Desert storm
SUMMERLIN — Another day, another storm.
Somehow the weather that was supposed to be experienced in Seattle last week has made its way to Las Vegas and its suburbs.
The Warriors practiced today for 2 hours, with most of the workout in the rain. But they were able to put in the finishing touches on their offense and tighten a new defensive scheme.
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Right slotback Miah Ostrowski still was wearing a medical boot, but he vows to try to play. Terence Bell, Corey Paclebar and Justin Clapp got reps at right slotback today.
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Meanwhile, Levi Legay said he is adjusting to the starting job at right tackle. His last start was as a Kealakehe High senior in 2006.
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Russell Harding, who is a pharmacist in Australia, attended today’s practice to watch his son, returner Scott Harding.
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Former UH defensive coordinator Dave Fagg attended today’s practice:
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Receivers Chris Gant and Royce Pollard:
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Kahuku head coach Reggie Torres (and father of UH safety Richard Torres):
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Where are the action shots? Well, uh … it was raining. It finally stops raining. I run out, take a shot and … trainer Brian Wong walks into the picture.
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Remember that game, hot potato?
This thing that looks like a stool is similar in intent. The football is placed on it, and the quarterback has a set amount of time to pick up the ball before a horn sounds.
Hana! Good morning ST! Good morning Tsai-Kos!
What happened to, “more” pictures yesterday???
Good Morning ST … stay safe.
Boyd stadium turf turning saturated?
Or is artificial?
Please pardon my ignorance.
I do know that many turf fields in desert scapes mix plenty of sand with the clay soil for drainage.
ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs:
Believe it or not, this is my first experience with a Warrior “away” game. I hope that the outcome is as predicted! Will be there cheering them on!
Go Warriors!
Sept. is the peak month for monsoon weather in the SW. getting snow in the upper mountain regions today. Blow away, blow outta-he’a.
Lucky Seven!!!
ST,
Is Miah feeling better? What are the chances of Harding replacing him. I really like the way that kid plays.
Morning, everyone! Hope you all have a great day!
Continued healing prayers for Sean Shigematsu, Miah Ostrowski, Coach Tomey, and all others in need!
Go, Warriors!!!
Go, Wahine!!!
Yesterday’s #265… H20…
I was being facetious (or humorous) in reference to the Sand Volleyball – Beach Volleyball thing. Really thought it was a given.
Anyways, I hope the desert dries up for Saturday’s game. I just feel like we’re on the verge of going Kilau’ea on them Rebels.
Top 20
Heading to Vegas on Thursday.
Looking forward to it.
Why aren’t we letting Bright sit and fully heal from his Turf Toe injury and get Sampson in there? We have a stretch of seven games where our best opponent is La Tech. Is it really beneficial to have Bright at 80 percent than have Sampson at 100?
Safe travels to everyone going to Vegas. Hopefully the storm and construction doesn’t disrupt their travel plans.
Weather.com says that there are just light rains this morning and the big storm/lightning is coming in the afternoon, so it is good that the Warriors are practicing this morning.
Forecast for Saturday is a high of 92, low of 69, and 0% chance of rain. With the game in the evening, the temperature shouldn’t be too much of a factor.
The rain may disrupt UNLV’s practice schedule, which could reduce their prep time for UH’s offense. It probably doesn’t matter since UNLV has been so bad this season, but the weather can’t help them much.
Great Morning All!
WooHoo! It’s travel day!
GO WARRIORS!
GO WILDCATS X 2!
Good morning Tsaikos!!
IS IT SATURDAY YET??
GO WARRIORS!
GO WAHINE!!
Aloha Kakahiaka!
Already started packing.
Annodah Dave- looking forward to cheering with you!
Go Warriors!
Go Wildcats x2!
Hiho!
g’morning erryboddy!
top 20
good thing it doesn’t rain inside the casinos
Good morning, gang!
GO WARRIORS!!!
Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂
Top Thurdy!
Safe travels to A-dave and all the other Warriors nation folks makin’ the trip.
Healing prayers for Shigematsu – he has a great future if he’s healthy. More prayers for the other Warrior wounded.
Love the idea of Harding getting more reps.
GO WARRIORS!!!
Fly out tomorrow night. Cheee
WarriorNY,
Scott Harding is too new to the team to replace Miah. He needs time in the system to learn the routes. He does have good hands & I expect to see him get us some yards when he catches a KO in this next game. His Dad is in LV to watch him.
Seems as if WA was kicking it to Edwards. He’s good, too! Mike’s Dad will also be at the UNLV game.
Hope the Aussie families enjoy LV. Alex’s Mom & Unko are there.
VIVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LAS VEGASSS!!!
Annoddah Dave: have a great time in Sin City! Cheer Loud n Proud!!
Gmorning gang!!
Hey hey! Hawaii Five O is filming right now at Shokudo Japanese Restaurant on Kapiolani Blvd.
Interesting so far I do know that they have already filmed at upper campus at UH and then of course there is this Saturday night in the SSC with a made for TV wahine volleyball match.
This is valuable face time for UH and UH athletics!!!!
Prayers go out to the wounded Warriors. Hope for fast recovery before conference start.
Laura
Ms Petals was kind enough to cover for me,
happy to help when I got back
Safe travels to all going to LV
GO WARRIORS
GO WILDCATS X 2
good morning and hump day 808
safe journey again to all making the trip to catch dem warriors. enjoy your time.
anyone has updated scoops on the telecast of the game this sat?
pomai sending you email
UH could bring in Harding and run the bubble screen. I too would like to see Scott getting some pt.
Get well wounded Warriors. I am hoping that there will not be any serious injuries in the upcoming game.
GOOD MORNING HAWAII!
And a safe journey to one and all – cheer the Warriors and win the jackpots!
Rivals.com asked some experts about what teams would be in four 16 team conferences and Hawaii was not mentioned by any of them.
