UH lands JC cornerback, offensive tackle

wow first

Nitey nite and sweet Warrior dreams!

Geez, Jackie Slater is your line coach. That’s a bit intimidating. 😀

stephen are these two walk on’s or on scholarship?

with all the other commitments how many scholarships does the warriors have left?

Top 10!!

OK, nitey nite. See all in the am.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Alright two more 3 star commitments including a much needed offensive tackle. Thanks for the great news ST! I’m glad I stayed up so late now.

Thank Stephen for the report on the commits.

Why not focus solely on Notre Dame the whole time????

Mahalo for the info, ST.

Morning gang. Up and @ ’em

Our bud, Larry Biel, plugging away on the Yahoo sports for the Hawaii bowl matchup being one of the best Non-BCS bowl games this season.
Good job Larry, and way to go staying connected.

Great decision Tank and Brett. Can’t wait to see you guys play for the Warriors! Tanks ST ! Keep plugging Larry !

Good morning.

ST: condolences…He was also a great grandpa to the two grand babies!

Great news on all the new recruits.

Will be sitting in K yellow for bowl.

Kekoa: nephew? The one I know who is pretty big!

We worked the Marathon on Saturday setting up and opala crew on Sunday…muddy!

Well back lurking..

Hope all is well as can be after the rain…know the person whose car got smashed by tree on Thursday by I’olani Palace.

Go Warriors!

jaM ~ Nope, not that Nephew, that one is a linebacker for Kapolei that Pride asked me about at one of the UH camps. He’s still a work in progress, and getting taller!

This one is a RB for Saint Damien of (J. James). Quick like a swift (4.4) and strong enough to carry people along for the ride thru the secondary. After Kealoha & Kama graduated, he got his chance to shine. Pops sez he got spahkle!

Kekoa,

love dat cheer! 😀

Capitol -ist/Wassup Doc,
hiya. hope your heater gets fixed soon.
for me, heaters are a luxury. 😀
nuttin like cold watah to give yu da bumps! 😀

al, LizK,

48 hours pau last week! 😀
that was the soak cycle.
now is time for agitation.
then comes da wringing. 😀

Doze buggahs are used to excersing their leather lungs everyday at PT. That’s all part of the Espirit De Corps. We just gotta unleash that animal inside da stadium and raise da noise level a few decibels! Hooooraaah!

Good morning Tsaikos. great news about our latest commits. i do not know masa y, but over the years, he has done a great job for waipahu and the community. my sincere condolences to his family and thank you masa for all your contributions.

Howzit Whitey!…I had this visual of you cleaning out da cage at da Palms Casino. Da Maloof Braddahs was begging you to stay one more day so dey could recoup da million smackers you walked away wit. Hehehe!

Come September, all da Tsaikos goin’ make like Oceans 11 and scoop da slot tourney!

holy kadoodles!

next week we get ND by da nawts!

😆 😆 😆

hi ho hi ho

gotta go work.

esme wooooshhhhhhhh!

Go Warriors!!!!!

I can blog for a few minutes before I have to meet with my law firm….

Colt McCoy wants to break Colt Brennan’s records. They talk about McCoy’s accuracy now just like how UH talked about Colt’s accuracy last year.

McCoy already said he’s returning for his senior season. He wants to break the career completion percentage record of 70.4 held by Hawaii’s Colt Brennan. McCoy is at 70.2 percent.

The most remarkable stat of all: McCoy estimates there have been four to five practices this fall when the ball never hit the ground; he throws between 150 to 200 passes in a practice.

“When you’re as accurate as Colt McCoy is, if you play man, he’s going to beat you either down the field or on a crossing route,” ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit said. “If you play zone, his receivers are savvy enough to find a hole in the zone. There really isn’t an answer to stop Colt McCoy and this offense.”

I found 5 articles that mentioned Bess. I’ll post them and get back to work.

Ted Ginn enjoyed a 34-yard kickoff return following the 49ers first field goal of the game, while Davone Bess made a few guys miss for a 27-yard punt return in the second quarter.

One of those binds occurred in the second quarter when a 27-yard punt return by Davone Bess set the Miami offense up at the 49ers 34-yardline. Four plays later, Pennington had his team in the end zone again with a 19-yard strike to tight end Joey Haynos, who made his first ever career reception.

Off to work now. Funny how I actually look forward to meeting with my lawyers today. Maybe part of that is that they are providing lunch…

“When you’re as accurate as Colt McCoy is, if you play man, he’s going to beat you either down the field or on a crossing route,” ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit said. “If you play zone, his receivers are savvy enough to find a hole in the zone. There really isn’t an answer to stop Colt McCoy and this offense.”

