Naeole joins UH staff

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gne

So, no Doman or Polamalu? At least we can keep working that Kahuku Pipeline.

Good hire. If Naeole can work wonders with the 180-pound linemen at Iolani, imagine what he can do with 300-pounders? Maybe Naeole takes OL, and Wiesehan takes WR and either he or RB coach Uperesa takes Lee’s spot in the booth?

It will be interesting to see how Chow juggles staff assignments.

naeole….good get!

naeole may be the answer to the coach cav void.

imagine of polamalu gets on board…ok, i said imagine.

the 1 person, the biggest get of em all i want to see get on board with UH is mr. lanai.

@ Clyde… what happened to Klink?

Good morning and a baker’s dozen.

Chris Naeole, a great get!

Good morning, all you early posters, especially wafan in the Pacific Northwest.

Top 20!…

Usually I do not read article on blogs, however I would like to say that this write-up very pressured me to try and do so! Your writing taste has been amazed me. Thanks, very nice article.

Great Morning All!

Welcome aboard Coach Naeole!

Good morning good get by Coach…Welcome Coach Naeole. He is related to a lot of families in Kahuku including the Beatty family.

Good morning, gang!

Welcome, Coach Naeole!

kifi…wake up!

around two years you speculated about naeole’s hiring and now chow’s made it happen.

wooohoooo!

GOOD MORNING HAWAII!

Welcome Chris Naeole to the Warrior Nation.

Awesome news about Coach Naeole! And what a truly heartbreaking story about the Klinks. My prayers to Paul, Leo and the entire Kalani ohana.

Last year as Coach was assembling his coaching staff, I added my 2 cents by suggesting Chris Naole. That was probably premature but wow, what a get for the Warriors at this time.

All of those second guessers on what it takes to get noticed as a potential next step player on the o-line could probably stop guessing as Chris could set things pretty straight with regard to what is expected at the next level. That young man was a beast on the line and excelled at his craft.

He is young, has energy and could become a great coach as he continues to learn.

Coach Chow is really being thoughtful in building a new kind of Warrior football team.

Gppd Morning Gangeez!

Welcome to Coach Naeole! Chow’s putting great recruits and good coaches on the field. Like Rev. Bulla says, that’s how you build a foundation!

GO WARRIORS!!!

Oh and a “good” morning to all. Fat fingers, slow brain… 🙂

Buffoman –

Good call!

Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a entertainment account it. Look complex to more introduced agreeable from you! However, how could we be in contact?

Sorry, in my haste and excitement regarding Mr. Naeole’s addition to the staff I misspelled his name.

Welcome coach Chris.

Digging Na Wahine ‏@DiggingNaWahine

Hawaii’s Tayler Higgins and Nikki Taylor named Fab 50’s by Volleyball Mag. http://volleyballmag.com/articles/42921-2013-vbm-girls-fab-50

only 4 out of the 50 girls selected are going to non-bcs schools…the other 2 girls are going to Dayton and Long Beach State

To all you local yocal dimwits and itiots that castigated and harrassed Coach Chow and said he wouldn’t be able to recruit…blah…blah..blah….as Bulla in #34 blog said, “it takes one brick at a time to build a foundation,” and esp. with his type of offense, he needed players and really didn’t have the players last year to play in his system…and to all of you saying he should have brought in Rolovich so they could continue that spread offense, FORGET IT!!! When you want to implement an offense, you “stick to your guns” and BE PATIENT and it will take time but with this year’s recruiting class…bringing in Naeole to work that offensive line….and another yr. of good recruiting …I can see positive results down the future but you have to be patient and not just sit on your rear and criticize….to be supportive you have to donate and attend the games and not only attend when you have a winner which means there should at least be 35-40,000 in the stands to show support…STOP CRITICIZING AND BE SUPPORTIVE…there were quite a few of you that said he couldn’t recruit or that recruits wouldn’t come here etc…blah..blah..but many of the recruits said they came because of COACH CHOW and HIS STAFF……irate as I am to read those critical blogs of Coach Chow, I would wish you dimwits would be supportive and not be arm chair qb’s and let Chow do what he is getting paid to do…….in other words…JUST SHADDUP ALREADY!!!

