Game day: San Diego State

Toooz

GOOD MORNING GOOD PEOPLE!

WIN BOWS!

Another Boootiful Day in Hawaii nei…..

Won’t be able to make the game but will be watching it…please look out for my message to my “patnah” on the message board at halftime. Wanted to surprise her but…..the best laid plans of mice and men….

Anyhoo……IMUA WARRIORS!!!!!

Gold pants and helmets.

Hehe IDK but I’ve seen pictures of such in history books called the 1978 Roosevelt High School Annual ehehehehehe 🙂

Hehe 😀

GO JOEY!! GO TSAI-MEISTER!!! GO RETRO-ED RAINBOW WARRIORS!!!

Robert Kekaula says UH ought to wear these all games from here on.

Nice to see errybody this morning! Howdy gangeez!

I feel it it my bones! TODAY, is THE Day!
Let’s Go Bows!

For this one game, we should have someone dress up like Rainbowman(70’s Japanese superhero) to be our mascot!!!

Good morning, gang!

Imua Rainbow Warriors!!!

Let’s GO BOWS!!!

Blangiardi coming to Chow’s defense this week on tv? Pathetic.

The boycott lives. Stay home, nothing to see here.

We move to 0-10, and remain in ESPN’s Bottom 10.

#27 – Had the best cheesburgers and tuna sandwiches in town!

I liked Chunky’s burgers and fries. Things I shouldn’t eat anymore.
Read that USC HC Ed Orgeron surprised the team with a spread from IN-N-OUT Burgers.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1838922-coach-ed-orgeron-surprises-usc-football-team-with-in-n-out-burger

No need to completely boycott the Hawaii football team because Chow is the head coach or the nickname Rainbows. Every fan has to make up there own mind on how much they support the team. I don’t care for the Rainbow nickname because of the possibility of hurting recruiting for talented mainland high school recruits. I have a hunch it wont matter for local boys, JC and transfers because they are usually more mature and understanding of the Hawaiian Island culture.

But Norm Chow is still in his 2nd year as Head Coach and I expected more like 4 wins this season. I have to say the team has improved but the coaches still need to coach the players up and out coach opposing coaches. I haven’t seen that progress this season so far, I have seen Norm Chow and Thom Kaumeyer get out coached in the second half consistently.

Demo has been doing a good job special consistently, losing Harding was huge and we all know after the Navy game how important Scott Harding is to the team overall. I know injuries are always a factor but every team has injuries and it’s up to the coaches to make the best of what they have on he roster.

I was watching ESPN talking about the fans wanting the Florida Gators Head Coach Will Muschamp fired. It reminded me of how some fans want Norm Chow fired. Next season will be crucial for Norm Chow because making a bowl should be the minimum expected in Norm Chow’s 3rd year as head coach with a ton of players returning on both sides of the ball. And the players will not be freshman and sophomores anymore but sophomores and juniors with a lot of seniors leading the team in 2014.

LAVA must be a big supportive UH fan – but only if we are winning.

Hopefully Babers will come here though.

Last year the defenders and cheerleaders for Chow could hardly contain their disdain for those critical of their vaunted hero. Now that Chow has successfully lost/removed every single one of McMackin’s last recruiting class and demonstrated his abundant flaws, where are they???

Chow time is tic, tic, ticking away along with the financial stability of the entire UH athletic department. Argh…..

#29…Mahalo Stephen. You hit the nail right on (in) the head.

Imua Rainbow Warriors!!!

We’re due for a W . . . aren’t we? AREN’T WE? Please? Man up above? Please?

38- NEXT SEASON????? CHOW ALREADY #2 on HOTSEAT, PULLED TEAM DOWN TO 119 OUT OF 125 TEAMS, LAST IN MWC, AND TEAM IS #4 ON ESPN BOTTOM 10. BRINGING SHAME TO A ONCE PROUD PROGRAM…AND YOU WANT ANOTHER YEAR!!!! Aaaaaaarrrrgh!!!!!! NUFF ALREADY!!!!!

