Follow the Rainbows

Wahine gonna spank them Spartans today.
Cant wait.

ST, you mean the present version of the HA will end on June 6th and a new version will rise. OK, but hopefully, the new company will keep a lot of the present HA staff.

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

Good Luck to the wahine softball team!

Good morning Tsai-kos!

I regret that I will be unable to attend tonight’s baseball game. I will be attending da keed’s play tonight instead (late change of plans). Please give the tickets to chawan.

Go WAHINE!!

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Twelt!

Let me see how many football-related articles I can find today in 10 minutes…

Here are some of the reasons why the Pac-10 doesn’t want BYU.

BYU was not viewed as a good fit in the mid-1990s when the league considered expansion, and I asked a well-placed source if there had been any change in that view. “No change,” he said.

In fact, best I can tell, nobody in the Pac-10’s chain of command, from the CEOs down to the coaches, is interested in BYU for the following reasons:

* The presidents and chancellors of the secular Pac-10 schools are wary of joining forces with a church-affiliated school (any church-affiliated school).

* As it moves forward, the Pac-10 wants to increase its scheduling flexibility to provide more broadcast opportunities for networks. BYU would decrease flexibility because it doesn’t play on Sundays.

* The potential TV revenue generated by BYU’s national appeal is not enough to overcome the above concerns — it’s not like BYU is Notre Dame.

(Part of BYU’s national subscriber base, remember, already falls within the Pac-10 TV footprint.)

* The Pac-10 coaches and athletic directors aren’t interested in sending their 18 years olds up against BYU’s post-Mission 25 year olds.

* BYU does not meet the Pac-10’s academic standards — it’s not a major research university.

when even*

The ACC’s former commissioner says that “everybody is scared” about expansion. This man used to be President of the NCAA and AD of Notre Dame and Virginia, so he’s pretty well connected to schools around the country.

When the Big Ten added Penn State as its 11th member in 1990, Gene Corrigan, commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference at the time, admitted his league was caught dozing at the wheel. The ACC quickly gathered itself and added Florida State as its ninth member a year later.

“This has everybody scared to death,” Corrigan told FanHouse Wednesday afternoon.

“My hope is whoever starts it doesn’t do anything excessive. The idea of a 16-team conference just messes up everything. I hope that doesn’t happen. I just think it would be … it would end up being harmful to a lot of people.”

The Big Ten and the SEC are by far the nation’s two most lucrative conferences. The Big Ten, according to tax documents, reported a total revenue of $217.7 million for the year that ended June 30, 2008, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported last March. The SEC reported to the IRS total revenue of $161.6 million.

Report on SJSU (the #113 rated team according to this site) has some interesting discussion on how they are changing to a power rushing offense as they showed in their Spring game.

The only time I saw a four-receiver formation was on the final play, when it was chuck-it-downfield desperation time.

The Spartans ran the ball between the tackles time and time again. They used fullbacks and H backs. They threw to the tight end. (The tight end … Imagine that!)

Basically, I saw more smash-mouth football in four 12-minute quarters of a scrimmage than I saw all last season.

One of MacIntyre’s new hires is Bryant Young, the former San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle, who will coach the S.J.S.U. defensive linemen. Young, who will certainly find his way into Canton with the next decade, spent the 2009 season as a graduate assistant at Notre Dame, his alma mater. As the article points out, Young considered joining the former Notre Dame assistant Rob Ianello as part of his debut staff at Akron, but Young opted to move back to the Bay Area with the Spartans. Can you imagine any local family turning down an in-home visit from the former San Francisco great?

Plenty of marquee games on the schedule. In terms of winnable games, S.J.S.U. should look at U.C. Davis, Southern Utah, New Mexico State and Utah State as its best chances at improving upon last season’s two-win total.

Note: I like how the UH game is assumed as a loss for SJSU…

DPK,

I still do my link collection blog, but after the Daylight Savings Time change and my need to wake up early for East Coast time companies and to take care of the kids in the morning, I just don’t have time to post during the free play time. I’m up a lot of times at midnight my time (the start of free play time), but I normally am rushing to finish my work then so I can go to sleep.

Garret-

Let’s see how that “power” rushing attack plays against our defense…

I think my 10 minutes are up…got to get back to work now.

If UH is the “ugly duckling” in anyone’s expansion plan. It’s time that the UH start making plans with a bunch of contingencies and dollars attached to it. Sitting around and waiting for the “good fairy” to come along and pretty us up is not going to happen. We’re not being looked at. No pretty girls is waiting for the ugly guy to ask her to the prom.