Would we have to settle for being National Champion playoff contender FCS every year?
GO WARRIORS!
GO WAHINE!
Don’t forget the Warrior Party at the California Hotel on Friday night featuring a video poker tournament. There will also be live entertainment, drawings, Rainbowtique merchandise and more.
http://www.nakoa.org/2011/09/warrior-party-slot-and-video-poker-tournament-on-september-16th/
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sportspremium/sportsnewspremium/20110914_hawaii_fans_will_be_a_factor_in_las_vegas.html?id=129788798
sO…
If I stay Waianae, Oceanic subscribers who receive CBS College Sports may watch it on that channel since Oceanic doesn’t currently carry The Mtn.
But if I stay Kaaawa, no can watch em cause Hawaiian Telcom, but can if stay Manoa or Kahala.
BUT, if stay Mililani, no can order PPV.
Got em. Get em.
STUPID.
Ah well.. looks like it’s radio for me..
Good Morning Hawaii!!
Good luck to our Warriors and fans. Just focus on this game guys. Me no care
if we win by 1 or 100 as long as we win. Again, stay focus and come home safely.
GOODLUCK!!
GO WARRIORS!!
kev what side of waianae you stay? no can pass kaena point cause somebody hemo the copper wire but you mauka of mililani then can go watch bum bye cause delayed but will soon figa out the time zone make up. but kaaawa no can cause to far out and get choke uppa air intaf-erance.
I am flying out tomorrow night too- from Kauai to LAX on the United redeye. Anyone else on that flight?
Good morning folks! Happy and safe travels to the Tsaikos on their way to Vegas. Kekoa, goin’ call you tonight after my afternoon meeting. bbl
betta yet come town da buggahs sharpe dey tell you when you get there if no more game fo sho.
Kevin –
But you hadn’t mentioned how for go had watch da game if you stay Opihikao, Waikapu, Koke’e or Sprecklesville. Wot about dose areas, haaa? Not to mention Midway or Ni’ihau.
i knew it, auwe oceanic. would have been good pr if you would only have given all subscribers access to the cbs sports channel just for the game.
DPK,
Cause no can.
Das y hard.
Safe travels to all of the Tsiakos going to Vegas! Yell loud for us at home.
Healing energy to the Warriors needing extra care.
Gotta figah out what to do on Saturday…
Forget dis…. going Rock Bottom by University Ave for the game. Might have to leave early to get to Wahine vball that night so it’s just right there.
koakane –
Not to mention my friend’s nursery and chicken farm up Ka’alaea side. Wot about dem? Da pole went down last time time had da big rain by Gmahoney’s place, but because das private property Hawaian Tel and Oceanic no can touch ’em. Wot about dem? I wish Kevin would had go do his homework before he ax anykine questions.
Kevin,
Aren’t they showing the game at the Stan Sherif unit Volleyballs starts?
oops.. unit = until
I wonder who will do the video taping for the football games when we enter the MWC?
in the meantime, i hope mayweather gets his arse kicked.
What’s the TV contracts going to be like for the rest of the sports?
Made,
Didnt hear about them televising the game in the arena, although now would be a great time to take advantage considering the new scoreboard.
just don’t sit on the side of the scoreboard with the small kine unworking rectangle on the big screen.
Kevin,
I’m pretty sure that’s the case. I’ve seen several posts regarding that. Someone also mentioned that it might even be available at Manoa Gardens on Campus. Hopefully, someone else will confirm.
Made,
Do you mean the future contract with the MWC and BWC or do you mean CURRENTLY with OcSports?
Cause for the time being is SEEMS that the sports that were televised under K-5 all those years SHOULD be on par to be covered by OcSports.
If OcSports only wanted revenue programs on TV, then soccer would not have been televised now as it always has been in the past. So for the time being only can assume the spring sports are on time.
There are MORE crossover games in the spring considering the spring has the carryover of mens and women’s basketball and then factor in men’s volleyball, baseball, and softball, of course as the spring progresses into February and March, it dwindles down to mens volleyball, baseball, and softball.
We know of those three which one gets the shaft and the short end of the stick so I won’t go there….
Yeah, what the hell is that about??????? Its so new the damn thing should be under warranty.
Well, at least they got the player number thing to work properly, but now that dumbarse black spot really pisses me off. Even though I never sit on that side of the arena, it sucks knowing it’s there.
and yes… Rich Sheriff and Co know about it. Not sure if its a matter of replacing those little LED bulbs or a whole new screen having to be replaced.
UH should really look into charging like 5.00 or 10.00 to come in a watch the away games at the arena. Open the concession and beer stands.
Before I didn’t want UH to do it because the old scoreboard was such a dilapidated piece of garbage, but now is a great time to do it.
mih – didn’t hear about televising the game in the Arena, but the game will be on the in-house radio (106.5FM) until the Wahine game starts. Hopefully by then it’ll be a blowout…
yeah.. I probably got it wrong.. heard it from someone who heard it from someone else who heard it from some reliable, unidentifiable, source.
Must be somewhere on campus that one can see the game, though. Wouldn’t you think?
Whether get game or not on TV, whether we win or lose, main ting, only ting, every ting that matters is da GREEN BOTTLES KEEP COMING.
— UH vs UNLV Tsai-ko TV-gate Announcement —
Just got update from OceanicCable — Game will be televised on Oceanic Cable station CBSC 247. PPV/CBSC-pkg subscribers – If you have their PPV UH football or CBSC sports package, this game is included. Note that this game is not listed on the PPV line-up because 247 is not a PPV channel.
So – (…back to normal announcement programming…) 😉
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Not traveling with the team but wanna watch the game with fellow WarriorNation fans?
