Soares’ UH career will officially end

Warrior fan for LIFE!

shi
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MIH:

same thought crossed my mind – am I seeing this correct?

maybe ST doesn’t want any one else applying for the positions!

(repeating from the last post)

Pomai,

Lower lots open at 10:00 am. Main lot opens at 11:00 am.
Turnstiles open at 12:00 pm.
People may start leaving the stadium at 12:01 pm.

http://alohastadium.hawaii.gov/sheraton-hawaii-bowl-nevada-vs-smu

From da “Wow! Laulau” Dept.:

Gate 1: Parking in Sections 1-7 are for PASSES ONLY.
Gate 2: Parking in Sections 8-14 are for Public Parking.

Ohayo Gozaimasu Tsaikos!

Good Morning and thanks to all involved for the tickets…

Bleed Green…

What’s that? You selling Gozas?

mih,

😆

My own commentary.

Congratulations curveball!

Good morning Tsaikos….

Hope all is well and everyone is enjoying the holidays.

Just wanted to ask again for everyone to keep my mom in your thoughts and prayers as she finally heads into surgery today at 1 p.m. (hopefully they won’t postpone again).

Thanks for all your love and friendship over the past few years. You guys are totally awesome.

On my way to the hospital…hope to have good news for you guys later this afternoon.

Take care (J)J…

Prayers and thoughts for your mom for a successful surgery and quick recovery.

*yaaaaawnnnn*

Morning, gang!

J(J):

Successfuly surgery and speedy/full recovery for your Mom!!

Aloha Kakahiaka,

Hugs to (J)J and prayers for Mom.
We are all in His Hands!

Have a GREAT day, erryone!

Good thoughts for your mom JJ…

(J)J,

I hope that everything goes well with your Mom’s surgery today.

Prayers for your mom Jamie.

j/j – prayers are with you and your mom.

“The coach may write and telephone you or your parents during this time.”

there IS a difference between talking and talking in person, but for this ‘dead period’ only, is it a big difference? shouldn’t they just make it no contact completely but keep the exception?

hello everyone, long time!

g-nalo ~ Save your phone call. We are not entertaining any offers at this time. We are closer to the dead zone than you think.

Does the smaller print about the graduate assistant announcement mean that they already have someone in mind for the positions?

Prayers for your Mother JJ!

afternoon gang!

thoughts and prayers for (J)J’s mom

there’s going to be a santa sighting tomw at central union church.

Congratulations to Donald Patton who won two tickets and a inner ring parking pass to the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

all right don patton!!!

i wonder if being general patton’s grandson had anything to do with his winning?

al:

just a wondering – is the Oregon cb/s/wildcat not being offered by Oregon and Oregon St?

is he down to Idaho – yuky place in the winter – and Hawaii?

prayers and success to jj’s mom, may her recovery be quick. not to add to this but again I say 09 is a bad year. found out 3 more friends of mine passed this month. may the good lord take care of our family and friends.

phew post office and fedex super crowed. gald that is over with.

welcome home to the lost sons of the 808, chahng, wafan and latter izzy. is the ahouses planning a gathering? also congrats to the ticket winners (have a good day and boo meat june for me)

off again so take care tsaiko’s and be nice now oh hellllloooo howwwww youuu to cohana, glad to hear gnalo recovering from his field trip (heard he only spent a week this time in queen) bwhaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Wow I guess I’m the only one who faxed in anything. An no al I am not related to Gen. Patton, as a matter of fact he isn’t a patton at all.

So Mr. Wier how do I collect? LOL

Liz actually I don’t, did it from my computer.

Best wishes and speedy recovery to J(J)’s mom.

Yo Pomai!!!
Congrats!

My thoughts & prayers are with J(J)’s mom & familly.
,
Good luck to Manley, Quezada & others who went elsewhere. If and when they play against us though, I hope our D creams them good!
Honestly, I didn’t feel Manley really wanted to play here & I don’t want any wafflers or half-committed players here anyway. And as for the OT that supposedly committed to Wyoming, good riddance (even if he was physically gifted). If a player says it’s between Wyoming & Hawaii & he has to think about it, we don’t need stupid players here. Granted they beat Fresno State & have been getting into Bowls of late, but come ON! Next to Utah, BYU, TCU they are only an after-thought.

JJ – my best wishes and prayers go out to you and Mom.

that new commit from Skyline – John ‘Cooper’ Peller looks like a good one. It’s in his genes plus Skyline produces a lot of great athletes.

See the Link: http://www.maxpreps.com/photo/gallery.aspx?athleteid=00496075-4383-403e-924a-e4ec5c7de038&imageid=477fe859-1c99-4055-8406-75c5208c24d3&ssid=f11d21e3-d9ab-4c9b-974b-ff4fcfed5c76#imageid=477fe859-1c99-4055-8406-75c5208c24d3

From Emerald City Kick-Off Classic

Florida St. leading Na Wahine at the half, 37-24.

