Donovan will answer your questions

Go Warriors!

Aloha Kakahiaka…lights are on…anybody home?

A.D. Donovan,
Rainbows or Warriors?

A.D. Donovan,
Green or Black?

Top 10!

Good morning!

Off to work. bbl. esme and whoooooosh!

I hope the show goes alright, I would like to watch this one.

I’m not going to be able to watch the show until Thursday, so I hope that the Advertiser IT people have solved the problem with the replays. JD is a *very* important guest and I’m sure that there will be a lot of interesting information from the show…it would be a shame if many people cannot see it due to bandwidth or server problems.

PAUOA BOY or AL: Re #14 – the guy committed? Any news story or confirmation of sorts on this?

Good morning Hawaii!

What is going on with NaKoa? Where is the leadership headed?

Pauoa Boy….#14 thanks for that film……that being said, I didn’t see him dunk a single time,(unless they don’t allow it in his league). He’s a man playing among boys but, he needs work going to the basket. Needs to get stronger especially if he goes up against equal/stronger players at the next level, which I’m sure the coaches will address when he gets here.
He got the quickness and moves though, which is a big plus coming in.

mctruck,

He can dunk no problem but I think his game is a little more finesse then anything sort of like Scottie Pippen. Once I found out yesterday this guy was coming to us, I called my buddy who is a recruiter for his high school. He says the guy is a beast and will be a star in college. The league he played in, in Northern Cali has some legit D1 ballers though, so although the competition didn’t look like much, well shute the guy is 6’8″ with skills. In high school if I was 6’8″ with skills I would look like Lebron James in Hawaii…

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂

The new recruit looks great. Nice get, Coach Gib.

Jim,
Any chance on getting all fans & supporters together to say Mahalo to Bob Nash, fellow letterwinner and alum, player, coach, friend?
If not via UHAD then an outside group running it off site?
Fundraising potential here with funds specifically earmarked; since Bob did so much to raise grad rates for bb players, then maybe cover charge (donations) to Nagatani Athletic Center to help provide an academic tutor for athletes ($33K@ year) or alleviate some of the summer school costs for bb players??

Rainbow Cliff now is the time to weigh in!!

Count me in to kokua when the time comes!!!

Mr. Donovan,

Would the athletic department seek more sponsors for Wahine softball to assist with the deficit that the program has since it is a non-revenue sport?

If we must deviate from a pure RnS, it would be nice to see a multiple RB attack like the option, considering the stable of good looking backs we have this season.

Mr. Donovan,

Have you spoken with the new UH President about the state of UH athletics and the future with regards to budget cuts and how she feels about the contribution athletics has at the university level?

Aloha Jim,

Congrats for doing a stellar job thus far. The UH AD job is very challenging one, given the current economic situation.

How’s the morning walk working for ya? What are your goals? From what I understand, you put in some milage everyday before work. Good for you!

Mr. Donovan,

What kind of measures are being taken by the athletic department or upper campus to prevent such things from occurring and what is being done to assist programs that suffer these losses without them having to do their own “grass-roots” fundraising?

jd

so far it seems that gib arnold is doing all the right things.

will the recruiting budget be increased to facillitate the international search for student/athletes?

Is it DPK? Is it?

We shall see… 😎

Mr. Donovan,

Personally, I think it would be well-attended if it was an annual thing.

U funny, Kazz.

Great shuffling of UH football coaches. Nick Rolovich is and will become a greater play caller. Mr. Aranda is a defensive genius. Big Mack Attack, you are one smart cookie! Looking forward to football season. I feel this will be a great year. GEEV UM GIB! +++Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was+++

aloha mr. donovan,

congratulations on steering this ship through stormy waters. realizing the increasing deficit that the department is facing, what are a few of the marketing concepts that you will use to attract more fans to Aloha Stadium?

keep up the good work, give my best to your bride,

Bulla

PAUOABOY: THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!

don’t forget that there are a lot more to being an offensive coordinator than calling plays. they should be responsible for setting up practices, hopefully, looking at a progressive system where you start from nothing then teach (coach) newer things involving all player and coaches, and, as the days go by, add and teach more and more plays/techniques, etc. so when USC arrives………UPSET!!!!!!!! same can be said with the defensive cooridinator, broken down into individual coaches/positions.