Come join TsomeTsai-kos and cheer on the Warriors! Details below –
Location: Café Anasia (info below)
Date: This Saturday, September 17, 2011
Time/Instructions: Game starts at 4:00pm HST; come a little early for parking; doors open at 2pm
Food: Order from the restaurant menu
RSVP – Please send email to [tsaikotvgate (at) gmail (dot) com] with the number in your party. We have reservations.
Café Anasia (Ph: 951-9295) – Karaoke/sports bar; serves Vietnamese/Thai fuud (heard it’s yum!)
Address: 2227 S. Beretania Street;
Parking: Either 1) in Anasia parking lot, or 2) plenty parking just before Anasia in lot at union building on left-hand side of Beretania just before Anasia.
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Bring your voices and See you there!
GO WARRIORS!!! SLAY THOSE DEVIL-REBELS!!! 🙂
Sitting at MasaBoy’s computer.
It’s really weird to be overcast, water all over the place, and more to come tonight – even Vegas old timers say this is very unusual for them.
Hoping for excellent results on Saturday for the Warriors.
Already you can feel the tension with more and more Hawaii fans arriving from home and the West Coast!
Talofa!
5-0 is still filming at Shodoku and Mahukona Street.
Saw some people that I didn’t expect to see…..
Won’t post any spoilers 🙂
Wonder if it’s showing at the Koolau Theater?
Ooh that was a messy post (sowee) 🙁
Have a good day Tsaikos and Tsaikettes, Lurkers and Lurkettes!
It’s nearly UH FB-day!!
Cheeehooo; GO WARRIORS!!!
UHfan808,
Welcome back to the blog! LONG TIME no see here! Almost a year eh?
Traveling Tsaikos – Safe travels and have a good game!! Cheer loud for all of us here at home!!
Good morning everyone!
Flying out on the UA redeye to SFO tonight. Arrive LAS 0750.
Sheesh…packing my handcarry for air travel is taking longer than my suitcase did. 😐
Hey thanks, IWWTHM, it’s nice to be back!
Missing it a lot and wish I could be here more often 🙁
big people take longer to pack. big clothes az why.
awesome for family to travel great distances to watch their children play. just as awesome for fans to travel great distances to support the home team. simply awesome.
…and karaoke on Friday night with Dave and his gal. Both great singers. They plan to pick up MP from the Cal. MP is a great Hawaiian and Japanese Tsinger…haven’t heard his english though. 😆
— UH vs UNLV televised game Announcement —
Update from OceanicCable for Hawaii —
Game will be televised on Oceanic Cable station CBSC 247.
PPV/CBSC-pkg subscribers – If you have their PPV UH football or CBSC sports package, this game is included.
Note that this game is not listed on the PPV line-up because 247 is not a PPV channel.
Have to agree if and that’s a big if, UH was smart they would show the UH vs UNLV game on the big screen at the SS and start the VB game say a half hour later. They want to fill the SS and that’s one way to do it, and it makes the fans happy.
mih – it’s also showing at Windward Mall food court
When is everybody getting to Vegas. I’m getting lonely.
How lonely? I’m going to see Jersey Boys by myself today. And everybody stopped gambling. They’re all waiting for the Hawaii folks to arrive.
UHfan808- way to keep the HOME FIRES BURNING!!!
Woo Hoo!
— UH vs UNLV Tsai-ko TV-gate Announcement —
Not traveling with the team but wanna watch the game with fellow WarriorNation fans?
Come join TsomeTsai-kos and cheer on the Warriors! Details below –
Date: This Saturday, September 17, 2011
Time/Instructions: Game starts at 4:00pm HST; come a little early for parking; doors open at 2pm
Location: Café Anasia (ph: 951-9295)
Address: 2227 S. Beretania Street
Parking: Either 1) in Anasia parking lot, or 2) plenty parking just before Anasia in lot at union building on left-hand side of Beretania just before Anasia.
Food: Karaoke/sports bar; Order from Vietnamese/Thai restaurant menu (heard it’s yum!)
RSVP – Please send email to [tsaikotvgate (at) gmail (dot) com] with the number in your party. We have reservations.
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Bring your voices and See you there!
GO WARRIORS!!! PASS-RUSH PAST AND MANGLE THOSE REBELS!!! 🙂
ST- Jersey Boys is a great show… ENJOY!
I’m arriving early Friday morning… come pick me up! 😎
LizKauai – Thanks! Found it’s more fun to cheer with Tsaikos; the more the merrier!
Are you packed? (Don’t forget your ticket! 😉 )
…and in case you missed the announcements: 🙄
Rasu Begasu’s Tsaiko-Vegas #3 activites
Fri 9/16 – Dinner/karaoke at Sato-Ya. 8:00 pm to indefinite*
Sat 9/17 – Tailgate at Fiesta Henderson buffet. 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Sat 9/17 – optional charter minibus(s) depart 5:30 pm
* indefinite when the owner/chef Uyehara is singing with you
Sato-Ya and Fiesta Henderson (a Station Casino) buffet tailgate is open to everyone!
No RSVPs needed–just come down!
Rasu Begasu has 10-12 seats on the bus left.
Details at:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/las2011.html
ST – Oh no 🙁 but you’ll really enjoy the Jersey Boys! Terrific awesome show!
Hey, I’m loving your pictures! Super-great job!!
Is that the new camera from your b-day or a new one?
ST
Nice pics
Found this old article from the Tiser about Rich Miano while googling Dave Fagg… nice read.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/02/sp/FP607020364.html
Pomai (and others who mentioned) RE #79 –
YES, that’s a great idea! I would go watch there at the SSC!!
Question is – WHEN?!?
ST,
Jersey Boys is a great show. You are going to leave the Venetian thinking “OH WHAT A NIGHT!”…and probably humming it too.
The significance of Russell Harding holding the helmet is that Aussie Rules Football players don’t wear helmets or pads. First time Scott Harding wore pads was in training camp.
IWWTHM:
Love Frankie Valli. And even my son and his friends have “Oh, What A Night (December ’63)” on their iTouch.