2nd pd starting now.

Catch the internet audio, click da name

Keep hearing “Easy lay-up” from the audio… 🙁

redskins suck. negative yardage after one quarter, under 2 minutes of possession, and its an NFL team.

But they got a commitment from another quarterback and they asked me to grayshirt. The way the numbers are now, I could end up without a scholarship.

Hmmmmm…….

14:25 left. UH still no mo’ mo’ points yet.

48-24

13:31. UH scores….and 1….no

50-26

10:58, left.
57-26

D1..

Hurts to see them get beaten this way.. but it’s a good lesson for them to play a team like Florida St. If anything, they will expose every weakness that the Wahine have.. and if the Wahine hang tough… they will find all their strengths to build on, as well…

mih,

Great…this was a “Let’s get our swagger back” game for FSU….

djmitcho comments on Twitter that Giants are making ‘Skins look like they’re playing the JV….sadly, same could be said in the WBB game 🙁

mih,

🙄

Hey d1
what happened with da grumpy airline people?

duffer,

Ask stretch. 😆

The BlockFest carries over from WVB….10 blocked shots by FSU tonight!

Congrats, Pomai!

MsLiz must be having kittens given the Redskins play.

d1,

Thanks for the Wahine updates.

79-36….thankfully, FSU is running clock off now.

2:24 left…wide open Seminole makes it 81-36…

3-pt shooting

3-16 (19%)
10-15 (67%)

Thankfully, CB is safe from this train wreck. 🙄

wouldn’t be surprised is zorn is fired tomorrow and the redskins get ready for the m holgren era. this will be a huge plus for cb cause there is no future for jason c in washington. he will be waived or traded.

The Wahine getting da hurt right put on em huh?

Is FSU like ranked 10th?

getting lickings like the kentucky fried chicken is something that’s going to happen when the oppostion has better personnel than you, but that should not stop any coaching staff from coaching and looking for future recruits. i coach dana has the right idea and has set some reasonable goals for the wahines, but at the same time, I am sure she is looking at various recruits who can turn the program around.

m holmgren is with the Cleveland franchise. Allen is with the skins, Cerrato is out. and to think the skins brought in sherman lewis to run the offense.

What is disturbing about the UH recruiting is that they don’t have any recruits from the state of Texas. I thought they were looking for prospects from the Lone State when they practiced at Euless, TX. I guess they were false rumors. Too bad! Good players like Mouton, Newberry, and Lewis were excellent players for the Warriors. Texas also has very good QBs. See recent story in the Sports Illustrated about the high school QBs from Texas who have played or are playing at a host of colleges all over the country. You would think we could get some offensive and defensive linemen from there.

dang, giants block the pat, but what else is new with the redskins.

derek, you are probably correct about texas recruits. how can we not get players from blinn, especially when we got mouton and patek?? but then again, they came here because of jj and haven’t been asked for their opinions. or the warriors are limiting their jc recruiting to just the west coast.

ralph, and sherm lewis is an old man like me with possilbe tinges of “glory forgotten”. this game has passed him and he should just enjoy or yell like hell like us old farts.

We got Mouton because it wasn’t clear he would qualify. UH took a chance on him and it paid off. It’s pretty clear we were able to get some players from Texas due to circumstances.

olddiver, i don’t know the circumstances about mouton’s admission, but we have an outstanding db play for us and i am sure he knows many other fb families in his area, so why not ask him for info. derek’s point about practicing in Euliss is a good example of team exposure, but not recruiting any of them. Not sure, but Euliss is always one of the top teams in the no 1 division in texas hs fb.

Regarding # 117

{Coach Dana got to pick up the nuances of what a D1 player is all about.}

I guessing she knows exactly what a D1 player is all about. She just has not had a chance to recruit yet. This lady is smart.

sheesh, the redskins pat attempts look like our team’s pat this past season.

jaws may yap a lot, but he is absolutely correct about being an NFL coach, “winning is the most important thing”.

lefty, manly had chance when offered, but he made his decision, so all can wis.h him is best wishes with NMSU

Best of luck for Andrew Manly @ NMSU but I Hope UH can work a scholie for him.

Wasn’t Manley’s scholarship offer from UH a conditional one based on a time frame. Possibly a “First one to commit gets it?” If that was the case, I can see how the Coaches’ hands are tied. I’m sure inasmuch as they may want Manley, they can’t go back on their original offer and expect future recruits to take them seriously. Got to stand firm.

Hey Tsaikos…whew..mom’s surgery was just completed…was supposed to be 2.5 hours but it went about 4.25 hours…MD said things went well and she should be okay…still concern for infection. The next 24 – 48 hours are the most important and then it will be on to probably months of rehab. The surgery is completed though.

Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts. I ask for you guys to continue to pray and keep my mom in your thoughts though.

Whew…at least there is some relief. Thanks again. The power of prayer does work….and the power of the Tsaikos is remarkable.

