California prep QB commits to UH

Kidney stones, shades of LV……….

top 5

top 10!

get well soon mr. ad!

Dang…kidney stones…never had them…knock on wood…but have picked up people who have had them….not a pleasant sight….

Best wishes to JD….

Good morning Tsaikos….top ten???

curveball…I echo d1’s sentiments….

Okay…gotta esme so talk laters….

Das JD.

Always thinking of others.

That braddah get some unreal aloha!

Glad to have him on our side.

Godspeed JD. (Or at least as fast as a stone can pass)

Curveball-

Howz Sliders’ Grammy doing?

Best wishes to JD and his lovely wife – this too will pass!

Good morning Tsaikos!.

Good morning everyone!

Hope JD is using the ultrasound method.

Happy New Year, Tsaikos!!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything…good to be back!

owen-16

Looks like JJ and SMU did us a favor and that the 09/12/09 game will be at Qwest Field in Seattle…see link

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/cougars/394785_coug05.html

dragged over from the last post

Pride.:

January 5th, 2009 at 8:38 am
According to Scout.com, Hawaii has 30 verbal commitments right now. 21 are to high scholl recruits and 9 to JC recruits. I realize that we are taking a page out from the airline industry and “overbooking seats”. Do any Tsai-kos know how many scholarships that actually have available? And how many grayshirts do we have that committed in 2008 for scholarships in spring 2009?

Anyone know the scoops on this?

thanx for the help guyz and for da link BAW. guess it’s good time to start making arragements 🙂

Get Well JD.

ST – ooops, I guess ST is WITH IT now.

BTW – if anyone is too shame (like a few others) to post here, they can email me at stretch6592 at yahoo to let me know if you want to join us for lunch tomorrow.

oh no worries ST, Seattle’s only da appetizer, vegas is da main dish 🙂

owen-16 asked for confirmation about the game being in Seattle. Washington State just made is 100% finalized for the game to be in Seattle…because they finally filled the last puka in their schedule. They are playing SMU at home the week after UH, so they will face similar offenses in their first 2 games.

Washington State’s only other nonconference game is against the team that UH just played…their scheduling seems pretty Warrior related!

The Washington State Cougars have completed their 2009 nonconference football schedule by arranging to play Southern Methodist on Sept. 19 in Pullman.

Confirmation of the SMU game means the Cougars have wrapped up a previously tentative agreement to play Hawaii on Sept. 12 at Qwest Field. The Cougars have played one “home” game a year in Seattle since 2002.

The Cougars’ other nonconference game, announced previously, will be an Oct. 31 showdown with Notre Dame in San Antonio. That contest will be nationally televised on NBC.

Stretch…I think ST’s text is broken…he can only receive stuff…LOL

Following d1島‘s lead and dragging this over from the previous blog (Note: I’m not insinuating that d1島 is any kind of expert on drag-ging…. 😆 )

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

Stretch, Kekoa – & others –

whitey commented on the Na Koa Fundraising Drive in #238. – Do you know if we can “tag” our donations as being part of the Warrior Beat – Tsaikos ‘ohana? It might be interesting (& fun) to do it that way. 😀 😯 😆

~~•~~~~•~~~~•~ ★ ★ ★ Go WARRIORS!!! ★ ★ ★ ~•~~~~•~~~~•~~

Stretch kindly responded in #263 – I was hoping not our contribuations wouldn’t necessarily be as group “lump” donation. I don’t want to burden anyone in having to collect and track funds. I was hoping that we could just “tag” it and send it in as individuals. I think it would be easier that way. Thanks Stretch 😀

Re 33, what DID happen to da Beaver? I hope he figures into the plan somehow.

brew808 – “Tsaikos” could be put in the memo section of the check but I am not sure if Na Koa would actually track that for us.

Garret,

Why is Wassou playing ND in San Antonio?

A fine day to all!

An especially better afternoon and evening for JD, too.

It must be Monday morning… as this is what I was requesting: 😯

Could someone find out if Na Koa would do that for us? – Please…. 😀

All the best for a speedy recovery, JD!

MeiLing- bhf2 has some interesting suggestions for your kids ok the Big Island.

A worthy goal for this first work-week (for most) of 2009: To be PO’d, Pain-Free!!! 😆

Here’s hoping for Texas to stomp the Buckeyes today! 😈

brew808,

don’t know about these big12 teams?, so far they’ve taken a beating haven’t they??? overrated!!, end story. besides loosing me some kala!!

Happy 2009 mctruck! Yup – that TT game surprised/disappointed me too. Maybe you’re too “close” to the Big 12. You have to be – really objective to make the best judgements especially when “investing” your own kala – IMHO (& experience). 😯 🙁 Still, I’ll almost always root against the Big-10big-eleven! 😈

wafan:
January 5th, 2009 at 10:08 am
The cold everyone else in the family had for the past two weeks I now have. Dang. So much for the last full day at Disneyland.

Hmmm, maybe I caught it from SteveM via the blog?

wafan — I think we must have adjacent posts in the same minute for bugs to be transmitted. 🙂

Peaches told me go to the doctor so I’m going soon–last time I ignored her, I had pneumonia… 🙁 …and the 6 months of “I told you so” was worse than the treatment 😐

SteveM . . .

