Mouton plans to run at combine

First!

Run, Ryan, run!

If Mouton is healthy, he should do great. That guy has a lot of speed.

Top 5?

top 10.

cheepono out.

How tall is Mouton? 40″ vertical is huge.

I hope that Mouton runs a very, very fast time! Those few seconds can literally change lives…

What’s the word on Adam Leonard and Solly?

Article about how South Dakota isn’t surprised that some school hired Coach Shaw away from them.

“We knew this could happen when we hired him,” USD coach Ed Meierkort said. “We’re talking about one of the premier offensive line coaches in the country. He’s going to double his salary, get a condo on Waikiki – I guess you have to go when that’s the offer. We’re going to miss him as a coach and as a friend. He’s a good person.”

Those measurables will be huge for Mouton, I hope he does well. Teams didn’t throw to him, so film is kinda scarce, hence the lack of attention. A good time, a good vertical, and good drills (they will want to gauge his ability to read routes in man and zone, and how quickly he breaks) can lead to a very fast ascent on draft boards.

Another good one, which makes the point that the local recruits often give back to the communities they are from.

About how he loves seeing players take their Senior Walk and get their degrees, Miano said:
“The most satisfying thing is seeing them walking the “Senior Walk” and seeing them get their diplomas. We get to see them grow from 18-year-old kids into young men, and hopefully we’ve taught them about punctuality, teamwork, resiliency and perseverance. A lot of these kids, they’re going to go back into our community, and they’re going to be able to help their community, be good people and make Hawaii a better place.” (1420)

Funny story about how UH discovered its starting QB.

About how he discovered Greg Alexander, UH associate head football coach Rich Miano said:
“We were looking high and dry for quarterbacks. There’s a book listing all the junior colleges, and I just cold-called [Santa Rosa J.C.] out of the book. I said, ‘Hey, do you have a quarterback?’ And they said, ‘Do we have a quarterback? He threw 71 touchdowns and broke the national record, and nobody’s recruiting him!’ It was like a financial advisor or insurance person sitting at a desk, cold-calling people. Nick Rolovich and Ron Lee did a great job following up with [Alexander], but it all started with a cold call.” (1420)

I wonder why they never time DB’s running backwards?

I’ll say it again, since it was at the end of the last blog…Happy Birthday to Committed Road Warrior

Are the participants paid for appearing in the combine? by the league? or advanced from their agents?

Good Morning everyone!

Good luck (and 40 time) to Ryan Mouton!

…another work day for me. 😐

Happy Birthday Committed Road Warrior!

For those that missed homey’s bio…..

“Homey’s profile: Short, late 40s, played sports in high school, went to UH (yes, I actually went there and graduated with, of all things, a BS degree), originally from Waipahu and now residing in Mililani, married w/3 kids, drive a gas guzzler (damn ethanol blend), have never voted in my life, favorite beer is Guinness, don’t shave on weekends, use weed killer instead of pulling the weeds, have 2 mean-looking dogs and 2 mean-looking guinea pigs and 3 mean-looking turtles, eat all kinds of food, weigh less than 200 pounds so I don’t qualify for large Tsaiko status, surfing and golf are lost passions, and that’s about it.”

This was me a few years ago….. 🙂

Except for the guinea pigs and turtles…..

DUFFER:

I left a message on the previous blog – will be on Maui on Tuesday seeing a client and I owe you guys lunch if you are available.

Will also visit 333 Dairy Road! I think that Whitey mentioned also that Kitchen Cook is still open for business – is this true?

Break 70!.

Ahhh, joje ran her 50m at 9.38, I guess no combine for her

Hey, I want tickets

Hey, i want tickets.

Hey, ST I want tickets.

Ok. Hey, I want tickets!

Hauoli Lahanu ❗ Committed Road Warrior and Truegreen ❗

ExtremeSkins message board is discussing a what if scenario featuring Colt and June Jones. Too funny!

