Linebacker recruit makes easy adjustment

siaki cravens could have his whole family here soon. besides his sister who comes on as a wbb recruit, mack and co. are hoping kid brother sua cravens will make it “three’s company” in 2012.

top 10!

cheepono out.

Welcome to Cravens! What’s up Warriors?
With each of these updates, we get closer and closer to Da Season!!!

#3… al… Thanks for the vid link.
Out of nearly 10 minutes of highlight footage, he broke maybe 2 or 3 tackles. Not good. He hits the hole fast, but he has no break away speed. He shows sings of decent vision, making a couple of cutbacks here and there, but am I missing anything else?
If anything, this video shows how good a running back CAN be if they have a good line that plays disciplined, assignment run-blocking.
I’m not sold yet. Maybe, while talking with him, the coaches feel he has the tools and just needs to get stronger? I don’t know. We’ll see…

Once they wrap him up, he usually goes down unless he’s fighting for a td or 1st down. But he definitely hits the hole quick and runs by people.

Great Morning All!

Welcome Siaki Cravens.

Hope erryboddy has a terrific day…

HiHo!

It’s great to have offensive lineman Clayton Laurel available.

Like ST says – gives flexibility to th O-line.

I like when Stephen does bios. Welcome Mr. Cravens. I wonder where you will fit in:

http://cfn.scout.com/2/982976.html

STUB 42 Paipai Falemalu 6-3 230 So
24 Aaron Brown 6-1 205 Jr

MAC 55 George Daily-Lyles 5-11 230 Fr
50 Mana Lolotai 6-0 230 Jr

BUCK 41 Corey Paredes 5-11 235 Jr
40 Po‘okela Ahmad 6-1 200 Sr

Top Twenty-Five!

Good Morning Tsaikos! Hope everyone has a good day

Good morning to everyone!

Glad to see Siaki working out with his brethren this summer. Hope he bulks up a it. Kind of skinny. Like al said, could possibly have the three Cravens out playing for the WARRIORS. Go get’em Coach Mack and Co.

See you guys in Miami.

Pomai and Kazz–

I’ll send the donation to the softball team’s bracelet when I am settled in. Let me know where and how to send it. Sorry, it took so long.

Kekoa–

Will have to take a raincheck on the bash. See above statement. Thanks for the invite, though!

MW,
I don’t think you were far off on your intial assessment. Definitely no breakaway or top-end speed in the backfield. However, he seems to have good vision, as you stated, and might be good for those third-and-short situations. Hard to gauge how well he would do against a D-I defense tho. Also, have to consider our O-line as they dictate how well a RB performs.

BleedGreen808 Where you stay? Hold on to your donation for a littlo bit, I goin send you one email. Oh wait I no more your email addy, so go send one email to me at pomai at tsai-kos.com

Reading the Notre Dame story were 43 were arrested for drinking, including Nate Montana and 7 other football players. I notice a Robert Toma freshman receiver was also listed as being arrested with this group. Is this the former Punahou football player?

I would give Jackson’s oline a look. Especially that 6’5″ 330 lb left guard (65) or maybe Jack McNight 6’4″ 280 lb (72).

Among those arrested are eight Notre Dame football players, including Nate Montana, a backup quarterback; Lorenzo Wood, a cornerback and incoming freshman; Chris Watt, a sophomore offensive guard; Robert Toma, an incoming freshman wide receiver; Nicholas Tausch, a sophomore kicker; Tai-ler Jones, an incoming freshman wide receiver from Gainesville, Ga.; Steven Filer, a junior outside linebacker; and Tate Nichols, an incoming freshman.

I would think those arrested for underage drinking will be facing a game suspension. The question is how many games.

Kekoa, yesterday’s blog. I don’t think they have plate lunch. Only coffee and butts errr…… bits.

Several individuals have publically bemoaned the passage of the $50 athletic fee and their undying message is the “non-use” or “forcing down our throat” position.

I live on the windward side and pay my fair share of the transit tax, a system I will probably never use in my entire life. Is this fair? Do I quable about it?