I guess it could be said you got the treatment from Peaches?

This is a tough call. Viral? Nothing the docs can really do except take my cash and tell me blah, blah, blah Non-viral? Take my cash, sell me 500mg Amoxicillin for two weeks, blah, blahl, blah.

LizK . . .

That is so cool you and your family are able to listen to their family history!

So lucky.

wafan – Since you don’t have a Peaches like SteveM does, the Tsaikos will happily fill in the role of reminding you of messing up, not going to the Dr., taking your meds, saying “we told you so”, staying away from crowded venues, not eating healthier, carousing too much, etc. 😆

Howling = Howland (must be Freudian slip, since I can “see” him yelling courtside)

Never met Jaime Dixon, but I met his wife through our Diversity Commission work. They have a cute hapa kid. I’m happy for his success & Ben’s, too. Howland is a really nice guy. Developed a lot of outside shooters which I think helped NAU get to the Big Dance. Sasha has that skill; I hope more UH players work on their 3-point shots.

MsLizK & BHF2,

The kids are working/volunteering at a farm north of Hilo. Right now, they are ok for place to stay. Mahalo for thinking about them.

Aloha Mr. Graves! – I’m really glad to see Warrior recruiting return to Nor-Cal! What combination of Rolo, Davone Bess, and others do we have to thank? 😀 😯 😆

3 hs qb’s in one recruiting class, nice. hopefully we found our starter in 2011 or possibly even 2010 against da trojans 🙂

wow! another qb pickup?!
so we got 3 frosh coming in…
along with the 5 we already got… gonna have 8 guys competing for one spot this coming spring.

hopefully the cream will rise to the top!

david graves looks like the real deal. on top of his passing prowess, he must run close to a legit 4.5/40 as well. imagine he had to wait two years for his chance at qb, meanwhile he played rb/wr.

Stephen Tsai:
January 5th, 2009 at 11:18 am
If you close your eyes and listen to Graves, he sounds exactly — EXACTLY — like Colt Brennan.

I would rather have my eyes open and watch him be exactly — EXACTLY — like Colt Brennan

Is anyone else concerned we are getting too many QBs in the program? June Jones tried the stockpiling strategy for the first few years he was here and some guys end up transferring out. That’s ok, i guess, but you’re losing on the opportunity to give a scholarship to another position that can play on special teams or be a quality back up. There’s only one QB in the game and you hope that you only play one QB. It seems that having 10% of your scholarships wrapped up in one position is not a good idea.

No worries about overbooking. UH can just drop the ones on scholarship that don’t know the ha’a.

Jon(#84):

It’s impossible to shoot 100% when finding qb’s…………maybe only one out of three pan out, which one would you offer the scholarship to? Point is we won’t know for sure which ones will work out for the program, so why not take a chance on three and hope one becomes the next great UH QB……………I guess thats the positive side of looking at it.

Anyone:

If UH has too many scholarship players can they release players currently on scholarship who are not doing they’re part for the success of the program and look in different directions? LIke if we sign too many this year, can we cut dead weight(scholarship players who don’t pan out) and free up more scholarships?

some links:

http://www.maxpreps.com/california/football/folsom/david-graves/stats.aspx?ssid=2f36027d-d6f6-4509-aba9-adad5cc85b5e&athleteid=b1422178-c450-4ba5-9255-be0eaf6afff3&urpath=,local,player

http://www.maxpreps.com/FanPages/maxprepstv.mxp/videoid-5d3afc32-65c1-4660-9850-6b0a9a6b5819

cc….more for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxXApIu4F-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gk6uWiilnM&feature=related

Jim Donovan-

Get better soon. And another thing: Ouch!!!

gentle jim….speedy recovery!

That’s right, Shutter… Thanks.

Wafan and SteveM- be healthy- there are many ways to achieve the balance needed to stave off exposure to germs. I need to do that too!

ST- #88- did we lose Jr. Iceman?

Welcome, Mr. Graves!

gonna be a fun in the next month or so with the playoffs and superbowl, bj/gsp, culminating w/ loi day in early february, can’t wait…

still remember last year’s superbowl sunday, yeah the game was great but news of us getting paipai and tachibana that day was waaay better… 🙂

anyone else having problems trying to open up this blog site and/or the sports page of the ha?

re: tonga

read on one of the other forums WSN i think, that he really likes UW and us b/c we’d allow him to play safety and/or OLB whereas the other schools, UCLA and Wyoming IIRC are primarily recruiting him as a OLB…he’s visiting in late January i think

owen-16, last year’s Superbowl was the Hanapepe River flood. I can hardly remember who played in it!
Hope we have a memorable game and no weather concerns this year 🙂

Hopefully Manu-Olevao eventually makes it to UH as well.

I’ll pray for more recruits (or confirmation of recruits, especially from LBP and LV), good weather, no flooding, and no blackouts/poweroutages (specifically on 1/31/09 and 2/1/09), some nice airfare to Seatac/Las Vegas around the middle of september would be nice too. 🙂

Re Beaver, I recall Beaver was cut for weight issues, but I hope that doesn’t mean he’s cut forever. Hopefully he works his weight down to an acceptable range and is given a second look. Who at UH tracks that? Tony T?

