Graunke is back (sort of); busy day for UH trainers

Game week, yeah.

Back on track for this weekend’s game! Bye week is over 🙂

Goodnight again…and to WarriorMojo and pride. too.

i dozed off only to find who’s been lurking all this time.

so, ahem, mr. pride. who played alongside of you, jd, and bernard “soon to be mr. kauai mayor” carvalho?

let’s see…..kani kauahi, jesse sapolu

ain’t it kind of late in san antonio?

and didn’t everyone of these guys get a pro look?

probably the best oline ever.

AL:
It’s 0620hrs in San Antonio. Some would say it’s early in the morning, I say it’s late, because I have not been to bed yet.

Be back in about ten hours… 😉

Good morning!

Esme’ing now.

Kinda Shy,

howzit Tsaiko. Tell bradda Jim dat we feel real good wit him at da helm. I hope he enjoyin dat lil book my granson wen give him.

Jim D,

I know you know these things, i’m just repeatin myself for my benefit, because hopefully you’re already there.

its neva too urlee to plan fo da fewcha..
gotta make things easier so that big schools would like to come to Hawaii and play us. 2 reasons to play us. 1. we have a good football program 2. it is good for their players to play us as they can add a extra day package if we’re the last game of their season and they visit here, stay Turtle Bay, visit PolyCult.Ctr, relax. remote, makes good memories.

realistically, the schools that should want to agree to the home and home in December are probably those programs who are not likely to be vying for a national championship. That would historically be
Stanford, Cal Berkely, Oregon, UoW, WashSt.
Others who would do it for other reasons include BYU, UCLA and USC.

just some ideas, dats all. good job, Jim!

bighilofan2,

The best teams to play at UH at the end of the season are those without conference championship games. That means Pac-10, MWC, and (less likely) Big 10. I’m sure that JD has been talking with all of the Pac-10 teams that have openings in their schedule for home-and-home deals.

While I would prefer UH play home-and-home deals with Stanford or Cal, with road games on the years that SJSU comes to Hawaii (giving UH a road game in the Bay Area every year to help with recruiting), I’d take any Pac-10 team that comes to Aloha Stadium!

SJSU site has info on the game this week. Sad that SJSU’s official site cannot get UH’s name correct!

The Rainbow Warriors had a bye the week of September 20

There are a couple of SJSU defenders that the OL and RB will really need to worry about.

San Jose State’s Carl Ihenacho and Jarron Gilbert enter the week one-two in the Western Athletic Conference for most tackles for loss. Ihenacho is the WAC leader at 7.0. Gilbert is right behind at 6.0 after a single-game best 3.0 at Stanford (9/20).

Gilbert and Hawai’i linebacker Solomon Eliminian are the top two active players in the WAC in the tackle for loss category. Both seniors began the season with 20.0 tackles for loss in their first three seasons. Gilbert now has 26.0 career tackles for loss; Eliminian, 21.5.

Coach Tomey has a lunch and talk with the SJSU students…sad only 20 showed up.

A group of SJSU students had lunch and chat with someone they usually see on the football field and television: Dick Tomey, the SJSU football head coach.

“Brown Bag Lunch with Dick Tomey” brought the coach and the students together at the Student Union Amphitheater on Thursday afternoon.

Tomey started Thursday’s event with a summary of the team’s current status and overall performance this season.

“I did this every place I coached, whether there is one person here or 100,” said

Tomey, who coached at the University of Hawaii and the University of Arizona before coaching at SJSU. “I’ve been doing this at SJSU ever since we started.”

Thursday’s attendance was approximately 20 people.

ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs,

Game week is finally here! Getting Warrior withdrawals! As Mental Mele would say…shi shi panty time!!!
Go Warriors! Beat SJS!

Tsai-Meister,

Are we going to get another report today from this mornings practice? I’m really curious how Tyler is throwing with his bad hand, a scary key to the game.

Morning gang-
Ted, your right. This is THE Make or Break game.
Fans need to unite with color coded wear at the stadium and bring ( sneak) in any noise maker, along with healthy lungs to help make that difference.
Betcha the Stanford game last Sat. had a low attendance. The fans CAN help make a difference. Spread the good word guys. EZ to attend when living on the island.

Good morning all!

Yup, game week.

Ya know, if we see every player at every position giving 100% this week, we’ll do great. In fact we can run the table from this point on if the players are all doin’ what they’re supposed to. Like a wise but lowly Tsaiko who happens to be a former UH lineman sez: “100% all the time.” I know that sounds like coach style rhetoric, but in this case, it’s simply true.

We are a better team than what we’ve showed. Like LWJ said last week, it’s like different parts of the team have played well, while others played poorly, and that the different groups took turns playin’ well and screwin’ up. If we see everybody playin’ up at 100%, we’ll see a win.

