Comments on: Game day: San Diego State

By: frustratedRaBoWar

frustratedRaBoWar — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:18:47 +0000

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

By: frustratedRaBoWar

frustratedRaBoWar — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:17:34 +0000

this is what makes me angry. SDSU came into to town, had a four day vacation complete with tours, hanging at the beach and the hotel pool. walked into Aloha Stadium, played like crap and got the win. Its a total shame. A mediocre team like SDSU playing really badly (that QB was worse than SS) and we cannot make them pay. SDSU should have gotten spanked last night. Chow needs to go day after Army.

By: Former UH Athlete

Former UH Athlete — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:43:17 +0000

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.

By: Former UH Athlete

Former UH Athlete — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:32:45 +0000

If nothing else, this might be the most exciting winless team in history. Mostly very competitive games. Lots if action.

Just glad we aren’t gettin blown off the field like last year. So if there’s any upside to 0-10, that’s it.

By: Buffoman

Buffoman — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:17:23 +0000

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.

By: Former UH Athlete

Former UH Athlete — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:32:36 +0000

wasabi… Boise pays their assistants the best in conference… the other good teams are a little lower, but not significantly lower. Fresno pays their coordinators in the $160-$190k range if I’m not mistaken. That’s still about 40-50% better than what UH is paying, before you get into cost of living.

I think UH, UNLV, New Mexico and SJSU are the lowest paid coaches in MWC – I don’t have numbers to support. But looking back over the decades these programs have always had problems generating a winning program.

the point is it’s not easy to land a good coach when the pay is low. You get what you pay for in most cases.

By: wasabi

wasabi — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:18:11 +0000

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.

By: wingt

wingt — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:01:25 +0000

We have good athletes that don’t know how to win. That’s on the head coach. It is sad but the real outcome from this game showed that coach Chow doesn’t have the “it” to win.

By: Moocher

Moocher — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:57:51 +0000

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.

By: PolyMom

PolyMom — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:39:38 +0000

Thanks FormerUHAthlete, that was my point.
And add the high cost of living here we don’t pay squat!