They also failed to mention the “other” fees assessed to all students that represents $235 of the $285 semester fees. Do these fees benefit all students? Do all students use the Campus Center facilities?

When we go the JC route, players like Sterling Jackson are exactly the kind guys we want. 3 to play 2 means he took his academics seriously and good size 6’1″ 225lbs means he may be able to play different positions. Mack has upped the level of recruits we are getting. Say bye to the 5’4″ 160lbs recruit.

unfortunately he’s a senior this year

oops #47 a=as

I think one of the reasons why it seems Kaepernick has been around for ages is because he started since he was a freshman.

Speaking of Nevada, anyone know what happened to Jared Silva-Purcell who was kicked off the team for being arrested for resisting arrest and public intoxication last year? He sort of disappeared of the map.

Tsai’s Size? 😕

Good morning Tsaikos. ST he one sharp cookie and i am impressed that coach Mc and his staff are recruiting much more selectively and with purpose. In their 2011 recruiting, they are going after “big time” recruits and this is something UH has not done in the past. They are willing to challenge “Bull S” schools for players. Go gettum Mac!!!!!!

#50… ST… Interesting way to tie the rainbow to the team!

I am ready for football!

I want to win a championship!

I want to hit the lottery!

(Well, “two out of three ain’t bad!”)

d1, is there something you wanted to add in #63 and 64????? hahahahaa

Carried over from yesterday’s blog:

madeinhawaii:
July 16th, 2010 at 7:35 pm

chawan-cut..

Too bad we can’t have the Pearl City High School or Kamehameha High School Marching Band play next to them, eh? Let them lose face to a couple of high school bands on National TV… hee hee..

I’m more interested in the SC band getting shown up by the UH Marching Band.

Even more interested in SC getting slammed on the field as well.

Whitey I don’t think we have any 2011 recruits, all those mentioned above will enroll for the 2010 season. Anything to report on Maui fb players that are under Mac’s radar?

a gloomy morning tsaiko country, wishing the day turns better, more breeze some sun ahhhh now thats more like it. 8) sun breaking thru the hali’i.

you can already see the changes, more players staying at uh for the summer, huge turnouts for training sessions, player sacrifices, etc.

whitey,

Have a great trip!

re: #63 and #64
What can you say?

have fun tsaikos. got to do sum work and shopping. see you!!!!!

according to the salas’ (i asked last year at one of the tailgaters) greg runs a 4.5+.

not sure if “da bull” jackson runs a 4.38 but he looks fast.

Kazz check your email

MIH,
Out of curiosity, where did you find that stat about Jackson running a 4.38-40? The SA reported Jackson ran the 100m in 10.7 seconds, but I would think its difficult to extrapolate a 40 time from that stat. Only report I read about having a quick run time close to that was Allan Sampson. Please correct me if i’m wrong. 🙂

MIH,
Thanks…will look again. 😉

RE: Stan Sheriff

Hilo Moon,

Stan was AD at Northern Iowa and was instrumental in building its on-campus arena.

When Stan was AD at UH and the battle for the now Stan Sheriff Center was raging, Stan was so angry that the powers-that-be wanted 5,000-6,000 seats. He said Northern Iowa had a 7,000+ arena with I think little over 10,000 students and located in a “small” city. And why build such a small arena when Blaisdell seats almost 9,000. He was livid that people here were “small-minded.”

Good thing Stan thought and delivered big and won the battle with 10,000+ seats. The lessons he learned at Northern Iowa and its arena building serves all of us UH fans and the community well.

Stan was a great AD and even better human being. Stan was The Man!

y’all remember the marvelous one who came this close to being the quarterback in manoa….

http://msn.foxsports.com/video/college-football?vid=0f1b4a06-a524-4e21-b11c-881d28397bf6&from=foxsports/college-football/stories

MIH,
Try looking at Sampson’s (4.39) game video and compare it to Jackson’s (4.38).

Sampson’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsYkN1KeHDY
Jackson’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4m_XtWhE4

Almost night and day. The breakaway speed is the difference.

