No furlough

#1

2nd!

Happy belated birthday, Nalani!!!

Wow, 28 already?!?!

WSU is going 56 days between home dates at Pullman. Their record shows it.

Who put UH’s 2009 schedule together — particularly the three straight road games?

Top Ten!
Great Morning All!

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Nalani!

~~~•~~~❀Good..Morning..Tsaikos..and..Warrior..Nation!!! ❀ ~~~•~~~

Hey…. 🙄

Happy Birthday Nalani and have many more!!!!!!!!

Part of coaching/teaching is giving your charges room to grow.

I’m willing to leave open the possibility that Mack was giving the team some “space” for them to come together on their own when they needed to the most.

#12- Good ‘ting I get one wide screen for ‘dat one. 🙂

this is the point in the season where we will remember this. it will make a difference.

Is WarriorTranny gurgling ? >>> “gg” He rises from a late night on hotel st.?

You have all earned a trip to my island.

i like my eggs in da mouth

maybe the coaches needed the rest.

Happy to see Kamehameha pull it off last night. Who was that young DB who intercepted for the Warriors late in the game? Micah Choy?

EH NO MAKE ! EH NO MAKE !

Good point about the clock management, but you get off track with your critique of the coach.

Remember when JJ abandoned ship? Program was in disarray and the recruting season was fast approaching?
We needed a head coach really fast. We needed a coach that knew the program so that there would be no delay in continuity.

We looked at the amount that a Head Coach gets all around the circuit.

A decision was made – perhaps it was not the greatest decision in the world but Saban and those guys were not available and those that work for cheap didn’t meet the criteria of getting a captain that would save a floundering ship.

The HC made a mistake – said some obscure word – and now his salary is less than a million (10% reduction).

So I wish people would stop belly-aching. Hawaii has some great players.
We have some that are not. It isn’t as if we were 10 deep in 4-5 star rated players.

Give the coaching staff some slack – at least for another year. Again – physical superiority cancels all theory.

Nice to see the boys taking the intiative. When does Rausch return?

Nalani, a most Happy Birfday to you and many more to come!!

Reading the morning paper:

1) it was great to see Blaise and Estes “leading” the players – something that should have happened long ago!

2) congrats to K.Mark Takai on his promotion to Major and seeing his pic in the paper with Afgan children.

3) contrats to Coach Dana on her 2 most recent recruits – Adolpho and Haydel – excellent start to her 2010 recruiting class!!!

also, kept my promise to Coach Dana by purchasing season tickets for Wahine BB.

Like I said before, it’d be awesome if Moniz turned out to be the next Rolo. But you have to be realistic, too. Recall Colt and the 5-7 season his sophomore year.

Haha, d1! I’m sure during those dates, “Brand H” has some great rates too. 😀

Love the initiative of Soares and Estes to organize their own players-only practice. We need the team to bond now more than ever….

ST – the J-E-T-S/Saints game isn’t on because it’s all about the COWBOYS! 🙂

I am exhausted from screaming at the computer over Jason Campbell’s woeful performance. BUT, ‘Skins may just pull it out.

Hawaii have many big and strong Poly players, but they have slow feet.

How can this be improved? coaching/players techinque? Mental/physical connection?
Practice, practice, practice or repetition, repetition, repetition? studying/anticipation of opponents moves? counter moves to this? a combination or all of the above plus more?

Like LaTech, UH had 5 5th year seniors on the Oline, but Tech’s Dline was much faster while their Oline held off the Warrior defense. Question is: what does the “d” coach from the upstairs “box” see and what is relayed to the field and then to the players? Does UH have the correct personnel upstairs and on the field? Again, a young coach may have great vision/instincts/knowledge versus an older coach who may be “tunneled vision”.

Good morning everyone!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY NALANI !!!

Congrats to Rep. K. Mark Takai on his promotion to major!
(per A-House)

“BowsForever:
October 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
The Redskins somehow won.

I still wonder if Colt is the right fit for this team….”
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Bows – Right now, I think the Saints would be the best fit for Colt.

He and Breese (sp) are similar – ACCURATE passing,

and while irrelevant, about the same size.

I like the Saints offense – attack- move the chains -score.

bighilofan2:

your post #223 from yesterday – eh, you shoeah you neva live next door to me kid days? we did the same stuff to make speah and go poke fish – holehole, manini, etc.

den, high school time, we used “pasture wire” to make our speahs, bigga plastic tubes, door hinge for da trigga, and 2×4 lumba for the handle (drill puka in the middle and makum kinda round)- then we went afta da big stuff – sometimes down to 30-35″ free dive – auwe, tho because nose bleed and sometimes blood from the ear. no wonda i sta all hommagaj today!!!

we have exotic koolaid for our guests on my island.
y’al will feel at home.

ST

thank you for your #37

Made in Hawaii.

my sentiments exactly.

I’ll be da first to crack da slow pokes. trust me on dat. but I agree, gotta give da coach chances. he changed coaches this past year. that was a big positive.