Reid Shimizu went on a working vacation to Seattle with his wife. He said she wanted to stay at the Four Seasons. We were calling it the Frankie Valli hotel.
“Armoured Wankball”. Pretty sure it’s not a term of endearment towards American Football. 😆
ST – Saw you on last week’s Coach Mack Show! GRrreat job there too! 🙂
OH, What a Night!
Here’s a cruise ship version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMv9AZyrqRs
Saw them last summer in Alaska and the Hawaii cruise last week.
Hey, UHfan808.
You’re alive?
they actually pay money for a stool that sounds a horn?
Who starts the timer?
The idea to have away games shown at SCC was proposed to JD at the last Tsaiko meeting with him. JD held reservations on the idea. One sticking point was he believed it would undercut patronage towards establishments around town that have already paid a premium to show the games. Any hint of a drop in their attendance, UH will hear about it.
Still, JD’s not totally against it. He was to propose the idea at their weekly board meeting.
Kevin..
No forget.. dress up for the VB game… might get cast as an extra on Hi 5-0. Who knows? Maybe a second career.
A-Joe…
Not all of UH’s students are of age to go to many of these “establishments” around town…
Good points about the SSC being more family-friendly than bars.
mih,
That was one of the points I thought about when suggesting it to JD. One of the considerations JD pointed out associated with using the SSC is the additional time the SSC staff spend working an away game with the additional time out of their already busy schedule/lives. They could open the SSC without selling beer at the event which would eliminiate the concern about underage drinking and taking business away from the bars. It would be nice if they could project the game on the large screen before this VB game, though. Charge an extra $5-$10 in addition to your WVB ticket…just a thought…
Showing road games at the SSC in conjunction with another event like a VB match is an idea that’s too good not to try. It’s not likely to happen often, once or twice a season, so shouldn’t hurt the commercial establishments too much. May be too late in FB season to do it this year, but when the schedules for next Fall are finalized, I think JD should give it serious consideration. It has the potential to be a great synchronicity event for the Athletic Dept. and UH sports fans. I think they’d fill the SSC, which would be great for the other event (VB or BB).
A-Joe,
Makes sense to me with what JD says. As for the students residing on campus, maybe UH can look into taking some of those athletic fee monies and having the away games shown in the various student lounges in each dorm.
But yeah, if UH advertises games at the arena, it could effect the establishments that paid a pretty penny for the packages and those monies obviously counts for PPV revenue.
Hey Gang ~ Just wanted to stop in and say HI. I know I haven’t been around for a while. Kahai is not playing this season, but doing well in school and interning for a great engineering firm during the summer. Pono’s Sr year at Kamehameha. Hope you are all healthy and happy….cause really that’s all that matters!
I think people proposed the idea of having the SSC host ALL road games to Donovan and this raises the question of “undercutting” the establishments that paid for the ppv package.
However this ONE particular rare instance of the volleyball match, UNLV road game, AND the fact that they want people to be in the arena for the Hawaii Five O shooting should be considered, but it’s too late.
It’s Wednesday, Donovan is in UNLV and at the pace things move sometimes up there…. yeah.. you know.
But it’s football and we’ve seen UH bypass their own redtape and move mountains for football and men’s basketball. Just those two sports. Just saying…
Kahuku must have a bye this week if Richard Torres (Kahuku HC) is in Vegas.
Reggie
Since this UNLV game is not really part of the PPV package, UH could screen it at the SSC and not affect Oceanic’s PPV income. That’s one of the things that has to be balanced with what UH does. They have an obligation to make sure their TV PPV vendor is successful, but since only those who can view the CBSSports package can see the UNLV game, maybe this one time they could screen the away game. The staff is set to work that evening; I wonder if the additional hours can be covered by additional entrance fees by the public to cover the cost? The students should get in free due to paying the athletic fee. Gives you a larger crowd for the filming after the WVB game…
Hi Nalani!!!
Hi Liz – was nice to see you on Kauai and I see you are now holoholo-ing in LV! Have a good one!
ST,
Say hello to my cousin Reid for me.
Is he working with you?
At family get togethers he always is the sports guru.
Slugger…
I figure it’s really not much different from PPV for home games. I mean, only 6 games are away… these establishments then compete with the Stadium. Then sometimes they compete with ESPN or what have you… so they sell atmosphere and good food.
I think an on campus venue would only help to nurture more fans. Which would, over the course of years spill over into the other markets.
Hi, Nalani!
I was wondering where Kaha’i was. Sounds like a great internship. My Aunty & UNcle said they have tickets to see you in Dec. somewhere in SoCal. Come join us at a T-Gate!
MIH- I know. It was brought up. It didn’t matter.
But, in your point lays a question: what kind of crowd could the SCC attract? What crowd out there is not being served by these establishments?
What if SCC does not serve liquor and make it more family friendly. Will that attract a different crowd being under served? You know, like say a family of 9 that can’t travel to a road game or attend a home game as a family but could definitely make it a family day at the SCC watching football while the kids play. IDK.
Kevin- That’s the kind of ideas JD and UH is looking for. Perhaps JD or Kinda Shy are glancing over today’s blog, sees your suggestion and make a mental note of it.
And BTW- JD DOES read this blog. He does take ideas posted here into consideration. At the Tsaiko meeting JD made keen references to several of Garret’s posts.
If you don’t try you will never succeed.
Too bad they don’t have a beer and wine garden at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Or do they…
#118
Thank you Uncle Pomai.
One other thing I don’t know if the sale of liquor would make much difference due to the type of fans that go to VB, the few times I have gone to a VB game there wasn’t the same kind of crowd that say go to the football games(Falling down drunks) but I do like the idea of an alcohol free event for families.
Reggie Torres in Vegas to see his son play? Got to be a Kahuku bye weekend.