Nuff said.

GO WARRIORS!!!

Any word on how Funaki is doing with his head injury? I’d like to see him get one more chance in there. He looked bad in the Weber State game but it seemed he was trying to do what worked for him in the Florida game.–running around. I still think Graunke should start if his hand is healed, but I’d like to see the homeboy gets some snaps to prove its not time for the JC guys to move into the backup slot.

Pomai,

30-28 Hawaii including 3 field goals from Dan Kelly.

Hi, PBK, Maverick, Garret, NYUH et al. A good morning to you.

Florida heat has somewhat cooled off and the weather is becoming pleasant. Makes for nice walks along the Boardwalk.

NYUH,

As you know I love Funaki and his athletic abilities and character, but he hasn’t given me in any game that winning feeling. My big problem with him is that he just doesn’t see the field and I’ve never seen him getting past the second option, before running around.

I really don’t have a feel for the JC’s right now, we haven’t seen much of them. I really hope they’ll get some playing time against San Jose, that would also mean that we’re winning comfortably.

Ted,
Were really seeing first hand how a talented JC quarterback takes on Hawaii’s R & S offense, even with Alexanders past experience of operating a spread offense. Takes time, and maybe an entire season to learn.
Best we recruit freshman QB’s and redshirt them from now on.

Aloha all,
muddle-huddle awareness week is hea!
GO Warriors!!!

On a good note:

Dwight Lowery has moved on from SJSU.

That guy was THE shiny coin for the team, making turnovers happen and turning them into scores

POMAI:

HAWAII—9
SAN JOSE STATE—24

SORRY!

Pride: Haha, Jesse Sapolu as the 49ers offensive line coach, I like that. I’m not the biggest fan of George Warhop, although he’s had to deal with inept pass blockers and injuries the past few years. In fact, I’m not a big fan of most of that coaching staff.

PBK,

You’re right about Farmer. With him in there, he may be able to buy our QB that extra second to throw to the third or fourth option.

good morning you all.
all you tsaiko’s its time to put on your game face.
its time to put up or shut up.
its time to show up for the game come saturday.
can’t you hear coach mac and the team?
they need you to show and support!
this is the game.
just when they need you the most.

Pomai-
UH 35
SJSU 31

Imua Warriors!

Pomai…21 – 14 UH…GO WARRIORS!!!

Good morning Tsaikos and Tsaikettes!!!!

al…I told you, Jason is older than he looks….

Great Morning All.

Still trying to get back in the swing of things but will have to take it easy for one more day.
Not sure how much they can accomplish in an hour today but maybe we’ll hear something soon.
Things were definitely a bit “Koyaanisqatsi-ish” last week but all things look well-focused again ’cause it’s GAME WEEK! 🙂

al…Beatles music??? I thought he liked Yanni?? or was it Zamfir and his pan flute??? Oh wait, that was somebody else….MWAHAHAHAHHA

aloha Al,

we would love to be there for the game with sjsu, but we will be back in ‘Wildcat Country’. they play Utah, oh my, and then the following week will be Montana.

great game against Sacramento State, a former opponent of sjsu who went into OT and won by a field goal (sjsu did). cameron had 4 TD passes and almost 400 yds passing.

the beast played well, did manage to take the starting qb out of the game with a sprained knee. something about the DE had the QB’s ankles and the beast finished him off, a vicious hit. that’s football.

late in the game, 4th and 1 with 2:21 on the clock, Sac State has the ball and are going for it down 32-27. big push, #95 takes the double team and pushes them back, RB has no hole to find, LB makes the initial hit and the beast gets an assist on the stop.

so a good game, but ther real treat? haha, i packed 5 lbs, fresh ahi, chopped ogo, fresh limu, maui onions, aunty liz’s hawaiian salt, sesame oil, sesame seed, hawaiian chili peppers, shoyu and made da ‘bulla special’. i thought david copperfield was in the house the way that mixing bowl of FRESH POKE disappeared, haha.

i had to toss coach chad from maui the bag of dry ahi i stashed for him….
make memories, make memories, make memories

talk about true friends, 2008 SL grad Josh Saio, caught 2 trains and 1 bus from San Mateo to get to the game to see his cousins (Cameron & Zack) and classmate ‘the beast’ play…..he is playing baseball for San Mateo, but said nothing was going to stop him from seeing his ‘boyz’ play today.

all tsaikos, have a good day, and be a blessing to others.

Good morning everyone!

The last refresh I did here gave me the blog comments with no graphics or ads. At the bottom, it read:

All contents © 2008 The Warrior Beat.
iWPhone Theme + Plugin By ContentRobot

Must be something sent by mistake to my desktop, but it should load very quickly with only text. I clicked the ContentRobot link and it brought me to a WordPress Page. What caught my eye was a shareware plug-in for iTouch and iPhone that apparently will give a fast loading text page for blogs. The URL was:

http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/

I can’t check it out personally right now since Peaches took my iTouch to D.C. 😐

Amazing article about the tremendous increase in recruiting budgets…over the time period where HF kept UH’s recruiting budget flat at $50k.