Interesting discussion about which is America’s “Greatest” game vs. it’s most “complex” game to coach.

Complexity is a measure of the number of possibilities. In the context of sports, an effective defense has to meet the possible choices of the offense. Thus, the number of possible ways a player or team can create an offense is important. If a player or team has a more diverse set of offensive plays, the other side may not be able to defend against each play. The plays that it cannot defend against can be exploited.
At the basic level, given the threat of scoring in the first play of the
game, of the three major sports (baseball, football, and basketball), here is how they rank in complexity:

1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball

The baseball team has only been to the post season once in the past decade. Do you think they need to make the regionals for Coach Trapasso to get an extension on his 1 year contract?

Mr. Dovovan.

How many athletic participants do we have in the athletic department?

Mr. Donovan,

What are your “upper shelf” numbers in terms of personnel that would be required to run an ideal atheletic enhancement and injury prevention program?

Mr. Donovan,

If we could somehow get the okay from all of the respective unions at the school, would it be possible utilize volunteers to asist Tommy Heffernan with his training program?

Along the same lines, what would be the possibility of utilizing volunteers to assist the different coaches with grade and class checks?

Hi, Jim,

What about using a student ‘mascot’ instead of paying an entertainer (Vili) at the football games?

I purchased a copy of the NFL draft preview special edition by USA TODAY as I was interested in reading about several teams and the direction(s) they might be taking and what their current plans are for players already on their rosters.

One of the teams in particular I was interested in was the Redskins; in the area of team needs, three areas were listed, (1)offensive tackle, (2)running back, (3)qb. With regards to the qb situation: “With three-year starter Campbell likely to return only for a one-year deal as a restricted free agent, expect new coach Shanahan to choose a qb early and prepare him to be the starter in 2011.”

I was surprised there was absolutely no comment/mention bout our CB????…oh well??

mctruck, Colt is flying under the radar in Ashburn. But so is Chris Cooley. I think this may be due to their IR status.

I am praying that Colt will get a serious opportunity this year.

Redskin Insider thinks Shanahan and Bradford might be an ideal combo
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/mike-shanahan/the-redskins-shanahans-and-sam.html?wpisrc=nl_sports

Don’t they know what they already have at a very cheap price with Colt?

#69…

Sam Bradford is going to the Rams with the first pick. Redskins would need a miracle to happen if Sam Bradford was available at #4. Shanahan is going to open up the QB competition, it’s up to Colt to show his stuff or ask for a trade already to a team where he can get some PT or learn from an aging Pro Bowler like say, Peyton Manning or Brett Farve??? Soon they are going to need replacements and why not learn from two of the NFL’s best. Obviously Colt ain’t learning from Campbell cause we all know he’s a Byron Leftwich type…a.k.a. garbage!

AD Donovan: In the light of the changing world, what do you see in the future for UH Athletics? How important is it for us to turn to the WEST (Asia, Australasia) for opportunities?

K, I’m off to go kill slugs. Hope the replay is glitch-free so I can watch it later. Can we watch Coach Gib’s interview now? Has that been fixed & put back on the list of archived Warrior Beat shows?

Esme & out….

Re: Colt

Colt knows, and has acknowledged…..and has accepted the fact that it will always be him against the world. Although there’s a lot of folks on this football planet who got great love for Colt, the powers that be (media, certain coaches and analyst) have always treated him like a stepchild. Colt is gonna have an uphill battle from here on out. The good news is….it’s always been that way for him and he’s always won. I’ll put my money on Colt to be just fine.

Again, he’d look good in Purple and gold!

BIK

Mahalo AD Donovan!