and its not like he was missing da tackles last Wednesday.
he gotta get Ron and Rolo and Brian and Gordy on da same page.
for one side.

but I also know that you can take the exact same people and move em around and you get a better result. you just gotta have vision, and da
visionees gotta believe in you. not talking about us here in da talk stink anytime anykinda wayz, da visionees i’m talking about are da coaches.

I BELIEVE IN COACH MACK. I REALLY HONESTLY DO. Like ST said, he came along in da nick of time.

Thank you Coach. Now go crack some heads.

I SAY GIVE THE COACH 5 YEARS. BY THEN HE’LL BE AT THE TOP OF A BIG HILL. CLOSER TO THE TOP OF THE TOP. OR THE BIGGER THE FALL. I CHOOSE THE TOP OF THE TOP.

Michelle Wie: six birds, one boogie and two more holes to go.

gg?

Thanks, Don, for the clarification regarding ticket prices. Hope that all goes well at the event.

Unfortunately, whether it’s $250 or $300 per ticket, both are more than a little out of our Double A league. We’re still trying to deal with not just left-over medical bills but also reduced income from a year ago.

That is the primary reason we volunteered to work on a different type of special event fund-raiser – using our time and talents instead of money to contribute to the program.

CHANGE OF SUBJECT: Coach McMackin, along with all administrators at the University of Hawai`i on all campuses, took a 10% salary cut because of the state’s financial situation. Win or Lose – he would still have taken a 10% salary cut.

The salary suspension following the remarks during the WAC press conference was directed only towards him. That ended in September.

Off to work – back around 11 pm tonight.

How naive….

Loike coach Mack’s $1.1M annual salary is meaningless, it’s EVERYTHING for crying out loud.
In these economic times, seriously, $1.1M means nothing, wow, how naive.

Is coach Mack the answer…? Well, let me see, his overall record 9-9 in two seasons, and THAT’S worth it to some of you…!
Wow, such mild expectactions…..

The only one naive is to expect two back to back 11+ win seasons when one season has NO returning starters on offense and the other season that isn’t even halfway done yet has NO returning starters on defense.

1.1 million or not, let’s see someone else do SIGNIFICANTLY better with the same resources. Let’s see the evidence of written or recorded record of the same EXACT scenarios with SIGNIFICANTLY results.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and my opinion is idiots are born everyday and I’d hate to be the children of those with such lofty expectations without regards to facts.

I can see it now… there’s that one kid out there that gets his wrists taped up together while “angry daddy” that got cut from his high school football team throws footballs at him after the game he lost forcing him to catch before he can eat dinner. 😆

Fans need to stop defending Mac for his blundering inabilities as a head coach. Something is wrong when my wife can call better plays and she does’nt even watch football. For crying out loud he can’t even adjust to the situation at hand during the game when you know there going to run. Everyone is entitled to there opinion and mine is these coaches can’t change. In these tough times Mac is undeserving of a million plus salary. If JJ did’nt leave he would of found a way two have 2 more winning seasons so I can’t give a thumbs up or pass to the present coaching staff. If you say I’m too hard on them well we all should be because Hawaii football is our NFL. We need to demand better coaching because you can’t blame the kids, they do what the coaches teach. Anyone know how to get the point across to the coaching staff? Either shape up or ship out.

im so happy to see the team out there practicing on their own! looking forward to saturday.

go warriors!

Jn

changes come a little at a time. dats just how it goes. a little at a time.

no can change da hole ting one time. some times a little change makes a big bang. but not all da time.

patience grass hopper.

Jn

you ain’t getting rounded up, and i’m farthest from being a blog policeman. I’m just saying, who am i listening to?

if you wuz a Cal Lee, I’d be saying, sheesh, I’d better listen. and plenty of us would be saying the same thing.

maybe its too early for us to be saying Identify Yourself.
by the same token its too early for any of us to be hammering the coach. Timing is everything. Now is not that time. IMHO.

by the way, never played organized football in my life.

biddy boxing. 😀 street fighting 😀 talking 😀

and a long time UH Warrior football fan. 😀

an i hear he can kick in da locker! mean!

heck give em 2, 3 or 5 years. from day 1, I still believe Mack was in the right place at the right time. I dont care, you “believers” can get pissy. =) BUT if he HAD not been at UH that year he would have not landed the head coaching position. For consensus purposes, If we were to put out a mock posting for a Head Coaching position at UH today would the army of applicants be tempting enough to question do we truly have the right coach? I like to to go the by the old adage; “if you gotta ask, the answer is usually no”

Is he worthy of what is considered the zenith of college coaching, (Div 1A football coach position) at that salary and at the “learning the head coaching role” at UH’s expense? I’ll leave that to speculation. The way its looking, I’d be talking exit strategy vs contract extension. His legacy is on the short side of “there’s a long way to go to tell” if he is good D1 coach. And my guy feeling still tells me that we landed the Don Strock of college coaching. ~ great back up and assistant but could never put it together as a starter.

just my opinion, because 2 years ago I knew this conversation would be coming up..