Welcome Warrior Cravens!!!

#94… Shoko… Holy smokes!!! Night and day is right! Sampson’s video is like man against boys. Now that there is some might fine speed!

Shoko,

Sampson looks more like the kind of back we’ve become accustomed to while Jackson reminds me of Jason Rivers with those long, seemingly effortless loping strides.

Shucks, #94 not #95.

Making ‘kabobs for dinner. Last time I grilled it was a scorching low 70’s with clear blue skies in WA. Uhhh, today it sure looks more like a regular cloudy and wet WA day except it is a lot warmer.

#102 Mr, Tsai: I UNDERSTAND as that was my FIRST time EVER seeing that kind of hatred on this blog and I took it PERSONALLY being PROUD of that culture as other cultures I am affiliated with !

Sorry for my REACTION !

I just read Dave Reardon’s opinion piece and have to admit that I don’t get where it is he’s coming from. As a sports writer/columnist, he should know better.

Mahalo to Slugger for posting the Capital Improvements Budget allocations for the coming year in a neat Excel format. However, that is by no means the end of the road for sports fan such as thee & me for speaking up & getting the projects started & finished.

Funding all public projects at any level of government takes a very long period of time to bring in the first piece of equipment. For example, take the ARRA stimulus bill passed in early 2008 which was deliberately designed to be expedited and moved along quickly – a caffeine-stoked bill, so to speak, to be used for “shovel-ready projects.” That money did not start trickling through our Hawai`i economy until more than a year had passed after the President signed the bill.

Here is how state government projects are built. I know that some of you would like to skip some steps and combine others – and yes, I get frustrated as well – but the amount of money and the impacts on all of us require a high level of caution while moving through the planning, design and construction process.

There are similar processes for federal and city projects, but for now let’s just focus on state CIP funding.

1. Come up with the idea for a project. Do research on the need for it, estimated ballpark costs, etc. Identify the key legislators in both the State House & State Senate to get on your side. Get the project included in the total package being requested by your department (Transportation, DOE, UH, Health, etc.) and then by Governor.

2. Advocate for the project at the Legislature. Get the project included into the CIP Budget and passed. The average length of time a project can take to get to this level is about seven years although one I’ve been working on first went to the Legislature in 1973 and is still not funded. No, I wasn’t involved at the time, but I know its history.

3. Get the Governor to sign the budget bill which has both the Operating and the CIP budgets in it. Da Gov does not have a line-item veto so it’s all or nothing; however, even a conservative governor like Lingle would never veto a budget bill.

NOTE: Capital projects introduced by legislators at the request of their constituents are folded into the CIP budget if they were not submitted in the departmental budgets.

4 NOW HERE’S THE HARD PART: Get the Governor to release the funds to the relevant state department. That’s where we advocates have to come back into the process. Because there’s no line-item veto allowed, this is how the state’s Chief Executive Officer can stop a project dead. If the funding is not released within two years, the process has to start all over again.

5 Once the funding is released, then the administrators in the department start the planning process. Sometimes, especially in departments such as transportation, it’s done in-house while in others where the focus is on services and not building stuff such as health or social services, the planning is out-sourced. Doing that adds about six months to the next step.

At the same time, Budget & Finance starts the process to generate funding. This is a very complex series of steps requiring working with the Attorney General’s office and even with financial experts on contract with B&F.

The planning process can take as long as ten years – especially if involves buying new land to building something or getting changes in land use laws.

6 After the planning is complete, it then has to be approved by various administrative bodies such as the Board of Education, the Board of Regents, the Stadium Authority as well as key staffers.

7 The next step is designing the project – sometimes done in-house, sometimes out-sourced. No one firm can be given the contract for all three phases; however, usually, the same firm is given the design & construction contact as a package. But it doesn’t have to be.

This part of the project can take up to two years even if there are no problems with community groups or City Councilmembers raising objects.