Too bad he is a “system” quarterback, that’s the reason he didn’t win the Heisman and will not be able to make it in the NFL….

Stretch…I was thinking the same thing…LMAO

I also saw future warrior George Daly Lyles playing on FSN West. The announcers had nothing but praise for him and talked about what a steal Hawaii was getting…….awesome…..

GARRET:

I actually look forward to meeting with my lawyers today. Maybe part of that is that they are providing lunch…

The Greeks had a saying – beware of lawyers that buy you lunch!

Leonard is a key pickup. He sounds like a very good Left Tackle and if he can start right away it will give the Freshman pickups time to develop.

Great job on the recruiting! This may be our best class in the last 20 years! Certainly in the top 3 though you can’t really evaluate until 2-4 years later.

The key here is the effort McMackin has put into recruiting and the changes to the recruiting philosophy overall. A lot of that has to do with a greater budget but a lot of that is McMackin’s philosophy. I can’t wait til he’s had 3-4 classes come in with “his” guys!

tom,

I’ve gotten a lot of lunches from my law firm…they are good people and the food is always good! Today’s seminar is over some boring but necessary stuff (learning about the change in ethics rules for government contractors), so they are providing lunch to get people to show up. After the seminar I’m going to meet with the lawyers about the deal that I’ve been discussing with that other company.

Okay, now I really do have to go…

Gotta head over to Tripler and get Pop’s Energizer Battery re-charged. He wore out 5 already, and the old one almost stopped running last week. We’ve been push starting him since.

Ya’ll have a good time now! BBL

Great Morning All!

Nice job with the two new recruits! Addressing immediate needs; building for the future…

Have a great day erryboddy! 🙂

Was CB’s completion percentage just during his time at Hawaii? I wasn’t sure if they figured in his year at junior college also.

Colt McCoy has nothing on CB!

Pride.:
December 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hawaii has had real good success recruiting the Leonard family. I’m sure Leonard will be a real ball player like his two older brothers Adam and Josh were.

Can I hire you to do some PI work, you are goooooood!!

WDoc,

Sorry, but I’m working on Saturday.

Aloha WDoc,
I can come by this week sometime to help out in the afternoon, but weekends are busy. I can also round up a few guys if needed. Check your email.

Colt Brennan is the real McCoy.

Pride, Stretch: Does Brett Leonard have Bulla Ginlack or Josh Leonard “do”? 🙂 😈
Welcome on board to the Warriors, Melvin and Brett

Good morning everyone!

Welcome to Melvin Hopkins and Brett Leonard!

At work today, so will look in at lunch time…
BTW, Midnight gave me a tips on obtaining a karaoke mic system locally…and look at chip #12. 😆

I find it interesting that under JJ’s old recruiting policy, he wouldn’t recruit until the season ended, yet this, his first at SMU, he did most of his recruiting during the season.

A certain local guy played defensive back in the NFL and had the oppurtunity to take it to Jackie Slater. Jackie was looking inside and didn’t see the blitzing safety coming from the outside perimeter. Just as Jackie turned to check outside he was hit in the chin buy local boy’s helmet, giving him a very pleasant surprise.

A few series later, local DB was assigned to blitz again, and just like before caught Jackie Slater peering inside for a stunting linebacker. Just as local guy was about to put his helmet in Jackie’s chin again, a huge grizzly like paw struck our boy in the face, with such a large impact that it lifted him off of the ground and onto his back. Just then our boy heard a low, deep, gravelly, voice reply, “Don’t you ever blindside me like that again…………rrrrookie.”

MELVIN HOPKINS & BRETT LEONARD:

MOST HEARTLY WELCOME TO THE WARRIOR FAMILY AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR MANY SUCCESES AT UH.

ST:

Is this 4 of 10 or 5 of 10 for recruits who visited on the Cincy game?

Kudos to Coach Mack for setting the tone and Coach Tuioti for getting the commits.

HAKA:

That is a most interesting point on June Jones – WHY the sudden change in his recruiting “modus operandi”?

Aloha Tsaiko Nation!

Continuing to enjoy the parade of Commits! And glad to see another Leonard aboard. We’ve had really good experiences with guys named Leonard in the past (besides the 2 current ones, don’t forget Peters!!)

I’m trying to arrange a quick trip to the big city for the game next week. If can, I’ll definitely stop by the T-Gate. I’d like to get a seat in a Tsaiko-populated section of the stadium — any suggestions for where that might be?

Mahalo! And GO WARRIORS!!