I was surprised by Blangiardi’s commentary…He’s a business man and we’re going bankrupt with the person at the helm. It’s a simple business decision. Cut your losses and bring someone on board and save the business. Otherwise, we’re all gonna be looking at a DII program in a few years barely hanging on to the memories of what things were and how we used to be.

I like the article on Dino Babers and his success…I think we should seriously look at getting him and his brand of football back to the islands.

One sidenote…I love our Warrior football players and their effort. I’ve supported them as a season ticket holder for over 30 years. However, with the downturn of the football program, I may have to give up my season tickets as I near retirement. It’s ether that or buy UH basketball season tickets, where the outlook looks alot more positive.

I find a similarity between blog participants and farters. When some people have bad wind they find a nice remote place to deposit their wares so as not to offend others. But some people seem to like to stink the whole room up. Today the blog seems to have many of the latter variety of participant.

61… I think the “farters” think their gas don’t stink.

Retro Night:
I got my Ultimate Retro T-Shirt on ready for tonight’s game.
It is Black with the front showing the UH Helmets for the last 100 years.
There are 13 Helmets in all.
Good conversation piece. Everyone has their favorites. Kinda cool!
Go Rainbow Warriors!

http://www.kaleo.org/sports/football/retro-night-rewind/article_fce0ce9a-4db3-11e3-90eb-001a4bcf6878.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

good job to coach beeman and the wahine on their 77-66 win over wasu last night.

37… Just keep in mind who you’re quoting in regards to not looking into the past…. Allegedly

Popup tent, two coolers, tickets, vintage logo wear, check, check, check, check! Today is the Day!

36 ST…

Totally forgot about that…. Pretty unbelievable that UH took JJ to court over him leaving. Even though UH had well over a year to work out the extension.

62: You forgot guys that apparently like to read their own posts and try to post as much as they can to drown out anyone who disagrees with their “expert” assessment of the program…

WE are all fans, so let’s cheer for the same team…The Warriors!

rainbow wahine basketball playing i think any update

Shoots!

Miss da Tsaikos & da tailgate. 🙂

I think they should play IZ song tonight. Before the game guess which one people. It for wishing “W” tonight would be good. Like rainboWs Warriors. And play nice here and have fun.

FCSA shooting men basketball live. Hawaii leads Mizzou 46-45 at half. Rebroadcast 11 pm on FCSC

Just dropping by to read what the haters have to say. You know, you guys are the Hawaiian crab story!

I agree with you ST about Kitty Lagareta. I was totally against her being on the BOR again. I blame her and another person for the demise of the Republican Party in Hawaii. The way they passed the Same Sex Marriage bill was just like the way Obama passed Obama Care. And look at the disaster of a mess he’s created. It’s a joke. The court battles will end up costing the tax payers huge money. Just like in California.

Everytime I read about you guys wanting Dino Babers or other mainland coaches just makes me laugh. We don’t have the money to even afford his price as an assistant head coach. Get your checkbook out and donate money. Stop bitching. If I was Chow I’d be heading back to the mainland to collect his Million dollar plus paycheck. Some of you have been so disrespectful to him. Pound sand!

Polymom… Dino gets paid around $300000 at east illinious. I think he would glady relocate for chows salary. So take your own advice and pound sand becuz u were wrong about chow as a HC!

Babers now highest paid in athletic department
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Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 11:39 pm | Updated: 12:15 am, Tue Jan 24, 2012.
By Alex McNamee/Staff Reporter | 2 comments
Editor’s Note: This is the first story in an occasional series examining coaches’ salaries and budgets in the athletic department.
New Eastern football head coach Dino Babers is slated to make $53,140 more annually than former head coach Bob Spoo made in his final contract, following the approval of his salary Friday.