So, I said it before and it may be way, way off but we need to see us as different. We cannot look at ourselves as being like those teams on the mainland. They don’t care if our stadium has a 50,000 seat capacity, they don’t care if we have a terrific women’s volleyball and softball team. What bothers people up there is the ugly fact that they have this expense (made uglier in this tough economic environment with cuts made to athletic departments across America), to travel to Hawaii. The “13th game” is not prettying us up enough anymore. We have to think different.

My thought (which Garret and others will probably shoot down) is that we do the math and bite the bullet for the sake of survival, and figure a way to play all or conference games for the BIG squads, football, baseball, softball, on the road. We will not have them come here, unless they request it (and they will, when the economy gets better). What we want is a share of the television revenue. So, if we felt that this would be a good move, run it up the flagpole with the Pac 10. They’re looking for cheap, solid partners. We have a solid football team, when coached up right and playing well, same for baseball and basketball. We fit academically, which is what eliminated BYU. They recruit here so there’s a tie and when things get better economically, California send us a ton of tourists, I’m sure they’d pressure the California schools to make at least one trip every 3-5 years to play in the islands.

Sounds nuts I know, but conventional thinking is not going to make it as this is an unconventional situation. That large pond that separates us from the rest is something only we have and that could drown us if we think walking on water is a feasible alternative.

OK since ST mentioned that the Na Wahine softball team doesn’t have an end-of-the-year banquet, now the question would be if we had a end-of-the-year banquet tailgate for them would we be in violation of the NCAA?

I guess they are having a hard time connecting..

Top of the first bases loaded with two outs for San Jose

San Jose scored, 3-0 top of the first

good thinking out of the box #29
If we go independent , no conference, that might be a survivor mode thought also

Way to go MeeGee!

tunda 😎

Wow 3-3 UH still up

bases loaded

come Ricketts settle down

Dey u go Steph!!! That’s more like it!

Kelly grounds out

jessie just walked

YeeHa, Wahine! MeeGee again!

San Jose is changing pitchers, after the last dinger>>>>>

Jenna up

College Students are usually broke. Any proposal for fee or tuition increases will always be met with resistance. ALWAYS. Tack on to it the spin of this that this fee is for “athletes,” and you can see how the wheels have been further greased for resistance (oxymoron, I know). This $50 fee will never be popular, BUT, students will get over it. GUARANTEE!! They’ll fight and grandstand….especially the student leaders. But in the end, this will blow over faster than Obama’s popularity did with white people. The powers that be should just move forward and cram it down the student’s throats like they do all other UH policies. Students will forget it very quickly.

BIK

sj just got one of first with no outs

crap another wild pitch, now runners on first and third

Who’s the umpire behind the plate? Is it Bob?

Steph needs to settle down. 7-5 SJSU

Man, I’ll bet Kanani’s grandma is jumping up & down! Go Nani!!!

If Stephanie cannot settle down in this inning, then Parnaby better come in.

Dang Steph. Settle down! That was close!

7-7 Tied
Gonzalez with her 6th RBI of the day. Majam scored.
1 out, Gonzalez at 1st, J-Rod up to bat.
J-Rod singles.
Gonzalez and J-Rod at 1st and 2nd.
Aguirre up with one out.

Pu’u-Warren K’d.

Now two outs with Amanda Tauali’i up to bat with bases loaded.

2nd time bases loaded and wasted.

7-7 going to the top of the 5th.

KAIA!!! HELP!

See

The bats are going to have to win this game.

Well that’s one, need 8 more

OK, who wants the tickets? First person to email me gets them.

Go WAHINE!!

Go Jess

9-8 WAHINE… GOOOOOOO GOOOOO GOOOOO!

12-8 Yahoo!

ST there’s nothing saying that a banquet can’t be held say at Richardson Field?

what inning?

top of the 6th with sjs up but Na Wahine leading 12-8

Go Wahine! Boy, getting nervous.

jm2375 well I guess you could call the tsaikos a booster club

WOW

***CHECK THAT***
I MEANT to TIE the record.

Congratulations to the Na Wahines for tying the all time HR record. Glad that Majam tied it.

ALRIGHT what a game, I knew that bats would win

Hope coach coolen has a good talk with Ricketts, she needs to just throw and not think about it.

WOW!! exciting game. you guys were killing me with the posts. good thing i’m at home near a toilet. bwhahaha…………..WWWWHHHAAAAAAAAT???……… was on the radio?

what happened in the last inning? finished by mercy rule? was that 8 runs or 10 runs?

papajoe2 finished in the bottom of the 6th by mercy rule, 16-8

Good job Wahine!
Congrats to Cool and the Gang!

