Finding the right combination
There are interesting ramifications to head coach Greg McMackin’s announcement that slotback Greg Salas would moonlight at deep safety and defensive end Paipai Falemalu would start at strongside linebacker in the Warriors’ base defense.
Actually, the Warriors do not have a primary defensive scheme. The closest is the 4-3 alignment used in basic situations, such as first-and-10. In football, everyone is compared to someone else, and Falemalu reminds the UH coaches of Chad Brown. McMackin believes Falemalu will be a natural fit at strongside linebacker in the 4-3, and as a pass-rushing defensive end in the other schemes.
In addition to the 4-3, the Warriors have three other schemes β two versions of the 4-2-5 and the 3-3-5 Okie package.
In the regular 4-2-5, nickelback Richard Torres becomes the fifth defensive back. In the 45, the fifth defensive back β known as the quarter β serves more as a linebacker. Aaron Brown, who is listed as a strongside linebacker, would play the quarter.
In the Okie package, Falemalu becomes the joker, a hybrid end-linebacker position. The joker is free to roam.
All of which means, according to McMackin, “we’ll have more options.”
Meanwhile, McMackin believes Β 6-foot-2 Salas will be helpful in Hail Mary pass situations, as well as red-zone coverages. Too often last year, the Warriors had difficulty matching up against tall wideouts on jump-ball plays in the end zone. Salas helps negate the size disadvantage.
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Thanks to Garret for pointing out that B.C. Lions signed Solomon Elimimian.
First!
Happy Friday!
Night all!
wow JM is up after 11, must be a slow good friday or is this furlough friday
took coach mac 2 full seasons to realize that our short cbs are a mismatch with tall receivers and tight ends in the red zone π
with all these defensive packages, I hope coach mac uses more players like Boise uses in their packages where certain players practice a set scheme over and over, and when a specific play is called, they jump in and are ready to execute the play.
top 5 babyyyyy!
Good night everyone!
GO WAHINE !!!
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top 10 π
i trust coach mac’s decision, he is the head coach and that’s why he gets paid the big bucks. bringing the joker back to the defensive alignment gives the Warriors more options. however, you need to have the right people in the right positions to make it happen.
GO WARRIORS
Top 10
I like what Coach Mack is doing with Salas, Brown, and Falemalu.
Like ST said, Salas will add size to the CB on much taller wide receivers.
Brown and Falemalu knows how play both positions as they’ve played it sometime in their careers. Hope Paipai hasn’t loss the LB mentality.
Should be an interesting D this coming year. Can’t wait for football to begin.
Is it football season, yet?
g’night and g’morning to all!
aloha bleed,
you can never have too many options, if you have the right personnel. a little birdie told me that coach mack has some other surprises going on….. look for a DT to be a DE/LB/Joker in Fall practice….now THAT is interesting……speed and power will get you every time π
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http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783
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Best wishes to Sol as he tries to make the BC Lions’ roster.
Good Aloha Friday!
The Wahine will make it a Great Aloha Friday today!
Go SoftBows!!!
Eye doctor appointment today — I get to have x-ray vision!!!
I hope it continues to be cloudy this afternoon so I can drive home. Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Four in a row and all in the top 20!
Live aloha everyone!
Thanks SteveM, Slugger for your responses about the Army game. I’m checking in with our UH NY Alumni Association.
Good to see Elimimian back in the game.
I look foward to see the diversity in the defensive package(s) this coming season….can’t wait to see!!!
I hope there are more guys with Salas’ athletic ability and physical stature who can complement the size and speed formula because I would hate to see Salas get injured as a db!? That would be a dbl wammy!!…that being said, why is UH still recruiting sub-six foot db’s??
ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs,
Is it just my imagination that Coach Mac is doing more “hands on” the defense side of the ball than the defensive coordinator? I saw a lot of that last season during games.
NYUH,
Panda has their 1-night and 2-night packages available for the Army game if you scroll to the bottom of this link. Road tickets can also be gotten through Na Koa if things haven’t changed–Don Weir helped with getting tickets in the UH section with no surcharge when he was in charge.
http://www.pandaonline.com/specials/uh-roadwarriors-2010/packages.php
The BCS points out that the 5 non-AQ conferences make far more under the BCS bowl system than they *ever* made before the BCS existed. I actually agree with this–the problem is not the bowl system, it is the huge difference in regular-season TV contracts.
Discussion here about how UCLA has no verbal commits right now while USC has gotten a lot of high-profile commitments. Some UCLA fans are worried, others are not. I’m a little worried about all the offers out without any commits for UH, but figure things will pick up in the summer after the camps are over.
morning gang!
SteveM/Garret – do you think we’ll have access to all the old posts on the Warrior Beat after the merger next month? does it live on in cyberspace if the main website gets shut down? seems like a shame to lose almost three years (7/24/07?) worth of info
Happy Belated Birthday Devon!
Go Wahine!
Great Morning All!
Loa,
Howzit! Thought you was talking to Hawaii Five-O there for an instant. π
Loa I have all of the past blogs and comments on my hard drive, that is up until this Feb.
….something in the back of my mind keeps saying, “Desperate times call for desperate measures…” π
Pomai,
What else you get on your hard drive? Heard the DNI position is open! π
Howzit d1ε³Ά & Pomai
so no tv for todays Wahine SB on webcast?
Coach Mack on 1420 now (replay of interview yesterday mentioning Salas playing both sides).
Coach Bob Coolen on 1420 within the hour.
Happy Aloha Friday Tsaiko Family!
Loa,
No TV. Just ESPN 1420 with Bobby Curran calling the game at 12 noon Hawaii time.
OR live streaming via CBS sports or gostanford.com.
OR live stats from hawaiiathletics.com.
Kazz – mahalo for info
Ronnie – good morning
d1 k’den I’ll bite wot dat DNI stuff?
Pomai,
Dennis Blair resigning.
d1, shoots but need for hire brew cause he da one git all do good stuff. LOL
do=da
Have a terrific day erryboddy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxnXMYHMPY
HiHo….
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Good morning Tsai-kos!
GO WAHINE!!!
TGIF!!!
GO WAHINES!!!
Jenna Rodriguez was quoted using the typical clichΓ© of how much this sport is mental. In that 4-3 loss to Fresno State, Coach Coolen said that the team “kept looking over their shoulders to see who was going to get things started”. I haven’t heard the team doing this since that opening night upset loss to McNeese State.
One would think that after a while, that sort of reaction to being down in a game would diminish as the season went along, but this team, for the most part, remains young and as I mentioned, the seniors gotta keep on their underclassmen teammates all the way through.
I don’t know if moving Greg Salas over as a special safety in unique situations constitutes as a ‘desperate’ move. It similar in a sense but not as inclusive as moving Ryan Mouton to WR two seasons ago. At least, Salas won’t be playing DB as much and hopefully those situations DO NOT arise in which we will need him back there.