A two-month study by The Chronicle of Higher Education based on information from the U.S. Department of Education showed that 48 percent of NCAA Division I athletic departments at least doubled their recruiting budgets over the 10-year period from 1996-97 to 2006-07. The 65 biggest spenders – mainly schools in the Big East, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Southeastern, Big 12 and Pac-10 conferences – paid out more than $61 million in 2007, an 86 percent increase from 1997.

Twenty-one schools have recruiting budgets that top $1 million.

With athletic department operating budgets exceeding $40 million at some universities, spending $800,000 to $2 million on recruiting seems miniscule. Coaches and school administrators say they do watch their spending.

Looks like increasing recruiting budgets directly paid off with more wins for Kansas State and Maryland.

Two of the schools that had the biggest increases in spending over the last 10 years – Maryland and Kansas State – wanted to be competitive after years of losing.

Kansas State had one of the country’s worst football programs until coach Bill Snyder took over in 1989 and led them to Fiesta Bowls in 1997 and 2004.

Located in Manhattan, Kan., which has a population of 51,000, Kansas State faces many obstacles. The closest major airport is 107 miles away in Kansas City. After picking up recruits, K-State officials then have to go through Lawrence, Kan. – home of the University of Kansas – before getting to Manhattan. The state also has great junior college talent.

d1…..what’s the linfield report for this weekend?

Schools have found success at recruiting places where they can drive within 5 hours or less or take short plane rides…Hawaii has to use a different tactic. Hard to believe that only ONE BCS-conference school has a men’s recruiting budget less than $500k.

A lot of coaches follow Friedgen’s philosophy and recruit mainly within a five-hour radius. Schools such as South Florida rarely have to leave the state. That helps explain why the Bulls’ $468,813 men’s recruiting budget – still a major increase from its $219,000 budget in 1997 – is the only one of the 65 BCS schools that’s less than $500,000.

Garret,
OK, well the pressure is off then. I no need read so fast today. haha

al,

Yep. It’s finally game week for those Wildcats, too. I’ve found that their SID has his own blog going and there is some other sources (you’d think our son would be a good one but all we get is , “Everything’s alright.”)Then there’s this guy…he is a little off-beat but this blogger seems to have the most up-to-date stuff on Linfield football. click on my name but be prepared!

Okay.
So I feel good about today’s practice-sort of! 😕

SteveM: I think that plug-in is installed by the admin of the blog, not the user. Besides, I think it’s already set up like that here — I get that same copyright notice/plug-in link when I’m on my iPod touch (like right now).

al: Not personally! But he’s been the 49ers offensive line coach for a few years already.

Dangling particples. Not hard to do.

D1-
I’m still feelin’ that bug too. I clicked on your name. Thanks for the warning. Red Neck. Red face. Red nipples??!! Ugh. I like the cigarrette behind the dude’s ear. 😆

Jason:
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 am

SteveM: I think that plug-in is installed by the admin of the blog, not the user. Besides, I think it’s already set up like that here — I get that same copyright notice/plug-in link when I’m on my iPod touch (like right now).

You are correct Jason — thanks. when I see “plug-in” I always think client side. Anyway, nice that the HA blog and techs are implementing the plug-in.

Back to work for me–kinda rushed today.

d1島::

September 22nd, 2008 at 10:07 am
“triple treatment”

If You
If You
Wanna Know
Wanna Know
The real deal about the thumb
Well let me tell you
about triple treatment ya’ll
We’re gonna bring you up to speed

Cause I’m a specializer, pain reviser
Ain’t selling out to Spartan-izers
What you get is what you see
And you won’t see me out there procrastinating
See I like to pass it not tuck with it
‘Cause I’m looking to throw to throw to somebody
Known for my spiel like wheelie one wheel
‘Cause this is like having a delicious meal

Hyping the crowd, well that’s a must
I got some moves that apply to us and that’s
Mesmerizing, tantalizing
Captivating, we’re devastating

If You
If You
Wanna Know
Wanna Know
The real deal about the thumb
Well let me tell you
It’s triple treatment ya’ll
We’re gonna bring you up to speed

Here’s one for the bleachers and the upper tier
Versatile like All-Temp-A-Cheer
If you wanna drink call Mr. Belvedere
Run this game like a brigadier
I got down on the one, seven and eleven
Runs on the five and thirteen
Rhymes on time and that’s the given
We’re hot on the football scene check it a check it
Slow down with I-formation, got to stop runnin’
The source of the problem is at the origin
They’ve got the defense that have got me cringin’

If You
If You
Wanna Know
Wanna Know
The real deal about the thumb
Well let me tell you
abot triple treatment ya’ll
We’re gonna bring you up to speed

Kazz-
Like, wow man.