#52 – and how do you really feel about Coach Chow and his plans? 🙂

We moved away from the pure spread – get over it Folks!

Good Morning!

Fantastic news hiring Naeole.

Just more impressed with Chow everyday.

Hossana: Ditto!

I have a feeling that most of the naysayer flamers are young and have not yet experienced developing programs, not necessarily football related, on their own. Good things don’t happen overnight. It takes time, perseverance, and hard work. But it takes people who learn over time to know that.

Many people nowadays want immediate self gratification and are not happy unless that happens. So there are a lot of unhappy people in our “modern” society.

Unfortunately, patience is a virtue not all possess. Win and everyone’s happy.

Good morning everyone!

Welcome Coach Naeole!

“In Chow I Trust”

I’m glad from day one I read it, believed and supported it. Now, I know it was for good reason.

Norm Chow does in fact know what he’s doing.

Coach, GO GET ‘EM!

Outstanding! Not only will the o-line be taught by someone who started over 11 seasons in the NFL and who was a former all-American, but he is the local guy, with former playing credibility, who is going to connect with the top local recruits. On top if it, Chris is just a great guy. Go Warriors!

Welcome Coach Naeole!

Coach ’em up and recruit, recruit, recruit!

Go Warriors!

Go Wahine!

There are too many examples wherein a “technician” is promoted to a supervisor’s position and cannot meet the requirements of a leader/manager.

Many brilliant individuals do well academically, but cannot transmit their knowledge to others. No different from a doctor who has minimal “people skill” or bedside manners.

Not saying Coach Naole will represent the above – but, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and see what has happened after 3 or 4 years as I do not really know him or his skills teaching football techniques to players.

It is, however, a coup to have him on staff for recruiting and strengthen the pipeline to Kahuku.

Was it a wise move to make grad assistants OL and DL coaches? How did this affect the training and outcome of games played in 2012?

With a year under their belts, hope all the learning curve in 2012 will pay dividends in 2013.

Good morning everyone! Welcome Coach Naeole! I continue to be optimistic over the way the Warrior program is progressing…not perfect, but reality usually isn’t.

Continuing to travel around Kwajalein and Ebeye today. Last nite’s dinner at a top ranked high chief’s compound was an unforgetable experience for my palate! Consumed were delicacies that us everyday folks will probably never experience again. SteveM, I’ll gladly meet you to compare notes. bbl tonight (late)

Recognition of a real Warrior today.

Congratulations SSG(Ret) Clinton Romesha. Thank you for your service and heroism.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/02/11/ret-army-staff-sgt-clinton-romesha-receives-medal-of-honor-at-white-house-ceremony/

Always ahead of the field when you get faster, stronger horses.

Welcome Coach Naeole!! Looking forward to improved O-Line play in 2013.

Cal Lee and his brother had a chance to prove they where FBS level head coach material and they where replaced by Aranda and Rolo respectively. Some coaches just don’t have what it takes at the next level. Aranda and Rolo have what it takes they just need some more time around the FBS to develop into head coach material and get there shot. If you don’t care about Chow as the head coach, well thats your opinion. But Cal Lee and his brother where Warrior coaches and calling plays and they didn’t get the call for Head Coach job anywhere at the FBS level.

I wouldn’t bad mouth Chow about Schroeder playing for us. Sean Schroeder was the best QB Hawaii had last season, period. As much as I had it with Sean Schroeder by the middle of the season getting rocked and shell shocked. He did play his heart out for the Warriors and us the fans, and the injury prone O line and WR’s played like crap this past season. Dropping open passes, running the wrong routes and the Oline unable to block anybody for more than 2 seconds sometimes 3. The only bright spot was the running backs but the WR’s and Oline were dismal. So lets be fair to Sean and not bad mouth him. I think Sean Schroeder is still the starting QB until Taylor Graham or somebody takes it from him and then Sean is solidly the #2 backup. The only way I can see anybody, like Woosley, Higgins, Alo or Keenan taking the #1 or #2 job is if Sean has a complete and total breakdown in his performance, but other than that I just don’t see SS being 3rd string or 4th string.