If anything the concern on the “depth” of the linebacking corps is being addressed in a subtle way by announcing Falemalu will play his natural position this upcoming season.
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Good Morning Gangeez! π π π
GO WAHINE!!!
I like Salas as DB in certain situations. Membah those TDs last year when that tall reciever was killin’ us? What game was that?
Anywhoo, its all about gettin your best athletes on the field, I reckon.
Hey y’all! Anybody have the link for watchin the Wahine online today?
Are you blind? The fellow Brew posted the link.
NCAA rules.
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783
NCAA chill out man
d1 Linfield is playing right now.
Thanks Pomai and Brew.
NCAA does not chill out.
“Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount.” NCAA Mission – Core Purpose.
GO WAHINE….NO TOMORROWS…..
Pomai,
The NCAA is regulated to chill out between the hours of 2am HST and 2:01am HST.
The NCAA does what it wants when it wants. The NCAA acts like the 800lbs gorilla in the room but relies on other entities to gain the revenue so that the NCAA can be the 800lbs gorilla.
Yeah DPK, you blind! LOL
Bulla – get next season…live the moment, GO WAHINE!
I wish the Warriors had a couple of 800# gorillas on the d-line.
Kazz, we do our best. Entities, Conferences, BCS committee, call it what you may, you are right about the revenue.
Good Aloha Friday Morning!
Good luck to Sol in Canada!
Salas at DB = interceptions?
GO WAHINE!!!
I see Michelle Wie is leading at the halfway point. Another go Wahine!
Morning Tsaikos!
GO GET UM WAHINE!!!
Also, best of luck to the baseball Bows at SJSU this weekend.
Wasn’t planning on fishing, but looks like we might be trolling again…..usually something always hooks up before we know it π
good luck to Sol, he’ll do fine with their system….
homey,
long time, loooooooooooong time no see…how you be? hope all is well in the world of homey
Go Linfield!
Bulla – You blind too? BWAHAHAHAHA!
I’m good. Just waiting for the game to start.
…and can’t wait for next football season to roll around…hehehehe
That reminds me, I better renew my season tickets. Got till mid-June…someone keep reminding me.
i guess i am blind, going to look for my friend Sam who is going fishing, last time i checked he’s still hanging out with your friend Philip Enos down at Hans L’Orange field, haha….those guys remind be of Da Falsies…..they were funny, DPK, put your teeth back in….not those kind falsies……….haha
Hey Sam..I like go fishing too….
Good morning Tsaikos…hope all have a great day.
Hey ST, can you explain what a nickel package is?? What’s an okie?? for those of us, like myself, who do not have football knowledge. MWAHAHAHAHAA
Sounds like the D is scheming and thinking different scenarios but I will save my comments on that when these ideas get put into action. The proof is on the playing field.
(J)J – Nickel is 5 cents. Okie is from Oklahoma. I tell you some people are so ignorant. LOL
Yep, you can get all fancy smancy but sometimes even the best makeup can’t hide ugly. Right DPK.
Mano: eh kimo, what you call one micronesian baby with no umbilical cord
Kimo: what?
Mano: one cordelss mike
Kimo: das bad bro…..
Mano: eh, kimo….
Kimo: what?
Mano: how come da Micronesians don’t use Verizon phones?
Kimo: why?
Mano: ’cause dey only get blue tooth
Kimo: das bad bro…..
homey,
you not picking on dpk are you? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Homey, renew your season tickets!
Bulla – Nope, I thought DPK went to cosmetology school?
Micronesian jokes? What’s up with that? Eh, Kazz, you going take those jokes from Sam? LOL JUST JOKING!!!!!
Thanks duffer…Michelle Wie wins 5 & 4.
homey,
i thought there were 18 holes in golf……
i didn’t know Kazz was Microkneesian….
bad move by mr owens….
Watching BYwho vs the short horns, no way the Na Wahine can’t go all the way.
Bulla – The holes vary, just like in the human body.
I feel it.. Today is a good day.
200 down the lines and 220 dead center don’t mean anything to this Wahine team. In fact, I’ll take a line drive in the gaps with that extra room for our ladies on 2nd to get home and whatnot.
Again, the majority of our homers were high and deep and that 45 foot net in the outfield at 205 feet is really stopping our homers from reaching another 20 feet at Manoa.
No excuses, JUST WIN!!!!
Bulla,
I’m not micronesian. My bad temper tends to mislead people.
We are about 3 months before the start of the football season and time flies. I don’t like McMackin making all these statements about this and that (Salas playing safety) and all the “scoops”. The problem comes when one of the key players like Salas or another guy who is counted on gets hurt. Getting injured is part of the game. It could happen right now in summer workouts, an accident not football related, in fall camp, in actual games early in the football season. Then all these good plans that the coaches have are down the drain and they have to scrap their ideas.
I don’t know about you, but I am superstious. Murphy’s law says “if anythng can go wrong, it will.” We don’t want anything to bachi the team.
As it is, the team has it’s hands full against USC in the opener. We have enough worries about the offensive line, and I am not confident about our QB situation. I don’t know if Moniz, Austin, Graves, Rausch, etc. is the answer, but I do know that the most important part of playing QB is leadership and efficiency. If we don’t turn the ball over, we have a chance to win. Rolovich has a tough job to decide who will be the leader on the field. It’s not the best passer, or the flashiest, or who has the most experience. Who will be the best decision maker, the steadiest, and who has the “it” factor. That’s Rolovich’s dilemma. I know one thing though. The best QB might not be the one who you are thinking about.
Example, when Tony Pike at Cincinnati got hurt, Coach Brian Kelly decided to go w/ Soph. Zach Collaros who hadn’t played at all until that point. All Collaros did was play lights out to continue Cincinnati
Derek – That’s sports and life in general. Things happen, we adjust and move on. No use dwell on something that may or may not happen.
Some of the smaller cable systems say that they cannot afford to carry the Big 10 Network. The Big 10 Network is charging a lot, but they have almost all of the cable systems (and all of the satellite systems) in Big 10 states agreeing to the deal…I doubt that they will give those other cable systems a better deal, since they would then have to give the same deal to all of their other cable customers.
NYUH, Garret, et al,
As soon as road game tickets are ready to go on sale I will post on this blog. All tickets purchased through UH are in the UH quota, however, it is my understanding that the UH quota could be spread out over several disparate sections but still on the UH side of the field. From what I am told UH will receive 2000 tickets for West Point and 2000 tickets for Colorado. Guarans that the Boulder game will be a sell out as game weekend coincides with the Colorado AlohaFest (see url below).
Look for UHAA tailgate news on the UHAA website soon.
Update on all UH events on the road will be on the blog and sent to my e-mail list by next Friday.