The Board of Trustees approved Babers’ three-year contract worth $170,000 per year – a total of $510,000 at the end of the deal.
Babers was promised in his contract, which he signed Jan. 3, a handful of incentives that could be added onto his base salary – adding up to a potential bonus of $50,500, if he accomplishes all in one season.
These incentives, which the contract calls “achievement compensation awards,” are one-time, lump sum payments; for example, if Babers earned one of the “awards” in his first season, he would receive that as a bonus, but his base salary would still be $170,000 the next year. The incentives are both academic- and performance-based.
If at the end of any spring semester his team’s GPA is at or above 2.8, Babers will receive $2,000. Furthermore, Babers will receive $2,000 if the team’s Academic Progress Rate is at or above 950, starting with the 2013-2014 academic calendar.
Academic Progress Rate is a statistic created by the NCAA to measure the success of college teams in moving student-athletes toward graduation.
If the Panthers win seven games in a single season, Babers is promised $1,500; however if the team wins nine games, he will be given $3,000 instead.
Babers will receive $3,000 for winning an outright regular season conference championship – only $1,500 if the team is co-champions with another school.
Babers will receive $1,500 for being named Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year, as well as $5,000 more if he’s named the Sports Network FCS Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, which is the Football Championship Subdivision’s national coach of the year award.
Spoo won two OVC Coach of the Year awards, 2001 and 2005, and multiple other awards prior to 2001.
For earning a spot in the FCS playoffs, Babers will receive $1,000, and will earn an additional $2,000 for each game played in beyond the first round.
Babers will receive $5,000 for playing in the national championship game – an additional $10,000 for winning it.
Based on the end-of-season rankings, Babers could earn $5,000 for being the No. 1 ranked team in the FCS Coaches Poll, $2,500 for placing in the top five or $1,000 for being in the top 25. These amounts are not cumulative; for example, Babers will not earn all three amounts for being the No. 1 team, rather only the $5,000.
Babers will receive $2,500 per win against Football Bowl Subdivision teams. For example, Eastern played Northwestern this season but lost. Northwestern is an FBS school.
Babers’ final incentive comes from summer camps. He will receive $2,500 at the conclusion of summer football camps on an annual basis if 150 overnight campers are housed in Eastern’s residence halls during the camps.
Provided that Babers’ successfully completes all incentives, he could earn up to $220,500 in a single season.
Babers is now the highest paid member of the athletic department. Athletic Director Barbara Burke makes $144,000 per year.
Spoo’s last contract had him making $116,860 without any incentives.
Spoo won at least a share of the conference title four times in his career. His team advanced to the NCAA first round seven times, and the quarterfinals once. The Panthers finished in the top 25 polls 10 times during his tenure.
Babers’ three-year contract ends Jan. 1, 2015; however, if he’s still the coach Sept. 1, 2015, his base salary will increase to $185,000.
Babers will announce his first Eastern recruiting class Feb. 1 on National Signing Day, and will start his career Aug. 30 at home against Southern Illinois-Carbondale.

Keep reading Hon. Cost of living there is 25 percent for housing then here. Understand? Go look at housing cost there and in Hawaii. Huge difference. Plus he has several daughters. Then would have huge tuition bills. How much is Punahou and Iolani again?

Babers has 4 daughters. Punhou x 4 = 100K plus the extras.

85 With all due respect Polymom, while we should all maintain a decorum of respect and support for the the team, divergent opinion are also of high value to the discourse. Furthermore, to inject the Presidents health care plan, just months old in it passage, seems like a highly partisan and random analogy to bring into an exclusive sports conversation, and moreover is soley a non-sequitur, as it is not supported within the appropriate context and facts of the discussion. So, lets take an accurate look at history:

A few weeks into the launch of the most sweeping health care reform law in a generation, John Boehner declared that the implementation was a disaster.

“The implementation,” the Republican leader said, “has been horrendous. We’ve made it far more complicated than it should be.”

Boehner, of course, was talking about the rollout of the new Medicare prescription drug benefit — known as Part D — enacted in 2003 by President George W. Bush. He discussed the implementation woes during a Feb. 6, 2006 appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” on his fifth day as House majority leader.

But did he want to repeal the benefit? No. The future Speaker soberly acknowledged the problems but saw potential in the law and called for improving it. “The good news is that the competition that’s being created has lowered premiums significantly below where Congress thought they’d be when we put the bill together, so the competition side is good,” he said. “I think the implementation side continues to need to be improved.”

