Kia signs with the J-E-T-S

Happy Birthday Jason..

Tommui…

First as in .. age?

Howzeeet Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Fort!

Ten-q very much, NMSU!

Good morning everyone!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON !!!

From the Advertiser, UH gets this amount from UA:

The Warriors’ success helped earn an eight-year contract with Under Armour Inc. in 2008 as its exclusive provider of football uniforms, shoes, coaches shirts and other items. From that deal, UH is guaranteed $135,000 this year in rights fees plus product allowances, marketing support and other extras collectively valued at upwards of $465,000, according to the contract.

http://sports.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100516/SPORTS0201/5160380&template=UHsports

So, the difference in apparel contracts actually has a bigger difference between the big-name schools and UH than the difference in BCS bowl money.

Alabama on Friday placed the contract’s value at nearly $30 million in cash and product over eight years.

Published reports place Michi­gan as the nation’s largest apparel contract, valued at $66.5 million over eight years with Adidas, and North Carolina is believed to be Nike’s top school at $33.7 million over 10 years. Auburn signed a five-year contract with Under Ar­mour in 2005 that is valued at $10.6 million.

http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/05/alabamas_nike_deal_comes_with.html

The ACC’s TV contract was going to be up next year, so they just completed a bidding war for their TV rights. ESPN outbid Fox and gave them much more than earlier projections had expected. So, now the ACC is fairly close to the SEC in TV revenue. The Big 12 and Pac-10 have their TV contracts end in 2012, so their negotiations will take place next year.

The haves are getting more and more money…how much money will ESPN have left over for the smaller conferences?

The back-and-forth bidding, which reached its final stages last week at the league’s spring meetings in Amelia Island, Fla., drove up ESPN’s rights fee from initial projections of about $120 million a year to $155 million, sources said, providing the ACC with more than double the revenue it was receiving from its previous football and basketball contracts.

ESPN’s increase was in response to an unexpectedly strong pursuit by Fox Sports and sources familiar with the negotiations say the bidding was neck-and-neck last week.

The ACC broke from its spring meetings without announcing a new deal, and the conference said a formal contract had not been finalized. But industry sources pegged a pending deal with ESPN at $1.86 billion over 12 years .

That annual figure of $155 million dwarfs the average of $67 million the league was getting from its previous media deals, which expire at the end of the 2010-11 season, but falls well short of the $205 million a year that the SEC gets from its new 15-year deals with CBS and ESPN.

More competition will just drive up the cost of TV rights…the Pac-10 and Big 12 must be really looking forward to this. I’m surprised that the ACC is getting more than 3/4 of the money that the SEC got…if the economy improves, the next round of contracts (Pac-10 and Big 12) could realistically match the SEC’s contract. With the TV deals lasting for more than a decade, there isn’t going to be another round of TV negotiations for a long time after next year.

That Fox made such a competitive bid could be considered a heartening development for the Pac-10 and Big 12 conferences, which are next in line to negotiate new media contracts. Both have rights expiring in 2012.

Turner Sports, which recently acquired with CBS the NCAA’s rights to broadcast the men’s basketball tournament through 2024, could be a factor in future rights negotiations as it seeks regular-season college programming to go with its NCAA package.

Those networks might provide some much-needed competition in the college space for these conference deals, which have been dominated by ESPN.

Woo Hoo…top twenty…

Again, Happy Birthday Jason!!!!

Update on RGM. I like the praise for RGM as a returner…I don’t like that Miami doesn’t appear to have a roster spot for him. If he doesn’t make their roster, I guess RGM could go on their practice squad until they have a trade or injury.

Q: Mike, the Dolphins could use a punt returner and a nice established veteran wideout like Patrick Crayton. The Cowboys are looking to trade him after they got Dez Bryant. He is a Parcells find so for a 7th could we get him. Mike, Miami Beach.

A: Good name, but I think the Dolphins are set at receiver for now. They’re going to have a hard time finding a spot for the highly intriguing Ryan Grice-Mullen as it is, and RGM can return punts and kickoffs with anybody.

Happy birthday Jason!!!