Coach Zorn at the Combine:

“On if he is familiar with all the players available in the draft and free agency:

“The only thing I’m getting up to speed with is really the college guys because we’ve had to evaluate our own, we’ve had to evaluate the free agents, and now, I’m going a hundred miles an hour on these college guys. Right now, today, it was kickers, punters, it was long snappers, it was tight ends and o-line. I’ve done some surface stuff before I got here, but it was all surface. It was just trying to get an overview. This is great time for me because it allows me to dig deep and get further in to these players that are here.”

Happy birthday, Committed Road Warrior and Truegreen!

Good luck at the Combine, Ryan & David. There’s one more player who I don’t remember going to the Combine, too. Success to all.

don’t forget, UH plays Fresno on espn2 at 6pm this evening.

hmmm. It must be CC time…

hey, I want tickets

Hey, I want tickets

Mahalo for everyone’s birthday wishes, and Happy Birthday Truegreen!

Figured today would be light and easy, but alas I’ve been busy all day…..on the phone with some folks regarding a government project for my capstone paper and haggling with my bank to try to get a check of mine that got stuck in the ATM machine out of there (to no avail). Tsigh!

Best of luck to Ryan Mouton, David Veikune, and Jake Ingram at the combine. Is Tsai gonna be on the mainland to cover it, or will he still be on the rock?

Happy Birthday CRW!!

Thanks al for the cc. Would have been better if the host was there on time.

Hey, I want tickets!

-Fu

“Hey, I want tickets.”

Happy Birthday Committed Road Warrior!

a belated Happy Birthday to Truegreen too!
Was it Feb 15?

hbirthday….crw and truegreen.

btw, truegreen you haven’t posted in a long time. i have a question. are you related to those drugstore folks?

According to the Washington State athletics site, tickets for the UH-WSU game at Qwest Field (in Seattle) will go on sale to the general public June 1st.. WSU season-ticket holders will get first dibs starting March 28th.

I’m still up in the air about attending this game…..about 40% certainty right now. Vegas is 100% garanz.

http://wsucougars.cstv.com/tickets/football-2009.html

Hawai’i, 9/12/09 at Qwest Field

(Tickets are available beginning March 28th at http://www.wsucougars.com or at 800-Go-Cougs through the WSU Ticket Office…all orders placed by May 1st will be seated according to the customer’s TPS rank. All orders placed after May 1st will be seated first-come, first-served. Tickets to the general public will go on sale through TicketMaster beginning June 1st at 206-628-0888 or http://www.ticketmaster.com)

$55 ($50 + $5) Club Seat + Facility Fee
$42 ($37 + $5) Charter Seat + Facility Fee
$29 ($24 + $5) Preferred Seat + Facility Fee
$22 ($17 + $5) End Zone Seat + Facility Fee
$17 ($12 + $5) Bleacher End Zone Seat + Facility Fee
$7 ($2 + $5) Coug Zone Seat + Facility Fee

jason
pride.
jm2375
rob25
sjmacro
d1
stretch
diana
kekoa
homey
st

nice gathering today. sorry i was late, but, business called so i couldn’t refuse since i was made an offer i couldn’t refuse.

we learned a lot of interesting stories today at the cc. but, i am sworn to secrecy. after all, what happens at a cattle call stays at a cattle call.

Happy birthday CRW and turegreen

duffer – Did you really believe that bio?

i still think that makino’s @aloha twr is the best jpse buffet.

Thanks for the enjoyable lunch. Did my site visit to make my early return from Kauai official.

by now one would think that the ad dept would have analyzed the weight training program to discover the root of all our hamstring problems. it is obvious to me that something is amiss in this regards because that seems to be such an abnormal number of injuries.

Kazz – FYI and entertainment, Hawaii is 4 point UNDERDOGS

ryan, david, and jake, good luck at the combine….go warriors….

so did you hear that sorabol closed its doors?

someone should have talked to the owners and influenced them into expanding their cocktail services.

to take it from hawaii’s history pages. a korean restaurant in the early sixties was struggling to make ends meet and decided to expand its cocktail service to include a “stage”. after awhile no one even knew about the great korean food. it did however give birth to many a new “club”. it used to be called arirang’s on kaheka st.