I don’t think antagonists would fan the flames if the protagonists didn’t fuel the fire. I don’t know if this is a cliche. But it makes sense to me. And how I look at myself, and how others disgruntled fans look at themselves, I’m guessing, we, the antagonists, don’t innately write or speak our minds with malice or hate. But just wanting to have what’s best for the team. And I don’t see anything wrong with that. For if the protagonist, the Coach,if he had A,B,C,D all together then there wouldn’t be any fire, therefore no flames for the antagonists to fan. This shouldn’t be a new revelation. The Coaches know this. Others should, too.

Presently I see the team. And the Coach. And staff incapacitated with a lot of problems. More so with the Coach I see this absence of savior-faire growing in size, namely the ability to say and do the right thing at the right time, and mushrooming. Whereas I know other tactful and bright coaches would do things correctly, I see Coach Mack, so far, as somewhat the antithesis.

It’s not only today. But it was from the beginning. Not going for the best assistants, having only two days of practicing the kicking game in the Spring, touting the OL as the best ever in a newspaper quote, touting some of your defensive stars in another newspaper quote as being the best in the country, being impervious when asked about the clock management problems, being impervious in another television interview and saying that sacks came in the beginning of the season and the worst of them all taking two players onto the team in the middle of the season.

See the pattern, albeit mushrooming. I do. For it goes against the principle of what’s taught in the Bible of Good Football coaching. One you never tout your players, like JJ had a penchant for doing. A better road to take is,”We are very proud of the player(s) continued success and we expect good things from him/them in the future”. Having this self love, or narcissistic praise doesn’t help the players.And second, when questioned about sacks, play calling or clock management- being in self denial is too obvious and not becoming as a coach. And lastly, taking a player in mid season is almost unheard of. I know Coach Bear Bryant wouldn’t do this. But this gets back to self love.

Somebody please remember that the team is currently in the midst of a recruiting and fundraising drive. And playing tug-a-war with other teams in attracting recruits. And also of attracting donors contributing to the program. With not knowing what’s going on with the reorganization in the coaching staff, all this hush, hush, I think compromises and lends recruits to having reservations on joining the team. With donors longing to contribute they, too, want to open up their checkbooks sans not having the wool pulled over their eyes.

Endearing the passionate supporters, fans and the players on his team would be so easy. Say the right things. And do the rights things. Yet the coach doesn’t. His biggest fault is he doesn’t desensitizes himself from the past. And he has too much self love for his players and coaches, for which I don’t think brings out the best in people. To be a great leader, and boss,he should be “insensitive” to the coaching problems on the team. Yet at times we hear,”I have faith in them.” And,”I wouldn’t trade my staff for the world”. A better portrayal of a leader, or General, is one that says,”My coaches and staff, like the players on the team, are held to the highest standards I set for them and if they don’t make the grade their off the team. People see these flaws in Coach Mack, and the players see this-it doesn’t promote leadership or harmony on the team.

Having the wherewithal to move forward into the next football season with positiveness is what most adhere to, especially as I can see on this blog. And that is very commendable.

Yet I say to Coach Mack building a harmony on the team and in the community, takes a person that can sing the praises that we can follow in tune. If A,B,C,D is right then we can all sing along.

Roysan16,

Those are a lot of thoughts, but not really much to argue about. It’s your point of view and I respect that, but I want to wait ’till spring training to start the criticizing or not.

We have a ton of talent coming in, let’s see what the coaches can do with it.

This QB is a great get, but I’m a little concerned about the log jam that’s been created. How can one properly evaluate that many QB’s during spring? I hope we don’t create the same indecisiveness as last year.

I hope the best one plays, even if it turns out to be a freshman. Would be kinda great to have a four year starter.

On the other hand, redshirt them, have Alex play one year, Rausch one year and we have three good ones for three years, then we recruit a frosh every year after Rausch is done and we have continuity all the time.

Off course, if we find a diamond among the new ones…………..

i like that name — da mediocre 11, very appropriate, i was going w/ da slow-10 for a while but that one works even better…

hook em horns (but only for today 🙂 )

Hala Hoya on the ropes, again! come on JM where’s your mojo, start sending your vibes to them

Last I checked, Colt Brennan was a third string QB in the NFL. Why then would people who blog here worship him and hope the next UH QB turns out just like Brennan, a third string NFL QB?

Just baffled, is all.

As AsianStorm said in a post to the a story on this topic, as long as UH has a caucasian QB, the UH should be fine.

Alexander did a bang up job, huh, Asian Storm?

for our socal tsaikos

LOS ANGELES–JANUARY 5, 2009– JetBlue has slashed fares
with a brand-new sale on flights out of the L.A. area and
San Diego. Fly across the country for $39-$139 each way.

The sale just came out this morning and runs through Jan.
14. We recommend booking soon to get the best prices and
availability.

