Pardon the interruption

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Way to go guys! ” offensive lineman Chauncy Winchester-Makainai, who was riding a bicycle, has trimmed down considerably. And it appears receiver Corey Paclebar has gained much-needed weight.”

Aloha Tsaikos! Just wanted to share that Pono committed this weekend to play football for Eastern Illinois. They are a FCS school in the Ohio Valley Conference. New HC Dino Babers, Hawaii Born, former UH player, former UCLA/Baylor Coach, most recently coached Baylors WRs in the bowl game w Heisman winner RGIII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOg0fszwZQA

Pono is very excited! He says the school was super nice, the coaches are going to be fun to play for and are really ‘into it’, and the team is very tight which he liked A LOT! Already getting congrats from some of you on FB! Mahalo!!! Thx to Doris @ PIAA, Al, Pride, PBK, Liz, D1, Ron Mizutani, James Millwood, Joe Onosai, Destiny Church Ohana, et al (don’t want to forget anyone) who have been so supportive!

More Hawaii connections – EIU new DC is Kim McCloud. I’ll let one of you guys write in and say who he is. Sorta make this like a little trivia game.

More trivia – UH played EIU twice in recent memory. What years?

right on pono!

the right choice is the one you make with heart and conviction.

congratulations!

Annoddah Dave, I lost ten pounds and kept it off just by

not drinking coca-cola, etc, even diet ones, except once

a week with my whopper and french fries. Also, it helps

if you eat oatmeal and brown rice and make your lunch

your main meal, and just snack at dinner, like a sardine/

ginger/seaweed salad or just an apple. But snack away

on cashews or sumptin…:)

Sardine/ginger/seaweed salad? What’s the recipe?

Hi, all. Been off the blog recently as my dad unexpectedly passed away just before Christmas. Things are starting to get better although my mom is still adjusting to things. Understandable, I guess, since they were married 62 years.

Exciting LOI day coming up. Dad would have loved it. I think he would have been very excited about the direction Coach Chow is taking the program. Anyway, just stopping by to say “hi”.

Morning everyone. With the new offense comes 2 new positions. One has been recruited heavily in the te position. Don’t hear any fb recruits. I know hawaii has big boys that can play fb but I figure that nc would bring in atleast 1 fb. Any news on fb recruits?

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warriormojo…my heartfelt and sincere condolences to you, your mom, and family.

let me know if i can help.

Oh yeah.. for snacks, I eat a couple handfuls of unsalted mixed nuts each day that I buy at longs or ebay (5lbs at a time). A good snack that helps keep the hunger pangs away. Haven’t gained an ounce doing that. Don’t let the calories on the label fool you.. unless you turn them into a paste, your body won’t absorb more than half the calories in mixed nuts. Another good snack is that kettle popcorn in the white bag that they sell in Longs. Very lightly sugared… low cal 170 cal for 1/4 bag… surprisingly tasty…

warriormojo – sorry to hear about your Dad. Lost my Dad last July. My aloha to the family.

My sincerest condolences to you and your family Warrior Mojo.

warriormojo…GBU and your Mom…

Tom Mui, get Ginger in a little plastic jar at Walmarts or

Don Quijote, red or pink, both are oishii. They pop a salad.

As for sea weed, I use the dry wakame, which you soak first

to make it soft. And just cut your lettuce, cucumber and

whatevah and mix all together and top with your favorite

dressing (oil and vinegar works great).

I believe Coach Chow employs the “H back” – a cross between FB & TE. He’ll line up on the line, off the line, in the backfield or go in motion. Personnel who played either the traditional FB or TE position can suit this role. Recruiting TEs (vice typical FB) for this position may be preferable due to the size (height/weight) factor.

Chauncy had been trimming down and getting in better and better shape as the years have progressed since high school. Just how much has he trimmed down this time? It seems more and more like Chow wants them big boys….big. Not sloppy big….but BCS-kine big.

BIK

Deepest Condolences to WarriorMojo and Nalani and their respective Ohana.

As a famous Tsaiko says, Make memories, make memories, make memories.

Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Jeannie Lee!

Looks like Coach Chow preparing for war…

congrats Nalani, well done with your son Pono.

Imua Lanakila

(height/weight) factor???