Howzit Tsaiko Nation!
I was away from the computer this week ’til Thursday (when I had the morning after LaTech hangover). Just now getting caught up with all the blog comments. Here are a few opinions to add to the discussion.

The QB situation — Best wishes to GA for a successful recuperation and transition to his post-football life. Mahalo Greg for all the effort and commitment you gave to the Warrior football program! And I have to say I saw some very promising things in Bryant Moniz during the 4th Quarter at Ruston. Most impressive to me is his throwing mechanics — he has a very quick release and, when protected, throws a nice accurate catchable ball. He’ll get better with more time on the field.

The coaching situation — I count myself among those willing to give Coach Mack some time to turn the Warrior battleship around. Especially having lost 2 captains (Brashton and Alexander) and both starting DE’s, not to mention his starting QB and possibly others (Laupepa?). Injuries are part of the game, but this is an exceptional casualty list for a coach to deal with in a mid-major program where depth isn’t all you’d like it to be. I too am concerned about clock and other game management issues. I am hopeful that the coaching staff will learn from their mistakes and eliminate these issues. If they continue next year, then UH will have to consider alternatives such as not retaining the present staff. It’s premature to do that now.

JMHO. To Jn and others who assert that their posts are somehow more than that (“…the truth hurts…”), I say your OPINION is no more or less valid than mine or anyone else’s on this blog. That ho’okano attitude that what you say is “truth” is what rubs us the wrong way. Consider: when you say “…you can’t blame the kids, they do what the coaches teach…”, I’d say you CAN blame the kids — there were numerous situations in which the “kids” failed to perform their assignments. The coaches can only teach and motivate, then it’s up to the players to learn and do. So you have one opinion, I have another. That’s all it is. Truth will be determined in the future, with the benefit of sufficient hindsight, by those who have ALL the information, which is not you, not me, none of us (except maybe ST). Try relax. Ho’omanawanui.

Still recall watching Mendenhall’s 40 video from the combine last year….scary! 😯

A couple of further thoughts:

ST — Thanks for your insights regarding the QB situation’s recent history (yesterday’s post). That kind of background information is so valuable to us in understanding what’s going on with the program, and I think gives some validation to the job the coaches are doing. Also I agree with your comments about giving the players a break, and the players’ self-motivated response. Good signs, I think.

And I just have to get this little rant off my chest — watching the ESPN telecast from Ruston, I got so p.o.’d with the announcers during the ten minutes (or so it seemed) with Karl Malone. They were ignoring the game, sucking up to LaTech and Malone’s contributions to the program, and goofing around so much that I gave up on them, turned down the TV volume and listened to Bobby & Robert while I watched the game. The radio broadcast was delayed by about 10 seconds which was irritating, but not nearly as much as those ESPN babooses.

Whew, okay I feel a little better now…I think I’ll go mow the lawn.

BBL

…which, btw, I have full faith and confidence that after a quarter-and-a-half of attempting, with some success, to cram the ball down the UH defense’s throat, Pat Hill will start to have them throw the ball. At that point, things should get interesting….

OK, OK, who the heck deleted my post regarding the QB situation at UH? I sent it and poof the magic dragon!!!!

Will ever appear?

FSU 24 UH 38

These are the types of games you want to play in and be a part of. These are they types of games you tend to find out your boundaries, your limits, your character. Never mind playing for the state. This game is for themselves, for the team and your coaches. You serve to the best of your ability in these type of games and end up “defining” your character. At the end of the game you usually find out you have not limits you have no boundaries.

Man this is going to be a good game!

In 1972 I was on a long plane ride home from Tennessee. We suffered a loss on national TV.
Players on that plane were sore, hurt/injured, and in poor spirits. But as I look back on that loss I know that all of us played at 100% on the field. I know that the coaches gave 100% on the sidelines and up in the box.
On Wednesday my fellow UH Warrior football bretheren had a long plane ride home. The conditions were much the same as in 1972. I can look at each player I saw in that game on Wednesday and I didn’t see less than 100% that was given on the field. I know the coaches gave 100% on the sidelines and up in the box.
Warrior Football players you have your teamates; a call out to all former Rainbow Warriors and Warriors football alums & fans as well as current fans to let this team (players and coaches) know we have their backs.
My bumper sticker on the truck says
‘I Support Warrior Football’
This is not a conditional statement and it is not negotiable.
Go Warriors!

Don Weir,

good job Don!

anna good speech too!

Go Warriors!

Ok. I’m an Mideot. You know what that means, ya?
Ok, Let’s try Idgit. Are you getting warmer?

I feel like a dope changing names to get my point across, but these are the times of hope and change, right? At least thats what I voted for. Reward the non-working.
It’s not working.
Should I try to stick to my gameplan with only one identity and emphasize my beliefs until the end? I’ll try better next time.

Na Koa Update
Tsaiko Fund Financials

Deposits $1960 (double check with UHF to make sure all checks cleared will be done on 10/6/2009)

Expenses $1354 (this represents two bikes)

Shipping from LV to HNL as of yet not encumbered.