JJ – glad to hear the operation went well. Prayers for her …

j(j) great news and when you see her, wish her a merry, merry christmas.

(J)J…
So good to hear that your mom’s operation went well… the waiting must have felt like the hardest work you’ve done in years. Will keep her in our thoughts.

okay,

i’m gonna give you all a threat of a treat. to enter the contest, all you gotta post is:

” I wanna help Big Hilo out on his journey to show up at JJ’s game, give him a tix so he can sit wit me at the game 12/24.”

da wife’ll be picking the winner tonight. okay, maybe tomorrow nite if we no mo contestants tonite. extra bonus points: you get free beer if you pick me up at da airport. 😆

psssttt….

is this a ncaa violation? 😆

bhf2, i would gladly give you the tickets, but unfortunately I neva win any. Maybe Santa get some in his bag.

there is an unsettling feeling in A-House’s mind this part of the recruiting process – too many things are hanging – we don’t know exactly what the Coaches are doing ( by the way, dummy, who said you must know all the itty biddy facts ) – ST is suddenly silent and so is “al”, my self appointed guru of all gurus –

Manley just missed the boat to Hawaii and now must take his lumps at NaMasu!

I guess it’s only natural that Boise St offers recruiting trips to Hawaii athletes – but, would you want to go to Bosie St? – dang, last player was the one from Molokai, who came to UH for one year and then transferred – now playing for the Steelers ( still yet? )

speaking of Molokai, remembered what Psyco and Mento said about Peter Pale – the biggest Filipino they ever saw! and Tevita Sangopolu(sp) – he da man, no fuss around with him, give him all the space he wants – to bad so many injuries cut his career short and had only a brief playing career with UH – built like a 55 gal drum and powerful as heck!!!

so i wanna tell you, parent to parent, good luck to your boy. If he no like go UH, and he’s one of several of your boys who neva like go UH, then my advice to him is, go da someplace else. stop making me druul because of you. go find his own way in life. amen.

i mean dat, totally. i’m not a poor sport. i just no like waste my time wishing for somebody who no like be for Warrior Nation. he no like play in front of his mama. i no he’s not his mama’s boy.

and the reason i’m saying this is, i see your family, and i’m thinking to myself, this man no mo culture implanted into his kids. might as well go SMU and make noise ova dayah. fo real! get a good life and good vibes ova dayah. fo real. talk nice fo one minute, and den stab us in da back da next. go ahead, call me aliyah.

PS Peace. I am a Warrior fan. i’m sicka da bs. i’m speaking up, because i’m thinking about da next Warrior up. i want Hawaii people to know, i for one am tired of the two face speaky up.

you guys can all disavow me. cut me off da blog. ainokea. i’ma tellin you how i feel. Mississippi Michigan guys wanna play in front dare muddaz. illinois iowa guys wanna play in front dare mamaz. our best guyz wanna go someplace else. except Paipai, Geordon, Blaze anna few oddas.

i talking out cuz i’ve given up on so and so. he’s gone. and i might as well say sumtin now so that everybody nose what i’m saying out loud, and da high school coaches facta dat in when they try fo take advantage of UH, feel good about themselves at the expense of us. fo real!

BHF2,

I think I can get you a ticket to the game. I’m picking up LizKauai at 10:30 am on the 24th at HA. Can you get in at that time from Hilo?

Mrs. A-House,

Aunty Loretta did good at the LV airport on the way home! Yay! My Mom didn’t have the luck. But they are all home now & probably ready to crash. What a wonderful experience to see the Wahine play Penn St.

Here’s my two cents on the Texas recruiting: Not only do we need to compete against Houston and Texas Tech in recruiting players for our pass-happy offense, but now SMU is a legitimate threat as well. Not only are they a winning program, but they also have the foremost expert on the R&S as their coach, just like TTech has one of the foremost experts on the Air Raid in Mike Leach. And Houston’s Kevin Sumlin is a pretty good offensive mind as well.

Sure, we have a paradise-like setting, but they have academics, money, and a setting closer to home. I always hoped we would build a mini-pipeline through Texas, especially when we had a bunch of players from Houston (like Michael Brewster and Brandon Eaton), but I’m not sure it’s going to happen anymore.

Garrett,
I think Jeremy Ione is going an a trip just to see the world.
As a Junior at Punahou, right before the semi-finals, Harbaugh out of Stanford offerred him a full ride. What would you do??

Letting Manley go to NMSU would not happen on Junes watch. This is a HUGE mistake that will comeback to haunt MAC. Manley and Moniz would be great marketing for the program and state. Plus they can play.

Mac wants to keep the good ones at home …really? How good is that Arizona quarterback…the last one to come form there with a rep was …hmmm Tyler Graunke.