8 Once the design is approved, then the project goes to the department’s office which oversees the physical infrastructure. That staff works with Budget & Finance to get the major funding ready to be released. Requests For Bids are drafted, approved and issued..

The bids come in, are evaluated, and awarded. There is an additional period of time to challenge then which could add up to another year before it can be called shovel-ready.

Remember the challenge to the Ching Field turf replacement project? Minor as it was, it still added almost three months to the project. It was supposed to have been finished by August, 2008 but it wasn’t completed until some time in November.

9 It’s only at this point that the selected contractor can start doing the nuts & bolts of getting the project ready-2-go such as getting required permits, ordering materials, and hiring construction staff & specialty subcontractors. It’s also important that the contractor stay in touch with the larger community which will be impacted by the project as well.

10 Once all the permits have been issued, the first round of materials have arrived, the equipment tuned up, and the workers hired, then the project begins. Sometimes with huge projects, the Big Muckamuckas come to the site for a ceremonial “first shovel of dirt.”

11 Once the construction starts, then it will take as long as it takes to build the building or arena or whatever. Usually, about a year before the project is expected to be completed, departmental staff start looking at the purchase of STUFF which will part of the building when it is finished – furniture, computers, stoves, etc.

12 Assuming that there are no natural disasters or bad weather cycles like the 42 days of rain back in early 2006, the project goes through an inspection process, and, if approved, the contractor turns over the figurative keys to the department head, clears out his STUFF, and the building or the roadway or the sewer system is ready to start being used.

Sometimes, there is a breakdown in the system that really screws things up – usually because the state office overseeing the project doesn’t work closely with the contractor. Remember the original Wahine softball stadium – no one, including the coaching staff, the Athletic Department administration, or the Manoa administration realized until the very end of the construction project that the field was not visible from the grandstand.

In sum, public construction contracts are complex and time-consuming. A private project such as a condo building can move much, much faster, but it still has to go through the same general process.

Hope this answers some of the questions raised about state capital projects, especially those on campus.

CHANGE OF SUBJECT: Someone in yesterday’s blog suggested raising the sales tax to generate more revenues. Hawai`i does not have a SALES on goods and services. The majority of its tax revenues come from the GENERAL EXCISE TAX on goods & services ranging form .05% to 4.5% depending up the transaction and where it is physically collected. The GET is assessed on all goods & services at all levels although some businesses and non-profits are exempt or pay a much lower rate than others. Again, this is a very complex system. If I recall correctly, it would take a sales tax rate of over 10% at the retail level to general the same amount of money that the GET tax does now.

The numbering system does help to pin-point comments. But, if ST deletes spam, it throws off all comments.

W-Doc . . .

Thanks for the info. Same process as what we experience in WA.

Wafan,

At this moment, I would love to smell your kabobs being grilled instead of the fish cooking next door!!!

Re: #110, Capitol -ist/WassupDoc:

I heard Dave Reardon on 1420 AM explaining why he felt the activity fee was wrong and he said something to the effect of “well, if my anti-fee position means the end of UH sports, then so be it. I’m a JOURNALIST, not just a sports writer and I’ll find another job.” I could be wrong, but that’s what I heard. Anyone else hear what he said?

DR also went on about how students today are different and “struggling to make ends meet”. Gee, it was like that with me when I went to UHM. Didn’t have my parents to pay for my tuition and had to work full-time, sometimes with a second job, in addition to taking 12 credits. I still supported UH sports all the way and attended games when I could and so did many of my peers.

ST.

Did you hear anything about Sterling Jackson’s teammate, Darryl McBride?

LINK: http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36442

Interesting… Good height for a strong safety and/or corner. Good speed too. Hope it pans out.

Darryl McBride…
Mendocino Junior College Transfer May 2010
University of Hawaii 6’3 200 40; 4.45 Vert 37 inch
Committ To UH Warriors

Mike

47 days…. 7 weeks and it will be over. You can almost smell the pigskin in the air…

MIH,

It all depends on the QB and which one Mack chooses to lead the offense. Can’t wait to find out!