WOOOOOHOOOO!

Oh sorry big guy that was fat fingers—–Kekoa

i neva no was on the raidjo. my raidjo stay broke cuz lass time i went on top the raidjo wen broke. i stay too heavy ass why.

CONGRATS WAHINE!!! That’s the way to beat San Jose. eh, ryhme. wooo, brilliant.

cougar, I think its mostly because BYwho don’t play on Sundays. they don’t want to deal with rainouts to be played on Sunday, scheduling for prime games on Sundays to make money. the 25 year olds playing with 18 yo is spooky too.

and Papajoe2, the 25 year old is only a sophomore with 3 years of eligibility.

does anybody know if Arizona played on “little fields” at any time during their homerun record season and how many homers did they hit at those “little” fields? how about “light” air or wind aided homers. i’m sure the mainland media will down play or discredit the wahine’s assault on the record even though a lot of those homers were way over the fence. I’m sure Arizona had some homers that just barely cleared the fence too, as with every other team. i know the excuses already were happening during some of the other sb games that was on ESPEN. we still have a minimum of 3 games to play. This record may last a long time, 365 days, is a long time, until the wahine play again next year.

eh pride, no act, we could be related. through aunty Nellei.

papajoe2
fyi…in the future just click on this link

http://www.espn1420am.com/?id=66

and then hit the “listen live” link to take you to the regular programming of 1420 from the pc. no need radio.

no problem papa.

just bring portagee bean soup to the first tailgater.

Brief break between “getting sick” spells:

The post-season banquests are nice catered events in hotel facilities. Everyone dresses nicely – aloha attire or team polo shirts. Went to a couple of these events in other facilities as well – yacht club, golf club – over the years; however, I don’t ever remember any of them being a potluck

The women deserve something as nice as the other teams. T-Gates are a very different kind of event.

I believe that we have at least two Tsai-kos who work for Waikiki hotels, Why not talk to them to get basic information – who runs the catering department for starters.

Also, isn’t there a softball boosters club? What, if anything, are they planning.

Then there’s the issue of the seniors who are not coming back to Hawai`i, but that’s out of our control.

Good luck to the Bowsball – hope to be well enough to attend tomorrow’s double-header,

Kekoa-

Pomai likes that!

ST:

I paid for weekend papers until October 2010!

Auwe, will I get a refund?

Phew…
all caches are dumped and I can see again!

#150 – I love the idea. Bracelets can be presented too!

Bracelets? Who going pay for them? Hope not Tsaikos AGAIN

LizKauai m/:

May 13th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Phew…
all caches are dumped and I can see again!

#150 – I love the idea. Bracelets can be presented too!

Wonder if us Tsai-kos can get bracelets too.

156 jm2375 well even if they were to put on one fancy kine still the same. I myself feel that the girls would like our tailquet because it fits their character, at least to me they seem to be very as we say “bluecollar” type.

Regarding # 136

Garret was summarizing a bunch of articles that have been written about the Pac-10 and BYU. As many of us know Garret is our resident researcher.

Good game by the Wahine. It was actually good they were tested a little bit throughout the game. It probably knocked a lot of rust of their game that built up over the week off.

If we decide to get bracelets for the girls, we can test out the new UH Foundation account we have set up.

Old Diver sometimes people who tell others to “get a life” should really be talking to themselves.

When will it end? The men’s tennis team won a WAC title, you going buy them something? They deserve it too

I’m with the #165 concept.

HiHo!

I guess I’m kind of funny (not that way koamahu) but I rather enjoy providing things such as bracelets or a banquet. It gives a feeling that the team is really ours, but that just me.

FSU 3-2 over BSU bottom of the 5th with 2 outs, runners in 1st and 2nd…intentionally walked Michelle Moses

ok…now its end of the 5th

ricketts struggled. however, from the sounds of things (the broadcaster) it seemed as though that the umpire had a small strike zone that both pitchers struggled with. then the mind games take over.

while ricketts continued to work the corners, the umpire held fast his strike zone, thus the seven walks. whereas, the sjsu pitchers seemed to lay it down the middle.

agree with stretch that this was a good way to win today. it showed our toughness coming back three times.

it is good that we got the ugly game out of the way. i suspect that a more focused wahine team will be out there tomw. hopefully, they are done with finals as well.

Not Again, maybe you should head something up for them, me myself I’ll stick with the Na Wahine. I think if others are passionate about another program then shoots go for it.