2.0 – News Reporter

2.2 – Waterboy

2.4 – WR/Slot

2.6 – WR/Slot/DB

2.8 – WR/Slot/DB/RB

3.0 – WR/DB/RB

3.2 – RB/LB/TE/DE

3.4 – RB/FB/LB/TE/DE

3.6 – FB/DT/OL/DE

3.8 – DL/OL

4.0 – DL/OL

4.2 – OL

4.4 – OL

4.6 – Tsaiko

4.8 – Big Tsaiko

5.0 – Tsaiko that should be on a diet

5.2 – Tsaiko no longer invited to C.C’s

5.4 – Rookies in the Japanese sumo stables

5.6 – Tsaikos who eat too much chocolate and cheesecake

Bulla:

January 24th, 2012 at 9:54 am

Pride,

the crew at FDC including Ann and Mike from NHCF told me to tell you aloha, they miss you. we want to take them to Saguaro with us when we go, they’re excited and so are we.

Awesome, I’m happy for them.

Will meet the other Mike today to review last Friday’s luncheon meeting. He’s very excited about it. Told him we’ll see where we can fit in.

Look forward to sitting with you and breaking bread.

I have been as culpable as anyone in the past on this one and this will be the only comment I will make on this subject.

Hawaii adopted “Warriors” as its team nickname or part of its nickname for various teams awhile ago. At that time, late 90’s, it seemed pretty cool and a good way to rally support by building excitement through varied imagery.

In the years since 2001 I think my feelings about “calls to battle”; “preparing for war”; “get a warrior mentality” and the like have led me to do more and more cringing as they years have gone by.

There are many Tsaikos who have been in the position of serving our country and have faced such circumstances in a real way and not having been one of them I do not know exactly what the experience is like nor do I wish ever wish to.

But with the changing way that wars are now being reported and brought into the living rooms and also the glimpses that are seen of those who have returned recently with horrific scars I think, for me, there’s a really large gap between reality and rhetoric.

Since nobody has posted yet, it looks like long snapper Grant Meersand will be a preferred walk on to UH this coming season. Since Luke Ingram will be a senior, gonna need a LS for the future

Off-season workouts: I wonder if the S & C staff will have those large trash cans strategically positioned at spots around where conditioning drills will take place? Seems to scare the players or at least get their attention.

koakane,

If it fits, wear it! 😆

Howzit Bulla! Always good to “see” you here, too!

It is good that UH has the last recruiting visit for so many key recruits. Going first is nice if you can prevent the recruit from taking any other visits, but it has been increasingly evident that recruits are willing to flip from even supposedly strong commitments if you can get them to visit your school. The latest example is from a former Warrior recruit who was “99.9%” committed to Portland State but switched to Montana after visiting them.

Henderson, a 2011 graduate from Skyview High School, signed last year with Hawaii. After a gray-shirt season, he opted to leave Hawaii and look elsewhere for his college plans.

Earlier this month, he reported to The Columbian that he had intended to sign with Portland State.

He had arranged a visit to Montana prior to telling Portland State he would sign with the Vikings.

“I was 99.99 percent sure I wanted to go to Portland State. At the same time, I wanted to make sure I checked out Montana,” he explained.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jan/23/henderson-changes-mind-going-to-univ-of-montana/

Good Morning again!

Braddah Mojo –

Heartfelt sympathy and prayers for you and your. Same to Nalani.

for comparison ….

Texas A&M: New defensive coordinator Mark Snyder’s salary will be $500,000.

My condolences to those who lost loved ones.

Good morning everyone!

WarriorMojo, my condolences to you and family.

51 d1shima,

If you elect to go on defense first in the NFL and the opposing team scores a touchdown, the game is over. In college you still have a turn to score a touchdown.

I may have misread your question.

nalani, great, super and best wishes for pono. it ain’t that bad during the winter in the midwest. a little cold. hahahahaaaa. went to school at isu which is not too cold either, but my japanese steps are excellent, so no do one balinton on the sidewalk.

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6.0 on Rector scale is considered Strong – destructive for up to 100 miles across populated areas.

rector scale? something that measures the butt? 😆

Couch Potato..

Yeah and with a 100 mile destructive range, too! .. Whoo boy! Weapon of mass destruction there.

Belated Happy Birthday to Jeannie Lee!

… I know we met her, but I can’t recall where… 😕

Okay.. back to football.. no recruits committed this past weekend, eh?

God Bless and belated Heavenly Condolences to Mojo and Nalani.

Good luck to Pono and all our football ohana!

Good to see Alex Green walking around again and supporting Zach in his all-star game!

Congrats to Rodney Bradley with the Ravens… and GO SENIOR BOWL GUYS!

Good luck to Pono, too!

Always remember where home is!!!

DPK #59, EIU played UH twice during the JJ era. I’m hoping they will schedule a game in the next few years. That would be awesome.