Sample fares (each way):
– Long Beach-Las Vegas … $39
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– Long Beach-San Jose … $39
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– San Diego-New York City … $129
– Long Beach-New York City … $139
– Burbank-New York City … $139
– Long Beach-Fort Lauderdale … $139

Fares are good for travel Jan. 12 – April 1. The following
dates are blacked out: Feb. 11-16, 19-24.

whitey – Mahalo for the info. I’ve tried JetBlue but it’s a VERY limited number of seats and flight – like the earliest AM flights only on Tues/Wed. Everything else is $99 each way…. Bait & Switch kind of ticket policy – IMHO. For me, it’s Southwest! 😀

My, my brew808, you’re so emotional. Thanks goodness for emoticons that allow me to see the tone in your voice and the look on your face when you type.

Great news about David Graves! Very cool that he’s in the jazz band.

al, mahalo for the links. Graves appears to be as “skinny” as Colt was initially.

brew,

blog is blogging down 🙁

Bulla blogs – “blog is blogging down”, but brew is beyond baffled … what be bruddah Bulla blogging ’bout??? 😯 😀

Stephen Tsai:

January 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I hear the train a comin’
It’s rolling round the bend
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when,
I’m stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin’ on
But that train keeps a rollin’ on down to San Antone..
When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son,
Always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns.
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..

I bet there’s rich folks eating in a fancy dining car
They’re probably drinkin’ coffee and smoking big cigars.
Well I know I had it coming, I know I can’t be free
But those people keep a movin’
And that’s what tortures me…

Well if they freed me from this prison,
If that railroad train was mine
I bet I’d move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom prison, that’s where I want to stay
And I’d let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away…..

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.
Love this song. Love it. Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die…
Okay, that’s kinda cold, but still, great song.
Oh, and Uce2: I’d take any QB who could make an NFL team. Third string, practice squad, whatever. Brennan’s a great kid who turned down guaranteed NFL money to come back and lead UH to its first ever undefeated WAC championship. I don’t know if people worship Colt, but we sure do appreciate all he did for us.

I hope no one… getsgrumpiewithgugettinggassedbyND… 😯

Happy new year to you all. Hope we don’t blow the bb game to night. Sure hate to see the bows start 0-2 and at home.. Have a extra ticket for tonight game…if interested, blog the interest and I will leave it at will call.

Who is the most highly regarded of our 3 freshman QB recruits? Do they have a chance to start next year?

Tsai-Meister,

With Graves, was his size the issue, as usual, with the big name schools?

Jim and I want to thank all of you for your well wishes in Jim’s time of …er..pain. The doctor surgically blasted the stone and removed pieces of it. Hopefully it’s all gone…or will be soon…we hope.

We just got home from the hospital and Jim is resting, although he REALLY wants to go to tonight’s game.

Thanks again for your well wishes.

Here goes Uce2 on another one of his “Polynesians get the shaft” at UH tirades. Funaki could have a NFL Pro Bowl offensive line and he still wouldn’t be able to throw a cross-field out. He’s too short. He makes bad decisions. He has nearly zero accuracy. He has tons of heart and great legs, which is why he’ll be good a slot, running back or safety. Or a 8 times a game wildcat guy.

And let’s set you straight, a third-string QB in the NFL still means you’re one of the best in the country. There are only 96 NFL QBs (or so) in any year. And they’re spread over 12+ years of NFL experience. So that means (roughly) only the top 8 college QBs on average each year make an NFL squad. I think considering that, if Graves or any other UH QB can follow Brennan’s footsteps, UH will be sitting pretty.

And ST is right. Ilaoa’s talent was wasted be him with his weight problems. He was trying to be a slot/running back with the weight of a fullback/o-lineman.

Who is this Uce2 guy? He seems really negative.

ST thanks for info on Beaver. I thought UH could have used him this pass season. He could have given them the push up front on short yardage plays. The ones where they ran the ball 2 times.

I thought that qb sounded familiar. They should look at one of the receivers he throws to. Wears #1. Andrew something or other.

Welcome new Warrior Graves.

Hercules Satele signs with the Spokane Shock of the AF2, joining Jason Rivers on the roster.

http://www.spokaneshock.com/news/index.html?article_id=522

Talofa.

To all my brothers and sisters of the Samoan nation and all those of different ethnicity,

Please do not categorize one man’s ignorance with the rest of our proud people of Samoa. Most of us are fair and call a spade a spade. This guy who wants you to believe all his prejudices stands alone in his idioticness.

Again forgive even him for he knows not what spews from his lips.

A Samoan.

The Bee’s All-Metro Football Player of the Year: Folsom’s David Graves

http://folsombulldogs.ca.usfootballnet.com/news/article.asp?id=244474

Uce2
We know why you comment
We also know why we should ignore you
Why don’t you try life without that big chip on the shoulder
Aloha, Tsaikos.
Back to lurking.
Esme whoosh!!

brew – why you hiding? I think I can beam the lead slippah across da ocean to hit you in da okole! wasally wabbit you!

Way to go Texas!

A Samoan

Thanks for your comment. We do respect the opinions of the Samoan Nation.

Like jm2375 says, just ignore her. She only means to inflame, not inform.