$606 on the books as available.

Here he comes
to save the day
that means that mighty mouse
is on the way

😆

wat? you no believe in lil green fairies?

# The Atitude Adjuster:
October 4th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Ok. I’m an Mideot. You know what that means, ya?
Ok, Let’s try Idgit. Are you getting warmer?

I feel like a dope changing names to get my point across, but these are the times of hope and change, right? At least thats what I voted for. Reward the non-working.
It’s not working.
Should I try to stick to my gameplan with only one identity and emphasize my beliefs until the end? I’ll try better next time.

_______________________________________________________

Be who you are, come as a friend and fellow fan and forgive those of us who see things differently than you might. Changing nics diminishes the genuine-ness (not sure if that’s a word) of what the blog’s over all message becomes.

Let’s face it. The Warriors are in a tough spot, and what they do in the coming weeks will truly define them as a team and as individuals. What is most important at this point is how they respond in the face of such discouraging adversity. How we respond as their fans will also define us. This doesn’t mean that you have sugar coat anything or censor your feelings. Just use the same rules that you would in the real world: respect for all, and a basic regard for others.

Most importantly, don’t forget, that we are ALL Warrior fans here. Let’s enjoy that bond.

Regarding #106

This is the point I have been making since the end of the La Tech game. The defense did it’s job point wise, the offense didn’t do it’s job point wise. One would think since we pass almost every play a no huddle would be rather easy to implement. I always wondered what Rolo was telling Greg Alexander on every play. ” Throw to the guy you think will be open ” ya think?

U know it would be very interesting if all the “disappeared” posts whould appear on a blog years into the future and those reading it will say, “what the hell is this all about”?

Generations down the line they will say “this is what happened to the Warriors in their ascent to national power”.

What I have noticed reading this blog is that I have no right to an opinion. Mr. Tsai, I am not yelling at anyone, I am not judging anyone for their opinions but it seems that even though I am not the only one frusturated about the coaching, I am the one that is being called out. Look how many times others have come directly after me by name and no one else who has the same opinion. I am a loyal fan and I have been since the 60’s on up and I always will be. I remember going to the games when I was young and the thrill of watching our team win. Over the years I have seen many changes and some were good and some were not. I am not judging the team, I just want to see a change in the coaching. I am tired of seeing us lose. I don’t see you telling others to stop going after those of us with different views. Isn’t this what it is all about? Diversity is part of growing up Hawaii.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz

Wow! Chancellor Hinshaw here in person at WPSS to cheer on the Wahine and the FSU female mutts…

It’s way too early to judge coach and coaching staff. It’s like telling a genetics engineering farm or a farm heavy in synthetic fertilizer use to be organic the next year. It just ain’t gonna happen overnight. You got to condition the soil naturally which takes 5 years. Less than which, it just ain’t organic, no matter how much you huff and puff.

Losing seasons? Last year we were 7-7 and this season is no even halfway done.

i will always have faith in our football program…but it stops right there…

“Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind, it dies”

– Mahatma Gandhi

Me? 1) I think Rolovich is calling plays because they deemed he was ready for more responsibility and both Ron and Greg really like Nick and were willing to take a chance on him. 2) The WRs needed more guidance – of that there is no question. 3) No other WR coach was available on short notice that knew the system. 4) Last but not least, it hurts my wee little brain to imagine otherwise.

Stephen,

While we want immediate fixes you are right. I think its a little to early to judge the season at this point. Whether is 12-1 or 7-6 it means the same thing….Hawaii Bowl. We still have a shot at the hawaii bowl so lets make the necessary changes to have a winning season.

If we come out with a winning season after all thats been going on with injuries, blunders, 3rd string QB etc etc I would be pleased as punch.

Sugar sugar, we are all too hyped up that we are BCS material. I dont think anyone can argue that fact that we are not BCS material. First thing first lets start to win the WAC and win the Hawaii Bowl. Those should be the immediate goals for the next few years. In 2008 we had a whole lotta luck and fortune on our side.

Could it be that “iwonderwhytheyhateme” has something in common with my airless power paint sprayer?

I don’t like to criticize the players because they work extremely hard and have to handle all of their athletic responsibilities in addition to their academics. Road trips (as we have just seen) cost the players a lot of class time, which makes the challenge even greater.

When I was an undergrad I lived in the same dorm as the Texas football players for 3 years, including being just 1 floor below the football team for a year. I got to know some of the players and saw first-hand the amazing amount of work they put in. In addition to the heavy athletics/academics workload during the season, the work they did during the offseason was amazing and I’m sure that the Warriors put in a similar amount of work. I also took a couple of (engineering and math) classes with Stanford football players and saw first-hand how hard they worked to keep up with school.

The only players that I think deserve great criticism are those that embarrass the program with off-field incidents. For example, if a player was arrested and convicted for Michael Vick-like dog abuse or Mike Tyson-like female assault, I definitely wouldn’t feel like the program should take them back after they got out of prison.