Colorado (Boulder) Ho’ike general admission tickets just went on sale on the http://www.coloradoalohafest.com website.
Call or e-mail for specific road game information or help that I may provide.
Guud non-furlough Friday to all….
Seems like Coach Mac is exploring all options, looking at utilizing the best at alll positions. Don’t mean it will happen but planning needs to be done just in case…I can see the crowd getting all nutz when coach Mac runs a play or scheme that all was not expecting and it works!
..Moniz is set….drops back..no…hands to Eastman….big hole!….25…15….5….T-O-U-C-H D-O-W-N …HAWAII!……!@#@!??!#!!
Now dat was one guud play!…BC..no can talk already..too suprised and all tongue tied…he talk like dat sometimes…
Guud Luck to Solomon E……BRING …THE… HURT SOLLY!
Anyhoo,,,,have a guud day Tsaikos…
The mtn network has *not* taken off for the MWC, but I still say that a network that combined the MWC and WAC games *would* succeed in the western half of the US. I’m sure that Oceanic would carry that network in Hawaii, and it would definitely get carried in Utah, Idaho, etc. That would enable both the MWC and WAC to make a *lot* more TV money each while remaining separate conferences. Working together the conferences would make a lot more than they do separately.
The BCS bowl money is *not* what is the difference between the AQ conferences and the non-AQ conferences. Upgrading regular-season TV deals is the key for UH and the WAC, as well as all other conferences without the big money deals.
By the way, a 24-hour WAC/MWC TV network would broadcast nationally (via satellite, where Dish and DirecTV seem to like these types of networks) not just the revenue sports…the spring sports (baseball, softball, etc.) would get far more coverage. The Big 10 Network even shows wrestling, gymnastics, and other college sports that never get on network TV. UH would be able to take recruiting to the next level if they could tell parents on the mainland that they would be able to watch their kid’s games on a dedicated network…
I don’t find the Micronesian jokes funny. Our cousins from Chuuk, Phonpei, Kosrae, Palau, Marshalls and Yap have not had the best of experiences in Hawaii. I not going say they all angels, but after all….who is? I think it is pretty eff’d up if you ask me because Hawaii….the land of aloha….tend to have a different standard of tolerance when it comes to our Pacific Island cousins from the islands I’ve listed above. I am a Hawaii LOCAL…100 percent. And when I went to these islands, I got nothing but aloha from the people over there. Noting but plenty smiles in those islands. Sadly, when they come to Hawaii they get grouped into this fictional group called “Micros.” I think that is some straight up racist sh**. How soon we forget that most of our ancestors immigrated to Hawaii also. I wish our we could be better. Sorry, I no mean to steal any mana from Mr. Owens because i think he was just tryin’ fo be funny. As you all can tell, this strikes a bad tone for me. I see these folks get treated real bad by local people and cops. I guess societies always need to have a victim….and sadly, recently immigrated pacific island folks from micronesia have now become the target of negativity from Hawaii folks. No can, this kine.
Mo betta talk UH sports instead. Happy friday.
BIK
Penn State’s volleyball coach has been quoted as saying that the Big 10 Network has been a huge boost to their recruiting. They were already good, but all the volleyball games (in HD!) shown continually really has helped their recruiting…not just for the 3 years the network has been around, but how they could tell the recruits about how the network was coming even before it launched.
bulla…in match play, wie has won five more holes than her competition with only four holes left to play. therefore, the match is conceded at that point as she is 5 up with four left. that is a winner. so yah they only went 14 holes.
we may have whiffed on one of the best athletes in next year’s football prospects.
chester su’a rb/lb from kaimuki hs gave his verbal to wsu. (according to brand “b”, its all right to quote them now right since it will soon be “brand a/b”) a gifted athlete in fb, bb, track, etc. word is hawaii didn’t even entertain a possible offer with him. too bad, this kid is a stud at 6.2″/205lb and still with one more year in hs to get bigger.
we’ll see him in the nfl in five years.
Huh???
I hope that UH raises a lot of money with the auction.
I like to making all kine fancy kine stuff. You know, do stuffs for confuse the opponent. My only hope is dat we know confuse ourselves.
Come hard time for fly around and hit anything that moves wen I too busy trying to remember what defense we stay in and if I stay line up in da right place or not, and I cannot remember what depth I supposed to be at 5 feet or 3 feet, but wait, we stay in da nickel or da okie. What dat sign da coach jus went make to us on da sideline. Does dat mean bullet, cat, or dog? Gee I forget. But I do know one ting cause if i stay confused den I know da opponent going be even more confused den me. Eh what Salas doing in da defensive huddle. Eh brah, Greg you no weah for line up. Greg, “da coach jus told me at da snap of da ball jus foa drop back as far as I can go, make sure nobody pass me.” Okay, I guess that works. Now back to the basics. Shucks, which version of the 4-2-5 are we in? Okay two back set…first back to my side…second back away. Make sure for bang da tight end, no let him get outside release. Stay outside leverage on da back, play outside number, outside arm free, ball goes away, now take pursuit angle, auwe I forget which guy I supposed to be, so I forget which pursuit angle for take. Whoah dis is all confusing. Why we no just play one defense, or two defenses. Too fancy all dis stuff.
Go Wahine!
Play Hard!
No Fear!
Let’s Go Bows!
Let’s Go Bows!
Let’s Go Bows!
On another note:
No good fishing today due to bananas onboard.
On one nada note:
No joke around…bumbai anywho ken get anyhuhu anykine anytime in ‘dis life today…az why hard…
The Beast + The Joker + Tommy Heffernan + Da Annointing from Above = A Marvel SuperHero in 2011
Here we go
Re the auction for parking passes….
Anyone knows whether those who have been loyal purchasers of parking passes throughout the years will be given the first right of refusal?
woooo hooooo game time!
imua wahine ‘o hawai’i!
Is the softball game at noon?
5 and 4 is a pretty good whupping, but not as bad as what Stretch and PP would have given the kids.
Homey, renew your season tickets!
Ya know its a bad day when ya got homey AND the NCAA gnawin’ on ya leg! π
GO WAHINE!!!
#99…now i stay cornfused fo shuwa. i stay real dizzy da room is spinnin clockwise and counta clokwise. whoa, brah why you wen do dat fo’. i neva stay gradumacate yet.
(i get it.)
This announcer is the pits.
GO WAHINE!!!
Bottom of the first- nothing for the Aggies, Wahine are at bat. Majam is on 2nd and Iwata is on first.
Appreciate any updates on da game. No furlough Friday!
Pomai-
As I watch the stream, I don’t know what impresses me more:
The student intern announcers or the 1960s era graphics. π
But hey, it’s free right, and better than radio. Thanks CBS!