176 Slugger
Now you know that UH is the only team that the altitude give an advantage to even though the other teams play in the same park. LOL

I was listening to the state baseball tournament final game and after Punahou won, it was mentioned that their team gets rings. High school team gets rings?? Damn, that’s the first time I heard about that. Pretty soon the coach will run out of fingers.

Not Again- you are totally free to start up something to honor the hard-working WAC Champ tennis team! Remember that this is not an organization with a hierarchy, officers, treasury, planning committee, etc.

Everything starts with someone who stands up and takes a lead. If people like it, they will support it. You like it? Stand up for it and start the ball rolling with your own effort and see what happens 🙂

Pitching change for FSU…Morgan Melloh comes in top of the 7th with 2 outs, runner in first

Dennis #39

Here’s another thought. Okay, so nobody wants the “ugly duckling” and we’re forced to go independent. Interestingly, no body wants BYU because they don’t play on Sunday and are not “quite up to Pac 10” standards. Isn’t Navy also independent.

So, here’s the alternative. We get together with the other three and work an arrangement. We schedule each on an ongoing basis (independents, aside from ND of course, need to have regulars). Getting ND to schedule us, even if we have to go there to play is big as it gives us exposure. Pretty up the “ugly duckling”. Those major conference folks are going to need to schedule other teams. We may get on their schedule.

This may not get us many home games but here’s the spin. If the Big 10 was willing to pay us near a million to go there to play, the super conference would probably pay $1 million to have us come to play. Line up to 7 of these games and I believe we would make money for the athletic department. The problem would be to schedule as many of course, but that would a payday more than equal to what we made at the Sugar.

We would have to become a Stae of fans who will enjoy pay per view to watch our team play, but I can tell you that when we shcedule a home game, we would not have the problem we currently have in selling out the stadium, especially if we win or we give the BCS BIGs a run for their money.

Is this what you had in mind Dennis?

Ya know with all this expansion talk going on, the one thing I know is that I would not like to have JD job right now, more power to ya JD.

Re-Wahine won’t be homing in on record

Guess who wrote this?

Ferd.

Check his column. That’s what he wrote.

What point is he making? Another column that’s confusing.

For five minutes now I keep repeating to myself “Wahine won’t be homing in on record just trying to make sense of what he wrote…and I can’t.

http://tinyurl.com/2chx7xa

Katie Grimes:
“I told the team that the first game of the tournament starts the beginning of the end, and there is one title we have not garnered in the history of Rainbow Wahine Softball, and that is to win the WAC Tournament Championship.

We all know we can beat every one of these teams, but right now we have a huge target on our backs, especially after sweeping all the awards at the banquet.

As I mentioned all this to the team, their faces began to light up with excitement, and I could tell the passion was back. I told the girls we are not just “happy to be here” we want to win this tournament because no one ever remembers who comes in second place …”

Buffoman and Dennis,

There is one *major* flaw with your reasoning…you are forgetting that the biggest revenue source for UH Athletics comes from home football games! Published reports estimated last season that UH gets between $700k and $800k profit from each home game. That doesn’t even count the money that UH gets from parking pass sales–I think that comes to another $150k or so.

Also, a BIG revenue stream for UH Athletics comes from donations that are required for people who wish to sit in certain sections of Aloha Stadium, with the required donations higher for the more desirable seats. If you don’t play at home, you get rid of ALL that money.

JD pointed out in a SportsHawaii chat last year that UH would have made *less* money if they took Wisconsin’s $1 million offer to play at Wisconsin instead of Aloha Stadium. The problem with the $1 million offers is that it does *not* include travel costs…and travel costs for UH are much, much higher than other schools to where the Big 10 and SEC (the 2 conferences with the big TV deals) are located.

So, you would make *less* money each game if you played only on the road. You would also be completely eliminating the required donations for seating and the parking revenue. When you do the math, you’d see that UH Athletics would end up going bankrupt even if they could get $1 million payments for each road game.

The other BIG problem with the road-only plan is that conferences are going to a model where *all* of their nonconference games have to be played in August or September. That allows them to schedule the conference games with maximum flexibility in October/November/December. If all the big conferences expand, that means that all of their teams need to allow for the chance to make the conference championship game…which means that nobody will be available to play UH at the end of the season.

So, going independent would fail because there would be nobody to play in October, November, or December. Going independent would also end the softball, women’s basketball, and other teams…which would force football to end because of Title IX.

Sorry to pour cold water on the idea, but the numbers do not work out.

One more flaw with the road-only plan:

UH is telling the students that they will get 5,000 seats set aside for each home football game in return for their $2 million in Athletic Fees. But if you play all your games on the road, what happens to that deal?