Kazz,

The wild and roaming Warrior Poet.

Anybody at practice this morning? What’s the word on Graunkes throwing?

O.K. Tsai-Meister,

Just saw your new post on top, thanks. That worries me a little (well, a lot), hope he’s at full capacity for the game.

Is it legal to get something like a cortizone shot before the game?

w/ that said i’m still a homer so…….

UH 23-SJSU16

When Colt rolled his ankle last season, he shot it up with something just so he could play that UNLV game the next day, and he looked fine, but of course we all know how that turned out for him the next game and so forth…

It’s like the same situation here but a little different. There is no run at the BCS this season, but there is a WAC title to defend. Some people think this season is strictly a rebuilding one, but as ST mentioned in a previous blog, the future is now especially with 33 seniors.

Judging by what the inury was and how it is today, I could see him playing this Saturday but in all honestly NOT the whole game and depending on how the game goes for Graunke physically, he could be questionable IN Fresno.

DPC,

Yup, athletes are the WORST at diagnosing themselves. That is where their heart and determination tell the brain (and doctors) to ****-off.

Welcome back Farmer and Libre. You were missed.

Take care Leon. I know that you have been the victim of a few cheap shots. Get well brother the team needs you.

Jason you out there??

Bummer, I didn’t know Kanani Herring was injured. She’s going to be something else for us over the next few years.

Hey what happened to Kanani???

Get well Tehane. They need you.

Tough break for Bryce. Take care brother.

ST — when and where was the photo of Devon taken?

how could you read the name tag on her backpack? its all blurry. ok, nvm, i’ll go back to sitting here at the terminal waiting for my flight.
what did we all do before the internet?

UH 27 – SJS 9

thanx hugh— but imho this is the game that tells us whether or not they’re gonna do something significant this year. i’ll save judgment til after this game. most realists (if we were thinking with our heads not our hearts) thought we were gonna be 1-2 after the first 1/4 of games. of course, we didn’t think we’d struggle against Weber or get destroyed against OSU, but nonetheless we’re still 1-2. let’s wait before making rash opinions. 🙂

I did not like when Hugh was AD. I did not like his choice of coach before JJ arrived.

lab rat:

September 22nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I did not like when Hugh was AD. I did not like his choice of coach before JJ arrived.

😆 Yes, during those times that coach was overpaid.

Kazz,

The crazy plays are fine and dandy, but in the end it’s mano a mano in the trenches and execution. Over the course of a game, that’s what brings the win. Right now the Warriors need to execute what they know with precision and the rest will follow.

The fork in the road is in front of us, which one will the Warriors take?

Davon looks like a pro, I hope he didn’t burn himself.

The rest of the pictures look like a Hospital ward, yikes.

How is Mario??

The photo was taken Saturday night on my in-law’s driveway.

Ah, what better way to impress the in-laws than to have your progeny do a war dance with fire in their driveway?

Well I’m sure merv and Buckhead Bulldog are “out of sorts” today with the announcement that Larry Munson is retiring “effective immediately”

After 43 years as the lead voice on Georgia’s radio network, play-by-play announcer Larry Munson announced Monday that he has retired, effective immediately.

The 85-year-old Munson called No. 3 Georgia’s first two home games this season but said he will not be in the booth Saturday when the Bulldogs take on No. 8 Alabama

Got my answer, thanks..
On breaking news, Herring was on crutches because she apparently tweaked her ankle in practice this mornining. According to Shoji, she will be practicing tomorrow and making the road trip.

Good news, Hoohiki.

Thank you for the update. Dang, I’m slow with this one-finger typing. 😛

Good to hear that Mario is taking care of school. I’m glad he didn’t quit.

Washington State’s starting QB suffered a career-ending neck injury in their last game. They will now be starting a freshman at QB, the former #3 QB who did not get many practice reps. Amazing that the freshman threw for TDs in his first 2 passes on Saturday.

Gary Rogers, the Washington State quarterback taken from Saturday’s game in an ambulance, was discharged from a Pullman hospital Sunday and will begin recovery from a small fracture of the C-7 vertebra.

Rogers, a fifth-year senior, faces a three- to four-month recovery, so his college-football career appears done.

Now it could fall to the 6-3, 195-pound Lobbestael, who led Oak Harbor to the 2006 state 4A title, to lead the Cougars. He threw for touchdowns on his first two pass attempts Saturday.

Asked what Lobbestael’s strengths are, Wulff said, “We’re still finding that out. He got so few reps in the spring; Gary and Kevin got most of them, and the same thing in the fall. But you can tell he’s got a little moxie.”