HB J-son

Anybody notice jm#### looks like the Fresno St softball coach? Or does the Fresno St. softball coach look like jm####?

Happy Birthday Gwyneth Pang !!!
…say, did Gwyneth karaoke with us one night? Another of ST’s ringers…

I keep thinking there’s another couple of birthdays coming up real soon… usually associated with me getting into trouble… 😕

Hauoli Lahanau Jason and Gwyneth!

xs-homey- Fresno coach looks like Glenn Close when she’s mad at Michael Douglas – or Frances Sternhagen…

ST_ and good vibes to the NMSU radio announcer for his friendly play by play on 1420.

hiho!

I hope the UC Davis game is not foreshadowing of what could be a future WAC match up.

1420 said there is going to be radio. Any idea of who they will be sending up?

You mean jm#### looks like Glenn Close??? Even up close???

nah…jm**** is much younger and better looking. plus she can whoop st at the alleys.

LOL! I guess she must look like the Fresno St softball coach then since no one disagreed.

al – Even a baby chimp is much younger and better looking than the mama chimp, but it still looks like the mama.

…back to sleeping.

Capitol -ist/WassupDoc

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Happy birthday Gwaneth…did you also go by Tweety back when?

Dennis Hollaran –

Aloha!

But are you KIDDING ME…?

The WAC wanting UC Davis and anything to do with Sacramento for whatever reason, wow, that’s like, I don’t know, maybe Americans ever liking adult soccer….

C’mon now, if it ever does happen, it will only be because there’s no other option, none, and warm bodies were needed.
The ULTIMATE solution, which will probably never happen, is re-uniting with the WAC defectors in the MWC in some sort of re-alignment.
But hey, I doubt it.

But we “DO WANT UC DAVIS IN THE WAC” as you suggest, stop, stop, stop!!!!

full circle???

“In order to win here you have to have J.C. transfers and that doesn’t fit into my recruiting or coaching style”. …frank arnold 1987, upon his departure.

yes indeed. the gibber will right the family name and write his name in to the university of hawaii hall of fame by the time he is over. basketball is fun again.

#41 spoken like a true realist. I can live with UC David, Portland State and Sac State in the WAC. The reality is that the WAC is and will more firmly hold its place as a second tier conference. We may schedule a game or two with the “big boys” but at the end of the season, we won’t be invited to play with the “big boys” in their “big boy playground, the BCS Bowls” or get the “big boy allowances”(BCS payouts), but that’s all okay.

If the reality is that this is all we have to survive and keep above the D-II line, remaining a “bastard child” to the D-I A crowd, so be it.

It is what it is. Let’s not dream, let’s wake up and deal with reality.

Good call #41 (name too long to spell).

As far as conference re-alignment(s) especially where UH is involved, I think it boils down to travel expenses and tightening the purse strings.
That’s why the MWC formed and left UH out in the cold. Distance and lacking in viewership numbers.
So, it is what it is, and UH just gotta work with what they got. It ain’t so bad. To me anyway.
Winning will make it all better.

happy bday to da bday celebrants 🙂

re: # 43 and # 46.

Yes, we are who we are; and we are located where we are.

Let’s make the best of this situation.

Let’s strive to win/contend for the WAC titles, every year.

Let everything else “fall into place”.

The Fresneck Softball Coach reminded me of an LPGA player from the 1990s. Especially with that sunvisor.

jm### is far more appealing then that.

# 51 is in reponse to # 49.

Congratulations to Aaron Kia!! How many UH players are with the Jets now??

Congratulations Aaron Kia!
J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!

way to go kia.
prove those pundits wrong baby.

Happy Birthday, Jason!!!