Oh yeah, and thanks to Stanford for providing the feed to CBS. π
#99 Pride, whoa that is confusing. you talking about golf? no wonder i get hard time golfing. bwhahahaha
3-0 Wahine after 1.
DPK I guess your right da price is right.
DPK – No worry about NCAA. I’m certain you are in ADA compliance.
too bad that there is a 30 second time delay between the feed and 1420 and bobby curran.
Good Luck to the Wahine!!
The announcer is bad but everyone has to start somewhere…
Defensive philosophy/scheme…See Ball….Eat ball…and whoever is attached to it!
Na Koa Wahine is stroking…4-0 Yoshikawwa rbi…Grimes crosses da plate…going for more…
it’s a little tough listening to the cbs broadcast and 1420 at the same time. especially with the radio delay. interesting with bobby curran and dave shoji announcing.
5-0..2 outs…
Stretch-
I’m enjoying the annoncer. She’s really enjoying the game and seems to be a Wahine fan.
5-0 after 2 innings.
5-0 after 2…let’s go Wahines..put this puppy to bed!…
everyone can watch UH SOFTBALL LIVE NOW! cbssports.com
NCAA-
Thanks, I try to remember to take my meds.
The announcer is still not great, but she has been much better after the first inning.
Don’t turn away from your computer screen, there’s no replay!
Don’t you just enjoy the silence between innings.
here’s the link again for anyone who needs it.
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783
haka…i believe that shoji could develop a second career in broadcasting/sports announcing. for those wondering about dave’s expertise in softball/baseball he was an allstar shortstop in hs and a three sport athlete back then including vball and bb.
he’s also coached youth league baseball for many years.
great job dave.
here is the actual link
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783
So who gave the guy announcer the loud mike? I’m sounding like Ralph…
You should see him play softball…bat left..can get a infield single off you if you not quick about it…had some pretty good speed…
homey-
That banner in between innings looks like a huge eye, like the NCAA watching my every move. π
Still 5-0 after three.
Just in case you missed the links above:
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783
Somebody’s prolly used this joke already, but just imagine if the UCD squad had a player or two named Agnes.
What was that link again, homey?
You feeling guilty?
I’m watching you DPK.
UCD scores. 5-1 no outs.
The batter looks sked.
Ricketts pitches out of the jam. 5-1 middle of the 4th.
Thank you for watching NCAA TV. Special thanks to CBS College Sports, Stanford, and Microsoft Silverlight.
Eh NCAA, where’s the replay???
*Good, maybe homey will draw the heat from the NCAA off of me…*
Still 5-1 after 4.
The replay feature did not come bundled with the Microsoft product.
Here’s something to watch in between innings:
http://alexoloughlinrocks.com/videos/hawaii-five-0-2010-opening-credits
Ricketts walks in a run. 5-2, bases loaded, two outs.
Make that 5-2 middle of the fifth.
π― Whew! π
Do I sense tension in the air?
WOOHOO!
Puu-Warren Solo HR 6-2 Wahine.
Slamma-wamma-ding-dong???? π
Make that Taualii. Bad info from the announcers.
Slamalamadingdong?!
I’m gonna use that one!
homey,
No, that was my lunch….
homey-
The tension is because the NCAA is here…
watching.
What DPK, you going say that when you see a guy buck naked?
har
I wonder who the Lions are playing tonight?
Why is the field so dusty?
UCD walks in a run, now 7-2. 2 outs.
walks in another one. 8-2.
HR, end the game already.
Mercy rule 10-2.
Oh well, close enough…LOL
Lost!
Game….
GO SOFTBOWS!
And just like that!
GO WAHINE!
A weird way to end it with an infield pop up that got blown around by the wind and fell in fair.
An ugly win but a win. So we play at noon tomorrow. Go Na Wahine.
MERCY, MERCY ME! Warrior Wahine do it again!
WooHoo! GO WAHINE!!!
Yo ho ho and a bunch of Wahines on the move at the Stanford Regional.
I cannot watch the “web cast” as my boss cut off all the “u=tube and odda stuff” cause one time i wen bring in a virus that took our IT guy almost 5 hours to “Kill” and make my computa right.
Funny thing, a week later it happened to another emplyee, but shortah time to fix because of my “bug” – same bug!!!
Funny thing is i don’t get along with computahs – they hate me and i hate dem, but gotts 2 do what i gotts to do to get my work done!!!!
GO WAHINES!!!!!!!!
Way to go Wahine.
Need to change announcers. Terrible.
See what happens when you bean Amanda.
Woah, A-House. Where did the pidgin come from??? And no mo “s” in Wahine la’dat.
Can someone upgrade the telecast equipment to include replays! I’d like to see that last play over again.
Pomai,
Announcer is saying we play at 9 am; I thot we play at noon, too.
Congrats to the Wahine!! Merci, mercy!
Pomai..ditto…ugly but ..I luv it!
No need change announcers if you listen to BC and DS…only problem is no can hanahana wen dey stay playing..
CCHHEEEEHOOOO! NA KOA WAHINES!……
ok…waddapen? waddeyemis?
alright!
wahine o ke manoa get da job done!
that wuz a tough way for the game to end for da aggies…but a win’s a win!
go wahine!
It never fails…..whenever I want the breaking news in sports, I can always rely on WBHA and the SB….Go Wahine Softbows!
Yea, Wahine!
Yea, SOLLY!!!
HiHo!
Homay:
I use to talk da bes peegin – real cane fiel stuff – so UH wen say U no pass speech U no grad – i wen say, OK.
Wen take me tree times, but wen pass. Funny ting, i wen met many nice peoples in da tree classes – one was fomer Marine who wen play shotput for UH. One night wen see him and family in da ole Golden Duck on McCully. So, i wen ova to talk and all da ole folks look at me talking to dis big, black guy. So, i told him jus wait and I look at da ole folks and say, “eh, dis my frien! Every 12-15 years, he pop into my mind and i wonda, “eh, whewa U stay now?”
I was only able to follow the game via live stats on my blackberry, but, I’m left a little empty.
It’s been about a week since the Wahine had a consistent string of games to keep them in a nice rhythm and they’ve been on an interesting string of “visits” on their way to Palo Alto.
Not making excuses but still.
Good win. Any win in the regionals is a good win, but UC Davis is “a child of a lesser god” (as Bobby Curran always says) and a lot of our runs were ‘unearned’, especially towards the end.
Good hitting in the beginning and the Wahine showed that they can get runs without the homers, which has been the case all year.
I’m a little concerned with Stephanie Ricketts and her ability to maintain her poise at this time of the season. Hopefully she is now settled in her new surroundings at the Stanford campus for the next few days as with the rest of the team.
I know the team wasn’t completely “satisfied” with the way everything turned out, BUT!!!!
Good win ladies, KEEP AT IT!!!!