Good evening!

protector, i don’t see anything wrong with uh’s recruitment this year and i truly don’t believe it is a slap on their face when they lose a recruit. the kids have until feb to change their minds and some will, but most won’t. like bhf2 said, we stick with those who want to be warriors and to those who do not, best wishes and no try stab us in the back.

what’s wrong with any school, wac or non wac, offering our kids scholies to attend their school. absolutely nothing wrong and why do you want to put up barriers for these kida and families. uh is like any other school, makes their presentation and if they want to, make an offer. it is then decided by the kids and their families. so why get all bent out of shape about recruiting?????

Pomai . . .

Please check your e-mail.

don weir said stanford offered a jr at punahou a scholie and asked what we going do. simple, have uh present to the kid and his family reasons to stay here and if they think he deserves a scholie, offer him one. why are we afraid of any school recruiting in Hawaii. that is truly great and it reflects on the hs programs and their coaches.

bhf2 on # 156,

Totally agree with you. And we all know that there will be players who will keep their “options” open even if they have already made a decision in their heart & mind. I don’t mind kids that truly have an open mind about finding the right fit for them at all. In Manti Te’o’s case, although it was personally galling to me that UH was not even in his top 5, I appreciated him being up front & not getting UH’s hopes up & tieing up a scholie in the meanwhile.

jm2375 on # 157,

I’m sure that with the new GM & if they do bring in Coach Shanahan, they will turn things around & fairly quickly I would think. In Colt Brennan’s case, Zorn tried to force a square peg into a round hole rather than figuring out how best to utilize his talent. I really think that Shanahan is intelligent enough to figure out that it’s costing the team only , although one of the so-caaround 400 thou to kleep him around for his 3rd year although one of the so-called experts predicted they’d get rid of him since Zorn is as good as gone. What terrible logic! If they implement a West Coast Offense, I say Colt beats out Campbell handily
and hopefully he would get a real shot the way Flacco, Ryan & Sanchez did. Sadly, Colt was screwed out of the money that these guys got but if he gets a legitimate look by a smart Coach, I think he’ll make Shanahan forget about Cutler.

J(J) good news! fortunately fb season is over, now you can help in her rehab.

To Vonappen on # 166,

It wasn’t a ‘big mistake’ on UH’s part that will “come back to haunt them”.. They offered him a scholarship last year; he just didn’t WANT it or was afraid of the competition there. And as for Graunke, he played really well for us except his Senior Year when he truly dropped the ball & only looked like a shadow of how he played in previous years. I think when Colt decided to come back, it just totally discombobulated him & he never recovered.

whitey on # 170,

I didn’t say it was a slap in the face to UH (for Manley to end up at NMSU). I felt it could be perceived as a “slap” by the other teams in the (WAC) Conference and elsewhere on the mainland. I don’t care that we lost Manley,because (just like bhf2) I don’t want any players that don’t want to be here. I said before I’ll wish them luck and then concentrate on the incoming Warriors who are jacked to play here, like Quines, Pelluer & others.

can colt take the pounding that campbell took tonight? Sanchez is taking a pounding with the Jets, so is Stafford with the Lions. Colt is fortunate to be on the sidelines learning, I believe Montana stood on the sidelines a few years and Steve Young waited his turn behind Montana.

xx . . .

Portland?

I believe Manley had a chance to verbal and be a scholarship player for UH.. it seems he decided to take his chances and wait to see who else would come to the table. In the end.. Spain took his lunch ticket and the rest is history.

BUT, apparently UH did extend Manley a walk-on opportunity after the scholarship offer expired … which is a very fair deal. But, I suppose, one would have to have a world of confidence to take a walk-on opportunity over an assured scholarship if tuition and board is an issue.

In the end.. the Coaches held true to their offerings.. and stood firm. The way it has to be. They can’t afford to be weak at the knees now. Cave in and every future recruit will think they can play footsies with the coaches and string them along. Gotta to lose a few 3 or 4 star players to get bunches more to commit.

i agree with letsgowarriors aka letsgobows aka letsgobroncos…

we should make a concerted effort to pick up jeremy ioane of punahou.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn-0TcChGJY

besides…i’d hate to see him in a blue uniform and for that matter i’d hate to see both he and hauoli jamora in blue n orange.

wafan,

Roger that, the ultimate “Burbs” here in portland…..Tigard. LOL. What part of WA are you in now?

Working at Washington Square (Nordstrom) and got promoted to an Management position in the middle of Oct. They gave me 13 days after they offered the position for me to start….was nutz trying to move pregnant wife and our furry cat here…haha. And you know what? the cat was the most expensive to move because of shots for her, plane tickets, special this and that lol.

Congrats to Kolten Wong! BIG ISLAND REPRESENT!!! IIRC, he graduated one year after my niece at Kamehameha Hawai`i…something like that

If my kids have a chance for a scholarshipped Stanford education, I say GO.

Hawaii has much to offer but a Stanford education is a premium opportunity for any child. Athlete or not.

ms. lizk….in case i forgot. again thanks for that for real kine hawaiian salts.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/12/ucla-football-stanley-hasiak-eaglebank-bowl-.html

Thanks for the scoop 2K and Mixed of WSN

#194: What ever.