Oh, howzit, gang!

my take on conference expansions…

we will rue the day that bsu leaves.

we will lament further should la tech, fresno st, and nevada depart for the mwc.

the wac will be relegated to but a skelton of its old self and we will be the one left behind. picking up the likes of psu, ucd, and sac st will only make the wac thinner and closer to a d1aa conference in the eyes of all.

forget about the pac10 or any other super bcs conference it will not happen for us.

we can only hope that by some hook or crook we get invited by the mwc. to do that we need to offer travel subsidies, big travel subsidies. we need for private sector monies to come up big time to offer this or we will be the last man standing at the prom without someone to dance with. we need to sell the mwc with an east and west conference make up that includes us.

without a fairly decent conference to play in our recruiting will fall off the table. we would be lucky to compete for any mid major talents. it would be back to the old termite palace days of playing prairie view a&m or humboldt st.

the sponsors, boosters, ad, and the state should be concerned. really concerned.

it didn’t help that we went from 12-0 to 6-7 in a matter of a few years. had we kept winning, then our national appeal would have stayed up and we could have been a player to look at least.

it is what it is. but, we need to be proactive. perhaps jd and the downtown boys do have a plan stirring but we need to hurry.

the conference shakeups will leave many with their hands in their empty pockets.

if the door of the mwc is closed shut, maybe we can entice the conf usa to form a conference usa west and a conference usa east to at least salvage a few bucks.

no matter what it is we need to fatten the carrot to all who come to hawaii and play. we need to win to fill the stadium every saturday to make it work. the price that we will pay for all this realignment is big time bucks for this state as well as the university itself.

tough times are ahead for the football program.

…nuff said

sorry for my long post.
but, this is scary stuff for us.

i am surprised that the united states senate does not get involved with all this. wouldn’t the control of college football be considered under out anti trust laws? isn’t this a manipulative monopoly of sorts?

is the bcs’ power that large that our own govt turns their collective cheeks the other way?

heck this is larger than steroids.

out = our

al…ditto..agree with your statements….as I said before…if the BCS schools keep doing this kind of thing…..congress will step in and depending on how many schools are impacted, they will fring the hammer. BCS system was under criticism not long ago…but it may rise up again…anti trust allegations may just be the spark plug that starts the engine..

#63 –
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http://tinyurl.com/23qv262

Congratulations to Aaron Kia!

st for commissioner.

Where is Ralph?

Nytal!

HA!

ST, I like your suggestions, but obviously Karl Benson and the Presidents of the WAC schools do not.

New rule on divvying up the money if a WAC team goes to a BCS game. This time, the participating team keeps all but $100,000. The WAC will get $20,000, the other eight WAC teams each receive $10,000. That’s a better deal than what the Mountain West will offer.

The WAC’s *old* rule was that the team going to a BCS bowl got about $4.5 million of the $6 million or so the conference got from sending a team to the BCS bowl. UH got that money for the Sugar Bowl and spent $3 million or more in expenses (whatever was left over as profit). The WAC’s new rule is that the team going to a BCS bowl gets $3 million and the conference splits the $3 million with the other schools.

So, the WAC knew that BSU was unhappy and did the exact OPPOSITE of what you suggested. That was basically telling BSU to get out of the WAC, since after expenses they could make less from going to a BCS bowl than the rest of the WAC teams!

actually it would behoove us if the mwc was raided.

say, pac10 gives in and takes byu and utah.
big12 follows after losing nebraska and mizzou by poaching bsu, tcu.

we offer travel subsidies substantial enough to entice our acceptance. say hawaiian air buys in with reduced charter flts and offers cheap package deals for boosters coupled with sheraton hotels offering a discounted hotel package.

we were getting there in 2007.
we were almost there.

OK, guys, Esme’s site will not exist in it’s current format after June 6th. They have deployed their lifeboats just in case.

Is it time for our lifeboats to be lowered into the water?
ST – I know you’re under a gag order, but a hint, please?

Congrats to Aaron Kia!!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! Now please come over to my place, and help me grade papers. 🙂

Okay, if I get through these quickly, maybe I can sleep at a reasonable time tonight.

ST,

You mean Blaze is looking for a place to play & Kia has a contract with the Jets?
What’s wrong with this picture? I’m dumbfounded. Though I’m not a big Aaron Kia fan, I’ll wish him luck with the Jets; hopefully he’ll play better for them than he did for UH.

Great news for Kia!

Let’s try this again:

“I told you to be a hedge fund manager instead, Jay-boy!”

Fewer hours and lots more money.

Some of which you could give to us beloved Tsaiko blog uncles.

congrats to kia

Happy Birthday Jason.