ST:

Is it true about Darryl McBride committing to UH? You goin post something on this?

Good size and speed for a DB!!!

correction – it’s Royal Palace; not Garden.

OK, gigi, it will be good to see you again!

As a matter of principle, I agree with Reardon– on a principled basis, I cannot justify a fee right now when there are so many other more important needs more central to the purpose of a university.

But I am a pragmatist. A student fee is the last thing I would do to start repaying the deficit and getting the UH athletic department back to a balanced budget, but we really are down to the last thing with expected revenues from ticket sales having declined (per Donovan to the REgents).

Mack and Donovan now need to deliver and attract students to those free seats and raise revenues from ticket sales, PPV sales, donations, and other projects so we can actually move the department ahead.

Don’t forget – salaries are lower in Hawaii than on the mainland.

We have a crisis in my family right now. Hubby’s salary was cut in half and he now makes less than our daughter who is a high school teacher.

How will he support his younger daughter at UH? She works 24 hours during the weekend. Takes science classes with labs that last all day, then she has to volunteer at Queens in the Physical Therapy Dept., which is a requirement for admission to PT grad school.

Where is the time to study?

She could take fewer credits, but grad schools require that the science classes be taken with 5 years of admission to grad school. If more than 5 years elapse, she will have to re-take the classes.

I am so grateful that she does not have to pay $18K-$25K for tuition right now.

USC during spring drills concentrated heavily on “stipping the ball”
away forcing fumbles. So UH running backs, receivers and quarterback(s) should all carry footballs with them 24/7. Sleep with them. Eat with them. Kiss them and love them. Go Warriors!

UHWarrior23 from the SportsHawaii Forum posted this as the three-deep lineup for our Warriors… what do you guys think?

QB: Bryant Moniz, Brent Rausch, David Graves
RB: Alex Green, Chizzy Dimude, John Lister
LWR: Rodney Bradley, Darius Bright, Joe Avery
LSB: Greg Salas, Ryan Henry, Miah Ostrowski
RSB: Kealoha Pilares, Dustin Blount, Bubba Luna
RWR: Royce Pollard, Billy-Ray Stutzmann, Mike Tinoco
OT: Austin Hansen, Kainoa LaCount, Clayton Laurel
OG: Brent Leonard, Tuita Tuiasosopo, Levi Lega
C: Bronson Tiwanak, London Sapolu, Sila Lefiti (injured)
OG: Brysen Ginlack, Drew Uperesa, Andew Faaumu
OT: Laupepa Letuli, Chauncey Winchester-Makainai, Adrian Thomas

Defense:
DE: Elliot Purcell, Alasi Toilolo, Earvin Sione
DT: Vaughn Meatoga, Zach Masch, Josh Manupuna
DT: Kaniela Tuipulotu, Haku Correa, Geordon Hanohano
DE: Kamalu Umu, Liko Satele, Waylon Lolotai
OLB: Aaron Brown, Po’okela Ahmad, Aulola Tonga
MLB: Jake Heun, George Daily-Lyles, Corey Daniel
OLB: Paipai Falemalu, Corey Paredes, Alema Tachibana
CB: Lametrius Davis, Lewis Walker, Stephen Christian, Tank Hopkins (Redshirting)
SS: Spencer Smith, Steve Stepter, Jordan Gomes
FS: Mana Sliva, Richard Torres, Kenny Estes
CB: Jeremy Bryant, Kawika Ornellas, Dee Maggitt

Special Teams:
K: Scott Enos, Tyler Hadden, Kyle Niiro
P: Alex Dunnachie
LS: Luke Ingram
PR: Ryan Henry, Dustin Blount, Alan Sampson
KR: Royce Pollard, Allen Sampson, Kealoha Pilares

madeinhawaii: No Shane Austen?

I wonder why Darius Bright and Joe Avery would be on the same side. It would be interesting to have two 6-5 LWRs out there at the same time. Salas is big too and Pilares is not exactly small. Add an OL that averages about 6-5 as well and that should scare the c out of any 5-8 DB.