I cannot talk about football right now… just watched part of the Mon Nite Football on dvr…

😈 🙄 😈

Al is correct that Manley had a lot of time to take UH’s offer. The coaches offered him extremely early and it was clear that he wanted to explore his options…which has risks for both UH and for him.

I also remember a discussion we had a year ago when UH took 3 high school QBs, which is something *extremely* unusual in all of college football. I know that I said at the time that was going to hurt the Manley recruiting. I also remember Manley specifically discussing that 3 QB class as something that was not positive.

ALL players look at the depth chart before committing, especially QBs. If you want intelligent high school recruits, you have to expect that they can think for themselves instead of just choosing a school on blind faith. Manley saw that there were a whole bunch of QBs that would have the experience in the system ahead of him and he’d have less of a chance to play at UH than almost any other school.

When UH is thin at a position, the coaches (and UH fans) focus on the depth chart and point out why a recruit should pick UH. When UH is overloaded at a position with scholarship players, don’t you think that other schools and the recruits themselves notice that? Even I cannot swallow that much kool-aid to ignore that.

I wanted to stay home, but if Stanford had offered me a full ride, I probably would have gone. Then again, I never had that opportunity, since I never applied. 😛

sniff, sniff..do i smell cookies?

Who cares if Manley goes to NMSU? Bottom line…HE DID NOT WANT TO PLAY FOR UH! He wasn’t a loss. Now I consider Kama Bailey a loss. He wanted to play for UH but there was only room for him to walk on. He’s playing big time now for Idaho. Que sera, sera…

Enough talk of the recruits who did not want to be Warriors. I’d like to hear more about the ones who chose to play for our state.

Hoohiki,

Good point–Kama Bailey really wanted to stay home, Manley sat on UH’s offer for a year and the coaches had to move on.

XxFaithxX,

UH is first and foremost a place for education. What really bothers me is how the budget cuts are hurting the Academic side, because that hurts ALL of Hawaii. It also hurts the Athletic teams because recruits (and their parents) do select schools based on academics.

UH has some excellent academic programs and many, many excellent professors who do a great job and would only live in Hawaii. However, cutting the budgets and neglecting to maintain the buildings and labs is taking a toll that I do not see a solution to since the Hawaii state budget is squeezed right not. That is happening other places also, especially for the public Universities in California.

There is a big difference in what some private schools (like Stanford) can do now vs. what public Universities can do. When the gap narrows on the education side, I’d bet you’d see a lot more local athletes staying home to play for UH.

al,

It might be, but to be honest, it is like what they say about girls and leftovers.

I would pass =)

….besides, he would only have 2 maybe 3 years (Played this year, would have to sit out one year OR possibly get an AA before he could play) and quite frankly I am tired of cheering for players for 2-3 years and then “POOF”, gone. I want all 4.

XxFaithxX,

I chose other schools instead of UH *three* times, so I guess I’ll be on your bad list. But here are my reasons:

1. When I was a senior at Castle High, I wanted to go into Engineering. UH had just gone through the Accreditation process and their Engineering school was severely criticized because of a number of problems they had. I was told that UH could lose its accreditation, which would mean my Engineering degree would have been worthless. A UH professor was quite upset at the situation there and really discouraged me from going there until the accreditation was cleared up.

The fact is that UH went through the accreditation process a year or two later and passed that time, so everything was fine. But when I was applying, things did NOT look good to stay home. Plus, Texas offered me *3* scholarships (no NCAA limits on scholarships for the academic side) and they waived the rule that you could only take one at a time…so I had all three scholarship checks to cash.

My parents taught in the public school system in Hawaii and they saved their whole lives for the college funds for my sister and me. I really wanted to go to CalTech and they gave me a 80% scholarship…but after Texas gave me 3 scholarships and made it so that I made a profit to go to college, I had to choose them.

2. When I was going for my Masters degree, I won a competition for a fellowship from Sandia National Laboratories. They gave out 10 in the country and they paid for all school expenses PLUS paid $33k+ in salary for the year away at school…and there was no obligation to go to work for them after getting the MS degree. The catch was that you had to go to a Masters program that was certified take no more than a year. UH never bothered to get that certification, so I could not go there. I ended up choosing Stanford, which was rated #1 in my major.

3. I only applied to 2 PhD programs, UH and Texas. I was set to go to UH and talked with the professors I wanted to work with. Then UH decided that I wanted to go there so badly that they could just offer me a *half* scholarship. They assumed that my parents would pay the other half.

Right after I got that news, Texas decided to fly me in for a recruiting trip. That was one of the best weekends of my life and I am glad that there were no NCAA regulations on how much they could spend on my food and entertainment! They offered me a full scholarship *plus* a salary…enough so that I qualified for a loan to buy a condo in Austin based on my student salary. After I committed to Texas for their PhD program, UH found out and offered me a full scholarship…but I stuck to my word and went to Texas.