‘Sports and I would like to extend our deepest condolences, blessings, love and aloha to WarriorMojo, Nalani and their ‘Ohana.

who committed to the Warriors after this past weekend visits?

i was reading about his commitment last week thursday.

Sincerest sympathy & aloha for those recently lost loved ones.

Please excuse – my fat fingers missed the “who” between “those” and “recently” in #94.

happy birthday jeannie lee

Stephen Tsai:

January 24th, 2012 at 1:27 pm

OK, very bizarre news conference today. Ferd Lewis will be providing a report.

Is it UH football related?

what? gov wants to keep pro bowl in Hawaii?

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Oh ok…nevermind. Pro Bowl story.

I give our high school & youth coaches so much credit & appreciation for all their work. They get peanuts compared to what the pro/college coaches get.

But they provide the foundation for those coaches & work unselfishly at the expense of their own families’ time to help our kids.

LOL CP!

now if the gov can convince the legislature to legalize marijuana and some form of gambling, i’d be a happy camper. 😎

and while you’re at it, convince the new mayor to bring back other related fireworks. we’ve had more voggy days than one smokey fun night on new year’s eve.

here’s ferd’s blurb on gov’s remarks. … ST – delete if not supposed to cutnpaste …

” Gov. Neil Abercrombie made a surprise entrance during a Pro Bowl press conference today and declared, “we would like to continue to have (the Pro Bowl) and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure that that comes about in a fashion that will make everybody very, very happy.”

The comments were in contrast to statements last year in which he questioned the state paying $4 million per year to keep the game here.

The Governor’s comments today came shortly after an NFL official had told the gathering “we were aware of the comments of the governor recently.”

The Pro Bowl that will be played Sunday at Aloha Stadium is the 32nd and last one currently under contract to the state. Negotiations have been on-going for future games.

A Hawaii Tourism Authority spokesman said he did not expect an announcement this week.

Asked if the 2013 or ’14 game could be held here, Abercrombie said, “we’re gonna certainly do everything we can to make sure that happens. We’ be delighted if they did.”

Abercrombie termed the state’s relationship with the NFL “excellent.” … “

back to recruiting. one official commit is better than nothing.

hmmm details on recruits that will be resolved after this weekend? i take that to mean if some guys don’t commit this weekend, then the guys that visited last weekend are next in line.

Watanabe is the only official commit from this past weekend.

There are details on others that will be resolved after this weekend.

Eastern Illinois—-Charleston IL to be more exact….about 45 minutes south of University of Illinois…..Tony Romo….small nice school. My son played there and I was a trivia question when EIU played UH….I played at UH and he played there…..Warriors roughed up the panthers….his teamates told me “those guys did not look human” he was referring to there size and toughness….they were glad when the game ended. Of course I was proud—-GO WARRIORS

We have a Lt. Governor?

Yes, the Governor leans heavily Lt.

So what, you guys think we got a ONE and DONE Governor?

I wonder if the old man will ever learn how not to stuff his feet into his mouth? Isn’t this one of the major reasons why some of his younger staffers left? Because of a boss who talks way too fast and relies heavily on others to clean up his mess?

Duke Aiona? Nah. I no think so.

But one would think that he’ll probably run again.

The Hawaii political waters are stale and stagnant. Time to huli the water.

BIK

122. That’s what I took from the statement.

Tommy Lee was on the animals today. No Pam. He said that his area of recruiting is the local high schools. He hasn’t had much time to study the current players on film yet because of the focus on recruiting. They will try to install as much of the base stuff as they can in the spring. He also mentioned something about using personnel groups and different formations. He will also talk to his bros Cal and Ron to get input on the current players.

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Lottery tickets…yeah, I could buy that. Gambling casinos? No.

Monster “noisy” metal on metal railway? Ugh…

I grew up literally on the other side of the tracks,

and believe me, a clankety clank train will wake you up.

And will there be clanging signals?

In Japan, they clang clang all day…

Hi Warrior Mojo and Nalani. sincere condolences to each of your ohana.

Congrats to da man Pono. you go! and God bless.

Abercrombie was correct in everything he said. $4m could be better spent elsewhere….

Think Davone Bess would be a good position coach.

Heard tommy lee say that te could be used as fb too and that they might change some personnel around.

Wat is the oddah “hapa”?

“hapa” new year?

I was just looking for this info for a while. After 6 hours of continuous Googleing, at last I got it in your website. I wonder what is the Google’s issue that does not rank this type of informative web sites closer to the top. Generally the top sites are full of garbage.

#75, Warriors scheduled to meet Huskies on Dec. 7, 2013 at Aloha Stadium. They’ll have a few players from Hawaii. Should be a good game. And the teams meet again on Sept. 19, 2015 in Seattle.