Rich2176,

I’ve seen that argument used a lot comparing the records that JJ and Mac have, and I really think that argument is flawed for a few reasons. JJ took over a team with *very* little talent and played a lot of freshmen and in his first season…and remember, he had a month to recruit and those players weren’t exactly highly rated.

If you compare the depth chart for the two schools, you’ll see a majority of the 2-deep chart at SMU are freshman or sophomores. I think that their entire 2nd team OL is 19 years old or younger, and they have just 1 senior on their starting OL with the rest either freshmen or sophomores. UH’s entire starting OL is made of seniors. Before Alexander got injured, UH was starting a senior and SMU was starting a sophomore.

I doubt that anyone expected SMU to win much last year, with very little talent and players on offense that were recruited for an entirely different system. The team had also lost for 20 years and had to change their entire attitude. They also have to learn to win, not something to be overlooked.

If you look at their recruiting class, I think they have 19 commits and I think that 11 of them are rated 3-stars by rivals or scout.

My biggest criticisms of JJ:

1. Failure to make home visits after his first few seasons at UH. Big problem with the former Kahuku coach (maybe he wasn’t fully at fault, but it would have been good if he could have patched that up) also hurt recruiting.

2. Some crazy gambles where the risk/benefit ratio didn’t make sense to me, like fake punts while on the wrong side of the 50.

3. Failure to stress academics enough (awarding scholarships to walk-ons, etc.) and over recruiting QBs (resulting in transfers) until the APR scholarship losses hurt badly.

Slugger,

Hey were you there to?! Sorry I am not familiar with the scree names etc. =)

Yea, a few of us Tsaikos were there and we heard some VERY interesting stories from the “other table”. Some really caught me off guard in both good and bad ways hahaha.

My biggest concerns about Mac:

1. Clock management was a problem at times last season and instead of getting better it has been a bigger problem this season. It hurt the team during the UCA and UNLV games this season.

2. Special teams decision making seems to be slow at times. The coaches decided extremely late on the 1pt/2pt conversion decision in the UCA game so they had to call a timeout, and they decided so late in the UNLV game that they couldn’t get the timeout called before the ball was snapped. This was a problem last season also during at least one game, but again this problem has gotten worse, not better this season.

The decision process on going for a FG in the UNLV game was done so late that Coach Tormey admitted after the game that they rushed the FG unit on the field and that the coaches mistake was the reason for the missed FG. The coaches said that they should have called a timeout because they made the decision too late. That cost the team 3 points and UH lost by 1. If UH won that game the team would be 3-1 at the worst right now and the critics wouldn’t be this vocal.

3. Public speaking mistakes (WAC media day, ESPN halftime interview) provide ammunition for critics and I worry about the way that teams could use that when they are recruiting against UH.

Bottom line is that *no* coach is perfect, and that UH doesn’t pay enough and doesn’t have the facilities to get an Urban Meyer or Mack Brown. UH was lucky to get JJ at below his market value…and if HF had been competent UH would have accepted JJ’s offer of a *pay cut* so that UH could use the money for the football program’s budget. How many winning head coaches offer to cut their salary if the money is used for his/her team’s budget?

After getting JJ for less than his market value (and ST said today that JJ would have taken slightly more than half of SMU’s offer to stay at UH if he felt that UH would have made the changes needed to improve the program), I think that UH overpaid Mac. Sure Mac asked for UH’s opening offer to JJ, but UH could have countered at JJ’s previous salary at UH ($800k) plus generous incentives. For an athletic department that is so budget strapped that volleyball players sleep 3 to a room and take a red-eye and play the day they get off the plane, that $300k is significant…something like the entire recruiting budget for all sports combined? Imagine what could be done if the recruiting budget was doubled for every team?

I think that Mac would have taken less than $1.1 million, especially if incentives (bowl game, graduation rate, conference title) were there that could have brought him near that number. Given his desire to be a head coach and how defensive coordinators make *much* less than $800k, I think he would have taken less in light of the UH budget situation. But I do not blame him for taking what he was offered…the blame goes to the other side of the table in those negotiations.

chawan_cut,

After UNLV beat UH they lost to Wyoming and got blown out by Nevada. The thing that worries me is that Nevada was losing their confidence and now they are feeling good about their team again. 559 yards rushing and 214 yards passing will make an offense feel really good about themselves…

If tickets sales continue to decline, does Mack step up and take more of a cut in salary leading into next season?

I have a long list of what I like about JJ and Mac, but since the discussion today was on negatives and what can be or should be said, I figured I would say some things to get people on both sides of the issue mad at me.

Talking with Tsaikos in Vegas and via e-mail and phone calls throughout this season, I know that there are a lot of people who choose not to post their unhappiness about certain things or concerns/criticisms because they don’t want to get attacked by others.

iwonderwhytheyhateme,

I agreed with the decision to hire Coach McMackin at the time and still agree with his selection over the alternative candidates we heard about at the time. If UH had structured his contract differently, then they could have saved money…and maybe we would spared the complaints about his salary.

The Las Vegas Sun last year published UNLV head coach Mike Sanford’s salary…$150k.

