see promoting from within will solve the above and generate a keen interest and a level of curiosity which fills the stands? Here, I’ll throw you something else to think about… the usual response I’m hearing from what would be the everyday joe is that Miano does not interest them at all because it will generally be more of the same old thing (and no, his on air appearances has done little to change that sentiment with the average person, at least the ones I’ve talked to) If he is the one and he retains even 3-4 from the current staff, then there are no excuses when it comes to the issue of “this coaching staffs recruits” because most of that staff have been here since June Jones was the coach. We’ll be running nearly the same offense with a few tweaks here and there with Rolo being unleashed so there should be no excuse that we cannot get back up to speed quickly where this offense is rolling up yardage and putting points on the board to a level where we can outscore the opposition.

7) So to wrap all the above up, this is what I meant by “short leash”. They don’t deliver results right away, the general public will get on the coaching staff quickly and stay away, killing important revenues and putting the entire athletics program further into a hole. OTOH, cleaning out the house and starting fresh provides a completely different set of metrics because you are no longer as tied to the past with all of its excess baggage. Or are you saying that for yourself, nothing new and different does not peak your interest and curiosity? I can’t read your mind if you don’t elaborate and provide rationale for your position.

Oddly… I do agree with the Voice of the Gorn in that the responsibility for last season falls on the entire coaching staff. Mack took the brunt of it.. but the rest are as liable as he is. That is one of the main reasons why I cannot endorse anyone currently on staff for the HC position.

If they could not successfully convey their ideas and wishes to Mack over the past 4 years and got shut down, then will they be able to successfully convey their ideas and wishes to the others, as well?

Good Morning ALL!

I’m off… gotta go do a craft fair at Heeia Elem this morning…

Fight nicely!