So, re #195 – The Wahine have had a banquet. A GREAT banquet! So I like the idea of a Bracelet-Gate if the opportunity arises.

193 bluefintuna

What ferd is saying is that Coach Coolen doesn’t want the girls to go away from what got them there. Not to push to hard to just get the ball out of the park, just take your normal swing and they will come.

Garret:

Maybe more concerts?

I don’t believe we’re advocating independent status, but the fact remains, while home games may get us $700 to $800k, if we have no one to play because no one wants the ugly duckling, because “ugly” is translated as “we don’t want to pay for the cost to travel to Hawaii” and it would really break UH to pay for the teams to come to play, there has to be another way to pretty up the “ugly”.

If there is any truth to the point someone made earlier that the WAC teams defected and did not take UH to the MWC because they did not like the cost to travel here, we cannot expect that equation to change.

I’d like to see what you and others have to offer to get or keep UH in a conference as I believe we are all in agreement that independent does not work.

Fresno State barely beats Boise State 5-4.

ESPN 1420 WILL carry this broadcast.

“love UH” should be “loved UH”

What is “out of character” for the Rainbow Wahine softball team?

Small ball? Perhaps…

We’ve seen this team comeback from wins and big leads lost. We’ve seen this team bat their way out of pitching struggles and we’ve seen this team pitch it’s way out of hitting slumps.

Really, what will be out of character is this team just plain ole giving up when the “chips are down”.

I’ve never seen Ricketts have TWO bad games in a row. She WILL start tomorrow against Fresno State and will be ready to go. That long layoff between games effected the Wahine, but they’re tasting that second WAC trophy and I think they like it. 😎

POMAI,

I EMAILED YOU. EMAIL ME BACK AT MY PERSONAL UKAZZH (AT) GMAIL (DOT) COM

With regards to hosting a “picnic/banquet” thing for the softball team, IF COMPLIANCE PERMITS… it’s a great idea. The only thing is, I’m pretty sure a decent amount of the players may not be here for it if we’re able to do this for them when they return from the WAC tourney and the regionals and hopefully more… 😎

With no planned “events” before they left, I’m pretty sure the mainland players have trips scheduled to return home for the summer and either those tickets have been set and whatnot.

Still a GREAT idea.

COUNT ME IN!!!

LizKauai/Pomai
I believe that the UHLWC could request the use of the Wong Hospitality Suite in the SSC for an open house type of banquet for Wahine Softball Letterwinners and UHLWC be the sponsor. We would just need to contact all UHLWC board members for approval to be the host.
Sodexo has the contract for all food and beverages in the SSC.
If the food is donated then there is no charge from Sodexo. If the beverages (na) are donated there is no charge from Sodexo.

Slugger, you think the kitchen you visited Saturday could roll out 100 to 125 servings of home made Mexican food or home made Italian food?
Food donation is covered as of this date & time if the project is a go.

Who covers the beverages? Who contacts Jim Donovan/Rich Sheriff to make the request for the Wong room donation fee to be waived? Who picks the date?

ST,

Since you know the last day the Advertiser prints?, where are we going to find YOU??, inquiring minds want to know?

Garret:

True. Problem is that we don’t have the luxury of time on our side if what was reported yesterday afternoon is indeed the path of the Big 10 and the subsequent dominos falling. it appears that the Big 10 will invite teams to join their parade which in turn will force the hand of others who were poached Big 12, Big East, the ripple effect, as stated by the folks at ESPN 1420 would be broad and would affect even mid majors.

So, while I agree that winning means we live to play another day, if September was the date when these jumps needed to be done were done, we have no time to prove to folks that Coach Mac’s third year team is a dominate one, coach Gib will rule the basketball roost when that season starts. If, as they say, folks in the conferences have already begun to “save their own skins”, it may be a little late for us if we have not prepared a pretty up program to save this “ugly duckling”.

I just hate to be left with no plan and ultimately be left out of the dance. Whatever we do will cost us, if we want to continue to play, but the solution simply cannot be looked at from just our perspective, as we are different.

Karl Benson is at the WAC softball tournament and talked about realignment today.

Since 2000, the league has seen New Mexico State, Boise State, Idaho and Utah State come on board, and has remained stable.

Rumblings have surfaced, however, that Boise State could now join the Mountain West Conference. The Broncos, who have been the premier football program in the WAC since joining the conference nine years ago, would give the Mountain West more horsepower in its bid to become an automatic BCS bowl-eligible conference.

“History has shown that there’s movement in conference membership,” Benson said. “Since 1990, only two conference’s have seen no movement — the Pac 10 and Ivy League.”