According to Sporting News, Louisiana Tech head coach Derek Dooley made $400k last year, though according to Bloomberg he makes an extra $50k for being the Athletic Director. He is greatly underpaid for both jobs!

idkwthm,

I was sitting next to you. :)) But you were closer to the other table, so I didn’t hear the scoops.

K, gotta go finish painting nails. No typing for a while.

GO WARRIORS!!!

yeah dooley is underpaid for sure….but heck look at paterno…$1.5M haha. I guess the bonuses and incentives and what not are really really fatty.

iwonderwhytheyhateme,

In my opinion, there are some extremely underpaid coaches right now and some overpaid coaches, so I could give extreme examples that would skew the results. Given WAC budget limitations, it shouldn’t be a surprise that coaches like Chris Ault, Derek Dooley, Dick Tomey, and Robb Akey are extremely underpaid compared to what I think they are worth (Tomey makes about a third of Mac, Akey makes about a fourth).

GIven C-USA budgets, JJ is overpaid in my opinion…but the boosters are paying him and not the school. A certain Big 10 head coach got a *crazy* contract extension recently with a salary far out of line with his record on the field.

When I look at Tennessee’s assistant coach salaries, it just blows my mind. A big problem for non-BCS conference schools is that they constantly lose their top assistants to bigger budget schools. Mac left for Texas Tech after one season and Coach Cav left for Oregon State. If UH had the budget to keep *both* Mac and Coach Cav for JJ’s entire tenure, JJ would have had a much better record and people would think about him differently. I think losing Coach Cav really hurt, both on the field and in recruiting battles. If UH had an extra $300k to spend back then, UH could have matched their salaries and kept them…but then everyone else on staff would have needed raises and UH couldn’t have afforded that.

Garret,

You gotta agree though, $1M for Monti Kiffin is a steal. Tennessee needed to make a statement I think after being the downers of the sec. Tampa’s defense was prety darn amazing. Your basically getting another college if not nfl quality head coach to run your defense at the nfl level.

Look what they did to neutralize Florida. Could it be they lacked that running back? maybe…but I think they had a defensive scheme that was ready for the Gators.

Though I am not a lane kiffin fan =(

i agree

.

you gotta pay to play. 🙂

Where is the love?

I cannot believe that ST wasn’t mentioned when so many others were mentioned!

iwwthm:

what is “BCS material”?

accepting an invitation to join a BCS conference would instantly make a team BCS material.

the “bottom dwellers” of the BCS conferences are BCS material because they were a member of the conference when the BCS was born.

the BCS conference is a conference who took the gamble to form this “new” status, looked to all means available to “stock” their own pockets with boku $$$, and have a lock on who plays for the mythical national championship – they control college football like no other has and I would like to see a more equitable distribution of $$$ to all conferences – even create a “new” mid-major conference status with their own bowl games. but, they need someone or many someones who have all the right connections, especially $$$ and media, to make it work. until the BCS is really challenged, they would be nuts to have others join their feast!!!

A-House,

BCS Conferences make big money because their schools fund their Athletic Departments more and because of their *regular season* TV contracts. They had big regular season TV contracts even before the BCS existed…for example, the Rose Bowl was just the Pac-10 and Big 10 for decades and paid out huge money relative to the Oahu Bowl/Aloha Bowl/Hawaii Bowl.

You could split up the money from the BCS bowl equally among *all* D-IA schools and the disparity would be greater now between the SEC/Big10 and the WAC than it was *before* the BCS. If we go back to the old system of bowl games, UH would have *less* money than before!

The TV networks pay for eyeballs and schools that own the big TV markets get the big money. The Big 10 created a network and makes billions…the MWC created a network and makes far less (but still much more than what ESPN pays the WAC).

A-House,

Therein lies the problem. For example I dont think WSU is BCS material but like you said they are in the Pac-10 so they are “bcs material”.

Maybe instead of BCS material I should say “premier” or “highly regarded” team like a Boise or BYU would be.

I guess referring to teams as a BCS team is way to controversial. Hawaii as a team isn’t in the same category as a USC, Florida, Oklahoma etc (obvious). Even compared to Boise State in our own conference it is difficult to compare to Hawaii to them…I dont know how to exactly convey my thoughts here.

Anyway

Can we get to a level where Boise St, BYU, Utah is? Meaning respect w/o being in a BCS conference? Yes we can! but we aren’t there yet. That is why I said we need to focus on being the WAC champion and winning the Hawaii Bowl and if at the end of the regular season we are in the top 12 or whatever and we get a BCS invite so be it. But I personally dont see it as a realistic goal for the next few years.

Oh, Oh! If anybody keeping up, Idaho beat Colorado St. yesterday, now making the Vandals 4-1 on the season and very impressive. They also won a road game the prior week at Northern Illinois, who also had beated Purdue at Purdue badly. Bottom line, Idaho is very much improved and will cause teams problems. UH at Idaho on Oct. 17 is a very tough game and in fact Idaho will be favored in that one.

Earlier when the line for the UH-Fresno game came out it was Fresno giving 7. Now the odds are up to Fresno giving 9 (which means a lot of heavy betting is on Fresno).