Stretch- thanks.
If I need to, I can buy another ticket instead of changing the old one 😉

Pride. – #83 LMAO. Wonder if local DB remembers that.

I’m hoping we still land Destin Stewart. He’s supposed to be visiting soon and I hope he commits.

Love that story, Pride.

I was thinking — I wonder if giving a couple days to work out the redshirts and developing players will allow for the starters to take their finals early, get those over with so that they can concentrate on football the rest of the week.

I personally would like to just skip finals. Ah, senioritis kicking in already, and I still have a semester to go. Five posts from now, al will admonish me for saying that. 😀

Okay, gotta study.

Stretch – How come you don’t have football pics from Aloha Stadium? You should have taken some of the opposing coaches getting all habut before they frost the glass.

What’s with the glass frosting? Are the coaches are feeling that intimidated? I thought that was the point of home field advantage…a hostile environment. Better take away the “gauntlet” and “bone yard” from Fresno! I mean really, are we still talking about football?

Unkanesson,

e-mail me. dean(dot)shima(at)gmail(dot)com

To other Tsaikos who contacted me about the block of Hawaii Bowl tix,

If you haven’t contacted me about payment/confirmation yet please do so post haste.

…also no fo’get about Leonard’s Malasadas!

heheheh

Aloha Tsaiko’s..
Condolences to the Masa Yonamine ohana. The sports community has lost a great sportsman. He shaped and molded a lot of youngsters and he wil be sorely missed.

Great news on the recruiting front and it’s shaping up to be a good recruiting year.
The O-line prospects look really good for next year. Can’t wait for spring ball. Defense, reloading.
Will Beavers be in the mix next season? I hear he is one stud on the D-line.

Rob25:
December 15th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Stretch – How come you don’t have football pics from Aloha Stadium?

I don’t want to incriminate myself.

BTW – this season I have been pretty mellow (except this past Cinci game). Don’t want to create headaches for people when others complain.

rob25 – ssshhhhhhhh…..

Rob25 – your daughter’s soccer team would take an azz-whooping if they played the Mililani jv team. 😆

*cough* SMU! *cough*

Thanks to Coach Mack and some of his players for coming out to the Foster Family Christmas Party at the NBC yesterday. Steve introduced me to Adam Leonard.
Steve told me a funny story that happened at the Christmas party. I called him on the cell and told him that Coach Mack and the UH players are at the NBC. He was supposed to be there early since we were volunteering to do the face painting. When Steve did come, he took some pictures of the players, and one of the volunteers in charge told him, No autographs…just pictures. I just thought that was funny. (The UH players were signing autographs…but I really don’t know when or why the lady told Steve that. Maybe he cut in line to try and take a picture…I don’t know.)

wena – ST is one of the UH Football groupies.

Ralph,

JJ is also doing home visits all around the state of Texas. I think that the increased budget and having a director of football operations (who can do many of the tasks that Tony Tuioti is doing now for UH) makes a big difference.

Remember, JJ offered to reduce his salary to pay for others who could help the Warrior program and HF refused. Not only would it have been impossible to get the funds for a recruiting coordinator under HF, I really think HF would have refused to let JJ pay for that position out of his own salary!

One correction to haka’s post–JJ didn’t just do most of his recruiting during the season, he got most of his commitments *before* the season. I think that SMU had something like 16-18 commits when the season began.

Some recruiting gets done VERY early. Here is an example. This kid got a Virginia Tech offer before he began high school and he’s only 5’10” and 145 pounds!

At 15, Tyler Lewis is used to being the youngest and smallest player on the court.

He’s already in his third season starting for a high school varsity basketball team even though he’s just a ninth-grader and 5-foot-10, 145 pounds.

But he has exceptional passing ability and a dead-on jump shot from 22 feet at Forsyth Country Day. And he already has coaches with the Charlotte 49ers, Auburn and Virginia Tech telling him they will pay his tuition, room and board if he will play basketball for them.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” Tyler said of his first offer, from Virginia Tech, which came this summer.

Recruiting analysts say about 10 current sophomores and a couple of freshmen have committed to schools for basketball. Some coaches and administrators say it’s not wise to put the pressure of choosing a college on students so young.

“Kids aren’t rational, autonomous decision-makers,” said William Morgan, a sports ethics expert at the University of Southern California. “…They seldom think about the long-term consequences of their actions.”

More about this kid from his middle school days:

“Change your diaper,” a rough crowd taunted Tyler two years ago when he started as a seventh-grader on Statesville Christian’s varsity against Camden (S.C.) Military Academy.