Oops I meant Texas Tech. Watching BB now. Got to go.

Go Bows.

i hope 6K bb fans are on the ssc concourse getting their refreshments because the bowl area seating is very empty

But did JJ reply?

OK, ST, prove it!! Text me!

Thanks, Momo- I’m not on Oahu or I would take up your offer!

Kinda Shy- mahalo for the update. Get well soon, JD… and REST!!! 😆

ST- is JJ a nightowl?Did he text you back? Welcome to “da world”!

a Samoan- talofa and welcome!

200?

Hey SteveM, howya feelin?

Howdy, Kekoa. Up to some new tricks, eh??? Awrite!
I got home a little while ago and threw a slab of pork ribs into the oven to bake. Late dinnah tonite.

Stretch ~ You got mail…and thanks for accepting the Minister of Finance position again. Wait until you see what D-1 has planned!

Can’t make the CC tomorrow, gotta get Pops to an appointment at 1300.

Ralph ~ Thanks for the input yesterday. It helped generate a really great fundraising idea. Today D-1 offered yet another! Standby for this one!

Hi Liz — the doc gave me antibiotics (I got bigger amoxicillian tablets than wafan–875 mg!)

Looks like I won’t be able to make the cattle call for djmitchio tomorrow. Sorry to miss him.

MsLiz ~

This new plan will be a way for all the Tsaiko’s to be included in the fundraiser no matter where they live. Virtual reality world girl!

I’ll send you a draft of what we discussed in your email. The KK in Feb will be buzzin’ with a lot more detail.

ok… time to check on da pork ribs… bbl.

It sure was odd seeing Texas with no TEs, throwing out patterns to slotbacks on 3rd-and-1, and using so many 5-WR sets. Ohio State’s pass rush got to Colt McCoy a lot of times to stop drives, but Texas didn’t bother keeping a RB in to block on so many plays…

For the argument I had a couple of days ago when someone said that the 4-wide offense couldn’t beat fast BCS teams…today (and especially the Oklahoma game) was an example of how personnel is what matters. Texas also did a great job of reacting to the blitzes, something that I hope UH’s offense gets down better next year.

The Big 10 went 1-6 in bowl games this season! They have now lost 6 consecutive BCS title games. If Pryor could throw a little more accurately, they would have beaten Texas…at least they didn’t get blown out this year.

I’m looking forward to meeting those who will be attending the cattle call tomorrow. That’s awesome news about Hercules Satele joining the Spokane Shock. So I get to watch J. Rivers and Satele this summer!

my alma mater K State just signed Utah’s OC and offensive line coaches to contracts….wildcats on the rise….fired coach Prince lasted three years, took the Cats to one bowl game, no good, got canned and K State paid him off to leave…..Just Win….like kidney stones, if the coaching is painful bad get a cure and get rid of it.

the blog numbers is down because bighilo, whitey, Wafan and 808Ike are missing tonight from the blog…

Ralph- don’t forget homey!

djmitcho ~ E kala mai my friend…no can make your ‘Welcome Home’ CC. Maybe I can catch up with you in July at the Bash, or in Vegas for the UH game.

Meanwhile, enjoy the time you have here at home before you return to the PNW.

Aloha!
Kekoa

Since it is slow and I need to get offline soon, I’ll do the free play links now. Please ignore my next 5 posts if you do not want the off-topic stuff.

Tokyo auction sold one premium bluefin tuna for $100,000.

BMW has a car with a real time shape shifting fabric (to make it as aerodynamic as possible) and a wire frame (the front body can reshape by shifting the wires).

Worries about a space race with China, plus the advances already made by military rockets, may lead to a collaboration between NASA and the DoD.

kewl- thanks, Garret!

Stephen- I have a mosquito net kinda like this- it’s great!
http://www.amazon.com/As-Seen-Jumbo-Mosquito-Net/dp/B0019CO0GS/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_img?pf_rd_p=304485601&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B000P9H022&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=16NPBF2T0DHJZ0TM9VVH

Good win by MBB!
😀

wbb go on a three game road trip…..hope they have more success away from home, to much pressure from the emptiness of the arena…..

Rob25 must be in relapse with Dallas’ demise…..once again Romo nomo da mana to lead the A team….and if she’s losing money in Vegas with the A houses, double whammy….I assume if they had hit the jackpot we would have heard by now

I was just cruising the headlines…
Peace on Earth cannot come soon enough.
Blessings and comfort to the many people who are suffering needlessly today!

Gotta go nitey nite early… which means I’ll prolly wake up early too…

Sweet Warrior Dreams!

hiya Ralph

we waitin fo da good news. maybe sumtin going blow up! :D.
i could not bear a Rob25 blowup…. she need to hear dat big time ringing in La$ Vega$.