Taylor Graham is the only QB on the roster that can take the starting job away from Sean Schroeder. The only other QB to have playing time is Higgins and his arm strength was a problem thats why he didn’t finish the season as the starting QB. Now can all these QB young men improve by next fall? Sure? But it’s unlikely they will improve to the level of Sean Schroeder and Taylor Graham, who are also improving in the off season too. But don’t bad mouth Chow for Sean Schroeder, SS gave was the best QB we had last season and he gave us everything he had.

Naeole is a great hire. Just like recruiting athletes Hawaii has the same issue with getting coaches. Many fans are saying to bring in Doman/Polamalu etc. While that would be great why would they take such a huge pay cut to come out here when they could get something comparable on the mainland. Realistically Chow has to target up and coming coaches or ones that have a connection to the islands based on the pay ranges he’s stuck with. Naeole has both which is why it’s a great hire.

Naeole was a good get for us. Kennedy Polamalu still would be a good get. He was student body president while at Mater Dei and surely would start up a pipeline from the school that gave us Colt, Leinert, Barkely and Next year Forrest.

#79

i bet Cal Lee CAN NOT win coaching varsity football at Damien!

Being a great prep coach doesn’t always translate to success at the college level. Remember that super prep coach who got the job as HC at Notre Dame and the subsequent results. Having said that, I feel that Cal Lee was a very effective assistant on JJ’s staff.

#92

Gerry Faust

Faust: Weights? We don’ need no steekin’ weights! 😈

Tony doesn’t coach the D line, if he did maybe they would have been better prepared to stop the run…it wouldn’t surprise me if Chris is not coaching the O line. not exactly sure why the O line had so much problems. is it speed, strength, technique, experience, coaching or all of it?

Today the President (and the Country) honored Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha who received the Medal of Honor. You can read about how he kept going up the hill, under fire, to rescue his fellow soldiers. We admire him for daring great odds, kept on going despite everything being against him.

We cannot compare his exploits with that of Sean Schroeder. Yet here is a young man who also faced great odds, getting smacked down repeatedly and yet getting up, over and over again, despite the odds being against him.

He has given his all.

I wish his critics would start giving their all to Na Koa instead of just their lip.

Sing hossana’s hossanas, especially # 52.

Lord knows half of what hossana’s defense of Chow doesn’t come close to half the anti- and hate on Chow of last season. (and continues to today.)

A great way to get more people to give to Na Koa is to start off the sales pitch by insulting them. Great approach. Keep it up. You are sure to now see a surge in giving to Na Koa.

Monday Missles:

1) Christian Standhardinger, congratulations, AGAIN! He is playing like a maniac, hustling, falling on the floor, he’s all over the court. He is THE big reason why the Warriors have won 5 straight and everybody else is getting in the act too. Clearly, he is the MVP of the team. Great job.

2) Norm Chow – I have said Chow is stubborn, he’s a senior citizen. Well, he is stubborn and he is a senior citizen. But, I have also said that his first recruiting class has ability and talent. Guys like Mr. Honolulu, Jackson, Fonua, Garcia-Williams, Clarke, and some good guys redshirting like Lakalaka, Koloamatangi, Watanabe, etc. Chow and his assistants can recruit. You can say that 2 years of Chow’s recruits, far surpasses the last 2 years of McMackin’s both in terms of impact and talent level. Chow learned a lot in his first year as a Head Coach. He took his lumps and some heat for his play calling and personnel. That’s the nature of the business. He’ll be better this year. The good thing every year is that everybody starts 0-0 and everybody is undefeated. His focus was to get bigger, taller, and more athletic players, to look like a Division I (FBS) BCS type team. You can see that they are making some strides in that area.

3) Lebron James – two words, “simply unstoppable”.

4) Felix Hernandez – no pitcher is worth $175 M. Mariners are wasting their money.

5) Illinois – beat 5 ranked teams already, Butler, Gonzaga, Ohio St., #1 Indiana, and yesterday Minnesota.

6) Miami (Fla) – they look like a Final 4 team too me. They have shootting (Scott, Larkin), height (5 guys are 6’10” and taller), inside game, great coaching by Larranaga.

7) Most underpaid QBs – Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick, and Andy Dalton.

And thats the reason why i didnt understand chows lack of offense!! he majority of the time was in a 3, 4 even sometimes a 5 wide package (which we have the personel for) and still could not move the ball!