Hi Slugger – Thx for the invite. We might try to get out to one after the ILH season. Sounds fun!
And yes, we’re scheduled for Orange County Performing Arts Center for our annual Christmas show in December. =)
Nalani- Teeta, we miss you. The front screen door is always open. Please join us again with your ‘Ohana wen can. =)
Nalani- your Kauai concert under the stars was so enjoyable!!! Gotta see the full-scale thing one of these days!
re #121 – Pomai and I agree on something!!! Chee Hoo!!!!
Where’s Ralph…. 🙂
Ya gotta understand… before I became a Tsai-ko, I avoided alcoholic events to the max. Bad childhood experience with drinkers.
Tsai-ko functions have proven themselves safe for unaccompanied women and a place where friendship rules, whether you drink or not.
for me, i’d rather go to an establishment that has the game instead of the ssc. there’s more camaraderie, better seating and roaming arrangements, way better food and drinks, free parking, pre and post game bar activities, and sometimes eye-candy waitresses.
even if the ssc charges $5 to watch the game, if 1000 people attend that’s only $5,000. you still have staff to pay, use of utilities to power the ssc, and not to mention the ssc is kinda far from deep in the wesside, northshore, God’s country, and neighbor islands.
just sayin’
Couch Potato..
I figure If that 1000 people are above and beyond the 4500 that will show up for the VB game.. and they buy $5 in food .. AND half buy VB tickets to stay and watch after the game… AND they buy $5.00 more in food… That accounts for at least 1/2 the recruiting budget… AND if that makes for better recruits.. these recruits make for a better team.. which in turn makes for a greater turn out the next season…. and the next.. it grows exponentially.
But it starts with $5K.
Liz some of us Conservatives don’t like drunks either. LOL Just like my man Dirty Harry says “A man’s got to know his limitations”
There was one at the Campus Center in the 70’s. I used to make sure things were “flowing smoothly” on the days that ended with “y”…. 😆
A-Joe – Mahalo! And much aloha to all the Tsaiko’s. You guys are a first class bunch.
Loved Jersey Boys! Was even considering seeing it again this weekend but now still holding open the possibility of some “East Bay Grease” at South Point.
So many possibilities, so little time.
UH Sports should be piped through every available, and open public screen on Campus. These dorms and sets aren’t included in the number of household TVs counted when the bids are put in.
Alcohol is not a problem, PEOPLE are the problem.
Diversion from the REAL issue is an easy way out.
madeinhawaii, i’m also talking about games that do not preclude any sporting events in the ssc. didn’t look it up but how many football games preclude sporting events in the ssc?
iwwthm,
Dunno if you call it a wine or beer garden, but as you enter the SSC from the main gate and take a right and keep walking to the first beer concession area, there are a bunch of stand-up style bar tables directly across against the outer wall.
Some people “park” there the whole game… don’t ask me why.
Couch,
I think most of the away games do.
Howzit Nalani!
Looking forward to Oct. 21st! 😉
btw, how much of the concession monies are dispersed to lower campus?
Hahaha, Kevin!
Hi 5 to Pomai.
#135 – mih- agreed…
I tell you one thing, people that lean too left or too right shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions for the masses.
The needs of the many OUTWEIGH the needs of the few.
If alcohol was the real problem all people drinking at sporting events would cause a massive riot.
FACT is less than 20% of a crowd as large as that in Aloha Stadium can and have caused problems.
Kevin…
Probably the group that has designated drivers. AND, maybe the people change.. but they all wear the same colored clothes… When I was in Japan, everyone had black hair.. it was hard to tell…
Couch Potato,
Not sure, but ALL on campus concessions at the arena, baseball and softball stadiums will have a portion go to UH athletics.
Aloha Stadium… NADA. Best to avoid wasting your money on things not going to UH.
Taking a step back as seeing the WHOLE picture would serve everyone.
Not that hard to do, just gotta pull your head out of one’s okole once in a while.
Got it…I’ll look for the “H” logo on the crap table before I lay ’em down! 😀
took a cursory look at the Wahine vb sched and the Warrior football sched. two games both teams are away and two games that have the Wahine game following the Warrior game. however, there seems to be some downtime between games.
sure, jd can put something together to broadcast games at the ssc but i think it won’t work out.
just sayin’
a better money making venture is to hold concerts at the ssc.
ST:
I thought UH’s travel squad was set at 66 due to “budgetary reasons”. But if a player is hurt, sent home, and another player is flown in for the next game… Doesn’t that defeats the purpose of the budget?
Afterall, injuries are part of the game, and that’s suppose to be factored in the depth chart.
get tom moffatt to work with jd. should be easy to pack 10,000 concert goers if the venue is good.
A-House raises a good logistical question.
What kind of crowd (size-wise) will come to the arena for an away game?
The arena is in Manoa. Check out the demographic there and in the surrounding areas. If there is no alcohol for a “family friendly” environment, where are the people with families living? The majority are not in town. You’d have to look a little past Manoa towards the East. Most people living in Manoa Valley are older and do not live with their children who may have children. People in Kaimuki are older couples as well.
Familes of 4+ live more in Central Oahu, Windward Oahu, and out East in Kahala/Hawaii Kai, gap in Aina Haina with more older folks as well.
Wanna take it up a notch to draw familes from a distance to Manoa??? Turn that sucka into Bishop Museum EAST. Ballons for the kids, have the pep band there, if they cannot make the road game, cheerleaders and dancers. DO IT ALL.
Because quite frankly without all those things, really looking at opening a massive venue of that size up for less than 200 people. Is that fiscally responsible for a cash-strapped department?
NO.
Cannot run UH like free-for-all.
Replay of Call the Coach on 1420 … now…
Not a Coach Mack’s shining moment..
D1,
No matter the craps table, as long as it’s at a Boyd Gaming Property. At least they support UH.
Aloha Nalani!