So obviously Coach Mack listenin to Rolo, gettin da Graves commit!
i hope he listen to Roysan 2.. err..16. 😀

roysan16, you make a point about announcements. speak up, coach!
but den again roy, yu talkin about a State job. 😀 😆 I stay tinkin dat Uce2 got his banana leaves all bunched up in da wong spot. 😆
you all gotta realize, State employees… heck, even Herman da lemon had rights den da leffs he deserved for a lousy job. 😀

down Hilo boy…. down…. down…. 😀

you see roysan 16, you can get carried away and not really be contributin a positive way,

and to all the Tsaikos, I apologize for trying to point out the cons to what
roysan16 was saying, even though you meant well. i meant well 2. jmo

an an an…. what was that about momo? 😆

good to see bhf2 behaving these days.

djmitcho
hiya. the mountain was beautiful,no clouds at 4pm and all white down to 8K on the Hilo view side. I going shoot for a pix early am, maybe susan can take a pix and post. we’ll see. really pretty though.

al,
holwzit. 😀 you can’t score the risky points if you don’t take the risky dives. 😆 mediocre and moderation….. steady is the best in the long run for sure. but if you’re looking for a shooting star, and i’m looking for a long lasting shooting star, then EVERYTHING counts!!! including the presentations and the announcements. jmo

Eh Big Hilo! I just wanted to remind you of something I posted early this morning:

January 5th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Big Hilo ~

Hole on to your puka pants paly! Wen you rite all kapakahi kine stuff, da Chance-lah goin’ say, “eh!…dis buggah went Hah-vahd Law skool or wat?” Den da prolem not goin’ be fixed because she fall in luv wit your intellect.

Let *Smooze* be your watchword bruddah!

Aloha from da ceded lands! Have a mosquito free Monday night!</i?

😎

Teo is #5, Hasiak is #75 if you’re watching the HS all star game

Kekoa,

😀 😀

my a$$ma aken up i laffin so hahd.

$o a$$ i lay down da couch an $elf terapee my sichuashun I conclude dat I still all habut ova da ND game. I should be grateful…think of BYU.
but I really thinking about Wassu, UNLV, Boise,Wisconsin, La Tech, Nevada, SJSU, Fresno State,NMSU, USU, Idaho. We get chance for be respectable. Just gotta get our Warriors mentally motivated and ready.

so… you tink Schmooze is da way? 😀 🙁

as LONG AS HE GETS RID OF THE OLINE COACH. send him back to the mainland!! then i will agree that he has love for the “nation” , cause that guy is not ready for big time!

HD is great for some local news casters. not so great for others….

now wow 😀

an i wuz jus tryin fo make nice nice. 😆

you wanna no sumtin. i thinkin day holding back on sumtin. day stay bustin out all dis new stuff. i mean, all dis talk about commit and de-commit, i mean, i wondah wats going on in each of dare heads? i mean, if UH is offering, then i say Hawaii is a small town and doze coaches gotta know their word is their ticket. bad word = bad bad bad

just wanted to say, way to go warriors. keep up the good work in recruiting, training and preparing for this coming season.

bighilofan2:

we see how serious Mac and co. are . He want to win or be nice guy .
me, i no like play dat game. do dis and i like,

revamp Oline coach. he no can coach dis level. bring in new guy. enough of him saying dis coach all g, and dat coach all g.

if can coach , coach…if no can , no can! bye bye! pack yo bags and try coach at lower level ……………………………………no mo mista nice guy mac.

bh2

tks for the kind words
let me say there are others
they write cryptically as not to spew negativity
there messages are subliminal
they allude in general terms about leadership
and the weak link theory
and how lack of discipline is cancerous on a team
but they don’t tip their hand and infer that they are talking about the coach
this is very tactful and better approach
but if you ever saw the defendant arguing over a $25.00 ticket-that’s me,
only there’s a twist -the $25.00 ticket become a $250.00 ticket because I got a contempt charge for calling the judge a bad name( and a bench warrant for not showing up and paying the ticket)
what i’m getting to –right or wrong, i’m very outspoken on what i perceive.
I don’t think I take after anyone in my family…or on the street…or in our city. peace.

jm2375 ~ Make sure you get a good night’s sleep. Need your expertise tomorrow.

Jason – go to sleep!! You’re delirious! I happen to be an expert in, ummmm, ummm, oh never mind.

here’s the highlights of tonight’s game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i_iB3hqhjg

How to Be a Statistician (Believed to be a True Story)

A friend of a friend, who is a probabilist, made a bet that he could write a publishable paper in Statistics within 24 hours.

He did this as follows: first of all he went to his filing cabinet and found some unfinished work on probability distributions which he’d given up because he couldn’t prove anything. He then invented a ‘cover story’ involving sheep and fruit trees, and wrote a Statistical paper on the subject, including the results he couldn’t prove together with ‘heuristic’ arguments, i.e. hand-waving. He then sent it to a well-known journal which shall remain nameless but for the sake of argument we’ll call Biometrika.

Some time after he received an acceptance letter for his content-free paper, with a comment from the editor that he hoped the author would revise the paper to make it less theoretical. So he had won his bet. 😛

Congrats to our UH cheerleaders, winning Paula Abdul’s RAH cheerleading challenge.

I think Stephen might like the PA clips… sorry, didn’t do a highlight reel for her.

but here’s our team’s highlights!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFCBpwp-T84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJCTw0oF6A

The reason that I am so excited about this year’s recrtuiting class is that for the first time in six years we are really putting a dent in local recruiting. If all of the commits were to stay committed to the schools that they have given verbals to, then this year would be the first time that our local commits percentage would come close to being 50%. The 2009 count of course doesn’t include Manti Te’o and Auloa Tonga.