For those of us that think some of us are a little too critical still yet of the Wahine, please keep in mind that we have seen this team do wonders during the season and today they won 10-2 despite not playing to their full potential, which says a lot in both regards.
Coach Coolen likes to ‘sweat the small stuff’ and no doubt his ladies are probably getting a dose Coolen-isms 808 right now. π
We’re close to reaching the Super Regional and possibly beyond, but it’s gonna be an uphill battle.
I think the NCAA should revisit that eight run mercy rule. Years past, softball was a pitcher’s game. Now, it’s transitioned to a hitter’s game.
In past years, a team could have a great pitcher, so-so hitters and fielders and be on top. 1-0, 2-1 games were common back then. Now…………
kazz,
it’s always nice to win games when you bring your “b” game. the seniors will step up and lead. grimes settled ricketts down and taualii got their attention back. the extra pressure of being the “favorite” in the post season is new to them, but i think they’ll be more relaxed now that the first game is done and they won.
btw, taualii’s swing and how she rolls her hands reminds me darryl strawberry’s swing. just a little flick of the wrist and it’s gone.
duffer,
i agree. if the wahine were down by eight runs with two innings left i would still be comfortable with them getting it done!
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What if the NCAA mandates that the ball be heavier? π―
You just shouldn’t bean anyone of Samoan blood in general with hard objects.
would that be like playing with bocce balls or bachi balls?
They should just do away with the mercy rule. It’s only a seven inning game.
A bigger field and regulate the bats.
Way to go Wahine…keep it up…upward and onward…AWESOME!!!
The bats are regulated. They must have the 2004 ASA certification seal. But then again they must also be inspected and approved by the umpires before the start of the game. IIRC…
Bobby Curran:
I thought he did a great job broadcasting the Wahine softball game on the radio. Kept me in the moment and helped me to imagine each situation as it was unfolding.
Last year during the football season I had written on this blog that listening to him broadcasting the Warrior’s football game was like listening to two people having a discussion of the game and plays. (Boring) He was not broadcasting the “play by play” that a good radio broadcaster should be doing. Listening to people like Gene Good, Harry Kalas, Les Keither, Al Michaels, was exciting and they really helped your imagination to view the game in your mind when there was no television.
I’ve noticed a change in his football broadcasting since.
Food for thought when a UH sporting event is on TV and on radio with you broadcasting, and when I or people turn the volumne off on the TV to listen to your play by play, that is when you become the man on the air. I see this happening again like it was when sports were first aired on TV.
Best to you on your ongoing broadcasting career.
personally i like the game better now that they score more.
softball in it’s pitching dominated state was kinda boring.
it’s the wahine version of the run n shoot……home run n trot!
Equipment regulation would be one way I guess. I’m still unsure about the specs of the Easton Stealth bats the Wahine use. From all the articles I read (THANK YOU STEPHEN TSAI!!!) regarding this, it seems to me that the bats are well worn in providing some sort of “flex”? I dunno. I don’t pay attention to that.
Hockey is like softball in the sense that you use a piece of equipment to play the game. The hockey stick = the softball bat. In hockey there are a lot of regulations on hockey sticks like the length and curvature of the blade and thickness. I assume the same is for softball. So far, the Wahine bats are legal.
I didn’t know a bat can flex. I know a hockey stick can flex and that’s how the power in a slapshot is generated, more flex = more whip to it = bigger shot. I assume the same goes for softball. Stephen’s article mentioned there is an exit speed limit to what a bat can have but of course what’s not factored in is the batter’s individual power adding to it (i.e. Kelly Majam’s 70+ MPH bat speed).
I guess if bats were to be regulated, then in lamens terms, the NCAA would want fresher equipment limiting the amount of “wear” on the bat thus minimizing the “flex” or whatnot right?
In the beginning I always questioned why baseball fields and softball fields weren’t regulated in size. You have uniform court and field dimensions in other college and pro sports, so why doesn’t baseball, and in this case, softball have the same?
I say, BRING ON 220 DOWN THE CENTER AT RWSS!!! We’ll hit it out ANYWAY!!!
Then again, the tennis complex is in the way. π
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bat regulations are one thing, but flex regulations from usage?
I can’t figure this out but hopefully someone here answer this question: Why don’t softball fields have grass in the infield like baseball does (all dirt)?
Mercy Rule?…I’m kind of in the middle…after seeing the Wahine score 10 runs in one inning, could it be impossible for other teams to do that?
As it was stated, the game has changed and we see it more and more each year. The scores are reflective of the increase in talent, power and strategy. We see the “slap” hitters but not as much as before.
Equipment and technology is changing real fast. Even the softball design is changing. They used to make some softball that just flew off the bat. Now in certain leagues, those types are not used. too many injuries. Now the bats are subject to testing because with increased bat speed and “flex” technology, even the “restricted flight” balls are flying out of the playing field.
All is guud…the athletes keep getting better and better. Improved training methods, more commitment from athletes = the best they can be.
Na Wahines committed to a good weight training program and it is paying off dividends big time.
I think the dirt helps the larger softball travel faster. The larger ball in softball with the larger stitching would bite infield grass pretty hard.
kazz has it…
from wikipedia
“…softball fields are usually owned or maintained by municipalities with small budgets. Clay requires less maintenance than the manicuring necessary for infield grass. Clay is just plain cheaper than grass.
No, It’s because in baseball the ball comes off the bat faster, so they have grass so they can slow it down. In, softball the ball doesn’t come off the bat as fast so they don’t need the grass to slow the ball down”
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Kazz, haka. Makes sense. Mahalo for your insight.
Kazz – have you seen the super slow motion of MLB players? Let me tell you those wooden bats flex when they start to swing!
Last I heard about BESR it was around 97-98 mph.
K-Jam continues to impress…offense..defense, she does it all.
“Na Wahine holoholo’na” probably will rewrite the stat books at the end.
stanf 2-0 bot 2nd
NorthShoreFan,
Is the K-Jam a new radio station?
Oh wait I found it!
It’s 808.1 FM on the dial!!! π
Ok here’s MHO – mercy rule keep it, but change from 7 innings to 9 with the mercy rule coming in at the bottom of the 7th. Also make all fields regulation in size, 200 down the left an right and 220 to center. Also get rid of the stupid rule!!!!
On the bats I thought that I heard Coach Coolen say it wasn’t the type of bat it was the fact that the bats were broken in over x many years of use, so that means that we are not taking any advantage over any other teams, so we keep the bats.
sounds like one huh?!?…tune in for Hr’s (hit records?) and defensive plays of the week…
KAZZ: Was wondering about that (no grass in the infield). Thanks.
Slugger UH website says the same thing tomorrow at noon.
I think this is the bats they use…or something like this… not sure if this is NCAA legal..
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might not be the exact model but this is the technology..