Behind Lobbestael, the quarterbacks are walk-on Dan Wagner, a redshirt freshman from Portland, and J.T. Levenseller, a true freshman who enrolled in January.

Lower Manoa Valet Service?? Glad Mario is fine and well.

JJ – doesn’t the A-House family have boiled peanuts???

ST — impressive picture of Devon! He constantly surprises me.

Isn’t it hard to get up in the yellow section?

…and it’s not really worth it since there aren’t those hand-rolled delicacies up there anymore.

Doesn’t XLiz sit in the yellow section? Who sits next to her?

Hey ST, your son is looking good!

Slow day today. Did everyone go mountain hiking?

Aloha everyone,

Sorry I’ve been neglecting the WB for a while, been kinda busy, but I have been posting on Tsaikette Kelli’s page, talking about college, and whatnot… those were the days (only about 4 years ago) I’m looking forward to seeing what UH can/will do against WAC competition… I mean honestly folks, UH is exactly where the prognosticators expected us to be at this point in the season. We weren’t supposed to win at Florida, and we weren’t supposed to win @ Oregon State… (not to say I didn’t think we COULD have won at either place…) Now comes the part of the season that really matters, and I think we’ll be okay… Just gotta believe, and MAKE MEMORIES!!!

NEO out…

Referring to Garret’s # 148 post

Man, Wash. St must of really p*ssed somebody off recently.
They have had nothing but bad Voodoo against them from Spring camp and on.

.( sing it) ..Oh that Voodoo that you do….

By the time they reach Honolulu, it could be an insignificant game. :<

stretch is mr. johnson on your email list?

Happy 22nd Birthday to “the Farm Dog”, David Farmer.
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BTW, I didn’t realize it til now but RGM was born on Sept 12th and Davone on Sept 13th.. Just something for your next trivial pursuit game..

Maverick,

Dwight Lowery has moved on from SJSU

and now he’s doing it for the J-E-T-S.

Visiting Lake Tahoe over the winter, I saw a guy with a hot dog stand right at the base of the ski lift.
Putting the steaming weiners inside a waffle cone. Selling it for $9.00 each.
Was killing it everyday.
My point.
Something a miss with a dog in a waffle cone. Any hard core East coaster would of slapped him silly.

Do most NFL/College teams line up 15 yds off the ball on KOR?

d1 – I didn’t know they played in Korea.

midori7,
All pancakes look good to you!

d1 – What for need watch the yellow? Get plenty action in the blue section.

A-House – Hmmmm, how many former UH athletes won Olympic medals? If I won an Olympic medal I wouldn’t keep it at UH. But that’s just me.

Let’s see, Bown, Willoughby, Ah-Mow Santos, Stanley, Kai…okay, that’s all I can think of. Was there any international players that won medals and attended UH at some time or another.

Just got a call from Wassup – the UH has filed a Motion to Dismiss the Objection to the Ching/Cooke field turf contract filed by Ching on the basis that he filed it too late. That Motion will be heard on Thursday and if the Motion is not granted, the hearing will be on Friday. By law, objections have to be filed timely and it would appear that the objection was filed late.

I understand some of our more outspoken Tsaikos have been e-mailing the Hearings Officer or the Department – DON’T DO IT. It is totally improper and all it can do is cause the Hearings Officer or the Department to get all huhu.

That’s why I was wondering about the way they line-up, here, in SD or in Korea

Lowery plays on Sundays and Mondays?

go bolts– let da ed hochuli karma carry you on to a looong winning streak from this point forward 🙂

homey…that’s cold man??

Stretch – Boiled nuts in the yellow section?

d1 – What? No more hand rolls up in the yellow section any more??

d1 – I thought Steve M scanned the yellow section??

Well maybe Mouton would have a little trouble covering Gates, too.

lab rat: Then you should ask it. Or e-mail me, jnagaoka (at) hawaii.rr.com.

I saw CoachKen’s post. He always has good stuff, and he’s a nice guy.

Aloha Tsaiko friends!

I really liked Duffer’s post yesterday about going to the UNLV game next year. He sharpened the focus and helped eliminate some of the confusion. I agree that what we need to do right now is decide “Would I like to go or not?”. Not “Am I going?”. We just need an indication for planning purposes. The game is way too far in the future to ask for definite confirmations.

Duffer was right there as I spoke to Tom about the game next year. I was spouting off about wanting to have our own jet charter to the game…and doing the ha’a…and flash cards. I’m a firm believer in dreaming big, sharpening the focus, and then making it happen. And I’m not alone. I’ve met so many Tsaiko’s who dream big and make it happen.