It was a very rough time for the law’s proponents. The soft launch was “anything but smooth,” according to the Washington Post, marred by at least two delays along with other, deeper problems. (please note, more people, have signed up for Obama care than the schedule D at the same junction of time, on a per capita basis)Upon launch, the Bush administration admitted to receiving “tens of thousands of complaints by seniors, pharmacists and others” about implementation failures. Health and Human Services vowed to “fix every problem as quickly as possible.”

Boehner was far from alone in pushing to fix the problematic law, rather than repealing or dismantling it. And his judgment was vindicated — the Medicare Part D program turned out to be a success, expanding medical coverage for millions of seniors at a lower cost than many expected. Today it is a fixture of the Medicare program. Fortunately for Bush and his party, Democrats were a willing partner in tweaking and improving the law.

Nearly eight years later, Boehner leads a Republican Party that has taken a radically different approach to the troubled rollout of a new, ambitious health care reform law — this time enacted by a Democratic president. Four weeks into its pre-launch, Obamacare is under the gun for significant problems and glitches, and Republicans took turns excoriating the law during a GOP-led hearing Thursday. But while the Obama administration wants to fix the problems, a united GOP insists that the Affordable Care Act’s online enrollment woes suggest the law should be wiped off the books, or at least dismantled piece by piece.

What Democrats are now saying about Obamacare — fix it, don’t nix it — sounds eerily similar to what many Republicans were saying on the dawning of Medicare Part D.

“This is a huge undertaking and there are going to be glitches,” said Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) on Feb. 15, 2006. “My goal is the same as yours: Get rid of the glitches.”

“Rather than trying to scare and confuse seniors, I would hope that we can work together as we go through the implementation phase to find out what is wrong with the program and if we can make some changes to fix it, let us do it and let us do it on a bipartisan basis,” Barton pleaded during an Energy & Commerce Committee hearing on March 6, 2006. “We owe that to all of the millions of Medicare beneficiaries.”

Now, where the hell is Boola going with all this gooblegook? Well, I just want to paint a more complete picture, that the same platitudes and criticisms were almost exactly stated just 7 years prior on a similar subject. It is rather ironic, that depending where are true intentions and ideology lie, do we actually have patience and support for the things we view as important; whether that be politics and/or football.

Mahalo, Tsai-kos! Lifting us up on Kauai!

GO, RAINBOW WARRIORS!!!!

Here we go game time!

3 offensive drives, 2 turnovers. Not going to win like that.

TD!!!

Defense?

Yeeee-Hawwww! Lets go Warriors!

I like PolyMom … you mean spirited people can back off and know your manhood is safe. But no style points for heaping da junks on PolyMom.

They just quit on a play and sdsu ties it up.

Riley Wallace is on the sidelines.

Liz Kauai
From the Eastman Ohana, we love you and lift you and your ohana up. May the Warriors bring a victory and lift your spirits. Know that we are praying for peace for you.

Nice to see Coach Chow wearing the lei all through the game.

Al Noga coaching the boys in the huddles on TO’s

I thought I saw Al Noga on the sideline.

One more half of football for a WIN!

The passing game is anemic! I think The T – formation w St Juste taking a toss sweep would open up Iosepha between tackles. But what do I know being a couch coach!

Georges St Pierre retains Welterweight Title by SPLIT DECISION

Here we go. Third quarter big sleep.

I see why SDSU is running the ball… SDSU’s QB stinks

And UH runs into kicker to erase good work on 3rd down… and SDSU picks up the first down.

At this point of season, UH has run out of bullets after shooting themselves in the feet

Tied.

Dang it.

How did every LB get wiped out on that TD run? Marrell Jackson did his job and contained the edge to force the run back inside, but all 3 LBs weren’t in the same zip code. Zero pursuit.

Kinpira!

Kinpira!

Kinpira!

Lakalaka is a good player, but he just doesn’t move the pile like big #7.

That 3rd down play was straight from the USC playbook…. and wow, did Iosefa light up the LB!

Dang it.

Another ‘Bow down.

This one hurts as there isn’t much more depth left on bench.

Oh boy… Hadden out for FG….

Whoo-hoo!!!

This is the possession of the game for UH… If SDSU scores a TD on this drive, this game might spiral out of control.

make that 8 missed tackles on 2 plays.