I hope the reps at Easton have read or heard interviews with Coach Coolen this season. He plugs the fact that Easton has been VERY GOOD to the Rainbow Wahine Softball program over the past 15 years.
stanford wins 5-4
Pomai,
The announcers have been saying we play the first game tomorrow.
Hope the Wahine are UP when they start this next game. Sounds like their ace pitcher is out. We’ll see Chin(n?) who’s a freshman.
GO WAHINE!!!
Ralph msgd me that Teagan Gerhart is out with a wrist injury.
Can anyone tell me who pitched for Stanford?
NSF,
I think it’s the conditioning of the players. If they’ve been using the same bats for years, it’s not the bats. It’s also the talent of the players. And the coaching, and the support, and da love…
Kazz,
Ashley Chin(n?)
Stanford roster says she’s a Junior. I thot I heard an announcer say she was a Freshman.
Kazz,
It’s Chinn. She’s been the starter since Gerhart was injured.
K, off to the garden. I had to see who we were going to play.
Slugger,
Not sure if you were at the two games against Stanford earlier in the seaso, but Chinn has a cannon. She was wild at times with some wild pitches headed for Les Murakami Stadium, but I do NOT remember much movement on her pitches. She threw some serious gas.
However, that was then and this is now. After Teagan Gerhart claimed the #1 job, I don’t think Chinn got much starting time after her.
Whoo-hoo Wahine!!!
Go SoftBows!!!
Thank you for the SoftBow updates. My kids came in to work after school so I could not leave to come home to get the game.
Good think this blog allows for the quick posting of comments!!!
Whoo-hoo!
Pomai . . .
#42 — Camptown Races?
Pomai,
Bobby Curran must have announced the CA time. The CBS announcers said we play at 9 am which is noon our time. What was confusing was the radio broadcast; it was being called in CA, so it’s NOON tomorrow HST.
Hope the umpire in the Stanford-Texas Tech game is not calling the
UH game. He/She had a small strike zone. Bad for Ricketts since she
likes to nibble the corners. Seems like half the ball had to be over the plate
for a strike to be called.
#7 seed Texas is out of the tournament.
Slugger . . .
Noon your time would make it three in the afternoon at Stanford.
If it were nine in the morning in Hawai’i it would be noon at Stanford.
So, what is the actual time of the first pitch?
π Noon in California = 0900 HST during DST.
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SteveM . . .
Thank you!!!
HA! Today it is way too easy to confuse me. Much easier to do so than usual.
i don’t know if all games are completed but only 4 games ended by the mercy today. one of them, of course, was the Wahine win. a lot of the other games were low scoring. how many games were played today anyway? GO SOFTBOWS!!!!!!
808ike,
Parnaby has been more effective with biting the corners. Parnaby is a more “wristy” pitcher than Ricketts. Ricketts gets more flustered with umps not giving her the zone she wants and it can really screw up everything for us.
For Parnaby, she seems looser and probably is. The later innings of a game has been Kaia’s weakness as of late.
I’m leaning on starting Parnaby tomorrow. She has no prior experience against Stanford, while Ricketts has gone toe to toe against Chinn in a pitcher’s dual earlier in the season. So Kaia is going in there with only ONE thing on her mind for sure and that is to pitch to win.
No wait.. I just realized somethingβ¦. Stanford is gonna pressure us on the bags. They’ve got dem dang lefty slappers (the anti-Majams as I refer to it now). I don’t know how confident Coolen will be starting Kaia in that situation with high chances of the ball being bunted in such a fashion.
UW beat North Dakota 3-0. Next up for the Huskies is North Carolina.
Wish I got paid for 5 hours for a virus killing. I don’t get much work in that arena….ahhh, to be the payee… πΏ
BaseBows – 5-3!
Hawaii Plays Stanford 3 pm ET, therefore 9 am HST per NCAA site
Kazz,
Parnaby would be my pick.
1) Left-handed pitching is better for lefty slappers. Jam those slappers!
2) Seems Parnaby reacts to ground balls better than Ricketts.
Pisa feels that he has unfinished business in Chicago.
Feature on the battle for returner in Miami mentions both Bess and RGM.
The crude oil sticks to straw or hay. Why not drop tons of straw and or hay on British Petroleum’s oil disaster? The expensive alternatives just do not seem to be working all that well.
The clean up or pick up is pretty simple then. Either dispose of it or better yet burn it to produce electricity.
The SEC plans to go after some interesting teams if the Big 10 expands to 16. The funny thing is that the Big 10 also has indicated they want to get Texas to join them.
This interview with the SEC’s commissioner has him talking about how the SEC and Texas/Texas A&M share the same goals and aspirations…he’s sure showing the SEC’s interest. These interviews came the day after the Big 10 said that they want to expand to the South…with the way the Big 10 described things (including academics), they were basically pointing at Texas and asking them to join them.
Garret,
Enjoy all your info. Thanks!
Seems the Texas teams are sitting in a pretty nice position if both conferences want them.
Looks like the moves and expansions will be just about finished by the end of summer.
wafan,
The funny thing is that both the SEC and Big 10 want Texas, but the Pac-10 has been trying *hard* to get Texas…last time Texas almost went to the Pac-10 but Texas politicians said no and Stanford didn’t like the idea either. This time Texas has the power to go to the Pac-10 if they want (and if they take Texas A&M with them for political reasons).
Everybody wants the Texas TV market. If you look at what the SEC Commissioner is saying, he is giving Texas the rights to own their own TV network (Texas is creating their own TV network that will be shown throughout cable/satellite systems in the state of Texas and may go nationwide) and still join the SEC. When asked about Texas’ TV network, the SEC commissioner specifically says that they let their member schools own their local TV rights (Florida, Georgia, and others make a lot of money from that) even while splitting equally the $3.1 billion SEC TV deal with CBS/ESPN.
It’s a shame that all these big conference’s have made college sports into what it is today, big business, the president’s of these schools should be ashamed of themselves.
Regarding the size of baseball and softball fields, that’s part of the character of the game to be of differing sizes. Also need to take into account altitude, wind, sun, and other logistics, like the Wahine can’t have a field too much bigger because of the tennis courts.
808ike,
Thank you very much. I’m following everything closely because of my concern about what will happen with UH. I also closely follow Texas (I sat in their student section for 9 years–I took a spring off to work for JPL but never missed a Fall) football and it appears that Texas will determine the expansion plans of the Big 10, SEC, and Pac-10…plus, the future of the Big 12.
Things weren’t always that way. When I started at UT as a freshman, they were in the Southwest Conference and SMU was a power and Houston had an amazing run-and-shoot offense. Mackovic was a terrible match for Texas and Texas A&M and Oklahoma owned recruiting in the state. I was a graduate student at UT when they joined the Big 12 and Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M were the powers and I knew that McWilliams was going to be fired from Texas well before it was official.