Since the Weber game, my thinking has evolved to:

1. Personally, I would like to stay away from asking Rich or LV to procure tickets. Based on this past year, the Sugar Bowl, T-gates, etc., I would think that we’re going to need 2-300 tix for Tsaikos, friends, relatives, and lurkers. That’s a lot to ask a person to front on his credit card. Last year, Rick took the time to fly to Vegas, go to the ticket office, and purchase the tix. He then had to mail a lot of them out to folks…and then process checks and thank-you’s. That was an INCREDIBLE amount of work! I wouldn’t want to reward him by asking him to do 2-3 times the work this year. He needs to spend his time taking care of Margo.

2. I would be a huge advocate for staying at the same hotel and having events together. Some folks will have reasons for staying elsewhere, and that’s fine. And some people will be going to the Wazzu game the previous week. But, past experience tells us that there’s no bigger or better place to be than where Tsaiko’s congregate…so let’s make that our destination.

3. By leveraging our collective group, we can do things we couldn’t dream of doing other-wise. Remember that we got BrianK his iTouch, bracelets for the softball team, JUG machines fixed for the Warriors, assistance for Rainbow Cliff, and more. There’s no reason that we can’t get the best deal(s) possible if we stick together. If we have the best bang for the buck, who wouldn’t want to be on our plane to Vegas? It would be an opportunity to invite the other boards to join us. Can you imagine a 5 hr flight with sports fans?!! We can practice the Ha’a. Or learn cheers. How about the Tsaiko All-Star Band doing some entertaining? Auntie, Uncle, and grandma/grandpa would go Tsaikotic!

4. All of the above are reasons we should work through the Boyd Group. They give us a one point contact with the clout to make things happen. I can’t emphasize how important that is. Any changes (they’ll be many) and we just pick up the phone and talk to one person. They’ve already said that they’ll offer a game package (tailgate, trans, tix), hotel package, and air package. People can pick one, two, or all three. The more people we bring in under the Tsaiko banner, the more perks we’ll have…everyone understands that.

5. One thing I would ask the Boyd Group. Please make our charter with Hawaiian and not Omni or anyone else.

http://dcist.com/2008/09/22/week_3_recap_zornholed_cards_get_it.php

“(Side note: we did see Colt Brennan and Matt Leinart watching the Cowboys-Packers game at Mr. Smith’s in Georgetown last night.)”

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Devon “Fireman” Tsai! WooHOO!!!
hiho

http://www.honoluluzoo.org/black_rhinoceros.htm

http://www.honoluluzoo.org/white_rhinoceros.htm

The Honolulu Zoo needs bigger bears. Those tiny sun bears are just not as exciting.

ST,

You should see the bears at the Zoo, AhSoon could easily pancake one of those into submission.

ltuh…..my stomach will think of you guys on wednesday.

OMG! That’s a lot of “broken” people. I hope they get better soon. I guess some people get hurt from sports and then there’s me who falls down the stairs instead.

evening tsai-ko’s just a reminder of the up and coming tgate events.

We have been planning the away UH games and coordinating places to enjoy the tgates, view the games and still be one beeeeg happy family. This is what has been confirmed so far.

October 4 Saturday @ 4pm UH vs Fresno State. Murphy’s is the site. There will be seating for 35. Fuud will be ala carte from the menu. If you planning to come please sign up. There might be a buffet but not definite yet. Murphy can accommodate an overflow but probably will be seating away from the main group. So let me know ASAP.

November 1 Saturday @ 9am UH vs Utah State. We are working it out and more info will be forth coming.

November 8 Saturday @ 11 UH vs New Mexico State. This will be at Bay View Golf Course restaurant. Currently working with the manager on a buffet deal but only a ala carte menu so far. There will be pictures of the place and a menu to be posted latter.

We wanted to spread the action to various parts of Oahu so it will be fair to everyone. Mahalo for helping goes out to jerry, kekoa, james, Rob25, midori and steveM for their input. Much more updated info will be coming out as these game get closer.

If your wondering about why there is no mention of the Boise State game on October 17 its because the game is on a friday at 2 in the afternoon. We felt it would be to hard to reserve a place because not sure who could get there before the game started.

Thanks

Camellia McCully?

Monday Night Football

I worry about those “JEST” fans, they don’t know how to spell.

Stretch – too many beers and its “Go Jest.”

6 P’s = Precision Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance

TChahng

DVD on the way!