The year listed below of course is the graduating year of the recruit class. The dividend is the amount of athletes that commited to play at Hawaii. The divisor is the amount of atletes that commited to division one schools during that recruiting period, out of Hawaii high schools. The numbers that I am using are from scout.com.

2004 4/15 = 27%

2005 7/26 = 27%

2006 6/27 = 22%

2007 7/29 = 24%

2008 8/26 = 30%

2009 12/23 = 52%

If we can continue to keep that percentage at or above 50%, then we will definitely be competitive on a regular basis. What I mean by being competitive is to win the WAC on a yearly basis and nibbling at the top twenty-five three to four years out of every five.

I commend the coaching staff for taking a pro-active approach in this area. A very good balance of local, mainland, and JC recruiting, along with a few additions from Samoa will keep us competitive with the big boys.

We will never compete for the four and five star athletes. But we can compete on the field of play if we get solid two star players, good solid coaching, and disciplined play with superior excecution from our student athletes.

pride.

if i were to have guessed prior to reviewing your info i would have guessed even less than the numbers you have displayed for us.

al ™:

January 6th, 2009 at 1:30 am
pride.

if i were to have guessed prior to reviewing your info i would have guessed even less than the numbers you have displayed for us.

Actually Al you are correct. The numbers for Hawaii are the number of commits. A good number of commits for Hawaii never appeared on the Manoa campus.

Pride what’s notable about your list is that Hawaii produced on the average 25 D1 fb players each year and many of them had outstanding college careers where most got ample PT. add on the walk ons that don’t make the scout list and our percentage goes up-how you figa!

and yet, the former staff would boast that 75% of the roster is made up of local boys, boys with local ties, boys of pacific islander heritage.

i always wondered why no one called him out on this when in fact he never pursued those boys from the islands.

Aloha Kakahiaka!

Mahalo, Pride.

chawan_cut- thanks for the RAH clips.
❗ WAY TO GO, WARRIOR CHEER SQUAD ❗

Hiya LizK. top ah da morning to ya.

Kekoa wuz menshuning dat he tinks I schmooze yu. 😛
he’s right of course.

Pride,
great upbeat commentary, sir!
Perfect ~ takes awhile, you know. like PBS, you gotta keep boilin
da ingredamenz. you still gotta have da stuff fo make da soup, oddawize, no can no can.

den again, maybe tings already like dat and i just ain’t privy to dat kine stuff cuz ST neva spill da beanz yet. 😆 just maybe we gotta wait to LOI day. 😀

i no dis much. wen you get dirty lickinz like we got XMas to end da season, and like we got 8/30 to start da season, if you wuz me, you’d be soooooooooooo p.$$.d o## dat you cannot $ee $trate, but people can still read you even wit all da camouflage. no need Jason fo use da big wurds; people juss no yu one Peed mudda!

and das how I’m seeing our beloved Coach. Good ting he mo cool head dan me. Do what you gotta do!. Go ask da wife! Short people give da bess advice. 😀

Good morning Tsaikos. it gets more interesting as we get closer to feb 4th and that ST he get plenty up his sleeve.

David Graves appears to be the real deal. He already has a qb tutor, great academic standing, low profile, and loves hawaiian music, not to mention that he must have foot speed to be able to rush for that much yards. at least we know he is a very mobile and accurate qb.

Al,

gettin back to what I wuz saying…. 😀

Hawaii, alot of us come home,
not because get more $$$ here
cuz dat is not true.
not becuz get mo dis an dat here
cuz dat is not true.
we cum home cuz we went away,
tink we made sumtin of ourselves
and we no kea fo da glory,
which is also not true. 😀
we came home cuz we love Hawaii!
what it is, what it stands for, warts an all.

you know Dixon could not be coach
of the #1 team in da land if he wuz at UH
he had to go away to hook up wit da talent to
make da #1 team. and it takes all dat stuff….
aura, tradition, national media, competition, and mostly….
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

we no have choke unit peeps living Hawaii…
we get choke mensas…. 😛

Al,
goodmorning. i wuz talkin to myself, and dare you iz!

the weather is dark still yet. but dry. cannot tell if Mauna Kea get clouds cuz I’m cuddled up by da computah, and if I like go see, I gotta go outside into da freeezah. 😀

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

Reminder
Cattle Call w/ djmitcho
Tues Jan 6 12noon
Camellias on McCully Street

it looks like Hilo is gonna have more blue than grey today…

cold but great! you can tell get choke snow on da mountains. dis bugga is c-o-l-d.

hi ho you guyz. gotta go.

esme woossssshhhhh

man I just read the article in todays HA. He seems like a good pickup good size coming out of hs, decent speed but what impresses me most is he already loves the local culture music and all. It’s funny because alot of these local kids might take things like this for granted when you’ve grown up with it your whole life it’s easy to look elsewhere to go to school good grades too. I wonder if they ran alot of shotgun or maybe even used a pistol lineup in hs.