Texas didn’t own the recruiting inside of their state until Mack Brown joined, built relationships with the high school coaches in the state, was the first to really give offers early to recruits (something I’ve been talking about UH doing with Hawaii recruits for years), and used Junior Days to take recruiting to the next level (I talked about having UH do Junior Days for years before UH actually did it). I recently had a fundraiser for Texas take me to lunch and even though he was raising money for their graduate school he talked a lot about the football team and how donors could get good seats for games like the Rose Bowl and if I ever made it back to Austin they could get me good seats. The Academic side *really* benefits in fundraising when the football team does well…they openly acknowledge that but it seems like Upper Campus at UH does not get it.
I have never given money to the Texas Athletic Department (unless you count my Student Athletics Fee), but I have given back for merit-based scholarships. I gave enough money that I was given lifetime membership to their Alumni Association. I figure those scholarships made it possible for me to go there so I should give back. I actually got lifetime membership *before* I went back for graduate school, so I took advantage of the free BBQ before home games (due to my classification with their alumni association) during my 4 years in grad school there.
For UH, I’ve never given to the Academic side but I have donated to Athletics. It seems to me that the Athletic Department needs the money more at UH and the Athletic Department at Texas does *not* need the money.
#91 NSF
ANYTHING is possible π but the Beast is available in any capacity to help the team π
GO WARRIORS
Regarding conference expansion, while facts, figures, and size of TV markets are important, human beings make the decisions and are also driven by human emotions. Personal friendships, ability of teams to travel well, and possibly the lure of traveling to Hawaii every year or every two years (as a recruiting tool) may come into play. IMHO.
If only the folks who were responsible for the UH were true visionaries we might be in a far healthier position than what we are currently.
Certainly as Garret posted the other day we can thank the fumbler and the state government.
Seems some of them stagnated and were living on their past glories rather than being the custodians of the future for our children and society.
Nytal!
Pomai,
If UH had made investments in their Athletic Department and the Pac-10 had asked them to join years ago, would you feel the same way? The facts are that rising tuition costs, rising travel expenses, and Title IX makes it necessary for Athletic Departments to earn a lot more money if they want their Athletic Departments to break even.
Texas put money towards their facilities (especially upgrading the football stadium to add seats and luxury boxes) while a lot of other schools were adding to their endowment and letting their facilities deteriorate while the economy was good (cough, UH, cough). When the economy went down, the endowments took a HUGE hit…but the facilities resulted in the Athletic Department remaining profitable. Do you honestly think that the President of UT-Austin feels badly when the Athletic Department gives $10 million to their University and also builds several buildings for teaching and an amazing gym that the students can use?
By the way, any school that gives their head coach $1.1 million per year over 5 years should *not* be complaining that other conferences made sports into a big business…
el guapo,
Personal relationships do help, but the facts are that schools have a LOT more nonrevenue sports today than in past decades due to Title IX. That is great for sports like softball and soccer, but it makes travel expenses that much higher for UH and the teams that it plays.
Title IX *forces* Athletic Departments and University Presidents to treat Athletics as a business. They know they are forced to support a lot of sports that will lose money, so they *have* to squeeze as much money out of the 2 revenue-generating sports. I don’t see how one can complain about college sports being a big business while ALSO supporting sports like softball that exist only because the business of college sports can afford to support them.
Men’s volleyball is close to being dropped as an NCAA sport. If a few schools have to cut a sport due to budget problems, they cannot cut a women’s sport and men’s volleyball is a money loser outside of Hawaii. Travel costs go up while budgets are already squeezed…if the business side is not taken care of, a few mainland schools could drop the sport and UH would be hurt.
Slugger..you right about the Wahine training. Equipment can only do so much. Especially in fast pitch softball and baseball. Gotta put the bat on the ball. However, the new technology is like a bat on steriods! The ball really jumps and because of the lighter composition, the Wahines who went through the weight training is swinging it harder and faster. More bat speed = homeruns. Next year will be insane!
Saw Chinn at the WSS when the Wahine beat her. She does have heat. She seemed a bit “bothered” with the ump but…..he called the game for both teams.
Steph needs to be on tomorrow. She can’t start like she did today. She recovered nicely after that first inning but can’t spot Stanford any freebies tomorrow.
Hoo….how can do my work tomorrow?
Great win by the wahine! Now, if we have a bank donating $100 for every mercy rule (like in Volleyball for every ace), the softball team would have lots of okane.
Ok…got to leave again.
Garret,
That’s what I mean about human emotion. You are passionate about the facts and are able to find them and keep us informed of what they are. Without that passion, you wouldn’t search for the facts or care about them. Whatever the facts may be, emotion is driving this whole thing, the emotional need of the Big 10 and the Pac 10 to want to make more money.
My comment is awaiting moderation?…WTH???
Whoops. Sorry I’ve been AWOL. My brother is getting married tomorrow, so I’ve been working on my banzai toasts.
Just chatted with Paipai. He’s pretty stoked about his expanded role.
i was worried about Aaron Brown, but I guess he’ll play a lot, too, in the different packages.
Mack said that George Daily-Lyles is the No. 2 middle linebacker at the moment.
Congratulations to Brother Tsai…
wahine softball = 2
mbb = 1
Congratulations Brother Mike!
Congratulations to Brother Mike and his lovely bride tomorrow!
Don’t worry about us, Stephen, da people wit da lead slippahs will keep us in line.
….does that mean that starting tomorrow Mike is half-owner of that Warrior football/bike helmet?
heheheh
Eh? Did I miss something?
CONGRATS AGAIN TO THE RAINBOW WAHINE SOFTBALL TEAM AND THEIR COACHES!!!
KEEP WORKING HARD LADIES AND COACHES!!! YOU ARE MAKING ALL UH FANS PROUD OFF YOUR EFFORTS AND DEDICATION TO SUCCESS IN REPRESENTING YOUR SCHOOL AND THE STATE OF HAWAII.
THE STAKES HAVE BEEN RAISED.
KEVIN KACATIN PLEDGES $100.00 PER MERCY RULED GAME AND $10.00 PER UH HOME RUN STARTING TOMORROW UNTIL THE SEASON IS OVER.
AT THE END OF THE SEASON I WILL SEND A CHECK TO RAINBOW WAHINE SOFTBALL.
Honestly, I was scared to do this earlier in the year. I support this program emotionally and financially, but financially I have limits!!!!!
Yes, it’s gonna be harder down the stretch to hit homers and to mercy rule these fellow regional teams, BUT if the Wahine cause me to take a hit in the pocketbook then so be it.
I *hope* I am going to “regret” this pledge. π―
For some reason I just got some extra “inspiration” and “motivation” a few minutes ago… π
Kazz U the best, you wear your “emotions on your sleeve”, I hope you pay dearly, and I know where you can get an instant loan where Colomaohana will vouch for you as guarantor. π
Kazz have you been sneaking into the Skittles?….hummmm
BG808 #272,
The bankers association should donate $1000 for each HR and $5000
for each mercy game next year.
