Finding the right combination

First!

Happy Friday!

Night all!

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 🙁

top 5 babyyyyy!

top 10

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

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 🙂

❀ ❀ ❀ Good..Aloha..Friday..Morning..Tsaikos..and..Warrior..Nation!!! ❀ ❀

Best wishes to Sol as he tries to make the BC Lions’ roster.

The B.C. Lions added two import players to their roster Thursday, signing defensive back John Richardson and linebacker Soloman Elimimian.

Elimimian was the all-time leading tackler with the Hawaii Warriors with 434 when he wrapped up his collegiate career in 2008. He had 121 tackles in 14 games in his senior season.

The Wahine will make it a Great Aloha Friday today!

Go SoftBows!!!

Four in a row and all in the top 20!

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.

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.

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.

“For example, if the University of Utah qualifies for a BCS game in the 2010-11 season, it will earn for its conference approximately $24.7 million which, under the agreement among the Mountain West and the other four non-AQ conferences, would then be divided among the five conferences,” wrote Hancock. “The Mountain West certainly could keep all $24.7 million within the conference, or Utah could keep it all. The decision to share the revenue (and how to allocate it) was made, not by the full group of 11 BCS conferences, or by the six conferences that have earned annual automatic qualification, but by the five non-AQ conferences.”

“An example worth noting is that, if the BCS had not existed, Utah probably would have played in the Las Vegas Bowl in the 2008-09 season. Because of the BCS, the Utes played in the Allstate Sugar Bowl instead. The payment from the Las Vegas Bowl was approximately $900,000; for participating in the Sugar Bowl, the Mountain West’s share (after the five conferences divided the revenue) was $9 million. Obviously, the difference is significant,” continued Hancock.

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

Great Morning All!

Loa,

Howzit! Thought you was talking to Hawaii Five-O there for an instant. 😆

….something in the back of my mind keeps saying, “Desperate times call for desperate measures…” 🙄

Howzit d1島 & Pomai

Coach Mack on 1420 now (replay of interview yesterday mentioning Salas playing both sides).

Coach Bob Coolen on 1420 within the hour.

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.

d1 k’den I’ll bite wot dat DNI stuff?

d1, shoots but need for hire brew cause he da one git all do good stuff. LOL

Have a terrific day erryboddy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxnXMYHMPY

HiHo….

Good morning Tsai-kos!

GO WAHINE!!!

Jenna Rodriguez was quoted using the typical cliché 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 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.

Are you blind? The fellow Brew posted the link.

NCAA rules.

d1 Linfield is playing right now.

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.

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.

Kazz, we do our best. Entities, Conferences, BCS committee, call it what you may, you are right about the revenue.

GO WAHINE!!!

Morning Tsaikos!

GO GET UM WAHINE!!!

Also, best of luck to the baseball Bows at SJSU this weekend.

good luck to Sol, he’ll do fine with their system….

Go Linfield!

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

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.

Mano: eh kimo, what you call one micronesian baby with no umbilical cord

Kimo: what?

Mano: one cordelss mike

Kimo: das bad bro…..

homey,

you not picking on dpk are you? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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!!!!!

homey,

i thought there were 18 holes in golf……

Watching BYwho vs the short horns, no way the Na Wahine can’t go all the way.

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!!!!

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

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.

Ross, a Penn State alum, stated to me that his company, Armstrong, services customers primarily in Pennsylvania and Ohio so the interest in the Big Ten Network was always high for the cable provider. And why not? They provide cable television to customers in the home states of two of the biggest football programs in the conference. Ross tells me also that many of the employees at Armstrong, including many personnel in high ranking positions, are graduates of Penn State or Ohio State. So why doesn’t Armstrong carry the Big Ten Network? As Ross says in his lengthy e-mail to me, “Because Fox [a partner with the Big Ten responsible for broadcasting the Big Ten Network] is effectively demanding that every customer must pay one of the highest monthly programming rates of any service for The Big Ten Network.”

60 of 67 Pennsylvania counties have a cable provider that carries the Big Ten Network

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…

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

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.

d1島:

May 21st, 2010 at 5:51 am
….something in the back of my mind keeps saying, “Desperate times call for desperate measures…”

Huh???

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.

On another note:

No good fishing today due to bananas onboard.

The Beast + The Joker + Tommy Heffernan + Da Annointing from Above = A Marvel SuperHero in 2011

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?

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!

GO WAHINE!!!

This announcer is the pits.

Appreciate any updates on da game. No furlough Friday!

Oh yeah, and thanks to Stanford for providing the feed to CBS. 😉

3-0 Wahine after 1.

DPK – No worry about NCAA. I’m certain you are in ADA compliance.

Good Luck to the Wahine!!

The announcer is bad but everyone has to start somewhere…

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.

Stretch-
I’m enjoying the annoncer. She’s really enjoying the game and seems to be a Wahine fan.

5-0 after 2…let’s go Wahines..put this puppy to bed!…

NCAA-
Thanks, I try to remember to take my meds.

Don’t turn away from your computer screen, there’s no replay!

here’s the link again for anyone who needs it.

http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783

here is the actual link

http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=180783

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…

Still 5-0 after three.

Somebody’s prolly used this joke already, but just imagine if the UCD squad had a player or two named Agnes.

You feeling guilty?

UCD scores. 5-1 no outs.

Ricketts pitches out of the jam. 5-1 middle of the 4th.

Eh NCAA, where’s the replay???

Still 5-1 after 4.

Here’s something to watch in between innings:

http://alexoloughlinrocks.com/videos/hawaii-five-0-2010-opening-credits

Make that 5-2 middle of the fifth.

Do I sense tension in the air?

Puu-Warren Solo HR 6-2 Wahine.