Anybody know if there’s going to be a Coach Mack Show this season?

I am surprised they put Moniz at the top. Maybe it’s because he already has actual game experience.

gigi..

It’s not the official list.. just what some of the guys and SH Forum see it as… I think coming out of Camp, things could change some. But for the most part, it will probably be just a bit of musical chairs between these players, unless a couple of the Walk-ons and new members make a big impression.

ST,

did you get your chart from Mack?

BTW, gigi it is good to see you back on the sight.

I found this well-made video parody about Colt Brennan and “The Cult of Colt.” It’s hilarious!

http://youtu.be/WR7WUDDGfEA

In all faiirness to Uhwarrior and his 3 deep depth chart. He stated it was his projected depth chart for the opening game. I did a double take when I first saw it too at SH but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

As far as I know there is no 3 deep depth chart and his chart was in a thread where someone was asking for one.

But who knows anything can happen.

Looks like I missed a ‘firecracker’ on the blog today. Good. Gotta catch up on reading.

WassupDoc,

Thanks for the how-to.

I’d like to hear from JD on how he’s going to attack the deficit. With the University loaning Athletics $2million every year for 5 years, this shows that the administration will support Athletics at the current level of spending. So, asking for a fee to cover that overage as part of their regular budget was logical. It locked in the allocation of the funds from the fee specifically for Athletics and freed up $2mil out of the general University ‘pot ‘o funds’…(not slots ‘o fun.) It provides oversight into the use of the monies. We just need to find out how JD will whittle away the deficit.

G (China),

If you click the ‘View All | Blogs’ link at the bottom right of the BLOGS box, you get a list of all the blogs and their last 4 or 5 postings. It’s a problem if you don’t see the BLOGS box…

gigi…sorry to hear about the salary cut.

Al, thanks. Life is so unpredictable.

Slugger,

Thank you for your advice with the blog. I’ll try that next time.

gigi – Hong Kong is a beautiful place, a little busy, but a beautiful place. I look forward to it every time I go. It is a nice break from where I live.

Anyway, I’m going to bed. I have been crying off and on all day. Life has got to get better…

BIK

uhwarrior23 made that depth chart. Not me. 🙂

LINK: http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=36428

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QgQZBehwxA

2009 Warrior Highlights … courtesy of KapoleiCoug of SportsHawaii…
46-days, 17 hours to go!

Sterling Jackson – in 2011 – I-back in a power-I.

Ryan Killa Eastman at FB (BB).

Run this on 2nd and short near, or in the red zone.

Then show the same formation in another situation, and pass off of it.

Back to the future.

http://www.hawaii.edu/offices/bor/

>Archives of Meeting Minutes and Notices>University Audits>2010>Feb

On page three the regents discuss the UH athletics financial statement.
(fiscal year ending June 30,2009).

On page four JD says since waivers have now been monetized, the athletic department bears the burden of the cost.

What does this mean?

I googled in trying to find articles about what this means with negative results.

Additionally, I googled articles in trying to find what it means that the athletic department has to be self sustaining with negative results.

It seems like the columnists in this city would rather write about how the students were beguiled regarding the fee whereas I’d rather look below the surface in piecing together of what’s going on up there at Manoa.

The Knight Commission has stated there needs to be transparency within the athletic departments in regards to looking at expenditures and revenues. . The Commission used the correlation that when schools APR scores ,results, and graduation rates were publically published and became transparent better school reports resulted.

This is true. There needs to be more transparency. I did find an ESPN site that allowed me to see UH athletic financial statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. And what I can see then is that the athletic department received around 5.5 million from the school. Is that called being subsidized (?). Scholarships, tuition cost also ran to about 5.7 million.

Going back to JD comment about how the athletic department “now” faces the burden of waivers being monetized, I’m in the dark of what this totally means in terms of how it relates to expenditures.

I’m also in the dark of what it totally means about the athletically department is mandated by the school to be self sustaining. Piecing things together would that mean that the athletic department would’nt receive any subsidies from the school? Would that mean the athletic departments has to make up the balance of 5.5 million that they had once received from the school?