I am not gonna lie i did like this class. it was good not great. we need Oline and didnt really get what we needed! I really like Tupai tho!

The Wahine bats need to come around to help Kaia and Keiki. You can’t win 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, close games, especially against very good teams. A good time to start is the upcoming road trip this week, weekend. Losing to UW in the final was tough. Wonder if Coolen thought of starting Carlos against UW and had Kaia closing like the first game against them?

Could be the reason coach went aftercso many receivers.

Congratulations Standhardinger and Parnaby!

Whoo-hoo and Whoo-hoo!!!

Excuse me but I have to dis-agree

I have said this so many times….Norm Chow did not come here to fail. He will do what he has to do with what he has to win games. So many people do not understand this game it is ridiculous. Norm Chow is a winner period….he knows offense and defense….it will be fine. He knows more about the game, and he is a man!!!!m IfI had a son ready to play….go see NORM!!!!

Sounds like Chow’s agent. 😉

Was at Murakami Stadium today on se business and got to see Colton Wong and Breland Almadova taking batting practice using wood bats. These guys can swing the bat!

I think our struggles last season had more to do with execution than with the scheme. Obviously the coaches are accountable for both, but execution is also a function of player talent and player health. The talent Coach Chow inherited from the previous regime wasn’t too deep at some positions, and a lot of key guys were hurt. He didn’t make excuses but those things were not in his control. With better QB and WR talent and a healthier D-line, I hope and expect Coach Chow’s schemes to be more productive in 2013.

I’m not a fan of an empty back field with 5 wideouts, it never seems to work, even for the Niner’s. The defense already knows that its a pass 100% of the time.

#97 – tom mui –

Spoken like a true gentleman and a scholar!

#97 tom Mui, you are so right and so classy.

Aaron, being part of a TEAM there are no individual names. I love that Norm Chow is taking this Warrior team back to basics. A TEAM is a group of people. Not one person. Print out the roster online if you HAVE to know a players name. Regarding the haa, it is banned in some stadiums. And another thing, maybe only some of the players want to do the haa? When YOU are the coach you can run the team anyway you want. Until then, it’s Coach Chow’s team.

Gawd, I finally realized the folks who complain the most…bet they don’t even give money, go to games. Support THIS team. If not, go find another team to support.

Jaylen Hunter committed to FIU

http://sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43922

Indiana St? Hmph. Enjoy the culture shock and average five win seasons.

Indiana St –

Isn’t that where Brian Cabral (DC) & Mike Sanford (HC) are coaching ?

FIU got into a big beef with Florida on the field once, no?

From last night,

WassupDoc, you’re kidding, right? You really think that the Stadium Authority has more influence over football ticket prices than UH does?

Forgot to say we had a great time at the Grand Slam Celebration last night…lots of great energy leading into the season opening weekend for the ‘Bows. Lots of grinds with chawan_cut and Midori7. Bid on a UH golf bag, but lost out…but took home a big bottle of Paradigm cabernet. Oh yeah! 🙂

It’s Chow’s team he calls the shots. I’ve had season tix from the beginning. I will say I do miss having the names on the jerseys. Not so much when watching the games live but watching the road games and replays on TV.

I’m not so good at remembering jersey numbers. I need px glasses to watch the game and need reading glasses to read the lineup. Tried using bifocals years back but didn’t like them.

Not complaining but just saying I miss having names on the back.

#95,

JMHO that Powell did a good solid job with the available DL…..considering the multitude of season-ending injuries (Friel, Samia, Hanohano, Pu’u-Robinson) last year…..and did a great job with recruiting Utah…..and Northern Cali too.

I don’t know anything about coaching so I stay out of that area. However, there are a few things I wish Coach will change.

1. Take the max number of players on a road trip. If they work hard in practice, they deserve to go.

2. Let all the players suit up for home games. Makes them feel more like they’re part of the team.

3. Substitute when the game is decided. Nothing like having game experience in case they’re needed later.

Bacardi 151

i think most of Hawaii’s three wide sets were with 2 wide outs and a tight end in the slot position.

