1) excellent win for the Warriors! Great play calling by the Coaches and execution by the players.

2) who’s idea was it to use no down lineman and 5-7 LBs on defense. I thought I was dreaming looking through my binocs. Caused problems for USU.

3) took photos of the bike with Mrs A-House and me – saw J Taylor using it in the 1st qtr – Don W says the other bike is in the weight room and used by the players – he will try to bring the bike to the NMSU tailgate so the Tsaikos and see what they purchased – it’s real classy!

4) totally different perspective from the field seeing the players up front and personnal rather than the nose bleed section in the South end zone; fans behind us yelling at the USU players about their abilities, etc.; took Chawan and Lefty’s pic when the band came to greet the players; Mrs A-house made friends with the Stadium staff working the sidelines; saw an assistant UH trainer who was the head trainer at McKinley when MasaBoy played during the 1996-98 seasons.

5) met Jim D as we “found” our way through the maze of Aloha Stadium before the game – had a nice conversation and extended an invitation to our tailgate for the NMSU – he will try!

What a different feeling after the game and this morning – felt like something was missing.

5) much kudos to Aaron Kia who I watched very closely the entire game and hope he can continue to play as such for the last 4 games – he played outstanding!

protector:

Did anyone find my chair? – Had left it near the recycling boxes before the game = let me know. Thanks.

I picked the seat up and placed it against the inside wall on the :pearlcity side of Cabana B. By the time we got back after the game, several seats were already set up so I assumed that whoever left it behind before the game had reclaimed it. Perhaps you might want to ask again over the next couple of days.

Finally straightened out the mystery of the quote cancelled softball game unquote. Yesterday’s games were originally scheduled for 10 am and 12 noon, but the start time was moved back two hours. By the time we got there it was the bottom of the first inning in what we thought was the first game of the day, but it was actually the second game. All totaled over the two-day period, the Wahine scored over 70 runs in four games.

Current Count for the five-day period: UH has won seven games and one match in five sports.

Horrible news about Bill Amis – I really like him both personally as well as his playing style and his leadership. Any news as to when the medical hardship issue will be resolved?

Will be re-posting information later this evening about the Family Promise dinner this coming Wednesday. Off to work now until it’s time to go to the Wahine volleyball Senior Game at the Stan Sheriff Center.

It was great seeing LWJ explode in rushing the ball, but it was the emergence of his pent up emotions that was more apparent to everyone as if to say, “finally the coaches gave me a chance in running the ball”.

Where the team needed some direction and validation on to themselves, the win over Utah State is a start and I was happy to see LWJ get some. And likewise with Kia, too.

And of course, Coach Mack, too.

Whatever the coaches are doing in the week’s preparation and practices leading up to the Utah State game I hope they continue.

My perceptions and hunches are that the coaches may have stepped up the conditioning. (can somebody ask the coaches this question?).

Nuff said!

Next 2 games:
NMSU and SJSU have the worst O in college D1A football.
The aggies are deadlast and the sparts are a couple of notches above at #115.
Reap while the weather is good.

last 2 games:
Navy and Wiscy are polar opposites in contrast despite both displaying potent running games.
They both attack in different ways.
Navy, attacks and runs submarinelike interference and will cut defenders legs beneath them as they launch a surface attack with light-weight speed boats. Ask ND’s #5. It took him 3 quarters before he started to look down at the field to dodge torpedoes.
The badgers are General Patton look-a-likes and will use a frontal tank attack and prefer to run you over rather than shot at you. If you are standing alongside their OL at high noon, you will not see the sun.

New Mexico State and Dick Tomey are the calm before the storm–hope we have enuff hops left in the gas tank for the final test….

of course im not kicking mack to the curb on his defensive coaching, that is supposed to be his forte, right?

idk what game you were watching, but i saw a lot more different setup on O. while we have run the counters a couple of times this season, we ran a ton this game. notice how early in the game, USU was shifting their DL to play the tampas? teams have been doing this to us the entire season, so the counters really helped. we added some spread option plays to the O to take full advantage of moniz’s abilities. kid is a playmaker and getting him moving a bit on half rollouts, playaction, and zone reads helps him out a ton.

trust me, i am definitely happy with the win.