Ane seems to have a good demeanor and carries himself well, but HS athletics is a far bigger and far different animal than Collegiate athletics. Plus there’s the ever present issue of a candidate wanting to work under this UH leadership.

He knows football, he has played in the NFL, personable, also teaches, can really open wide the pipeline to the Punahou players, well connected with the community and by other high school coaches (remember that article about Ane’s relationship with the Mililani Head Coach)?

And he is well connected with the so-called Punahou Mafia! 🙂

We have a coach with an 8-29 record. I guess different strokes for different folks.

Duke Coach Dave Cutcliffe declined Michgan’s offer to become head coach.

Read that again and remind yourself that this is for the head coach job for football (not basketball).

I support the UH teams PERIOD.

My suggestion for next AD is…. drum roll… Jim Livengood.

Livengood is vastly experienced and has proven to be an excellent fundraiser everywhere he’s been at, even at UNLV. Regarding his most recent AD job at UNLV, he was unceremoniously forced to “retire” by then-UNLV President Neal Smatresk. There was a big rift between Livengood and Smatresk that was pretty public. According to UNLV alumni, they mostly thought Livengood was doing a good job (except for football). Smatresk has since ditched UNLV to be president at North Texas, which is not an upgrade.

What Livengood did accomplish at UNLV was pretty good for his fairly short time there. He coordinated funding and was able to get The Mendenhall Center (a top notch $13 million basketball facilities) completed in 2012.

Going back further, he had a long reign at Univ. of Arizona where he helped them to very good success. Earlier, he was at Washington St, where he was also very well liked and did a great job fundraising while there as well as trailblazing gender equality programs.

Of course the biggest questions would be if he’s interested (he’s turned down several offers from various schools), and would he be willing to subject himself to a university is clearly dysfunctional from the top.

Here is Livengood’s Bio from UNLV: http://www.unlvrebels.com/genrel/livengood_jim00.html

He’s available, he’s qualified, he’s still accepting phone calls. UH has 6 months to convince him to come.

“Schools with skilled administrators may attract donations, applicants, and coaching talent (selection bias), and surges in donations or applications may have a direct impact on athletic success (reverse causality).”

This is from, “The Benefits of College Athletic Success: An Application of the Propensity Score Design with Instrumental Variables” by Michael Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. This study can be found at:

http://are.berkeley.edu/~mlanderson/pdf/Anderson%20College%20Sports.pdf

Sigh. I hate waste. Thanks for trying, Mr. Ben Jay.

Rainbows, Warriors, or Rainbow Warriors, I will continue to call them Warriors or Wahine. I’m more of a Warrior name fan than Rainbows but it doesn’t mean I won’t support the team even if the nickname were Tigers, Antelopes, or even Brussels Sprouts.

Anyways..Have a nice hump day, everyone! 😀