Best of luck to Kahai! Mahalo for being a Warrior!
151- Kevin – I think, not for just any away game. Just using THIS as a sample opportunity to fill the house.
1. Warrior Away Game viewing
2. Wahine Game
3. Hawaii 5-0 filming
Big, multi-use benefit.
Kevin..
Probably a lot of Dorm, nearby student rentals and Kalo Drive/Place dwellers… but I suspect there is more than enough to make a profit. Many don’t own cars. Won’t really know till you try. Not trying is worse.
There is some kind of “rule” or decree stating that the Blaisdell gets first refusal over all concerts coming to Oahu.
This is kind of old news, but it’s STUPID considering the SSC is LIGHT YEARS ahead of Blaisdell in terms of a facility and quality. This robs UH any chance of gaining a profit off of facility usage fees.
Pretty sure this was a vision the late Stan Sheriff had when pushing for it’s construction.
There have been so many concerts over the last few years that UH has missed out because of this stupid and unjust rule.
Sports Hawaii will have another chat with JD beginning of next month. I’ll try to ask him on his position on this and what he has or plans on doing to work with the legislature on removing this “rule”.
IF the rule is still in place, I do not understand how other venues get called up like Kaka’ako Waterfront, Aloha Tower, etc… The Waikiki Shell falls under Blasidell authority.
Kevin, A-House?
oh, didn’t know about that concert rule. that’s bogus!
so much for attending bieber fever at the ssc. 😆
Liz,
I mentioned earlier that I agree in this rare instance of THIS Saturday, UH SHOULD open up the arena as suggested.
Said such things in post 61:
and post 108:
I am speaking in terms of those wanting it open for all home games.
MIH – re 152: i noticed that, too.
Couch Potato,
Yeah I first heard about it years ago. I think we were all having a similar discussion on the blog about the arena getting profit off charging concert promoters for use of the stadium and someone brought up this “ruling”.
Sounds like “da hui” mentality that ends up screwing UH over in so many other ways.
someone tells me to stick my hand in a fire, i’m not going to try. just playing madeinhawaii, jd can try this out but like i said i don’t think it will work out. you can’t even get the dorm students to go to the game even with a free bus ride and ticket.
Hi Hawaiian Bod!
Ok I’ll weigh in on the discussion. Since I do promote concerts for a living!….
It’s tough now and most of our shows barely break even. But not doing them takes you out of the loop and eventually the economy turns around and you’ve built up a following, so you need to keep it up.
SSC is a great venue. The key to making it successful is a radio partner. They can provide a lot more exposure than you can afford to purchase. And they can get the artists to perform for little or nothing, trading favors, etc. But most of these types of concerts that are very successful (ie Birthday Bash) have very cheap tix price and have lots of alcohol. Usually involves a Beer sponsor to sweeten the deal. So if they are ok going there, they could make money with the college crowd and their friends. But the price tag of these heavy alcohol events is an overall downgrade in the event and most of us wouldn’t attend. Not to mention just the additional parking revenue on any given day when the SSC isn’t being utilized. That really adds up.
Ok that’s my two cents. I’m sure UHs radio partners would love to try this out. The Shell has become very run down and new venues are needed.
I’m saying I’m for UH trying to open up the arena for ALL home games but if they’re gonna do it, they should do it full BLAST as I said here:
To me, if you want to take people out of their comfort zone (i.e. watching games on PPV at home and paying the 55-60 bucks, or at the bars ) you need to offer more than a venue and mediocre food.
So if UH does all this that I highlighted in bold in the blockquoted statement, then I think it will worth the time.
There is nothing wrong with trying, but some decent thought needs to be put into something to eliminate failures.
Recognize potential obstacles and plan it out to eliminate them. None of this “eh I won’t worry about it”… that’s nonsense.
Sun Tzu… ART OF WAR. It’s a good book.
If you don’t at least try it at least once you really won’t know if it will work or not. Just like asking questions, what is the worst that can happen, they will tell you no.
Couch..
Didn’t the Student Section rock in the Colorado game? Times may be changing.. gotta pull the plugs, dig out the seaweed… clear the pathways and make it flow unimpeded!
Nalani,
I think more people are recognizing what you are saying about older venues as we’re seeing more trickle into Aloha Stadium and Kaka’ako Waterfront Plaza.
But what do you mean by “radio partner” in that sense? Do you mean radio partner as in promotion for concerts? I think the ONLY current radio partner UH has is KKEA 1420 and they’re obviously not a music station.
Reading comprehension….
Hmmm.. gotta wonder what the agreements were between the Convention Center and the Neal were…
Pomai,
Was about to flip out on your 166 post, but I see you posted same time as me…. so I assume you did read what I said about “trying things”.
1420 is part of a group of stations
student section rocked but still wasn’t full. and the student section really isn’t that big.
Met Russell Harding and sat with him during the UW game. Really nice guy. Hope Scott gets the chance to touch the ball a little more on Saturday.
The radio partner can be any station they choose. Usually one that reaches the demographic who would attend the concert they are planning. For instance, Na Leo has partnered very effectively with KUMU and KSSK since they are listened to throughout the day in offices statewide. Instead of just buying time, you share the revenues with the station. Gives them more incentive to plug the event above and beyond.
And sorry Kev, I just figured out you’re talking about a broadcast event at the SCC. Sort of the same idea. But following it up with a cool little party with entertainment that people can hang out at and enjoy sounds fun to me!
Nalani,
Ah, well not just for SSC hosting UH games, but being open to hosting concerts as well. With your folks relationship to the those radio stations, it does serve the demographic of those that are fans of your music like you said.
Now if UH wants to start doing concerts they would need to do the same in identifying what kinds of concerts they want to host, rock, metal, reggae, Hawaiian, pop, etc.. Then they need to form the relationship with the proper stations.