Shadow.

obviously you been shot at….

😆

1st day back after a week of snow days. While it was tough for nearly everyone it was extra difficult for some of my kids. They are on free/reduced meals. For a week they were without power and food, and reliable transportation to get to a food bank (assuming they were open and had food available).

Some kids enjoyed the time off playing in the snow. Others were worried about keeping warm and constant hunger pains.

Nice to see the Hawaiian Airlines logo and the Big West Conference logo on the same banner.

Can’t wait to get out of the WAC.

http://www.bigwest.org/info/shootout/

the state’s relationship with the nfl is “excellent”. dang, almost puked on my computer.

i no i no. i’d like to take 1/8th credit. cuz I’m 1/8th pake. 😀 i’m getting extra credit cuz I went to church within da past 10 years. 😆

ok 1/8 pake, what’s for lunch??

chirashi bowl!

come ova, i’m buyin. 😀

#171 Whitey

If this was a country that had a Parlementary form of government and the leaders proposed a certain policy which gets overwhelming rejected, it would be a form of “no-confidence” in its leaders and there would be a call for a new government.

Maybe the question really should be if the relationship between the Union leadership and the teachers is excellent.

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counselor, but don’t we not have a parlimentary form of government where there are parlimentary rules of order???

should have gone to law school, so i can understand legal lingle from bhf2, counselor, and warriormojo.

and i didn’t learn da intricacies of Glock law in school. 😀

Is it against NCAA Rules to wait at the airport with a Sign that Says “Welcome Warrior Recruits”?

stevem, s why we should have gone to law school. these legal guys get many answers and when you think you got it, they give you the slide and escape. the only way i going get one straight answer from the counselor is to buy sum “maui wowee” and bring it to hnl.

i goin try like counselor, the question of the o-linemen speed can be overrated becasue if the dline is pancaked, is speed needed?

#162 Kevin – Regarding Big West, Hawaiian Airlines flies to airports close to 6 of the 9 Big West schools. (45 minute drive or less from Sacramento and LAX airports) UCSB, and the two schools in Orange county might be longer drives – I fo’get which two)

While I am on a role… ALL UH Baseball road games will be on the radio this season!

#176 Whitey:

No. Parliamentary government – there is clear cut separation of executive and legislative. In Great Britain, for example, the people elect their representatives (House of Commons) and the majority party elects their “Prime leader” – i.e. Prime Minister and so that party can propose and enact legislation. If the proposal gets rejected by the majority in Parliament, there is what is called a “loss of confidence” and usually new elections are called.

The US has a clear cut separation of the executive and legislative departments. The President, for example, can propose legislation and the legislative branch can reject it. The legislative branch can also enact laws, make their own proposals and enact them

see counselor, i should have gone to law school than i can be more akamai.

commits(espn):

Kiha Sai-#69 OT Honolulu, HI

Kamehameha Schools 6’4” 300

Hawaii

Committed

01/09/2012

Dustin Adams-#152 OT Minot, ND

Minot Senior High School 6’5” 285

Hawaii

Committed

07/30/2011

John Ursua-#186 ATH Saratoga Springs, UT

Westlake High School 5’10” 180

Hawaii

Committed

01/17/2012

Harold Moleni-TE West Valley City, UT

Hunter High School 6’3” 250

Hawaii

Committed

01/22/2012

Ethan Watanabe-TE San Antonio, TX

William J. Brennan High School 6’2” 238

Hawaii

Committed

01/20/2012

Benetton Fonua-OLB Kahuku, HI

Kahuku High School 6’0” 208

Hawaii

Committed

01/22/2012

Leo Koloamatangi-OT Atherton, CA-6’5” 260

Hawaii

Committed

01/05/2012

Gus Lavaka-OG Kearns, UT

Kearns High School 6’5” 310

Hawaii

Committed

01/18/2012

Ikaika Woolsey-QB Richmond, CA

Salesian High School 6’0” 195

Hawaii

Committed

09/29/2011

Ipulasi Eselu-DE Honolulu, HI

Moanalua High School 6’3” 220

Hawaii

Committed

07/08/2009

J.T. Turner-CB Massillon, OH

Scottsdale Community College 6’2” 200

Hawaii

Committed

12/04/2011

Ronald Fields-CB Sacramento, CA

College of San Mateo 6’2” 190

Hawaii

Committed

01/12/2012

Clark Evans-TE Los Alamitos, CA

Cerritos College 6’4” 245

Hawaii

Committed

01/12/2012

Sione Lavaka-DT Oakland, CA

Laney College 6’3” 300

Hawaii

Committed

Panthers traded Angelo Esposito to the Texas Stars in exchange for left wing Andrej Roman.