10 missed tackles on drive…

Byron must be smiling.

That fumble recovery was for UkuleleBoi! Compliments of Waimea’s pride, Siasau!

SDSU is so ripe for a playaction bomb

UH only lost the 3rdQ 0-7……. Jerry Jones would call that a moral victory

162 yes but you can bet your life that Hawaii limits you to 10 round max capacity on pistol mags

Langkilde is having a great game lead blocking and receiving

Yhooooooooooooooooooo!

Here we gooooo!! Dig deep DEEE!!!

169 & 171 ~ My thoughts exactly.

GO BOWS!!!

Great job D!

GOGOGOGOGO!!!

I got a feeling if Hawaii wins people are going to say it was the uniforms.

It’s Chows game to lose. Too Conservative,,u lose!

Here we go. Work some magic! Lets make memories Warriors!!

Ok Norm. Time to earn your pay!

Kinpira!!

Kinpira!!

Kinpira!!

Kinpira!!

Kinpira!!

Kinpira!!

Wow… terrible officiating

193… that’s why Chow was conservative on the previous drive with the lead… SS can’t make the plays to win.

At least they got a 1st down to milk some clock.

Just be thankful SDSU has an equivalent talent QB as Schroeder…

and they called a flag on Phillips?

214… no kidding.

Timeout before the first play of drive? ok….

Yeah… that’s a smart play by SS to take the knee. Just nothing there deep on 1st play. Take it to OT.

WE GOING WIN!!!!!

Wow what game are the refs watching?

Clock management is unbelievably horrible

UHfan808 just laid down the gaintlet-

CHALLENGE THEM!!!

226.. That’s UH’s best chance to win.

Don’t hear/see any haters or lurkers! Ha ha! Where are you huys now!!!

Enjoy the game!

San Diego State is tired and pau. Ride Iosefa for the winning SCORE!!!!

Gosh darn it.

So close.

San Diego State is tired and pau. SCORE!!!!

Defense not there when needed.

Oh no…

Eh…. lose again? What’s new… Div III can beat you guys. You guys really suck!

I’m usually not one for saying officials are bad but the officials in this game were horrible… I’m not saying it influenced the outcome of the game one way or another… But the MWC should look at this game….

Goodnight folks…

Kauai beats Iolani to reach the finals in DII football. Snaps Iolani’s 6 title win streak.

I love our team fought to the end. Thanks for an entertaining night. 10 of my friends all watching this game in San Fran. I’m sad for the loss, but I can’t wait for next game. I don’t want the season to end.

252 I agree TK has to go.

I dont like the fact it takes 1 whole quarter for there to be adjustments because that 3rd quarter is when we let teams take the lead or put the game out of reach.

Indeed, the refs in the Mtn West Conference are horrible. MWC officiating = Many Wrong Calls.

It’s Chow Time!

Crowd was very frustrated and booed the coach.

On their last possession before the over time, the coach did not realize to call a play and had to burn a tim out.

Jack Flash

It is not the coordinators. It’s the head coach.

Chow needs to act and be the head coach.

Chow blew it late in the 4th quarter. How could he not know the frikken clock was running?

Had this been a game of horseshoe, id say we were close and did well.

Hawaii’s coaching staff needs a massive overhaul. Cannot wait for this season to be put behind us.