Only 13 years old, Tyler scored 27 points that night.

He began getting serious attention from recruiters last season as an eighth-grader at Forsyth Country Day. “(He) looks like he shouldn’t be on the court with the kids he’s on the court with,” said Rusty LaRue, the former Wake Forest three-sport standout who coaches Tyler at Forsyth Country Day, located about 12 miles west of Winston-Salem.

Some of the plays Tyler makes are dazzling. At the Prep Challenge at UNC Charlotte last summer, he chased down a loose ball near midcourt.

With his back to the basket, he made a perfect, no-look pass over his head to a teammate for a dunk.

In the semifinals of a team tournament at UNC Greensboro during the summer, Tyler tipped the ball over an opponent’s head as they chased a rebound, then caught up to the ball just in time to put it behind his back to avoid another opponent. Then he faked a left-handed, behind-the-back pass to freeze a defender before finishing a layup with his left hand.

“Everybody huddles around him and says, ‘Did he just do that?’ Because he’s just such a small kid,” LaRue said.

Tyler, who loves to watch Spongebob Squarepants and prefers chicken fingers when ordering at restaurants, has taken unofficial visits to seven schools, including Charlotte, N.C. State, South Carolina and Wake Forest. He said he isn’t in a hurry to choose.

computer is very slow refreshing today….opening new tabs even slower for HA

I like how Nevada assistant athletic director Chad Hartley tries to spin the fact that Nevada has only sold about *100* tickets to the Humanitarian Bowl so far! At least that was up from the 8 they had sold last week Monday.

Pride.:
December 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Al, I don’t remember the guy’s name, but it wasn’t Miano.

is that due to senioritis??

Pictures from QB Club luncheon, Tsai started things off with Bulla’s joke. 🙂

http://picasaweb.google.com/808Cruiser/121508?authkey=wjHXFtwitCY#

who’s alex walker? o_O

Pride,

JJ has a very good special teams coach (Gansz) right now and they improved significantly from the year before on special teams. They didn’t have great talent on their roster but they did cover kicks better and they blocked well for their kicker/punter.

Defense is a big problem for SMU, especially the talent on D (especially DL). I don’t think Fresno State’s former LB coach was JJ’s first choice for DC (that was Mac) or even in the top 3 or 5…but he was hiring pretty late in the process.

Pride,

I really did enjoy the Jackie Slater story! I grew up a Rams fan and was a big fan of his.

SMU has a good st coach in Ganz! the SMU players and fans write good things about bulla’s twin at OL…but the DC is getting his share of thumbs down, the team is dead last or near the abyss in a lot of defensive categories…but JJ started 22 freshmen and red shirt freshmen and a bunch of soph and took his lumps, a lot of juniors and seniors sat on the bench…he had a whole year to recruit this incoming class, interesting to see who starts next season…

Garret – #119, 121, 122 – are there not limits on the number of years a kid can play hs sports? or is it just an age thing? back in the dark ages when I was in high school, one of my classmates couldn’t play his senior year because he turned 19 before the end of the school year.

btw speaking of Melvin, if you go to the stadium and see an HPD officer C. MELVIN, it’s not former Rainbow Warrior Calvin Melvin. It’s his brother

btw2 speaking of Leonard, former Rainbow Warrior WR Leonard Lau has a son Ezekiel who is killing it on the local amateur surfing scene

btw3 speaking of Leonard, does any of you have Chinese friends who pronounce Leonard… Lennit?

garrett, thanks for the link to lewis walker. i know who he is. i was referring to “alex walker” caption in tsais blog pic.

ralph, dan johnson is an OL from the state of washington. he is a junior.

Ralph – re #137 – I remember a couple of years during the JJ era when the Warrior D was almost dead last in Div I-A. Pre-Glanville?

Many mahalos to the Warriors who participated in the Christmas party for foster families. It’s great when these players take the time to “give back to the community”…

letsgowarriors,

My bad, I just noticed that you were asking about Alex Walker and I pointed to Lewis Walker’s info!

The only Alex Walker I could find is a freshman football player at Georgia Tech. So, I’m guessing that was a typo by ST.

Check out how scout.com gave 1 start to John Fonoti and 2 stars to Adam Leonard and Sol!

Good afternoon gang…taking a break…

Just a quick reminder……

Its that Holiday time again…..

2nd Annual Tsaiko Christmas Party
6:30 p.m., December 18th, 2008
Murphy’s Bar and Grill
2 Merchant St
Honolulu, HI 96813
(808) 531-0422

Parking is available in the Harbor Court building (entrance on Bethel Street) or in the pay lot next to Murphy’s.