While Benson spoke of the credibility and national recognition BSU has provided the WAC, he also points out there has been a good partnership between the school and the conference that has brought both entities success.

“As good as Boise State has been to the WAC, the WAC has been awfully, awfully good to Boise State,” Benson said.

Aside from Boise State, Benson said Louisiana Tech could leave as well, possibly to Conference USA, which would line up more with its geographic location in Ruston, La.

Correction, correction!!

It’s the Wahine BB team that has only 6 active members; not the softball team.

Seems to me that the softball “booster club” has been VERY, VERY quiet for “post-season” awards since 2007 season. I wonder why?

Oops.

Delete (1).

Wow… Much respect to the SJSU Spartans as they’ve been playing sine 7:30am Hawaii time and will NOT give up against NMSU.

SJSU 9
NMSU 8
Btm of the 6th.

The loser is done.

@220

Sent a email. Thanks!

Before any plans are made for any type of banquet, we need to talk to Coach Coolen for his input, an understandably he is pre-occupied at the moment, so it will be a while before we set anything in to motion, he may want to hold off until fall so that most of the team is on island.

any ipad owners out there who want to share their pros and cons?

Howz It Nalani and Mahalo to you for my request !

Please send the autograph picture of you and Naleo
as you can address it to Cliff Sanchez, Al Wooten Center.
9106 South Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California (90047)

If you can sign it to “Rainbow Cliff” with much aloha and love
I will be in seven heaven. A “HUGHE” fan of you ladies as I
blast your CD All over LA !

Much love and appreciation as I continue to honor the ohana
with dignity and respect !

…off to see las vegas!

d1- Hugs to las vegas & mrs las vegas!

al- iPad – it’s heavy, and did I mention it’s heavy?
I may leave it home when I go to India next month and take the netbook. Lots of limitations but the movie viewing is awesome and Scrabble and Words with Friends are great!

Waiting for more productivity apps and the camera connector and the case that doubles as a stand.

Right now it is an iPhone that I can read without glasses 😆

it seems that the caveat to seeing the wahine on saturday is that we have to cheer for fresno to win to get there after we beat them tomorrow! c’mon k-5, show ’em no matta who we play!

We’re not a charity group.

We’re a group of fans with interests and reserve the right, like everyone else to donate money and time to what we want.

If someone thinks it’s not fair, then too bad. The only thing that is NOT fair is the conference not stepping up and providing something on their dime for the student athletes that work their butts off to succeed at the highest level in college athletics.

RE: Wahine Softball Booster Club.

I’m 99.9% sure it’s the parents of the players and the local girls’ parents are the most involved since they are already here. I’ve seen them working the grills and handling the post game potlucks.

I’m a quiet member ala Koa Anuenue deductions, but as far as I can see, it’s the players’ parents.

haka:

May 13th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
i guess it’s the bulldog network or nuth’n.

Good. Now we can get a list of excuses everytime the Wahine hit a homer. FSU media homers can be pretty bad.

Pomai,

I forgot to tell you when you called me, but I e-mailed Coach Coolen and we’ll see when he gets back to me.

Probably won’t be until Sunday at the earliest.

But yeah, no rush.

#244

I may be mistaken, but the play-by-play/commentator in the video is the same guy from the radio.

I had to laugh at this:

(from Katie Grimes’ “diary” on the Advertiser:

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — You could cut the tension in the air as we entered the Western Athletic Conference banquet.

While the room was filled with more than 150 ladies, keep in mind we also are ballplayers of a very competitive nature.

As we walked into the dining area, stares and glares were shot our way as we, the WAC regular-season champions, walked through the room.

Truth be told, I love to be hated, especially knowing the resentment stems from our almost perfect season. However, despite all the hostility, it was a great day for our team, our program, and our university. For the second time in our program’s history, we swept all the major awards at the WAC banquet.

Oh man I would have KILLED to be there to see it happen. All those looks and all that jealousy… SWEET!!!

Plus, maybe it’s just me noticing this, but I have no clue how the other teams dressed up for that WAC Awards Luncheon, but the Wahine looked like an olympic team dressed to kill with their UA warm-up gear on. If that made them look cocky to the other WAC teams… TOO BAD… SO SAD… 😆

I LOVE IT!!!!!!! 😈

LIZ: The latest issue of Digital Photo has an article on the IPad and how it helps the digital photographer.

Boise State has eliminated LaTech.

Both SJSU and Boise State present problems for the loser of our game against Fresno State tomorrow if they aren’t sharp in the loser’s bracket.