“Hey, I want tickets.”

Belated Happy Birthday to trugreen!

raw eggs too. or were they boiled? might have been raw and came out cooked.

and not to forget the roll of quarters without the coin wrapper.

From what I hear….

boiled.
They were shelled first.

At least that’s what I hear…. 🙄

d1 i thought they were shelled in the process?
probably ended up in the bi bim bap.

Hey, I want tickets.

Hope the team plays well today and impresses on ESPN(?). Seems like they’re coming together at the right time. Can you imagine how good this team will be at the same time next year?? I can.

protector which team are you referring to?

pot roast in the oven….its nap time.

Hmmm….

Nap time sounds like a good plan but….

I wonder what I can get done in, say, the next 45 minutes?

What’s Arirang?? I don’t think I am old enough to know that place

Hey Al, after the show with da quarter changer, cigar, candle, match book, eggs etc, who da heck was thinking about fuud?

so sorry forgot good afternoon you’all

esme whooooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhhhhhh

jojo ®:
February 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Stretch – It’s ok. We don’t want to confuse your naive mind

thank you for being so considerate

So guess what Chef is back home in the islands? Yeah baby! Great to be back on rock.

Wait…What? Somebody on this wonderful blog has the same birthday as the chef? Whoa cuz…Happy Birthday to you too!

Hey, I want tickets.

awwww….chef. you should’ve been there. i owed you lunch.

hbday to you too.

kazz are you serious about the cup holders?

well, if so, then that would be lingle’s lameduck legacy. another half empty project. looks good from one perspective but when you look closely lots were swept under the rug.

i swear i read that on somebody’s blog?
but, they still should take up my idea.

al ™:

February 19th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
kazz are you serious about the cup holders?

well, if so, then that would be lingle’s lameduck legacy. another half empty project. looks good from one perspective but when you look closely lots were swept under the rug.

Al,

Yeah I remembered hearing it from Coach Trap on the Rob and Russ show either this week or last week.

If I didn’t hear about it I would have been real disappointed this weekend and I would have marched up to the box to call Papa Leahey a “liar”!!!

But either way it’s good to have such a nice looking facility on campus. It’s the “jewel” of UH Manoa Athletics in terms of a facility, but hopefully sooner than later the Ching Complex will take that title.

Only on the bottom level?! Geez, that’s crazy.

Had a great time at the cattle call. I SO wanted to sleep in class today. My friend even offered me his energy drink, haha. I’m still partial to Todai, but Tsukiji was pretty good. Spacious, albeit very busy today with that large group.

Shave ice is nice, but I still prefer having crêpes.

And Pride, don’t you dare touch my dessert plate, else you’ll run home crying. 😉

jason,
so sad you didn’t know that. heh.
i’ll be late. i’m warning you now. i gotta go to a 1st bday party for a little while and then run away to the game.

Forgot to put the link.
click on my name if you interested.

Welcome home 808Chef! 🙂

Left to go where?

in case anyone hasn’t noticed yet… 😛

1st Anniversary of the
First Tsai-ko Karaoke Call –
The homecoming of las vegas

FIRST HOMECOMING KARAOKE CALL
Saturday, February 21, 2009 7:00 PM – closing
Club Genji
Japanese, English & Hawaiian karaoke w/enka and oldies!

• suggested attire: Tsai-ko black or Mardi Gras (Midnight’s suggestion)
• RSVPs not required — we have the whole lounge again
* email me for parking tips and other tips if you have not been to Genji’s at night under 50+ pax conditions.

Al can anyone attend a cc to meet other Tsaikos or is it a secret club?

Ralph: Geez, you’ve been grumpy lately. UH always advocates UH green, but sometimes they do these color things to mix things up. Unfortunately, not all the fans get the message — or choose to ignore it.