Gib looks like he’s gotten long, but not big. I wonder if EVERYONE is going to be expected to run the length of the court again and again and again. Big uptempo game. Could be interesting and exciting.

#103 Pride girls are more matured than boys, they listened, and followed the wisdom of their coaches and enjoyed productive seasons.

Pride,
Good story re:103!!!!
i should run more too.

Regarding # 66

The Justice Department has not been enforcing the anti-trust laws since Reagan took office. The unregulated free market mentality took over which over the past thirty years has meant monopolies in the banking, health insurance, news media and so on. The big boys are paying big bucks to keep their monopolies intact stifling competition in most sectors. If Congress begins to investigate the BCS system you can be sure BCS monies will begin to flow into the pockets of our Representatives. So far the Obama administration has not shown any signs that they are willing to start enforcing antitrust laws to break up the monopolies which threaten competition in our economy. I have to think in any case the BCS system would be last on their list of priorities.

#113 – yes it certainly is!

jm mentioned it earlier but the Mom’s site will be shutting down on June 6. They will be going to lifeboats until they are able to get another site up and running. I hope that this Tsaiko blog continues.

Stretch:
May 17th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
jm mentioned it earlier but the Mom’s site will be shutting down on June 6. They will be going to lifeboats until they are able to get another site up and running. I hope that this Tsaiko blog continues.

I posted on the pink side when Esme put out word for the mom’s to signup for the lifeboats — a concept she saw first here, as we took to the lifeboats twice in the past. I posted that if the Mom’s have each other’s contact info, the group will continue to exist in some form no matter what the future holds.

This brought back memories of the “Bus Stop” soliloquy I wrote years ago. The emotion still applies today, especially for the younger MLM group, but most Tsai-kos are secure in their ability to find each other now… a lot of cattle calls, tailgates, parties, and karaoke calls have passed under the blog bridge…along with emails, phone numbers, and real names 🙂

Besides the lifeboat, a blog or group meeting place can easily exist or be created. However, the issue is whether the blog host will continue leading it. Changes in employment situation is a big factor if they must decide. I am optimistic.

If curious, my “Bus Stop” soliloquy of 2007 is at:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/stevemuse.html

Mahalos to NMSU in being a gracious host to our Wahine.

The blog entries have been slowing. Guess if we talk about all of the 5 F’s, we can make it happen, jm2375.

I have to go moe-moe, now…Night!

SteveM ~ Yes, thanks to your record keeping site, we will be able to continue on. The lifeboats will be there for us if needed, but more importantly…we are there for each other by simply emailing the location of the next Tsaiko event. Thanks SteveM.

BTW…Al, did you post a notice for a Fook Yuen CC for Wednesday at 11:30?

Nite All…

anybody down for a cattle call this wednesday at 1130
fook yuen chinese restaurant
mccully shopping center
corner of mccully st and kapiolani blvd
restaurant located on the second floor diamondhead end of the building.
parking ground level and subfloor garage (enter from pumehana st)
buffet lunch 10.99 plhs tax/tip
about 14.00 pp

please let me know here if you are attending.
got to reserve table for this place

Al ~ Thanks for the update. I’m in for 2 on Wednesday.

Time to get to bed. I’m beginning to believe I’m some kinda financial whiz! Remember when your mom knotted lunch money in your hankerchief?…that was old fashioned financial security.

Early meeting to attend in the morning. Good nite all…

Hey..just want to let you know i appreciate your blog and some of your posts…well…lol..not really many ones, but i like the “idea”…i’m a blog owner too 😉

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Garret does this look about right?

Big 10: $22 million per year 11 teams = 242 million per year
SEC: $17.1 million per year 12 teams = 205.2 million per year
ACC: $12.9 million per year 12 teams = 154.8 million per year
Big 12: Varies between $7 million and $12 million per year 12 teams = 120 million per year
MWC: $1.3 million per year 9 teams = 9 million per year
C-USA: $1 million per year 12 teams = 12 million per year
WAC: $325k per year 9 teams = 2.9 million per year

For a grand total of 745.9 million for the 7 listed conferences

Not counting the
Pac 10
Big east
Sunbelt
Independents
Mid-American

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