On one hand Krieg is gone so that’s good. 😎

A-House,

The interesting thing to me about the Student Athletics Fee is that it will generate about $1.9 million or less for the Athletic Department ($2 million – 5% for stuff for the students – the ticket revenue they would have gotten from the free seats). The Athletic Department has a deficit of about $2 million per year, which Upper Campus ends up covering each year.

So, after the Athletics Fee is instituted, the Athletic Department will *not* really have any extra money. All of the student fee will just reduce how much Upper Campus has to subsidize the Athletic Department. When you think about it, the Athletics Fee is really a way for the University to raise fees for the students and save money for the *University*. That is $1.9 million more for the University…and $0 more for the Athletics Department for the “Athletics Fee”.

Theoretically, the 5,000 free seats set aside for each football game and the free seats at all other sporting events will reduce Athletic Department revenue. For games like USC where they will sell a lot of tickets (at a higher price than normal), it might reduce the money the Athletic Department gets by some noticeable amount. Thus, Upper Campus will get $1.9 million more money and the Athletic Department will get *less* money after the Athletics Fee begins. ST has said several times that the students should get great seats for football and basketball games after the Athletic Fee starts…those seats would normally go to season ticket holders who are required to give a minimum donation, so that would cost the Athletic Department a lot of money.

At least it reduces the deficit each year. However, the $2 million deficit really could be looked at as Upper Campus needs to provide $2 million more to the Athletic Department than they already do. Some Pac-10 schools lost more than $2 million last year (I read one school’s Athletic Department lost over $6 million), but their Universities don’t talk about deficits and they don’t keep a running tally of the losses. Only at UH does Upper Campus do that…

btw… How’s Greg Alexander doing? What’s he doing? How’s his leg?

Made,

Students with spirit or not will NEVER vote yes on anything asking them to shell out more money. It’s not the monetary amount, it’s the principal (legitimate or not) of the matter for a lot of them.

That 70+% figure thrown out means nothing really and for some it simply means the students don’t want to pay for (insert blank) and it could be anything.

Its like running a poll in the Fresno State softball dugout amongst the players and asking them, “do you opposed to Hawaii being the favorite to win the WAC softball tourney”?

WHO THE HECK IS GONNA VOTE YES?????

#265, I meant “are you opposed” 😳

Rainbow Wahine Volleyball = Beauty, Brawn, Skill, and BRAINS!!!

5/13/2010 3:09:40 PM

HONOLULU – The NCAA announced the public recognition as part of the 2010 NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program (APP) and the University of Hawai‘i women’s volleyball team was honored for posting multiyear academic performance rates (APR) in the top 10 percent of all teams within the sport.

Each year the NCAA honors selected Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multiyear APR. This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams who demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.

For the fourth consecutive year, the women’s volleyball team posted a perfect score of 1,000, and received the NCAA’s public recognition for the second straight year. The Rainbow Wahine was the only UH program which was publically recognized by the NCAA.

The APR provides a real-time look at a team’s academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team’s academic performance.

Multiyear APRs for all Division I sports teams, including the teams receiving public recognition, will be announced at a later date. That announcement also will include immediate and historical penalties for low-performing teams.

Good job ladies!!! AWESOME!!!

Softball on TV tomorrow???

BENNETT!!!! YES!!!!

Ok… I cam take a shower and go to sleep now!!!

good wins today. hope it leads into a great friday and weekend!

NMST on a 5 game WAC losing streak, UH moving up.

We got our money’s worth at the game tonight! Great job pulling a win out of that game. Kudos to the “conversationalists” who moved back to the regular section behind homeplate late in the game. I think A-Joe & Stretch really made a difference in the way NaMaSU players “stay in the game” – NOT!

Mahalo to ST & jm2375 for the tickets! Hope the team can carry this fighting spirit into the games on Friday & Sunday.

Night all!

Slugger — please post the do’s and don’ts so that everyone can see the overall situation.

Mouton already has needed a little jolt, however.

He missed part of the team’s voluntary conditioning program earlier this offseason, but said some of his absences had to do with complications from being sickle cell trait positive.

It’s not as serious as sickle cell disease, but he did experience blood clotting during a visit to Colorado and underwent a number of tests. High altitude was at fault, and he’s fine now, he said.

Yet Mouton admitted he didn’t take his job as seriously as he should have until a reminder from Cecil.

Worthy of a 300ish post

http://www.hammerandrails.com/2010/5/13/1470730/play-like-a-hawaii-bowl-champion

Good morning Tsaikos from the pacific nw

can we get to 300 before the new post?

293

295

Yea to the Conversationalists!