So, you could say that I turned away from UH 3 times. But are you going to say that I made the wrong decision? I wish that I could have gone to UH, but the Academics and the money was a combination that I could not pass up. The Texas professor I studied under was #1 in his part of EE, and that is the specialty that I’m still in right now. If UH had given me the full scholarship offer for the PhD program like their professors thought they were going to do, then I never would have gone on the Texas recruiting trip and I would have gone to UH even though the academic side was better at Texas.

Al,

A 4-for-3 OL with that size and talent is worth a second chance to me. Did he get a release yet? If not, there is nothing official that the UH coaches can do now except to wait.

Garret,

I’m a Manley fan, but when Graves became available last year we had to take him. He should see the field next year.

Manley will be fine. I don’t think he has any regrets at the moment, other than not getting better offers from bigger schools.

Garret,

No, do not even feel/think that you are on my bad list as there is not even one that exists. And I do not even rate as someone that you should feel you need to explain yourself as I am just a normal dude lol.

You did what you felt is right and it is what it is and from what I hear, you do a lot to assist the university and for that I Thank You and if we ever meet, do not be offended that I call you “Sir” =)

It will be a pleasure to sack and pick off Mr. Manley over the next 4 or maybe 5 years.

If he starts and if NMSU doesn’t get kicked out of participating in the FBS.

Good Luck Blaze.
Mahalo for all you did for the Warriors!

Good news (J)J. Hoping for a full recovery.

Hoohiki:

December 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Hoohiki:

December 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Now I consider Kama Bailey a loss. He wanted to play for UH but there was only room for him to walk on. He’s playing big time now for Idaho. Que sera, sera…

Kama Bailey a loss? Yes.

Define “big time” in this context though…

the perception of beau yap is that he is too small to play de.

al:

December 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
the perception of beau yap is that he is too small to play de.

On paper so was Fetaiagogo Fonoti. 😎

jm2375:

December 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Change of subject… Brand X reporting that Kolten Wong named Louisville Slugger preseason All-America 3rd team. Go Rainbows!

Man, I can’t wait for softball and baseball to start. The pace of the game is a lot easier on the heart and mind…. Easier on da wallet too!!! 😎

This past football season was quite taxing on the soul, the Wahine volleyball team took us on a GREAT emotional ride this season, the Rainbow Warrior B-Ballers got me pulling hair….etc… I’m exhausted!!! 😆

Wouldn’t have it any other way though… 😎

But yeah! DEY U GO KOLT!!! (woah!… headrush all of a sudden… that phrase gave me a deja vu moment 😛 )

OldDiver,

Not sure if XxFaithxX can get actual “numbers” to his claims, but it doesn’t take a statistician to figure out the long-standing image UH academics and athletics has with a hell of a lot of people. Well, at least perhaps XxFaithxX and I run into the same kind of people, but apparently he resides on the Big Island and I work and talk with a lot of people on the *ahem* East side of Oahu… The far East side, not the farthest but right before it… I’ll say nothing more… 🙄

“a hefty portion of our state workers have their children in private schools”

I was just wondering where this came from.

Last word on Manley. Someone wrote some months ago that during the summer Manley was attending camps on the west coast looking for scholarship offers. I think UH got the message.

OldDiver:

December 21st, 2009 at 10:46 pm
“a hefty portion of our state workers have their children in private schools”

I was just wondering where this came from.

“Hefty” is a strong word. Maybe he meant local politicians? I dunno. However, if he did mean politicans, would you be surprised?

I sure as hell won’t be.

OldDiver:

Per my experience on Oahu, yes, very a sizable portion of state workers enroll their kids in private schools.

Kamehameha

St. Louis

Marynoll

Iolani

PunahoE 😉

Damien

Mid-Pac

Sacred Hearts

Word of Life

Hawaii Baptist Academy

And there are just the bigger schools lol

So yes, I do not have numbers, but I do have opinions lol.

Blaze Soares.

have a great and happy life.

My aunty Cindy speaks highly of you. I saw greatness from you. And I was always gushing when you spoke up for our team. Thank you for
a great season! someday, you should think of running for office.

XxFaithxX,

Gonna knock out tonight… Tired BUT I get where you are coming from.

The Wahine volleyball program has had a long standing history of winning and conference championships, NCAA regional and Final Four appearances, and in the past, national championships.

I DO believe, this established history is enough… no… wait… MORE than enough to expect the best every year because we’ve shown that we are on the cusp of it more times than not.

Volleyball budgets vs their expenses are not as outlandish as football budgets vs their respective expenses. The differences between the consistent history of success in women’s volleyball and the up and down pattern the football program experiences shows this monetary discrepancy, but that’s another topic.

Anyway, final word of the night from me on Wahine Volleyball, is that if you wanna see change in the coaching regime, you won’t have to wait too long anyway. Coach Shoji has said he won’t be a Bowden or a Paterno (figurehead) in terms of staying around too long.