Way to go, Kazz!
OK, the game is on at 9 AM HST? because it is 6 hrs. behind 3 pm EDT, according to the NCAA Softball Tourney schedule…
The UH site says noon, but that would make it 6 pm EDT, or 3 pm PDT…
Slugger,
Give me a few minutes and I’ll post the schedule.
UH vs Stanford 9:00 a.m. (HST)
Texas Tech vs UC Davis 12:00 (noon) (HST)
Loser GM 1 vs Winner GM 2 3:00p.m. (HST)
If UH beats Stanford, then UH will play Sunday at 10:00 a.m. (HST)
If UH loses to Stanford, then UH will play Saturday at 3:00 p.m. (HST)
If UH wins the 3:00 p.m. game, UH will play Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
if UH loses, season over.
Kazz-
You are awesome.
Nuff said.
Will we be able to use the same link to watch those fabulous Wahine tomorrow?
(I hope the NCAA isn’t watching.)
Slugger,
FOR SUNDAY………!
If UH beats Stanford in the first game on Saturday, UH needs to win
1 of 2 games on Sunday to move on to the SUPER REGIONAL!!!!
If UH plays the 3:00 game on Saturday, UH needs to win 2 of 2 games
on Sunday to move on to the SUPER REGIONAL!!!!!!!
Slugger,
Second game on Sunday starts around 12;30 p.m. (HST)
Confucius created this double elimination tournament so hope
this helps you out.
Ashley Chinn worked hard today, lots of pressure on her to recover quickly and be game ready. Stanford’s third pitcher is the shortstop, a finese pitcher, not a lot of pop, so our batter’s got to be patient and not swing at bad pitches.
DPK #295,
Yes, you should be able to find it.
If not go to:ncaa.com/sports/w-softbl
When you get the softball web site, CLICK BRACKETS.
CLICK Stanford Regional.
Another bracket will appear. CLICK game you want to watch.
Match up will appear with name, runs, hits, errors. Click camera icon.
Ricketts struggled in the WAC tournament and today when the games were played in the morning. She needs to get up and be game ready when the “bell” rings, can’t give Stanford freebies on the bases or multiple hit innings like she gave up to UC Davies.
#300
thanks for the #300 acknowledgement IKE
808ike,
Thanks for the schedule outline. UH needs to beat Stanford.
GO WAHINE!!!
Night!
Atlanta regional on ESPN saturday at 6 a.m. HST.
Ralph,
Ricketts struggles when the umpire’s strike zone is not the same as hers.
She gets frustrated, then her pitching and fielding goes down the tube.
not only WAC umpires have issues with the strike zone, heard several comments by the ESPN announcers regarding the floating, wide strike zone in the Atlanta regional and Seattle regional. Our UC Davis game brought out some comments from the broadcasters, pitched looked good and the UC Davis crowd thought so too but the ump gave the UH batter a ball count.
Ralph,
In the Texas Tech-Stanford game, the umpires strike zone was small.
Half the ball has to cross the plate for a strike, if not a ball. For the height
of the strike zone, it was below the chest and above the waist. With a strike
zone that small, Ricketts would get frustrated and she would probably
fall apart. Praying this doesn’t happen.
wow 300 posts. when was the last time we got that high?
jason, were you at the craziness on your football field tonight? i forgot how insane HS graduations are.
As long as it is consistent with both teams, players need to adjust to the
umpire’s strike zone. Ricketts hasn’t been able to do this. She thinks the
umpire needs to adjust to her strike zone.That is why, when she thinks she threw a strike but doesn’t get the call, she gets frustrated.
Follow procedure of post #299 to watch any softball game on Saturday.
Esme out!!!!
808ike–
That would be excellent if JD and/or UHAD find ways to make it happen.
With football done for another three months, I thank the softball team for keeping me sane. Have enjoyed following them this year.
Kazz:
May 21st, 2010 at 9:53 pm
al:
May 21st, 2010 at 9:00 pm
wahine softball = 2
mbb = 1
Eh? Did I miss something?
wahine softball needs 2 wins to get to the sweet 16
mbb needs 1 more win to get to the wac playoffs
Congratulations Mike!
There may be some people, especially donors who have had parking passes for a long time at Aloha Stadium, who are upset with JD’s auction…but I think that JD is doing a great job with it. UH went from letting Aloha Stadium have all the parking money before to gradually get parking revenue by getting the rights from the parking spaces at certain places at Aloha Stadium.
If UH can raise $600k with the auction (as per Ferd’s article), this is a great example of JD thinking out of the box and raising money for UH Athletics. With this one move, JD is raising many times what his salary costs.
Garret I understand they need to raise the money for the losing sport programs, but dang we are talking BILLIONS for college sports? I don’t know it just seems a little much to me.
Garret I know you must have all the numbers already, so what is the total tv $ for all confrences when added up?
Also UH could have gotten GM for 400,000 but nnnooooooo the fumbler did his job an got him for a mil. What a jerk, he’s been gone what now two three years an he still is screwing things up for UH.
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From publicly available reports, this is what I came up with for how much each school gets from their conference TV deals
Big 10: $22 million per year
SEC: $17.1 million per year
ACC: $12.9 million per year
Big 12: Varies between $7 million and $12 million per year
MWC: $1.3 million per year
C-USA: $1 million per year
WAC: $325k per year (UH is getting $75k more this year for the “inconvenience” of playing a game on a Thursday on ESPN)
The difference between the BCS bowl money from the AQ conferences and what UH gets is *less* than $1 million per year. When UH made the Sugar Bowl, they made millions more in BCS money than what Georgia got.
Due to how the WAC now distributes BCS money (taking away $3 million to split up among the conference teams), if BSU or another WAC team makes a BCS bowl this year, UH could actually get about the *same* amount of BCS money that Texas and Florida gets.
So, BCS bowl money is NOT the difference between UH and the rest of the big-budget teams. Regular-season TV money is.
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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
Almost forgot.
Congratulations Brother Mike!!! Whoo-hoo!
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Also if the Big 10 gets 242 million for the schools is there any money that the conference keeps for it’s self?
Pomai,
The Pac-10 gets around $7 million per school if I remember correctly, with the Big East getting less. I wouldn’t even count the Sun Belt and MAC…they probably get less than the WAC. Notre Dame gets a pretty big amount from NBC ($9 million per year was the reported number when they signed their last extension). I’m guessing that Navy and Army get a much smaller amount than Notre Dame.
The Big 10 Conference probably keeps some money for itself and the TV network definitely spends some money on expenses. The $242 million was *just* the money they gave to the schools.
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