In the audit I read where the regents said something to the effect that the athletic department’s finances have to be closely monitored as they are on fragile ground. My question to the Regents how many months and days passed by before you convened in reviewing the audits? If the fiscal year ended in June and your meeting is in February isn’t this illogical to wait this long in allowing this problem to fester. Shouldn’t a problem (or reviewing any audits) like this command some urgency?

As I stated I’m in the dark on this issue. My wish is that the newspaper writers would shine some light on this issue.

Sorry Sportsbow!! My fault. Age creeping in. 🙂

BIK

To Coach Mack,

Here’s a pat on the back.

What I read is that your boys are putting their best foot forward in off season conditioning and workouts. ST does a good job in keeping the readers informed.

I’ve read that these voluntary workouts are comprised of most of the members of the team, some 90 players or so, including some of the incoming recruits. Who would have imagined that the players schedule 11 on 11’s at 7am. Wednesday mornings during the off season. This is great. It’s a great reflection on your leadership.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that your boys have been staying out of trouble. To the younger kids looking up at the Warriors, the Warriors are giants to them, also they are their role models. So it’s great that you have your boys pretty much well behaved.

Additionally in the classroom the boys are making big strides in meeting their goals of graduating, with even some continuing on to graduate school. The teams APR has steadily increased since you’ve been here. This reflect on both your leadership and guidance. This is also great.

That was the good parts. What I see is that your boy’s bodies, spirits and minds are becoming stronger. It takes a lot of dedication on their parts for this to happen..and we know where that originates from. You.

As the season is soon to commence, and your team takes the stage, there’s nothing more exciting in seeing what is unveiled. With all the preparation your team has done, seemingly, since January, and your off season shuffling of coaching personnel, it is my hope that the team takes flight and reaches new heights. On your wings they’ll need to be carried. Best regards, and wishes.

Lunch with Wafan:

Tuesday, 7/20/10
Royal Palace, Stadium Mall (next to Ice Palace)
11;30 am
Buffet – no host

A-House – Mrs A-House – Wafan – Gigi (?)

A-House, Masoli can play anywhere immediately if he graduates before next season. He is on tract to do so. He needs to complete 2 (not sure) classes this summer which he is taking.

The “football” reason Masoli and UH would not be a good fit is the big difference in offense.

Masoli runs way more than passes– almost the reverse of Moniz who mostly passes and ocassionally run. Masoli’s passing is set up by Oregon’s running rather than the other way around. In fact Oregon became way more run oriented and passed a lot less since Masoli began playing– basically Oregon w/ Masoli was a running team that ocassionally passed.

Good morning Tsaikos. Have a great day!!!!!

I hope UH students don’t anticipate seats in the “prime” areas at Aloha Stadium or the SSC.

Article this morning implies that the ASUH pres will be asking for the somewhat prime areas seats “dissing” the end zone ones now used for students. If they want “prime seats”, then they should be prepared to pay at least $150 or more for the athletic student activity fee.

Great Morning All.

Drop the gun, pass on the Masoli…

Hello! Good morning, ST! Awake?

Confirmation of status of Darryl McBride committing to UH?

New blog

Great site. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to some friends!

Yep, new blog titled, “It Souldn’t Be Over”.

Touma is issuing some genuinely nice baby Knuckle Bears, these wonderful Pink and GID Blank editions are for an exhibition going on end April. They is going to be restricted to 30 pieces each and every and go for close to $35.

Good dispatch and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you for your information.

# Slugger:
July 18th, 2010 at 9:40 am

Re: prime seating for students ~ No can do this season. Season tickets have already been sold. It’ll take time to shift season ticket holders out of prime seats, if it can be afforded. Depends upon how much more money Athletics makes from the premiums (fees?) paid by season ticket-holders for sideline seats at Aloha Stadium, or floor level seats at the Stan. It’s really logisical and fiscal.

nice post. thanks.

http://warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com/2010/07/18/it-shouldnt-be-over/