Re: Tonight’s Basketball Game

The optimistic side of me says the team should just try their best to keep on winning conference matchups to try and improve their seeding for the WAC Tournament, but the ‘realistic’ side of me says that taking all of the other conference teams into consideration, I don’t think they’ll move up much further…..heck they could probably drop a spot if things go south.

With another big weekend of UH promotions, I just want to take this time to THANK JIM DONOVAN AND HIS STAFF!!!

For 17.00 (8.00 MAX at Les Murakami then 9.00 at the Stanley by showing your stub from baseball) you can spend ALL Saturday at UH taking in up to three games (dbl header for baseball and a basketball game).

My estimations on my spending this Saturday:

3.00 for parking
6.00 for the second game of the double header
5.00 for a chili frank plate at Les Murakami
1.85 for a soda
4.00 for an Italian Ice
9.00 for the basketball game
5.40 for bumbucha nachos
1.85 for a soda

TOTAL – $36.10 for about six hours of sporting events.

Last year it would have been:

Total in Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 – $52.25.

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THANK YOU JIM DONOVAN!!!!!!!!

Honestly speaking. Almost EVERY UH home basketball game has had some sort of promotion to get half off the upper level seats. Of the 12 games I’ve been to I can’t remember the last time I paid full price for upper level seats. Maybe the home opener but that’s about it.

I expect to see this trend continue through next season.

According to the ticker, the UH-Fresno State game can be seen on ESPN360.com as well, if you don’t have access to a TV with ESPN2, and if you have ESPN360.com access (not every ISP supports this — Oceanic Time-Warner does not).

It didn’t occur to me til now that UC Irvine’s baseball AND basketball teams are gonna be in town this weekend. Interesting.

oh oh
mike knows something…. i know he can;’t tell though.
ok, back to the men’s game.

jmxxx,

It was great seeing you today!
IIRC one of the last times I was at a CC at Makino there was kind of a huhu by an asst. mgr about how long we had the table.

Usually at Hanaki, I get the same kind of “rushed” feeling.

With the usual “wala’au time” at the CC’s, dat’s not a real good ting….

JMHO 🙂

As far as Tsukiji, it is higher priced but the fresh tempura (I think some may have noticed that I really like that!) and the made-to-order udon add value for me.

hey I want tickets (if not too late)

What is with all the turnovers? Is this Chez Ronald’s?

Where’s the Bows playing for their Bracket Buster game, I want tickets

d1島 — As I recall, we never had a problem with how long we had the tables at Makino Chaya. The problem has always been that they expect X number of use to fit in the same number of chairs and spacing designed for 100 lb Japanese tourists.

We need Tsai-ko sizing and Al and I have had many arguments with managers about this in the early days. We learned to ask Pride. with his winning smile to negotiate more space with the manager — charms ’em every time! 🙂

I want tickets!

I also want the BB team to spend a lot more time on free throw practice. Geez!!

I like Tsukiji’s better than Makino because of the ramen, tempura, and the fresher looking sushi. JMHO also.. Great company as always!

Live w/ the delay…
I’m listening to BC! 🙄

Test of “heart” here Rainbow Warriors.

MIke:

February 19th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
This Bolla business is getting nastier by the day…

I AM ALL EARS SIR.

Thanks d1, was thinking they might be on the road, they rarely get a bracket buster at home.

So what is this Tsai-ko combine that I heard about. What events are they going to have. I need to know how to prepare.

Flexibility test used to be touching your ankles without pulling a hamstring. Can’t do that anymore.

Vertical jump test is now, “can you tiptoe?”

C’MON GUYS!
FOCUS!!!!

Sorry Chawan didn’t mean to ruin your basketball game.

huh, my eye sight test used to be seeing toes when standing…

I hope that they don’t play to lose in the closing minutes of the game…like they did last weekend! *tsigh*

Hiya Tsaikos.