Hawaii’s blocking tight end did very little blocking. for the most part Hawaii had 6 guys struggling to block 3 or 4 mediocre defensive linemen. 2nd half of the Air Force game has to be one of the worst offensive outputs in the history of Hawaii football. zero 1st downs.

several times during the season they used Mike Edwards on a fly sweep as a decoy, they should have given him the ball. the few times he did get the ball, it was so far behind the line of scrimmage, he had to make an outstanding athletic effort just to get back to the line of scrimmage. If they gave him the ball on the fly sweep he probably would have averaged 8 or 9 yards per carry.

why was Hawaii’s defense so clueless against the run option? good thing Army and Navy wasn’t on the schedule.

biggest disappointment and mystery about last season was the lack of in-game adjustments both defensively and offensively. didn’t see any coaching of the players on the sidelines during the games.

Homey!

The wife of a former coworker of yours said to tell you hello. She asked if you were still crazy. I told her if you have to ask you know what the answer aleady.

ajoe, koakane, too. wow, long time members of this blog, howzit going ?

g n e

my measuring stick for chow is still the outcome of the third season.

coach mac was handed something special and it couldn’t be maintained. coach chow pressed delete and started a new program. it’ll take time, last year and even this year the new program may still be in beta…let’s hope this beta is bettah and by year 3 or end of year 3, the program is in synch, on demand, displaying a great output.

Moocher . . .

Mo betta beta wud be gud.

Haha “Tuesaday”! Oopsie!

Healing prayers and God’s blessings to The Klink Ohana!

Homey at 151. Lol!

Morning all!

“A source tells me that Naeole will serve as the offensive line coach, while Chris Wiesehan will shift positions.”

The source is probably from this blog.

“several times during the season they used Mike Edwards on a fly sweep as a decoy, they should have given him the ball.”

I think that was Chows infamous wildcat play where Iosefa faked the handoff and took it (power play) up the middle. I do think if Edwards was given the ball on the jet sweep, it would have produced some positive yardage.

Then again, Chow’s thinking is at a whole new level, and to question him would be like arguing the Laws of Gravity with Issac Newton 😉

And people wonder why coaches oversign. A coach has to account for players that decide to take a criminal path during their college career.

“A former five-star recruit for the Alabama Crimson Tide was arrested for the second time in two days and was among four freshman who face charges of second-degree robbery or fraudulent use of a credit card stemming from Monday arrests.”

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8939251/dj-pettway-4-alabama-crimson-tide-freshmen-facing-charges

Great choice on hiring an O/L to coach the O/L. He met up with a few of the player after workouts and they (players) really like him. “Once a lineman always a lineman”, they just mesh together.

• Ash Wednesday eve.

• Skyfall release date.

• Quite possibly a Grease’s last posting day on The Warrior Beat until after Easter.

Aloha! 🙂

Didn’t know Ash Wednesday also involves 40 days of non-blogging. Sounds like CG has alot to repent. 😉

Huzzah!

“But, Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.'”

– John 6:35

Maybe the Wahine hit better on the road because our field lights need to improve. hint, hint.

Chow lurks the sidelines with his granny glasses and often does not watch the play on the field, instead choosing to communicate with the coaches in the skybox. ST reports Chow will change or at least modify the offensive and defensive schemes. Can’t wait to see what he rolls out. And would be great to see the head coach involved in the game and players on the field.

tom mui, you ate so right!

Sorry was a little crabby yesterday with a sick kid.

But all Coaches need three years to pull their teams together. I think Chow is trying his hardest. We had a terrific class this year. I wanted to ask, do they all qualify academically and SATs done? Until those requirements are pau, we really don’t know what we got coming in. Does anyone know?

Is it spring practice yet?

Man those North Koreans are testy.

the shadow knows…

#189

UCLA, New Mexico, Arizona, Penn State’s roster was loaded compared to what coach Chow had to work with. LOL…JJ also had more to work with than Chow…that team had a bunch of future NFLers.

And LOL…how can you compare an NFL team with a non BCS program. Harbaugh had the players in place and the $ to buy more.

How about listing all those 1st year coaches at the helm of high maka maka BCS programs that had less wins than Chow’s 1st year.

192.

Those situations you listed were all different(as in pretty good talent in place), what did New Mexico Do? Are you saying that the coaches who took over those teams would do a better job than Norm? Maybe with a year of Head Coaching experience under his belt the team will start progressing, but pretty sure a lot of it had to do with TALENT…..

check please?