Coach Mack mentioned that there is a large group of coaches from Japan who will be attending the upcoming coaches clinic. To what end is the effort to cultivate these relationships being guided?

oops. BasketBows

Howzit Aunty Liz, Happy Belated B-Day to you…

Bows get a nice ring to it when comes to all that but at the sametime these days trying to bring a Warrior attitude and being associated with Rainbows no seem to manly to me. I just saying we already get looked at like the bastard children in everyone’s eyes and thats just giving those guys more fuel to pick at us. I mean hearing the term Rainbow Warriors seems like a contradicting thing to me. I dunno just my thoughts about it. Its better suited for our wahine than for any of our kane teams…IMO.

Good morning everyone!

Shucks…at work today and cannot watch the show live. It is good to see Jim Donovan here!

Pride and Don Weir- yes, the easiest way to donate regularly is to set up a “merchant account” for NaKoa on my bill payer account at the Credit Union. It can be done automatically or whenever I feel like it.

All we need is NaKoa’s contact info, phone no. and address. A check for any amount is sent to them when we want.

Rainbows vs. Warriors? They both work for me. I am not sure of the origin of “Rainbows” for UH, but…

When I was young, indestructible and sat in the rain in the termite palace with UH losing late in the game, a rainbow would sometimes appear over the stadium. It raised our spirits and inspired the team. We usually won. When I was at UH, I was not surprised at the name.

….still “Stay Tuned” 🙄

…on the plus side, no glitches so far! 😉

d1島 — Yes. Used to surf too back in those days. I was very dark brown tanned. I told you I would go today if I could wear my speedos… 😐
Not.

…and in those days, no raincoat too. Best part of the game was coming home soaking wet and drying out my wallet and cards for days. No drip-dry UA wear and plastic money back then. Sometimes I envy Kazz!

Jason Elam retiring. Would he come back to help coach (as a volunteer) the kicking unit?

Excellent video and audio today!

Donovan,

If coach Nash had won 20 plus games yet failed on the other 5 criterias would he still be our head coach?

Glitch free…

A few yrs back my old school needed to change the turf for the fb field, so instead of waiting for legislature money, they put out a flyer to all alumnis that if you donate $25 for each sq ft of turf, your name would be on a plaque outside the stadium showing the place on the field where your money was used. I don’t know how much turf needs to be replaced, but using 60,000 sq ft and selling each for $25 for recognition, would generate approx 1.25 million dollars.

DPK,

Maybe The Princess gotta give erryboddy Question Asking Lessons! 🙂

Mahalo Jim Donovan! Great show Stephen, Princess et al (dat’s not with Al!)….

JIM DONOVAN WILL YOU PLEASE CHANGE ALL MENS SPORTS AT UH TO JUST WARRIORS AND KEEP THE GREEN,WHITE,AND BLACK THEME COLORS. IT’S TIME JIM TO MAKE THAT CHANGE AS THE STADIUM IS READY TO MAKE THE CHANGE TO THE GREEN AND WHITE. THE RAINBOWS WAS THE PAST GENERATION AND THE NEW GENERATION IS YEARNING AND SCREAMING FOR JUST WARRIORS. PLEASE HAVE THE VISION AND THE COURAGE TO MAKE THAT CHANGE LIKE JUNE JONES AND MIKE WILTON HAD. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE OF UH TO HAVE ONE UNIFIED NICKNAME………WARRIORS!!!! FOR THE WOMEN SPORTS IT COULD BE JUST WAHINE, SOUNDS GOOD TO ME, OR WAHINE WARRIORS.

https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/UHF/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2246272

Too bad JD ran out of time. I would have wanted to hear his answer on the Telethon suggestion I posed. A 24 or 48 hour program like that would be very informational about all things UH. I see it as a huge way to connect with people who ordinarily would never contribute to the UH. People could buy tickets, DVD’s and maybe even Warrior monogramed T-shirts & BVD’s!

Norhtshore Fan:

I tried the “replay” and it SUCKED big time – mostly black screen, no audio or video, herky-jerky, you name it!!!