Regarding recruiting, Tommy Lee made it sound like thay have enough QBs right now and would not look for more. Regarding FB he said they have some guys already on team and some TE recruits may be able to switch to FB too.

Ipu Man – The light rail in Portland is fairly quiet. As a matter of fact, you need to look both ways before you cross the street to make sure one is not coming. The regular train is very noisy, b ut not the light rail.

jason, long time no see.

manuel was explaining to his wife that when he dies, he wants her to go to the bank, get a half a million dollars in hundreds and twenties, and put them in a pillow. take the pillow with the money and tie it in the attic so when he passes to go up to heaven, he will pick it up. so upon manuel’s death, mary did exactly as instructed. mary checked every day to see if manuel picked up the bag. after 2 weeks, the bag was still there, so mary called out loud to manuel “I think I put the bag in wrong place, I should have put it in the basement”.

Thanks for the Las Vegas minute, whitey.

Night all!

Hey gang (including you Mr. Tsai),

Just my two cents!

I read his article on listened to Dave Reardon on the radio (w/ B. Curran), and his take on all the recruiting is excitement, to me anyway, is really back-handed compliments.

He keeps saying “well, remember Hawaii fans were all excited when McMackin took over too”……

Huh?

As if Mack, even June Jones for that matter, ever really made a solid effort to recruit Hawaii kids.

This, my friends, and correct me if I’m wrong, is the first all out effort by a U-H football coaching to staff to really get after local kids in the recruiting wars.

Rauscher and Powell (I believe that’s their names), the first two members of Norm Chow’s staff, hit Kahuku, Kamehameha and Punahou on their first full day. Followed that up with a visit to St. Louis.

Then they back-tracked to cover some of those schools a second time during their first week.

Gotta love that! That’s the first REAL effort in over 15 years by the UH coaching staff.

Not Mack, not Jones, not von Appen for that matter.

DAMN IT’S REFRESHING!

I get a funny feeling good things are coming!

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2. Shirokiya

3. Servco

7. that’s where i bought my first watch

8. Hilo Hattie

9. Piggly Wiggly?????

10. Bale

11. Patti’s Chines Kitchen

12. rocky aoki’s benihana. and the rock died in a boating accident, i think.

13. lau hee chai

14. lahainaluna

Would be nice if the KKEA team actually went to practice more often and actually spent time in the Athletic Dept.

stevem, how i did?????

#216

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guessing, honolulu iron works??????

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Collectively, all the answers are in place… oldtimer808 has it all in #231

whitey — you did well for not living on Oahu (and not watching much Hawaii Five-O???) . Chun Hoon (#9) would be very difficult. But we used to shop there since we live in the Liliha-Judd area.

I do not know the 5th company in your #221 question.

Did TYaiea get it with “C. Brewer”?

UHAlum91 — Liliha/Judd…? 🙂

jm2375 — #6 Musashiya was difficult. I happened to know that because their store was a marble shot away from Fong’s (char siu) in the Chinatown fish market and that is where my parents bought me first suit for a prom… 😆

#210: but that’s exactly what happened – when Jones first came aboard, there was all kind of excitement about the top local kids wanting to stay home (like Timmy Chang, who was a HUGE get at the time), but eventually things fell off and we started to hear about the rift between Jones and the North Shore. Then, along comes Mack and the first thing he says is that they are going to recruit better locally, and for a time it does seem like that’s happening… but then we start to hear more and more local kids saying how UH didn’t even approach them. So I wouldn’t hold it against the Bobby Currans of the world for pointing that stuff out. They’ve been around the program a long time and they want to see some proof over an extended period of time before they declare that things really are different under Norm Chow. I hope they are.

I have faith in Coach Chow! I have faith in his crew!

#153 BigHiloFan2:

Thanks for calling out all the faux fans who just like to hear the sound of their own worst fears! Afraid that Coach Chow won’t live up to their unrealistic expectations. Guess he has to kiss babies or go to baby luau’s and heal the sick, before they will stop the nonsense.

howzit slenzi.

yup. i was going off at 161, 163. i can see Chauncey was already on it!

It sure is hard for NMSU to hold on to coaches…typical of schools with smaller budgets. I’m posting this because it mentions how UH got Juan Lozano from NMSU for a similar position.

Four assistant coaches left the Aggies and the team also lost Juan Lozano, the football program coordinator the past three years, who recently accepted a similar position at the University of Hawaii.

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-sports/ci_19812265