Personally, I feel, and many do, that Dave Shoji is Wahine Volleyball and that is all we’ve known.

Another thing that we’ve only known with Dave Shoji and the Wahine Volleyball program is WINNING, CONSISTENCY, PRIDE, and CLASS.

Welcome back and keep posting what’s in your gut!

someone posted on another website that Maiava, UCLA, ruled academically ineligible to participate in the bowl game. Taua another polynesian casualty. Our polys here and on the mainland got to take academics seriously

grand daughter will get a great education from Stanford, but she can also get a good bachelor degree from UH. Now if grandpa Gerard foots the bill, talks the talk with the kala, gurans she stays in Hawaii, talking alone will only make you feet good, make it happen and tap your wallet grandpa.

al

an no foget da air ticks $$ too.
and summa us consumers easily crank up da
kala to a more respectable BCS like number.

😛

al:
December 21st, 2009 at 11:01 pm

sunflower seeds/kaki mochi smuggled in stadium = $4

*shakes finger at al* tsk, tsk, tsk… 🙄

Kazz,

I agree. I also have known Shoji as the “face” of Wahine VB since I was wiping my hanabatas on my shirt lol ….and even with my current feelings of his coaching style, etc., I RESPECT the man for what he did for the program.

You take is easy and yeah, it is late over here for me, but I finally have 2 days off in a row and I dropped the wife off at the train station earlier this evening so that she can visit her parents in Eugene. That gives me time to blog hehee.

BHF2: Roger that. I will email you when get chance and Happy Holidays and take it easy as well.

I ask, has anyone ever seen that symbol of a snake eating it’s own tail??? Think about what that means.

Last thing… I promise,

Thanks to the powers that be… it’s getting very risky to place kids in public high school education. It’s obvious they don’t give a ____ about education, well the ones that their kids are not involved with.

Helps though when the people in your country club also sends their kids to a certain school and you get to schmooze with ’em and you get to network yourself to other well to do people in the state blah blah blah…

So you send your kids away from the mess that is the REAL “rainy day fund” that is the bucket of money that once was for public education and athletics. It is a smart move. But as the saying goes for the rest of the hard-working blue collar and some white collar folks, the people at the top would suggest, “let them eat cake”.

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of people that do send their kids to private high schools that are not politicians, high end bankers, etc… These people have to work two or three jobs. I KNOW, I was in a private school from pre-school through the 7th grade. I KNOW!!!

But really, does the parents of the future have to kill themselves to get their kids a “decent” education???

Where is the justice in that? Here you have parents that truly want he best for their kids, but they themselves didn’t have the advantages to go to a big time college or have a passion to work in careers that provide great salaries, but should their children get punished by having to go to a public school in which they are almost NEVER in class thanks to furloughs and whatnot??? Should the parents have to kill themselves out of exhaustion to have to work double or triple the amount of hours to get their kids into private education that provides the advantages needed to prevent this great circle of crap from continuing to roll so that THEIR kids don’t get disadvantages in a public educational system in which those in charge don’t give a rip because their kids are not exposed to it and then they don’t have to bust their okoles with two or three jobs to send their kids to these private schools????

ANYONE SEE THE CIRCLE??? THE GREAT CIRCLE OF CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If this state gave a CRAP about education, the kind of advantages in facilities and teachers private schools provide should eventually be accessible to the mass public, regardless of the financial status of their parents.

My parents never went to college, but for seven years, I’ve seen them bust their butts to pay for a private education for myself and my brother.

We rented homes all of our lives almost up until that point. Then my parents became home-owners, later than most, but homeowners nonetheless.

They gave all they could and then more, there are thousands of others like this, and some maybe worse. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like on them if they didn’t decide to send me and my brother to private school for all those years?

But that didn’t matter to them, they wanted to invest in our futures. To give me and my brother a decent education, we shouldn’t have had to scrape by.

This is not just my story, but one of THOUSANDS.

Invest in the future. It starts with education. PUBLIC EDUCATION!

BUT…

Might as well be telling it to a wall. The people that make decisions don’t give a _____.

Al,

Maybe you should take up my UH football budget plan:

-Stress out so no can eat at tailgate = $0.00
-No can drink cause too stressed before game = $0.00
-Two bottles of wate = $5.00
-Soda = $3.50
-No can drink cause busy smoking cigarettes and all ____ off at the officiating. = $0.00
-Jack in the Box postgame meal = anywhere between $6.00-$9.00

TOTAL = $17.00 or so at the most. Oh wait, cigarettes are like $8.50… and a temporary wrist splint from Longs Drugs for your sore wrist and fist from punching a wall after a loss or a chair after a bad officiating call is about $12.00.

(Season tickets paid for months in advance so I don’t even count that.)

Ok now go nai nai…

The stuffed penguin in the corner of the room is now bringing me my blood pressure pills.