How long do you think the Qahine game will go? Gotta trick my dvr into recording “paid programming” and infomercials.

jm2375- had a nightmare and woke up at 4:30. Now what did I eat last night…. sheesh!
OK. Gotta get ready for work…

Liz – I set mine for 2.5 hours. Just set your dvr using a manual timer. Hit the dvr button 3 times, select “Timers”, then select “Manual Timer”. Call me if you need help.

Congrats to the SoftBows & BaseBows for manufacturing those gutty come-back must-wins!!

liz…do you guys have oc16 dvr?
if so when you go to record the program that you want you can extend the recording time before you accept the recording. slide the highlighter to the left with the arrow key to end of recording time and then scroll up or down to extend the recording “x” number of minutes past the original end time.

UC Davis , Montana, Portland State, Sacramento State would expand the WAC nicely
When I bounced the idea of independent, I did not advocate less than 7 home games
Late year games with biggies will probably be lost when big conferences go to Championship games
Worst case REAL scenario is MWC getting a bigger gap between WAC and themselves and us not being in MWC
Winning cures all in the end, but I think it is too late

Baseball game was awesome last night! Thanks for the tickets Steve! Hope to go to the Sunday game too.

Got to shake hands with coach Mac last night at the baseball game as well.

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Feels like a great day for breaking the NCAA Softball homerun record! 😉

Let’s Go Wahine!
Go SoftBows!
Go TrackNFieldBows!

Let’s Go Warriors!
Go BaseBows!
Go TenniBows!

thicken your skin…big guy…all i did was make a simple joke. 🙂

bluefintuna,
ok i’ll not refer to you anymore. sorry for the irritation.
aloha

Aloha Kakahiaka!

GO WAHINE!!! GO BASEBOWS!!!

Amanda Patterson reviewed the NCAA regs. and we can not use a neutral site (the T-Gate site) to provide a picnic/tailgate-type potluck for the players. We can feed them at a booster’s home. (Forms need to be filed with Athletics…) Anyone have a BIG home?

The banquets are paid for out of the Foundation. A team can only have one per season.

We’ll first have to check with Coach Coolen and right now is not the time.

GO SOFTBOWS!!! GO BASEBOWS!!!

Okay so it seems that the expansion plan would be, if the WAC got raided and BSU, FSU and Nevada got pulled to MWC or elsewhere, we’d go get the aforementioned schools: Portland State, UC-David, et al..

So, the WAC would then be intact but a “minor mid-major” just above D-II or whatever they now call it.

I’d guess we should be happy we’re still in a conference but please let’s make no mistake about it. Even if we go undefeated in any season, we’re never going to be ranked high enough to be considered for one of those BIG BOWL games. The RPI or whatever they call it will never reach the zenith it would have to rise to to be condisered just given the make up of the new conference.

I’m okay with that, as long as we get to see UH play ball, in all of the sports. Question: We will now be solvent and out of the red or will that still be a problem? My thought is that we’ll still be in the red as being relegated to “ugly duckling in a step child conference” level will not garner enough dollars to continue to field all the teams we need to field to be in compliance with title IX.

Buffoman this whole conference realignment sucks big time, but I will bet we are not the only ones that will be left holding the bag. I know all the answers that Garret has posted on it but to me all the spin they want to put on it ($$$) doesn’t make it right.

today’s musings…

vhs?

haka? will the warriors do the haka?

the haka is still being debated…but ballroom is definitely out!

haka…don’t you agree that the haka needs to be a tradition that is never broken?

Kazz,

Liz has a Dish, not Oceanic.

Pomai,

The fancy banquets at hotel ballrooms, golf resorts, etc., have to be paid for by the Foundation. Booster can OCCASIONALLY feed a student (4 x yr.) in their home which is what your potluck idea would fall under. You don’t want a player to become ineligible, so the Athletic dept. tracks the number of times they are hosted by a booster. I think we should continue talking about this online. And it’s moot anyway. They are on the mainland and will play ball beyond the WAC Tournament. Don’t think we can do anything in the near future.

K, off to UH….Esme & out….

al:
May 14th, 2010 at 8:37 am
pomai, slugger, et al.

i am just wondering why they have no banquet?

Don’t know

is it coolen’s choice?

Yes

what about the softball boosters, parents, etc.?

Their numbers have gone down this year, but they would be involved, they(parents) have done a lot for the girls

no funding?

You got that right

not budgeted?

bingo

i would think that under gender equity that the institution has to allocate some cash for this effort.

nope

maybe the nfa needs to take action.

Oh God no

just wondering why they haven’t picked up on it.

thanks pomai.

Good morning everyone!

GO WAHINE!

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