OR they could try to form relationships with ALL stations, but I think there might be a conflict of interest with opposing stations. I don’t think they’re all clearwire.
Anyway, I see what your saying and it makes sense.
SSC is a great facility and should be used to the maximum.
UHfan808:
September 14th, 2011 at 10:03 am
— UH vs UNLV Tsai-ko TV-gate Announcement —
Location: Café Anasia (info below)
Date: This Saturday, September 17, 2011
Time/Instructions: Game starts at 4:00pm HST; come a little early for parking; doors open at 2pm
Address: 2227 S. Beretania Street; WHAT ARE THE CROSS STREETS ON EITHER SIDE? I drive down Beretania at least 20 times a month and have never seen the bar.
You know one side effect of trying something without planning and consideration of potential challenges in this instance is having people feel they wasted their time and putting off more UH fans.
So, as I’ve said so many times already, trying is good. Trying ANYTHING is good, ONLY IF YOU PLAN FOR IT.
So if you put it all out there and you fail at least you won’t be wasting time, money, and man power time and time again improving on something where you could have avoided those problems in the first place.
If you cannot eliminate and solve all problems before they happen, at least you’ve reduced the amount of time needed to make corrections for the next time.
In one of my posts earlier this week, I stated that I had sent the following e-mail to Jim Donovan on Monday, September 5. I have not received a reply so it’s not likely to happen this Saturday.
i could never understand why the ssc is not used for more concerts/musical events and the like.
RIGHT OF REFUSAL TO BLAISDELL ARENA:
Most recent article I could find regarding this.
Via Honolulu Advertiser article (dated February 2010):
Les Murakami held the Aerosmith concert, but I think that was in conjunction with that Toyota Convention on campus in 2007.
Les Murakami Stadium, not Les Murakami himself.
http://boxscorenews.com/warriors-football-preview-hawaii-set-to-battle-unlv-p26513-68.htm
pre-game write up
Travellin” Tsaikos,
Remembah fo’ pack da game tickets! 😯
WassupDoc (#177): Driving Ewa on Beretania, it is right after you pass the Isenberg St. / Beretania Ave. intersection, on the left hand side. Just where Beretania goes from 4 lanes to 3 lanes.
I thought the orange thing was to hold the football and then the QB takes the snap from it and that starts the timer that they have to throw the ball before.
d1shima- yup. Game ticket packed.
So happy today… got a care package from Green Bay… woo hoo!!!
GO WARRIORS and WARRIOR ALUMNI!!!
Stephen,
You will enjoy Jersey Boys…it’s a great show!
Got that right, Hank!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWMkFvazgXY&feature=related
Wasn’t Dave Fagg the offensive coordinator?
A-Joe…
Aloha my bradduh. I can understand JD’s reservations about having the game shown in the SSC. But how about the neighbor islands? After all, Manoa has the only football team amongst all 10 UH campuses in the system. I always wondered why they did not show it at UH-Hilo, Hawaii CC, Maui College, and Kauai CC? I’m sure there are a few bars who still pay the premium on our islands, but holding the games on campus would draw the students in. Those who want the bar will still go to the bar. I guess too much red tape bureaucracy to make something cool like that happen at all the other campuses
BIK – how’s mama? gave birth yet? blessings, brother!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=focMSnlGhbA&feature=colike
Joisey Bois!
Hope I get my voice back for the karaoke kall! Sheesh!
#177.
mr. doc,
I am surprised that a learned person such as you have not yet discovered this modern age phenomena.
http://maps.google.com/
All you have to do is enter the name of the place that you seek. Always include the locality, however, broad as it may be. For example, “cafe anasia, honolulu, hawaii”.
The smart program that Google.com has will locate the place before you can finish typing “Hawaii”. It will also give you the address, phone number, and a description of its goods.
jersey boys
phantom
celine
elton
terry fator
some must see entertainment.
In a few hours, it’s….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQq6yLe2ww
and then….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFw5a5Bp_Pw
BIK-
That’s an idea JD could definitely consider.
Speaking of outer island fans, Stretch proposed this idea to JD- have a plane designated to fly outer island fans, to and from on game day/night.
Stretch said allot of outer island fans would love to go to the games. But, being that the games end later than the last flight, fans would have to stay overnight. That’s just added expenses they can’t afford.
But, if the airlines were to re-schedule a normal evening flight at a later time, perhaps it could then be possible. Throw in ground transportation (to and from Aloha Stadium and the airport) and this could be a sweet deal.
Fans could also come in on their own and make arrangements for transportation during the day but, leave on the special last flight as well.
JD said charters may not work but, a simple change in normal scheduled flight times would be achievable.
It’s an idea to consider.
200
Long day at school with classes and an open house.
All of 6 parents came in to see my classes.
Geez. No wonder the kids are doing as “well” as they are.
wafan, you on strike? Or, not your area?
Like the ideas of opening the SSC and neighbor island venues for away games.
Might be an idea to open home game venues on the neighbor islands, too. Charge something, sell foods, drinks, whatever else. Lot more fun watching and cheering with others. Would negatively impact PPV though.
You know the Super Ferry could have…
Nevermind. Freakin hippies keeping Hawaii behind the times.
Tacoma is out. We had an open house.
Nytal!
This link sent to me by JP about Greg Salas:
http://fantasysports.usatoday.com/content/player.asp?sport=NFL&id=6607
Great news A-joe!
YeeHee! Go #1! (or watevah numbah you now)
Looking like one day we’ll be known as Slot U
Cpngrads Greg Salas! REPRESENT!!!
*Congrads*
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did someone mention ‘Supa Ferry’?
From sarvicdar in the Sportshawaiiforum – http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40277
I am surprised that a learned person such as you has not yet discovered that it’s *Mrs. Doc*
Keep in mind that this highest means that Moniz did the reads.. made the right choices… threw the right passes to a catch-able place, made the right hand-offs… dumped it when he had to, and scrambled when he should 99.6% of the time. It does NOT mean that the receivers caught the ball.. made the expected YAC… or that the RBs did what they were supposed to. Those are literally.. “out of his hands”…
Dinner tonite at Studio B in the “M” hotel with the A-House Ohana.