#106 in all due respect we will have to agree to disagree.if you go back and look at these UH Coaches kids have gone to private school.
I’m sorry I watched several days of the legislation in Hawaii. The sadness of the name calling, personal attacks I saw all over was way over the top! It broke my heart. Sorry but did you watch the House Amendment hearings? It really was atrocious. And I respectfully disagree with you that the Obama Care bill was rushed through with so little discussion. Even Barry, yes Barry I went to school with him has apologized. Many of those who pushed the bill through are now disengaging from the administration. Why? Many Americans have been hurt by this policy. I’m Sure you are one of the fortunate ones who still has their insurance. We do to. With no drastic rise in price. But it was heartbreaking for me to hear from son #2 who is employed at USC that his Kaiser Plan will be going up 175 bucks a month. You should know when you start in the academia world your pay is very low. That’s a big hit for him.
Heck did you read in the NY Times that the model on the splash page for the government site has been getting death threats? She’s a model for heaven sakes! Why were the insurance big wigs escorted from the WhiteHouse meeting through the back door yesterday? Millions in California have been sent cancelation notices. Now what?
Americans thought they were getting a single payer plan. But no it was not. They feel cheated. Have you read the 2400 page of legislation. Let’s say this when CNN, and the main stream media CBS, NBC and even ABC are covering this story daily, this is BIG news!
If you’ve ever worked with the government like my husband has, and the RFPs are changed on a daily basis it should have been postponed one year ago. We can’t keep throwing more good money to fix what they have no idea in what is going on. But I give Barry big kudos for taking the blame and trying to postpone this for another year. But the insurance companies do not have time to back track.and he can’t change the policy without Senate and Congressional hearings. The clock is ticking and ticking fast.
BTW one thing we can agree on is the Warriors looked great tonight. I know that last personal foul hurt the big boy. I’m expecting texts soon. But the improvement of the team grows every week. I’m proud of them. And the running game was just WOW tonight. Gotta run, getting text from the boy who needs emotional support.
Aloha to you and yours.

PolyMom,
Your boy should not blame himself. They lost due to poor coaching, plain and simple.

The OLine has responded well with Iosefa’s return. That’s two really good weeks in a row where the run game got going. Too bad the QB talent just isn’t there to balance it out. Next year’s QB situation doesn’t look overly promising either based on how Graham and Woosley have looked in their limited time. Tuileta might be a game manager at best, and he’s unlikely to be ready to start as a freshmen anyways.

I know Chow is not relying on JC transfers for recruiting (which is very good for the program long term), but he may need to bring in JC QB to add to the depth, because the 2014 starting QB position appears to be going to the guy who sucks the least with the returnees. I’m not sold on any of the returnees next year.

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The modern football world requires good QB play to have winning programs.

Just running down the top 25 and their QBs,

1 Alabama 9-0 – McCaren – rock solid
2 Florida St 9-0 – Winston – Best QB in the nation in my opinion
3 Ohio State 9-0 – Miller – dynamic + adequate passer
4 Stanford 8-1 – Hogan – subpar QB
5 Baylor 8-0 – Petty – good system QB
6 Oregon 8-1 – Mariota – elite talent
7 Auburn 9-1 – Marshall – terrible thrower, good runner
8 Clemson 8-1 – Boyd – top talent
9 Missouri 9-1 – Franklin/Mauk – both quality college QBs
10 South Carolina 7-2 – Shaw – quality college QB
11 Texas A&M 8-2 – Manziel – Johnny Football
12 Oklahoma State 8-1 – Cheif – quality system QB
13 UCLA 7-2 – Hundley – Top talent (overrated in my opinion)
14 Fresno State 9-0 – Carr – very solid
15 Northern Illinois 9-0 – Lynch – fantastic college QB
16 Michigan State 8-1 – Cook – he has surprised MSU fans with good play
17 UCF 7-1 – Bortles – solid
18 Oklahoma 7-2 – Bell – struggled vs good teams, but he’s solid
19 Arizona State 7-2 – Kelly – rock solid
20 Louisville 8-1 – Bridgewater – top talent
21 LSU 7-3 – Mettenburger – good, not great QB
22 Wisconsin 7-2 – Stave – easiest QB job in NCAA with their run game
23 Miami (FL) 7-2 – Morris – top talent, but draft stock is plummeting
24 Texas 7-2 – McCoy – decent college QB
25 Georgia 6-3 – Murray – top talent

only Stanford and Auburn have subpar QBs in the entire top 25 (as of today). Both QBs are protected with elite offensive lines and powerful run games.

Basically, unless you have elite talent up and down the roster, you can’t succeed without a quality QB in modern football. Fresno would have at least 3 or 4 losses with their defense if not for Carr carrying that team. The 2007 Hawaii team probably has 4 losses (@SJSU, @Nevada, vs Boise, vs Washington) if not for Brennan carrying the load.
Boise St is one of the few programs that still wins year in and year out without a good QB.