ST was hinting about an offensive lineman. i wonder if he got another up his sleeve, 6′ 5″, 290, 4.9 speed.????

Pride,

another example of your quiet wisdom. the challenge, as we discussed, is when the so called ‘fulcrum of recruiting’ leans to far to either side, we have an imbalance that takes time to correct.

as evidenced in years past, the creation of the Hula T to accomodate the talent pool that was available.

we still need certain players at certain positions to be competitive, and that is a proven fact. the challenge, as it has always been the biggest challenge facing the HC at UH, is to find the balance with the right players, with the right attitude, at the right time.

once the HC has put all his ‘ducks in a row’, and if they can all quack like they’re supposed to, that is a symphony of success.

just my 2 sense as i concur once again with your insightful observation.

IMUA

Good Morning All. Getting excited for my first CC today. It’s currently a brisk 50 degrees here in Waimea this morning. Ok, see everyone later. Gotta get ready to get on da plane.

Good morning all!!!

Great morning. Visualizing a symphony of Quackers.

Cool and clear, it’s a beautiful day on the slopes of Puowaena. Just returned from my morning waddle and the weather is great.

ST: My BW tells me that one of those dryer sheets (fabric dryer sheets that you toss in your laundry-dryer) in your pocket will keep the mosquitos away.

Google no ho’i. 😆

G’day Tsaiko Nation!

Another gem from Coach Bulla this morning has tickled my funny bone:

“once the HC has put all his ‘ducks in a row’, and if they can all quack like they’re supposed to, that is a symphony of success.”

I envision the AFLAC duck leading the Bulla Bombers in song at the KK in Feb! 😎

A-Joe ~ Check your email…go…go check ‘um…go!

morning 8) tsai-ko kane’s and wahine’s from the wessai. sun out so looking good so far.

😕 wow plenty chatter this morn and shouting out to c_c, bulla, pride, dpk, whitey, wafan, lizk, bhf2 anoddah’s I wen miss.

heavy nite yesterday so not making dem smooth moves yet and in about 20 minutes heading out to the dentist 😳 man I not looking forward to dat.

converation last centered around Utah and its undefeated season. question; does anybody know what is the % of games the so call BCS teams play against mid major teams and d2 teams?

Kelli: That’s because James is stalking you. Don’t take it personally, he stalks all the ladies.

DPK: Look it up in Place Names of Hawai‘i? Okay …

Pū-o-waina. Hawaiian name for Punchbowl and drive along the north slope of Punchbowl crater; section 18 (map 6), Honolulu. Lit., hill of placing [human sacrifices] (for which this hill was famous).

But IDK Hawaiian, I just look things up in dictionaries and books. If anything, I could see Pu‘uowaina as a variant, as pū seems to be a variant of pu‘u like mō is a variant of mo‘o in Mō‘ili‘ili. I’m curious to hear about this from an expert. 😀

Jason-

There are actually two spellings. Puowaina and Puowaena.

Puowaena is the correct spelling according to my Kahu, if you are referencing the translation as “Hill of Sacrifice”. That is the older and more traditional spelling, and references battles fought on it’s slopes as well as a Heiau Luakini (Sacrificial Heiau) which was located at it’s south side rim in ancient Hawai’i.

Puowaina actually means “Hill of Wine or Vineyards.” Waina is the Hawaiian word for wine.This is a later adaptation of the traditional name and references the Vineyards which were planted on it’s slopes during the 1800’s. It also plays back into the Western name given to the hill, which was “Punchbowl”. Punchbowls often held wine back in the old days, so an association was made. Vineyard Boulevard got it’s name, from those same vineyards.

My Kahu said that the traditional spelling should be used even if it is the less common one. He didn’t even care to call the area Punchbowl because that was the western name for a Hawaiian place. That’s why I use the Puowaena spelling. 🙂

Whoever shows up for the cc, see you there.

mahalo for the kind words both Pride and Kekoa,

you 2 are very inciteful also, is exciteful a word? haha 😉

DPK — very interesting. I was wondering how “Vineyard Blvd” got it’s name.

Thanks for the cross reference, Professor homey. See you at the CC. 🙂

SteveM- That is interesting, isn’t it? I can’t remember what happened but I think the vineyards didn’t produce very good wine or disease caused them to fail bringing an end to the vineyard experiment. Another little known fact about Puowaena is that it was once the site of one Oahu’s longest and fastest papa holua or sled run. Sledding was done on specially built runways located on slopes and was a sport enjoyed by the Ali’i. The Puowaena papa holua began at the top of the crater’s south rim and ran all the way down-slope to an area near downtown. The Puowaena papa holua was noted for the terrific and sometimes fatal speeds which sledders could attain there, as well as the extremely long travel distance sleds could also make there.

# Pride.:
January 6th, 2009 at 11:04 am

My apologies DPK.
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Love means you never have to say your sorry big fella. 😉 Not to many people know that story, Kahu shared it at church one day and seemed pretty emphatic about that. Thass why I remember it. Are you going to be at the CC today? “Little” Spencer is lookin’ forward to seein his hanai Uncle.