Mike.
Chawan_cut panting ova dayah.
Kazz groveling ova heeah.

c’mon, Mike, did he threaten UH?
we’re getting away from the real issue, imo. its not if we can prove he kicked a girl. its if the team thinks he is a first rate horse’s i$$.
kick him out, pay him $$$, some now, some later, reduced by XX if he lands another gig coaching above a certain level. gotta move on.

OK nice bucket!

with a 1’30 to go hiram holds onto the ball and takes a wild shot….yup, playing not to lose…got chance…is that positive for you Jason boy

I can’t believe they let Seay take that three…

I don’t want to sound like a broken record.

woot a victory

Whew…that was close! At least it’s a win.

Congrats to BB team! Sorry Al…don’t know if you watched live…

G’nite gentlemen!!

This is what I talked about after the Nevada game — learning how to win. They did a good job of that tonight.

yeehaaww!

great win over doze lousy buggahz.

Happy B Day Committed Road Warrior. Love the name.
Belated B Day wishes to you too, TrueGreen.

OK… now kinda hungry.

bbl…

….maybe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fl-GGkQ7iA&feature=related

Outstanding free throw shooting tonight, that was the difference.

I’m glad they held it all together for 40 mins. They learned how much it hurt last week. Glad we could fight back every time they did.
Free throws and fouls were uneven, but we let them get inside too much and were swiping for bad fouls.
Whew…. I can sleep good tonight finally.

Possible Tsai-ko combine events
1) # trips thru the buffet line
2) how low can you go
3) 50 question, 1 minute Tsai-ko trivia quiz
4) # CR/Jaeger shots taken before having to lie down in the back of the room
5) Dodge the lead slippah

😆 🙄

NFL Draft Scout has Veikune as the #10 DE in the draft. Jake Ingram is the #1 long snapper in the draft. Ryan Mouton isn’t listed among the top 19 CBs, but that can change depending on the combine workouts.

The broad jump will also be important for Mouton and Veikune.

The most telling drill for all draft prospects outside of the 40, which measures a player’s straight-line speed, is said to be the broad jump.

The drill is an indicator of lower-body strength, needed to drive an opponent backward.

“It’s probably the most specific drill because [it stresses] horizontal power and that’s mainly what football is all about,” said one NFC personnel executive. “That’s why you see the best athletes always jump the farthest in that drill.”

Happy Birthday 808chef!

Mike Leach and Texas Tech’s AD really don’t get along…so Texas Tech’s Chancellor met with him without the AD around and they quickly agreed on Leach’s contract extension.

All it took was a simple talk between Texas Tech football coach
Mike Leach and chancellor Kent Hance to hammer out one of the most contentious contract negotiations in Red Raiders history.

Leach said he doesn’t know if the contract would have been finalized without Hance agreeing to meet him alone Thursday. Hance said they met for about three hours, but contract talks only lasted 10-15 minutes.

Free play link time. Please ignore my next 5 posts if you do not want the off-topic stuff.

The latest TSA airport security measure is a device that is supposed to sense hostile *intentions* in people. Instead of scanning physical baggage the device will scan for emotional baggage.

Article on how to use an iPhone as a wireless laptop modem.

German man was arrested for trying to smuggle *40 tons* of coral harvested off the coast of the Philippines into the port at Portland.

Garret – #229 – guess that means 90% of travelers will be detained… 🙂

jn2375, LOL.

hmmmm….

jm2375:

February 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Possible Tsai-ko combine events
1) # trips thru the buffet line
2) how low can you go
3) 50 question, 1 minute Tsai-ko trivia quiz
4) # CR/Jaeger shots taken before having to lie down in the back of the room
5) Dodge the lead slippah

please explain to us exactly what you mean by #2?
and who will document said length of time?

ahouse….you kidding me right?

by my calculations you quit going to bars at age 20??

AJoe
you coming Hilo this Sat?

good win. i, too, was worried when we ran out the shot clock as ralphie described. deja vu i thought.

rob25 i did watch it live tonight. i guess the boss was in a good mood. she even gave up her show for the game.