Hope you are more lucky than me!!.

A-House, yup. very jerky…junk reloading time on replay. Shucks.

HiHo!

Mahalo Pride for speaking up for the pledge drive I first suggested back in December. Little guy?

Don Weir – at our meeting three months ago with folks from Koa Anuenue, we were told that monthly charges to debit or credit cars could be arranged with participating financial institutions. I assume that this is one of the issues being discussed between Stretch and Vince Baldemor & his staff.

Re the Wahine softball team donations drive at their home games. Spoke with Carl Clapp about this and he agreed to place it on the staff’s weekly meeting agenda. In presenting the proposal, I told him that several regular T-Attendees – including myself – would be more than willing to volunteer. He laughed when I passed along the suggestion from last week – sorry, cannot remember who made it – that maybe one of the defensive linemen could guard the jar and draw some attention to the upcoming football season at the same time.

Final post about various legislative proposals. We are four weeks and two days away from the closing of this year’s Legislature. Lots will happen during this time.

It is not at all unusual for the House and the Senate to pass very different versions of a particular bill. That’s why there are conference committees which will work together on a compromise – each conference committee has to to know when to hold and when to fold.

However, it is extremely rare for the originating chamber to accept the changes in its bill that the other chamber has passed out especially if it’s a controversial issue such as tax increases or public service cuts. Out of 300 or so bills that reach the final stages of discussion, maybe two might be ready to be sent to the Governor this early in the process.

If the differences cannot be worked out in conference committees, then the bill dies although elements of it can be inserted into other bills which are surviving the process.

Once both chambers pass the conference committee’s version of the bill, then it is sent to the Gov to sign, veto or let go into law without a signature. If she gets legislation ten or more working days prior to the closing day, she must make a decision while the Legislature is in session so that they can, if necessary, override her veto. Otherwise, all bills passed up to the 5th floor within the last ten days of the Session have until 45 working days after the Legislature closes to be signed, vetoed, or let pass into law without signing or vetoing. This would be shortly after the Fourth of July.

A special session will be called on the 46th day after the regular session to override vetoes – if needed. Last year, about 40 bills were enacted into law this way – including one that I’d been working on since 2005.

This is not the end, however. If there’s something we want to support and it takes money to implement it, then we have to work Da Gov to release the funding.

However, come December, there’s be a new butt sitting behind the desk in the Governor’s office and he will have that authority passed along to him if necessary.

You can get involved – contact your legislators and talk to them. You can make a difference. The problem is that most folks don’t talk to their legislators and, since mind-reading is not a required skill to hold office, they aren’t going to get what you want.

Remember that there a thousand Number One Priorities out there and if only one or two of them are conveyed to your state representative or senator, then guess what happens?

Back to work – can hardly wait for the weekend. How can we track the softball team’s progress if there’s no direct media coverage?

W-Doc – one can set up their own checking account to make automatic payments to Na Koa using the donor’s bill paying system. Na Koa just needs to provide an address and phone number.

Once again, the WB Show is herky-jerky.

Oops. Apologies to Liz who made the same suggestion about automatic monthly payments a bit earlier.

U of Oregon offered $2M to former USC mbb coach.

No answer yet.

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way to get the post count up d1!

Good to see that the Denver Broncos will let Jason Elam retire as a Bronco. That is very classy and am sure most appreciated by all the Elam clan, friends, and schools.

Good Luck Jason Elam and Mahalo for all the memories.
We have a photo of you with azngamer808 over 20 years ago
way back when UH football had photo days for the public to meet and take pictures with the players and Coach Wags

LizK and Wafan:

Individual donations to specific programs such as Na Koa or the Wahine Volleyball Boosters Club have always been available.

However, what we checked into was setting up a T-Fund to accept pledge donations throughout the year so that when something comes up, the money is already raised by Tsai-kos.