Me I would take UH and the 9 points.

One of the reason why I like UH is that in 4 games Fresno’s defense has only registered 3 sacks. And anytime the UH QB has time to throw and isn’t facing a big pass rush the offense can get up and down the field.

Plus Fonoti, Falemalu having an additional 10 days to heal helps.

Meatoga, Letuli out for the Latech game would be huge additions if they are ready for the Fresno game.

Purcell I’ve been watching looks like he’s been being playing hurt and having some time off may help him heal too.

Likewise with Javonte.

Soon as the shrewd betters catch wind (like being at tomorrows practice and seeing the aforementioned players practicing well I would think the line would go down.)

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

The swine flu is rapidly spreading throughout the US, so it is good that the swine flu vaccine began to be available on Tuesday. It is scary that pregnant women have a 6x greater chance to die from the swine flu, with 100 pregnant women in the US sent to emergency rooms between April and August (when the swine flu was much less widespread than it will be this Fall and Winter), with 28 pregnant women (and almost certainly the kids they were carrying) dying.

Study found that certain forms of arsenic that are contained in seafood may be toxic. Even worse, the researchers found that the arsenic seems to build up inside of some people over an extended period of time.

Thanks everybody for the BDay wishes. The best present I got was Pono’s interception and Kamehameha’s win v St Louis last night. It was superb!

Re: UH, they need to improve and heal on the DL, or every team in the WAC will be setting running records on us for the rest of the season. But we still cheer for the men in Green/Black and wish them much success against Fresno this coming weekend. GO WARRIORS!!!

Free play links pau.

Happy Birthday Nalani!

This is what Duff wrote on WSN:

I personally took Miano to Shiloah Keo’s school his senior year. I was recruting for a JC and let Miano piggyback with me in Washington as a friend and recruit the same schools with me. I would have signed Keo as a no brainer and told Miano that and if fact that’s why I took him to the high school. Keo was a player and had a very special field vision and was a tough physical kid. I loved him. I had kept a promise to Adam Leonard who I signed to Dixie State JC out of Ranier Beach that I would get him to a Division One A school as soon as humanly possible. Before his freshman season I came to Hawaii to see my wife’s family and vacation, I drove up to UH and showed film of Adam to June and Miano and they flew him in and signed him. He was supposed to fly to Fresno State that weekend but Adam loved Hawaii and with me and Coach Croshaw from Dixie supporting his decision fully he committed that weekend. He never played a down for us at Dixie and we acutally needed him, but promises are promises and a young man’s future is more important than a win to two. That’s all I’ve got to say about it. Don’t want a bunch of Kook Aid drinkers jumping on me for being honest. UH could have had Keo no problems. But you’d have to actually want to recruit and make football your primary job to get a player or two. If it weren’t for Reinebold and me, there wouldn’t have been any DBS the last 3 years. That’s a fact, not my own personal view. Aloha Duff

Aloha Nalani!I’ve been busy today. Barely time left to sign in and wish you a very Happy Birthday!

Thank your youngster for making that outstanding pick, allowing KS to prevail over those pesky Crusader rabbits! What a great gift for your birthday!

I’m sure that DPK, Rob25, Bulla & Pride have already added their thanks as well.

I know that GO WARRIORS! is serious stuff in your hale!

The way I see it is it is not how you start. It is how you finish. I just look for improvements game to game and hope things get better.

I am just a fan and I go to the games because I enjoy it. i have been doing it for over three decades and I am not about to stop now. I will support the Warriors win or lose.

Diogenes Sinope ~

Re: #192…There was some discussion, but with our cruise director (SteveM) out of the loop, Ha! No chance. Besides, Liz can be brutal when she’s in charge of moderating. No mercy! Bwhahahaha!

Back from another day of doing good and well at the same time

Now that we’re less than five days away, start saving your HI-5 cans & bottles to bring to the next T-Gate on Saturday, October 10.

The beneficiary this time is the Hawaii High School Athletic Association’s SAVE OUR SPORTS Drive.

The bin(s) will be set out no later than 11 am and all the recyclables – including donations brought from home – will be stored during the breakdown before the opening ceremonies at Aloha Stadium so that they won’t “walk away” with someone looking to pick up some spare change. We’ll set the bin back up at the post-game party.

We’ll also pick up quantities in excess of 250 containers anywhere on O`ahu on the Sunday following the T-Gate provided that arrangements are made no later than the Friday since might have to borrow a truck. Please e-mail swood at hoku dot com and include your daytime and evening phone numbers along with your real and blog names.

On Saturday, October 24, is the BOISE STATE T-Gate. The beneficiary of that HI-5 Drive will be the “Serving Up 1,000” Fundraiser honoring Coach Shoji’s 1,000th win.

Coach Shoji should have his 1,002nd win the night before (October 23)since his 1,000th win will most likely be on Wednesday, October 14, against LaTech at the Stan Sheriff Center.