Remember that last year fans had the option of booking through ATA and Aloha Airlines. Hawaiian is currently the only airline that provides non stop service. Vacations-Hawaii/OMNI goes nonstop but they only provide charter service. I would suggest booking the air or package early whatever route you take, the price will only go up. Also, OMNI planes are 757-200’s not the large DC-10’s they used last year for the week of the UNLV game. There will not be as many seats to purchase and many of the seats are blocked already for high rollers that live in Hawaii.

lab rat: IDK, mine is with WEP. I had trouble getting it to work at first, but it clicked eventually. It can be a pain to setup, but I don’t remember how I did it. Sorry, I’m not much of an expert when it comes to Wi-Fi, considering I got it only a couple months ago, and I haven’t had to deal with it since the initial setup.

koakane: Count me in for Murphy’s, but not for the NMSU game. I will be at McKinley High School that day for a math meet, then I’ll probably run to some place nearby after I’m pau. Literally run, cause of the 11 AM kickoff. 😛

Free play link time. Please ignore my next batch of posts if you do not want the off-topic stuff. Since I don’t know when I’ll get to post much more after this, I might post more than 5 free play links…

Has a 12-year-old come up with the key for widespread use of solar energy?

China is REALLY ramping up its space program! They are about to do a space walk in preparation for the building of their space station.

Apple recalled the 3G iPhone charger.

Free play links pau.

I reside in LV but Im in Honolulu. A relative is a so called “high roller” He passed along the info. Supposedly those “special” Boyd guests were given this information over the weekend. He was told that Boyd Gaming “would try” to secure sideline seats for their customers but UNLV’s visiting team allotment is traditionally in the endzone.

Jason and lab rat — your iTouch supports WPA and WPA2 as indicated in the following Apple doc:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398

My base station at home is set for WPA now and my iTouch connected with the password. I had used WEP since 2001 but the latest recommendations is to migrate to WPA at minimum.

I happened upon a very interesting article in the SF Chronicle. I don’t know if anyone has posted information on this before but this is the kind of thing that could revolutionize training. Imagine Blaze with one of these things. The *lab assistant* went from a little over 100 pullups to more than 600 in six weeks.

On the other hand there certainly doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it has improved the Stanford football team…

Okay, WPA is set up. Thanks again, SteveM.

stephen,
thanks for the clarification.

its cold here. i should go to sleep.

chawan practice, practice, practice=me drink, drink, drink 😮 naaaaaaaaaa I was lucky but mahalo for the lessons.

BG good idea for Boyd Group to handle the whole thing, do we have a contact at Boyd yet?

pomai…..we have already initiated contact with boyd gaming back in july. just awaiting air rates. will have several packages and sideline seats

stay tuned.

Good chilly morning everyone!

It is the first full day of Fall and the temperature sure shows it — it is 36 right now. But it will warm up today to right around a nice 68. Still T-shirt and short weather this afternoon. Yeah.

Geez. What is going on with all the injuries at the UH? Looks like an out-patient clinic.

Actually, you did not have to look in the Yellow Section during UH games. Outside the stadium, by the North Tunnel, was also a hot spot as evidenced by the discarded products on the tunnel road.

I used to tell the bus drivers for the high school buses to close their windows or they would have to clean up before the teams came back.

Good Morning Tsaiko Family!!!

Happy Tuesday!

One day closer to SATURDAY!!!

Morning, Tsaiko-Nation and Tsai-Meister.

Just found out that ESPN has added UH-SanJose to their gameplan !!

Great news for us Mainlanders, wohoo !!!!

Have a great day everybody.

I wen try but da muu muu lady no like play no mo

ok back to the skebe web pages
Aloha

wafan,
actually both, so i’m staying in between.

You know why USC is so good? They follow this simple philosophy instilled by their coach and mentioned in a recent article.

“When you are consumed by the possibility of failing, you are not competing”.

Richfrom OC,

USC is so good because they have four star players as third and fouth stringers.

Tom Mui, WassupDoc,

Tom, you may be right about the motion being filed too late, but I not sure if your conclusion is right because – can’t the hearing officer decide for herself to dismiss the petition because it was filed too late, without getting to the merits. and to save all of us the further grief, in case Ching Nursery not thinking too well, can’t she also make a ruling that UH is correct on the merits anyway?

Does Vince have a lawyer? I called them yesterday at 5 pm but there was no answer, no message machine, nothing. will try again this morning, and if he get one lawyer, go explain to his lawyer what I’m thinking an wat going happen wit anymore delays in fixing da field.

I dunno wat to tink about dis kine slo student.

Shir- welcome to the blog!

Coach Ken,

I hope you go talk face to face with the coaches. I respect your opinions.

gotta go so hi ho hi ho.

esme woooossshhhhhhh!!

This NY Times article questions how so many others were mentioned during the Yankee celebration ceremony but Joe Torre and Roger Clemens were not.

You have to wonder about those internal meetings, at which the Yankees’ brass discussed how to handle Torre and Roger Clemens. Torre did nothing to deserve being omitted from the ceremony, and Clemens is in the midst of a scandal, despite never being announced as testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Orlando Hernández, John Wetteland and Jesse Barfield (!?!) were mentioned, and Clemens should have been. The sight of the phony Stengel, Joe McCarthy and Miller Huggins marching on to the field was reason alone to cite Torre, even if the flesh-and-blood St. Joe was at work across the country. And with an old gent who looked exactly like Ralph Houk in the Yankees’ dugout Sunday night, he and Yogi Berra (but not the Stadium worker/skippers) could have made up a managerial category.