What a nice family, good fuud, good conversation and good peeps.
OK pu SteveM at the airport in the AM, if he doesn’y smell to bad will drive up to BG on Hualapai to catch the tailend of practice
There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That is a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be working in honest good faith. I don?t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, but I am sure that your job is clearly identified as a fair game.
Sigh, so many misspellings, so many punctuation mistakes…..
I should have paid attention in school after 5th grade.
They said the uh vs unlv game was gonna be on cbs college sports but when I looked on the schedule for cbs college sports and it shows that the army vs northwestern game is showing at dat time. So I don’t know if it is actually on.
Hey Slugger, we are going to the same concert. I think it’s in Cerritos, but I am not positive since my wife buys the tickets. We bought 8 tickets, so we got a whole posse going with us.
To longdistance808:
You said you might need tickets to Reno the other day–pls. email me at:
tomkitaguchi@yahoo.com
if you do; or did you already? tom.
I did try one of the recommended all you can eat sushi places in LV, Goyemon. I would go back. Besides the sushi, the grilled items were especially good – pork belly, yellow tail, and white tuna. My son ordered a baked dish called dynamite, which I thought was also very tasty. It tasted like it had crab, scallops, and tiny fish eggs in a mayonnaise sauce. My son thought it was too rich however. The AYCE buffet costs a reasonable $27. My wife didn’t want the AYCE and ordered a sushi and mixed assortment platter which was $12. She could barely finish it. The deserts were also good. The restaurant can only sit about 40, so it might be difficult to get in this weekend. They don’t take reservations except for groups of 10 or larger.
We’ll check out Zion National Park tomorrow and return on Friday to catch the Jersey Boys show.
RE: 217
Sniff sniff… SteveM probably has to be fed too… 🙂
At HNL. Flight leaves in an hour.
REMINDERS
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9/16 Las Vegas Tsai Ko get together at Sato Ya
8pm until whenevahs
Eat, drink, sing
Blog Trolls invited too, show your face like a man!
(or an extremely unpleasent looking lady)
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9/17 3pm to 530pm at Fiesta Henderson
Pre game meal at Buffet ($4.99) with amigo card
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9/17 530 pm bus to Sam Boyd (return approx 10pm)
leaving from Fiesta $15.00 pp for round trip
pay at Sato Ya or at Fiesta to Rasu Begasu or 702Warrior Nation
Correction, my wife said that her dinner platter cost $15 not $12.
Hey SteveM, see u soon!
U can buy breakfast!! LOL
Wow,
Im so envious of all that are ther enjoy others company. Game time is getting closer and and it only will get better. Everyone take take of each other and…. Go Warriors.
On board! WooHoo!
Rasu, will call you when I arrive
safe travels, d1!
Safe travels, all!
Puttin in some green highlights.
Haleakala, we used to go to a little sushi place called “Sushi Twister” in a strip mall, thinks it’s called Boulder Crossing, on Tropicana and Boulder. Its close to the Trop/Boulder intersection. Food is good and reasonable, think the all u can eat sushi was $22.00. All the chefs look young and from Japan. We used to go there all the time, but recently we’ve been going Chinese at “Wo Fat Restaurant” on Desert Inn few blocks mauka of Boulder. The food is good and lots of former Hawaii residents who live in LV go there. They said the owner used to work in the Wo Fat in Honolulu, so that’s why he named it so. Imua Na Koa. Beat them Rebs!!!!
Howzit Tyaiea! Are u headed to the desert? If so, good luck!
H’bod, Leave tomorrow nite arrive LV in Fri am. Leave LV Wed am. Hope money lasts till then, usually stay only for weekend. Staying longer this trip cause the airfare was expensive coming back until Wed when prices went down. Gotta put plenny kala on the Na Koa. lol
TY- safe travels! NaKoa should cover 21 pts by half-time, easy.
A-Joe,
Cool beans about Salas!
mih,
Nice piece about Moniz.
GoooOOOOOO WARRIORS!!!
Hope everyone gets to LV safely and y’all have a ton of fun!
nite all. gotta work tmorrow.
rage777,
Das da one! My Aunty & Unko are going to the Na Leo concert w/ their friends.
Night!
DPK, I go try watch dat show you tol me about…
safe travels to all who are on the road or in the air 🙂
ummm unko just doesn’t sound right
Good morning everyone!
At SFO — boarding flight to Vegas soon.
Viva Tsaiko-Vegas!
Hate being sick, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, had this hacking cough for over a week now, and it is starting to really irk me…….have to sleep sitting up……that’s it, going to the dr. today and get some drugs……. 🙁
Buenos Dias I would just like to offer my thanks for the awesome info you have here on this post. I will be coming back to your blog for more cool information in the near future.
Good Thursday, everyone!
Safe travels to those on the move.
If you are injured heal up!
Another loooooooooong day and night on tap.
Whoo-hoo!!!
Off to school!
Great Salt Lake Morning All!
Waiting for the flight to Vegas.
GO WARRIORS!
GO WILDCATS X 2!
what a day(S)
SteveM, D1, A house and got forbid rRich2176 in Town!!!
(and midnite,ronnie,liz kauai,wafan,kekoa etc!!)
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Would be cool if Mo ended up on the Colts.
Would be cool if Mo ended up on the Colts.
Tsai is on 1420 right now.
Stephen………….
Scott Harding trained in pads and helmet in Australia with me.
C’mon, can we move past the ‘ never wore a helmet before he attended practice’ crap that all our Australian guys have to endure.
Let’s just see Scotty rip UNLV to pieces – it’s about time he was let off the leash.