Here are the recipients at the remaining home games:

Saturday, November 7, UTAH STATE – Dole Middle School’s Cross-Country Fall Semester Program;

Saturday, November 14, NEW MEXICO STATE – Pacific Islands Athletic Alliance;

Saturday, November 28, NAVY – Koa Anuenue Scholarship Program/Men’s Sports other than football;

Saturday, December 5, WISCONSIN – Koa Anuenue Scholarship Program/Wahine Sports other than volleyball.

The T-Gate recipient for the Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl will be announced after the regular season.

Again, ALL of the redemption fees will be made on behalf of the Tsai-kos & will be sent to the designated recipients within 48 – 72 hours of each T-Gate.

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NOTE: We’re coordinating a major recycling drive at three different sites in Windward O`ahu on the morning of October 24 to benefit the after-school sports programs at Castle, Kalaheo and Kailua High Schools ass part of the Hawaii High School Athletic Association SOS Fund-raiser.

More details to come, but please encourage your friends, co-workers, relatives, etc., who live in Waimanalo, Kailua, Kane`ohe & Kahalu`u to support the event. by saving their HI-5 cans & bottles. Our goal is to collect 60,000 containers in three hours at the three sites combined.

Mahalo in advance for supporting these youth and UH athletic programs.

madeinhawaii,

first of all if i knew that answer, i would be the most highly sought after coach in NCAA history.

however if i had to choose a single thing to bring us up to speed – MONEY. Our special geographical circumstances means everything costs more. June worked with so little and was able to accomplish many winning seasons and a very fortunate BCS birth. Its scary to think what not only he could accomplish but what he could sustain with even more resources. We need more of it to be on the same playing field.

we need more of it to build up our facilities, recruiting efforts, selling the brand (one of the things june i think will always be remembered for is that, he turned Hawaii football in a brand name).

yes money is not the cure all, but not needing to worry about how to spend your money or not having enough of it makes things a lot easier. Money doesn’t necessarily cure your ills but it can help to open opportunities that weren’t there when you didn’t have the money.

I dont think we will be able to keep up with USC or Texas in recruiting etc etc but I think we have the ability given the right resources to keep up with the Boise’s, TCU, and BYU’s.

I agree with Steven to give it until the Idaho game to see where the team is going.

The primary way to get the kind of money to make significants improvements in the athletic programs at UH is from the private sector via rich alumni & community leaders who will leave their money to UH such as Clarence T.C. Ching; from businesses which will profit from people coming to Hawai`i to see the game or match or tournament and then spend time & money in beautiful Hawai`i before & after the sporting event(s); and, finally from businesses such as Costco which do very well in Hawai`i or who are interested in developing a new kind of business here in Hawai`i such as solar energy research or biotech stuff.

We cannot compete against Stanford or USC or Notre Dame or BYU because UH is a publicly-funded land grant institution; however, there is no reason in the world why we cannot do as well as UCLA or UDub or Ohio State or Nebraska or UTexas or Tennessee.

What is needed is to strengthen the connections between the academic and the athletic aspects of higher education – and we have someone who is already doing that – Virginia Hinshaw.

Meanwhile, how many regulars on this blog are graduates of the University of Hawai`i? Of that number, how many are members of the UH Alumni Association? The best way that these connections will be strengthened is for UH grads who are passionate about intercollegiate sports to take on a leadership role in the UHAA. The Letterwinners Club cannot do it by themselves.

If we want to improve the athletic programs at UH over the next 10 -15 years, then it’s time to walk the walk – expecting someone else to do something is not going to achieve very much.

on a very serious note.

what is the current situation with the fonoti family?

if i was a fly on da wall, it’d be interesting to hear how the recruiting trip went.

if i was a fly on da wall, i’d try to find out from da odda semi “insiders” da particulars of how Iwonderwhytheyhateme got into da circumstances of how his moniker came to be. 😉

if I was a fly on da wall, i’d go visit Jn’s house to see if his wife could increase my wife’s winning percentage in Pick of the Pros; she went 11 of 13 yesterday.

den again, i’m guessing dat no football team or group of assistant coaches at da pee wee level would listen to her eeda. too much ruuge.

maybe das da prolem. too much leadership from 2 leaders = confusion.

buzzz buzzz i tink i hit da lottery.

Good morning to all!

Good morning Tsaikos. Good morning d1, time to wake up and get to work. hahahahaaaaa

Just my observation; when JJ was at UH. the shovel pass was like a staple in the offense….and I’m not seeing much of it anymore, am I imagining things?

BigHiloFan, Let it go already, your like a broken record. Sorry for stooping to your level.

Вино и женщины приносят нам,

Ты как обычно радуешь нас своими лучшими фразами спасибо, беру!

круто..взяла почти все))

круто..взяла почти все))

“замечательные посты”

“утро началось с замечательной статьи, спасибо!”

их больше было О_о

“Спасибо”

ммм)) так клёво))

Не в тему, но я недавно посмотрела замечательный документальный релакс фильм “Вселенная глазами телескопа Хаббл”. На торрентах есть. Советую для поднятия настроения. Радует глаза. Честно.

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