USC’s Carroll’s pitch to recruits, “You will play and start for us now.”
He says he doesn’t recruit to build, he recruits players that can make an impact as soon as he gets on the field. The mentality isn’t red shirt here, grayshirt there, and then by junior and senior year they’ll be ready. The recruits have to be at their peak already.

BHF2 –

can’t the hearing officer decide for herself to dismiss the petition because it was filed too late, without getting to the merits.

That is what the hearings officer should do when he/she decides on Thursday.

Of course the hearings officer could also say something about the merits of the case but it is safer just to rule on the procedural rather than the merits.
You might open yourself up if you comment on the merits.

Did you get my e-mail sent through Susan?

morning tsai-ko nation

got some morning blessing this morning. going be a good day so have a most excellent one and no forget play nice together now.

one cup of kope and I gone…..esme whoooooooooooooosh

UGA busting da black jerseys for this week against bama. lucky they playing a nite game. better not sleep on saban. he’ll find a way to shut down knowshon and force stafford to beat em but maybe they found a WR stud in AJ green. gotta love college football when its in full swing, everyweek a great game awaits.

what’s gonna happen if ‘sc, oklahoma (or mizzou), and uga(or fla or bama or lsu) all go undefeated. nightmares for da bcs. also don’t wanna see if happen, but what happens if boise and utah/byu go undefeated and are both in the top 12?? kinda woulda wanted to see what would’ve happened if east carolina was in there too. would’ve been very interesting.

Greetings and Blessings Warrior Nation! 🙂

Kind of off topic, but I’m reading the news about the state budget’s projected deficit of $900 million. I have to wonder, what is this going to do to repair and new construction plans not only at UH but in all state programs? It doesn’t seem to bode well for the UH athletic department’s plans to refurbish and upgrade some of it’s facilities.

What does everybody else think?

BTW Kudos to our in house legal counsels BHF2 and Tom Mui as well as Wassup Doc for their great work regarding the Ching/Cooke field repair snafu. Mahalo guys!

Pride-

Not to mention that Tomey has yet to beat UH since he took over at SJSU. The Warriors need to have a complete game in every phase to keep that going. It’s like you said last week and the week before; 100% effort by 100% of the team. We haven’t seen that yet this season. If we do see that each week, I honestly think we could run the table from here on out.

SJSU don’t play well on da rock, kinda like la tech and nevada. we’ll see. still remember yonus davis coming w/ big pub in ’06 and getting absolutely shut down though that was w/ IAF and Mel Purcell. they had a tough rivalry game last week that was close throughout then have to travel 2500 miles across da water. we’ll see how fast they’ll be able to put stanford behind them and concentrate on da task at hand. didn’t know they had such a prolific and accurate qb so that’s kinda scary. da haole boy receiver that made a mockery of our secondary last year is not playing this week so we get a reprieve with that one. d needs to step up big time, let’s start having their produciton meet their preseason accolades. 🙂

My only thoughts this week is to beat San Jose State. Nothing beyond that. Concentrate this week and this week only.

Do it right.

Do it 100%.

UKU@LA!

Ho! Long time no hea from you. I gotta give you a shout out from all the braddahz on the Big Island who miss you.

I no mo food kine but, here’s a little small kine Hui Ohana recipe to curb your appetite for the islands-

Enjoy.

Kona Moon.
Shining so bright
Smiling at you
Right out of the sky

Heard you whispering
Wonderful words of love
Promising that we’ll never part

Kona Moon
She knows it all
So why deny
Your kiss is soo sweet.

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Heard you whispering
Wonderful words of love
Promising that we’ll never part

Kona Moon she knows it all
So why deny
Your kiss is soo sweet

So why deny
Your kiss is soo sweet

Koakane ~ Now showing my Spirit & Support…try look outside yo’ window!

Hehehe…made you look!

Pride (.) played for Coach Tomey and knows he will bring it full on to the Warriors. After watching so many games with Tomey as UH’s head coach …and I know it’s just business as usual… (from the time he brought his Arizona Wildcats to Aloha Stadium with Duane Akina and Bob Wagner as his assitants) I still find it hard to see that guy on the opposite sideline…

Go Warriors!

mornin tsaikos,

what a weekend. im so ready for the san jose game. i really hope we win.

but anyway, who here thinks boise makes it to another bcs?

let’s go warriors,eh!
eh! brada A-JOE, that was lovely! give my aloha to everybody back dea!
da, opelu,u’u n orange-eye kole should be happening yet dis time of da year! miss all dat!
much aloha to everyone!

MANEO !!!