Garret,

So they do time DB’s running backwards
…and pretty crazy criteria at that!

al – since you were late to the cc, what happens at the cc stays at the cc. 😆

JP davis coming up on channel 6 news-his court appearance..

d1shima,

Yes, I think you were the one who was wondering if they timed DBs running backwards. I didn’t realize that they threw out the 40-yard time if the DB couldn’t run backwards fast enough!

Miami’s head coach confirmed that they will draft or sign a center and Samson will have to compete for his spot on the Dolphins.

He also made it very clear starting center Samson Satele is going to be in for a battle for the starting center job — especially when the Dolphins sign or draft his replacement.

Q. What is Samson Satele’s status and will he be your starting center?

A. Samson’s obviously a member of our football team right now. Whether or not he’s our starting center?
One of the things I think everyone of our players know on my team is that there’s going to be competition at every position always. We feel that makes us better.

“Hey, I want tickets”

Wheres ST, I like know who won the tickets. Gotta go sleep pretty soon.

Ho man gotta go sleep already. Gotta wake up early for annadah long day at work. Man I wanted to know who won the tickets but I guess gotta wait till tomorrow. Haw dat sucks. j/k

Nah everybody have a great night holding up the fort and I will see you all tomorrow for hopefully some more good news about the coaching staff.

K-den peeps

Hey I got tickets!

See you there!

Oh one more ting before I go sleep

Happy Birthday to Committed Road Warrior and Truegreen.

808Chef- you coming to the KK on Saturday?
Hauoli Lahanau!!!

Kazz- re Fresno fans… ROTFLMAO!!!

a little late but, Happy Birthday to CRW and TrueGreen!!

Hey Liz — you find a duet partner for Saturday yet? I know its difficult to find a Tsai-ko at the same choir level as you… one in a million at this point. 🙂

wooosh….

SteveM- I’m coming to sit in hushed silence at the feet of las vegas and concentrate on my nabeyaki udon!

Hey Uncle Steve,

I was thinking I want the tickets but if I can go, I’ll be asking Rico so I can sit where they DJ 🙂 Oh btw, you guys should eat at church instead of eating out. Stay with allie! haha. One more thing, you should post up pictures of Dev doing fire dancing. That would be nice.

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

Cindy (or Cenn):
February 20th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Arirang posts above….omgosh, I was cracking up so hard; those were da days!! Then there was Stoplight…..

emmm, excuse me, how would you know??

Welcome to Hawaii Chris Tormey! welcome welcome. help us beat everybody this year!

ST
great article in the HA. but hard to find the sports page when you google honolulu advertise. its missing on the cover page.

anyway, it really looks like Chris Tormey is a good hire. i mean, the Hawaii recruiter for udub the last several years, former head coach at Idaho and Nevada. knows a lot of the high school coaches in Hawaii. defensive coordinator at udub for along time too. As a head coach, Tormey said he devoted much of his attention to defense and special teams. we need somebody who knows what they’re doing, they can rub off on our other guyz.

is it just me? I’m getting the feeling that Coach Mack ain’t going to be the congeniality contest winner. He’s looking to win and i’m loving it!

From a current Washington student who grew up attending UH football games (season tickets since I was born :p), Tormey is a great hire. He was the best recruiter on the old staff here. I think you will all enjoy him being around.

Thanks for the affirmation ChrisinSeattle.

Jimmy Donovan,

howzit howzit. Now you gotta set higher sights for Coach Mack, and don’t get distraughted by the virus e-bolla. i think of da women’s basketball team this way. what are the girls’ inputs? is Marilyn saying anything?

look at how much $$ wbb is wasting. I mean, Bolla’s crowds can’t even pay the electricity bill. pathetic. and i mean his crowds. the people who turn out gotta all be related to the players and coaches. if i attended a few games, i’d probably know all the fans by name, get so few. i know 2 regular attendeez. tsaikos. gotta be nawtz. 😀 or they go to look at the chicks. 😆