Make that Taualii. Bad info from the announcers.

homey,

No, that was my lunch….

What DPK, you going say that when you see a guy buck naked?

I wonder who the Lions are playing tonight?

UCD walks in a run, now 7-2. 2 outs.

HR, end the game already.

Oh well, close enough…LOL

And just like that!

GO WAHINE!

An ugly win but a win. So we play at noon tomorrow. Go Na Wahine.

WooHoo! GO WAHINE!!!

Way to go Wahine.

Need to change announcers. Terrible.

Woah, A-House. Where did the pidgin come from??? And no mo “s” in Wahine la’dat.

Pomai,

Announcer is saying we play at 9 am; I thot we play at noon, too.

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!……

It never fails…..whenever I want the breaking news in sports, I can always rely on WBHA and the SB….Go Wahine Softbows!

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?”

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. 😉

We’re close to reaching the Super Regional and possibly beyond, but it’s gonna be an uphill battle.

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.

labrat:

May 21st, 2010 at 1:43 pm
See what happens when you bean Amanda.

You just shouldn’t bean anyone of Samoan blood in general with hard objects.

They should just do away with the mercy rule. It’s only a seven inning game.

Way to go Wahine…keep it up…upward and onward…AWESOME!!!

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.

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?

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)?

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 – 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.

stanf 2-0 bot 2nd

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.

KAZZ: Was wondering about that (no grass in the infield). Thanks.

I think this is the bats they use…or something like this… not sure if this is NCAA legal..

Product Details : $299.95Qty: Size: Please Select 33/24 32/23 31/22
New for 2011! Year after year Easton is one of the top dogs in fastpitch softball due to their quality products. The latest in the line of quality bats is the Easton Stealth Speed: SSR4B fastpitch softball bat. Batters who step to the plate with the SSR4B will have an advantage over any pitcher. Power, comfort and performance are three of the things that this bat exhibits with every swing. The two-piece all composite design provides added durability and performance. The all new focused flex handle gives every player more control and a lower moment of inertia rating increases swing speed. The slightly end loaded design along with the 2 ¼” barrel, and the 29/32” tapered handle also increases swing speed and adds comfort. The new 2-Color Reveal design and graphics gives it a fresh new look for the upcoming season. Stick with what has always produced and that’s Easton. Whether you’re playing in a recreational league or playing for the national championship give yourself an advantage and step to the plate with the Easton Stealth Speed: SSR4B. This bat comes with Easton’s exclusive 400 day Manufacturer’s Warranty.
-9 Length to Weight Ratio
IMX Composite Handle and Barrel
Ultra Thin 29/32″ Tapered Handle
Rubber ConneXion Piece to Maximize Energy Transfer and Reduce Vibration
Focus Flex Handle Technology Increases Power
Slight End Load
98 MPH Performance
Legal For Play in ASA, USSSA, NSA, ISA, SSUSA and ISF
400 Day Warranty

might not be the exact model but this is the technology..

stanford wins 5-4

Ralph msgd me that Teagan Gerhart is out with a wrist injury.

Can anyone tell me who pitched for Stanford?

Kazz,

Ashley Chin(n?)

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.

Whoo-hoo Wahine!!!

Go SoftBows!!!

Pomai . . .

#42 — Camptown Races?

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.

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?

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!!!!!!

No wait.. I just realized something…. 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.

A-House:
May 21st, 2010 at 1:41 pm
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….

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… 👿

Hawaii Plays Stanford 3 pm ET, therefore 9 am HST per NCAA site

Pisa feels that he has unfinished business in Chicago.

“I felt like there was a lot of unfinished business,” Tinoisamoa said Friday. “I felt like I left a lot of stuff on the table that I didn’t get to eat and clean up.”

Despite being limited to just two games in 2009, the Bears informed Tinoisamoa they wanted him back in the fold, but the unrestricted free agent tested the market before eventually agreeing to a one-year deal.

“There were a couple of other teams [that expressed interest] but I knew that I wanted to come back,” Tinoisamoa said. “It was only a matter if they wanted to have me back, so I was very honored after the little I played, the Bears wanted me back. I was pretty pumped.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nytal!

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…

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?

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.

Congratulations to Brother Tsai…

Congratulations Brother Mike!

….does that mean that starting tomorrow Mike is half-owner of that Warrior football/bike helmet?

heheheh

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.

I *hope* I am going to “regret” this pledge. 😯

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. 🙂

BG808 #272,

The bankers association should donate $1000 for each HR and $5000
for each mercy game next year.

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…

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.

Will we be able to use the same link to watch those fabulous Wahine tomorrow?
(I hope the NCAA isn’t watching.)

Slugger,

Second game on Sunday starts around 12;30 p.m. (HST)

Confucius created this double elimination tournament so hope
this helps you out.

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.

#300

808ike,

Thanks for the schedule outline. UH needs to beat Stanford.

GO WAHINE!!!

Night!

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.

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.

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.

Esme out!!!!

Kazz:

wahine softball needs 2 wins to get to the sweet 16
mbb needs 1 more win to get to the wac playoffs

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 know you must have all the numbers already, so what is the total tv $ for all confrences when added up?

Pomai,

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.

❀ B E A U T I F U L ❀ Morning to everyone!!! 😆 😀 😆

★★.W.A.H.I.N.E.★.S.O.F.T.B.A.L.L!!!.★.W.A.H.I.N.E.★.S.O.F.T.B.A.L.L!!!.★.W.A.H.I.N.E.★.S.O.F.T.B.A.L.L!!!.★★

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Almost forgot.

Congratulations Brother Mike!!! Whoo-hoo!

Also if the Big 10 gets 242 million for the schools is there any money that the conference keeps for it’s self?

Great Morning All!

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