Is there any pre- or post-Sheraton Hawai`i Bowl party? if so, where and when and how much?

BHF2 – We’ll be driving past the airport sometime between 2 and 2:30. If you cannot get an earlier flight, we can pick you up.

Tomorrow – well, later on today, it’s basketball from late in the morning til late night with a two-hour break between the first two games and the last two. Barring bad weather, I plan to go for a nice long walk – maybe down to the library. If the weather is junk, I’ll just crawl into the back seat of the car and take a nippy-nappy.

Well I guess I will give my 2cents on Manley. First consider he is what 17/18. He has been playing QB a few years now an has a lot of people tell him how good he is. While looking at schools that he might like to go to, he gets a offer from UH, which when he would attend has like 5/6 QB’s in waiting. So he hedges and waits to see if he can get an offer from a school where his chances of starting right away are better. So then he gets that offer from NMSU he see’s that their QB situation is not that good and his chance’s of starting greatly improves. So he chooses to go where he can play right away.

I can’t see anything wrong with that, I wish him the best.

The other thing is, why is it so important to play in front of mama? I’m not playing football to play a game in front of mama, I am playing football because I love the game, and I will go where my chances of playing are good.

Also how many of these kids are playing football thinking they have a chance to play college ball, then go into the NFL and the reason they started in the first place is the big $$$$$$ they see all the NFL players making??

I agree with those who think Manley is making the right choice in going to NMSU. Although we all want to see our home grown talent play for the Warriors, if the coaching staff is not going to give them full scholarships, then you can’t blame them for leaving. It seems that scholarships are sometimes extended to mainland players to get them down here, when an equally, if not more talented local player is left to live at home, work part-time to pay tuition, find a way to pay for their own meals, etc. Bryant Moniz and Brent Rausch is an example that immediately comes to mind. The ESPN commentators during the Wisconsin game were commenting about Bryant selling pizzas and they even made a comment that I recall was something about his training table consisting of the pizzas that he takes home from work. Brent Rausch, on the other hand, does not seem to have what it takes to ever be a starter, nor even a significant contributor for us, yet he is getting a full-ride from the people of Hawaii and at the expense of other players. There are many, many more examples.

I wish Blaze Soares the best in striving to make the NFL. I had to google this Wynn Silberman who he had signed with as he did not get the write-up that Estes’ agent got when he signed. He seems to be a good selection for an agent by Blaze. It is now all on Blaze to prove himself over the next few months.

My parents went to and taught at public school, my sister and I went to public school, and my kids go to public school. I never considered sending my kids to private school. However, California is different than Hawaii because school districts vary in quality, so where you live makes a big difference in how good your public schools are. So, instead of living closer to the ocean or with a better view, I studied where the best schools were and we picked the best school district to buy a home in.

My daughter has 19 kids in her class and other schools in this county have 40 kids in a class. The teachers in our school district make 20% more than the school districts 10 minutes away…and not surprisingly the teachers in this district are excellent. There are two things that make a difference here that do not happen in Hawaii:

1. Constant fundraising by the PTA. Carnivals, benefit nights, etc., raise money for the school and pay for the Art, Music, PE, Science, and Computer teachers. State/city funds are *not* used to pay those teachers, which frees up money for other things. Each PTA is motivated because all of the money they raise stays with their school and pays for teachers that work with every student.

2. Huge parent volunteer workforce. Every class has a parent volunteer in the classroom at all times to help out–2 or 3 parents split each day. No teacher aids need to be paid for. Parents also do a lot of office tasks (photocopying, etc.) reducing 1 or 2 positions in the office. My wife volunteers in my daughter’s classroom every week and tried to also volunteer to help out in the science teacher’s classroom but there were too many volunteers and her lottery number wasn’t called. Some parents volunteer before they start work, others juggle their work schedule to do so, some are stay-at-home parents, and we know of a few that actually use a few hours of vacation time each week to volunteer.

When the kids are at their science/art/music/PE/computer classrooms, their regular teacher has free periods to prepare. Their teacher also doesn’t need to do any of the busy work because there is always a parent volunteer to do that. So, that frees up the teacher to just focus on teaching…and they have to do a good job because there is always a parent in the room to see what is going on.

I’ve probably been blogging too much…but we are about to have a houseguest that will pretty much keep me off the blog until past Christmas so I wanted to post while I could. I hope that everybody has a Merry Christmas.

ALoha Kakahiaka!

HiHo!

Be safe and happy!

New post!

The NFL Draft

is creating a partnership with researchers at Boston University who are studying the long-term effects of brain injuries on players, the Associated Press reported.
“It’s huge that the NFL Draft
actively gets behind this research,” Robert Cantu, the co-director of the school’s research program, told the AP. “It forwards the research. It allows players to realize the NFL Draft is concerned about the possibility that they could have this problem and that the NFL Draft is doing everything it can to find out about the risks and the preventive strategies that can be implemented.”

Great Post! I will definetly be back to check this out more often.