My personal preferences are to support women’s sports in general, but I certainly would be willing to help upderwrite a particular expense or purchase for one of the men’s sports programs.

Let’s take a couple of examples: Let’s say that the football program needs to purchase 10 pieces of training room equipment at $1,000 each.

A T-Fund set up six months ago with 80 donors giving $20 a month has raised $9,600 minus $338 admin fee; however, 20 individuals requested that their monthly donations go to other programs so that would mean that only $7200 would be able to be spent on the equipment.

The balance could be raised in a number of ways, but no matter how, the T-Fund has easily raised three-quarters of the cost of the equipment.

Or let’s say that the Wahine softball team goes all the way to the NCAA Super Regionals, but the players are expected to provide their own per diem expenses for meals. Assuming that tthe team arrives two days before the Regionals begin and stays on the Continent between the two tournaments for a total of ten days, then the T-Fund could go a long way towards underwriting these meal costs.

As for the other fund based upon a student activities fee which puts $50 into athletics programs and $50 to a variety of mauka campus activities, that would generate generate an estimated $1.8 million dollars a semester. The AD distribution would be determined by its administration, but even so, that could be used to help reduce the deficit, pay for summer school tuition, underwrite travel expenses, pay coaches more, recruit more intensively, etc. It probably could not be used for construction or renovations costs.

Back to work. Let’s hope that things move forward iwth these fundraising ideas in a timely fashion.

Lucky we have JD.

If there was a list of top up and coming AD’s in the country. JD would be right there amongst the top – no question!

Someone brought up a donation box idea at UH games?

I think a really cool Idea would be to roll a promo video during timeouts at UH events showing how donations are needed for the athletes and the program. Hint, bring in June Jones speakers. just a couple key points to really hit it home.. then ask for a text donation. $10 bucks $5 bucks, whatever… might be able to raise some really good money with +40k in attendance with hardly any effort… Automation! emphasis on “effort”

not saying make it sad like Haiti but surely someone in UH film school can make a short video that would oooze out text donations at games / events

Mahalo Don for all your hard work!

Ohhh and another number…It’s Tricky!…

hello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQPBsdG64Eg

Can’t watch the crummy video to get an answer to my question:

Charles:

March 30th, 2010 at 7:27 am
What is going on with NaKoa? Where is the leadership headed?

Stephen Tsai,

i had a good chuckle from this…”Rolovich took over the play-calling duties, from Ron Lee, for the final 12 games last season”

ok time to go buy another dozen eggs, im down to my last 11…haha jk =P

so does anyone know what would happen if Na Koa eliminates the director position or of they choose to go with someone else?….Does Lumpkin have a place to go should something unfortunate happen?

Derek..good comment. Wiseman looks like a baller. Take a look at this link. It has a picture of Trevor and also some stats of some January games. At 6’8″ he has put up some wicked stats against some tough competition. In one game, “Wiseman had a tremendous overall game, finishing with a Lamar Odom-like line of 27 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 steals, and he scored 17 of his points in the fourth quarter.” In another playoff game he had”22 points, 10 in the fourth quarter, plus a game-high 17 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 blocks and 4 steals.” Looks like a true D1 athlete right out of the blocks. Kudos to Coach Arnold….

Darn insomnia.

d1 . . .

A little more squinty.

BG:
March 29th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
……
Kazz…you gotta see site #5. It will take us to a new level in tailgating.

Roger that, BG!. We started at Pavillion #6, went down to the slightly larger Cabana A/B/C, now back up to the largest “patio” #5. Great job to finally run it down! Hopefully we can get it during the season.

Click here to see the ariel view of the location.

The Tsai-ko “practice tailgate” will be on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Stand by for announcements from the usual organizers….

pride…brilliant.
a good salesman will always sit opposite of a couple when presenting and never in between.

but isn’t the guest presenting to the audience, the viewers, and not the Princess or ST. The guest is the story, good journalist do not become part of the story, they weave and help tell the story by their questions presented to the guest.

Kudos from one brainiac to another. 🙂

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