I still support the team. It’s college football, gang. They are improving. It’s what you look for in your own kids.

Saui, that was awesome. Byron is proud of you.

Get ready for the next game & enjoy watching it. Pretty soon we’ll have a dearth of football & you’ll be bored. Enjoy it while they are still playing.

GO WARRIORS!!!

as the clock wound down, UH had ball, with less than 55 seconds, I turned to MasaBoy and said, “that Chow is playing for OT and UH would lose – why?

SDSU in the 2nd half could move the ball nearly at will while UH struggled – any OT favors SDSU, period!!!!!!!!!!

for the 10th straight game, coaches lost the game

net game is at Wyoming and it will be a loss because of the altitude and cold – it will be the same old story where “coaching” will make the difference

I still can’t figure out why Chow decided to hire such young, inexperienced assistant coaches – one would think that if it’s a first HC job, surround yourself with experienced coaches to help you be successful

again, I am disappointed in the DC who supposedly with NFL credentials would make a huge difference in teaching his assistants and players to become better – either the coaches are not doing their job or the players are NOT listening and doing their own thing or both

Close but no cigar again this week. We get em next week!

#277….hard to get experienced assistants for low-budget pay. But if Chow is still here next year, there must be a shake-up on the staff. If Chows not gonna take the fall, someone on his staff needs to.

on DEF side, need a DC and a LB coach. imo.

Heartbreaking.

And the boys played so hard.

I agree with A-House: coaching failed them in the 4th, particularly with 2:30 left and in OT. I can’t remember when I’ve seen a game where the losing team won the turnover battle 4-2.

Time to finish out the season and reassess our leadership.

It’s the negativity and hate all over Hawaii that his this team losing games. The community reds Hooponopono. They need to do it and do it fast. It’s a football team. Not life or death.

I’m sorry I blame Ben a Jay. Where are those big donors? Where is the community involvement? Sorry he was all talk and no action. I’m done with him.

i think we are seeing that the bigger problem may TK on defense. the offense is ok, not the greatest, but ok. i can imagine chow and TK will go at it with chow saying the defense has to hold. in my opinion chow is the overall fall guy since he is the head coach, but chow is also taking heat because TK’s defense is giving up too many big plays, committing really embarrassing and costly mental errors, and it seems after half time the opposition adjusts and our defense does not really do so.

FUHA…You listed salaries of coaches in other conferences…the only team in the MWC you listed was Boise…Chow is a terrible leader, there are plenty of competent coaches out there that are making less and doing more. Polymom, funny you blame Ben Jay and not Chow. Ben Jay didn’t hire Chow. If he doesn’t get rid of Chow it will be impossible to raise money for the athletic program.

Last night SS was throwing the long ball like he did not want to get intercepted. Just overthrowing Gant on the streak too many times. His long completion to Harding was under thrown and we got lucky. He was struggling after that first interception.

That was probably one of the reasons we kept pounding the ball, with some success until Dew got hurt. I was tough sledding when Dew got hurt.

I think that the linebacking play has gotten worse. Maybe they are taking too many chances and not playing on their assignments but we seem to be out of position on many of those long runs by opponents.

Regarding the comments on pay for assistant coaches. I agree that we are handicapped by what we pay and Chow did what he thought best when he first assembled his staff. It is a greater gamble as pay does determine who is available who has contacts to recruit, who can motivate and teach, who has experience and the like. Many of the coaches have been excellent in recruiting.

I am in agreement that some changes need to be made on staff. And like a wise poster said previously, it is a game, we are fans and we need to support the team. ultimately, Ben Jay is the boss and it is his decision as to what happens to this “subsidiary”.

I enjoy watching the team. I get frustrated but, I still look forward to watching them play on Saturdays and support the team.

Buffoman… SS played very poorly yesterday. On the one deep ball to Harding that was grossly underthrown, in SS’s defense, he was absolutely smashed by an unblocked blitzer. Pretty amazing he wasn’t hurt because he took the full force of a big guy hitting him at full speed while he was unprotected. SS was basically folded in half.

I forgot an important point. SDSU was totally over confident and flat. We should have beaten them.