Party will be pupu style/order off menu and drinks. More details to follow.

We will also be having games so we are asking everyone to bring $1 for the games and than, if we are amenable, we will be collecting the money for a donation to the Advertiser Christmas Fund. There will be prizes.

Also, if anyone wants to just donate, they will be more than welcome to do so.

This one is important…cake will also be served Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

Please RSVP me at jgo8464822@aol.com if you can so that I can figure out how many will be attending.

See Steve M’s website for more information.

Thanks.

(J)J – after the Christmas party you plan on hanging out on Merchant St?

homey…nope…I think wreck might be…although I heard Koakane said he may meet up with Koamahu there…..LMAO

homey – i’m assume HHSAA doesn’t allow that here? otherwise, kids like Kanoe Kamanao would have been playing from the 7th or 8th grade.

tsai-
It’s raining again….

princess video:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081215/BREAKING02/81215057

Dear Tsai-kos- curveball reports Kristin has improved and is able to walk around again! Mahalo, Ke Akua!!!

Wasn’t Dan Johnson highly recruited out of Washington? Any chance of him getting some playing time?

So with all the recent rain, has there been any setbacks in the completion of the Ching/Cooke field turf?

J-Dog,

From what I saw on Saturday night looks like the entire thing was rolled out. I could see that the end zone towards the complex was down on the ground and you could see “HAWAII” printed on and seeing that they started from the opposite endzone you can tell they are sooooooo close to completion.

Kazz the season is so close to be ending……can it be completed by next tuesday, at least one day on the new field before heading for the hotel…

Eh, better for them to just take their time, make sure everything is installed properly; wouldn’t want to get anyone hurt because they tried to rush it just for one or two practices.

homey – They already got the beat down during the pre-season from the Mililani JV!

Stop being such a punk!

Utah fans don’t seem to care about supporting their team at the Sugar Bowl.

According to Utah officials, the Utes pre-sold 10,000 of their 17,500 alloted tickets to donors and season ticket holders. As of late Friday afternoon, only 2,500 more had been sold, leaving about 5,000 more available to fans.

I’m not surprised that Utah fans didn’t buy all the tickets, getting to New Orleans during the holidays isn’t a cheap trip. However, I am surprised more Alabama fans aren’t buying the tickets since Tuscaloosa is about four hours away.
Maybe they’re believing a lot of the national predictions and don’t think the game is going to be worth spending $135 to see.

Illinois sure spends a lot in recruiting…

UI recruiting expenses rose from $472,000 during the 1996-97 school year to $1,203,500 in 2006-07.

The latter figure, according to The Chronicle, ranked 11th among NCAA Division I-A schools and trailed only Ohio State (10th at $1,236,800) among fellow Big Ten members.

In addition, the amount Illinois spent on recruiting in 2006-07 was nearly double the median average ($632,000) for all I-A schools.

Garret and Jason,

What I meant that, on a yearly basis, if June has a good O-line coach, good special teams coach, and a good D.C. his teams would be literally unstoppable.

But then after saying it, I realized that we be the same with all offensive geniuses.

shiiroi one
see your email please.

pride. i caught your thoughts.

i have a question for you.
you know how they say too many chefs spoil the soup.

do you think the same applies in coaching football?
lets say oline for example, shouldn’t there be one oline coach who may have a student assistant to help demonstrate or keep stats. of course, he needs to be on the same page as the coach and follow exactly his instructions. therefore, one method is taught and not several.

what say you????

I think every team needs a good OL coach, special teams coach, OC, and DC. With JJ, the OC is set. With Mac, the D will always be solid.

Some head coaches with a background on one side of the ball do not guarantee success on that side (Mumme at NMSU, etc.). But I have the utmost respect for Mac and JJ on their respective expertise.

ditto garret….every team needs excellence in teaching the game at all positions.

equally important is how you motivate and inspire them to reach beyond their potential.

now that is a good coach!

UH TO BE THE GRINCH THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS FROM NOTRE DAME

Notre Dame is going to have to do MORE than us to win the Hawaii Bowl. This is not me taking the game lightly, but just stating the facts.

Jimmy Clausen’s reputation of forcing balls into coverage upon pressure does not bode well for them considering their offensive line is as questionable as ours at times. Our front seven has been awesome all year long and they must be foaming at the mouth at this opportunity.

Notre Dame’s players, for the most part, have not had to travel so far to play a football game and a lot of them have never even been to Hawaii so regardless of all the “all business talk”, the shock of spending the winter in paradise as opposed to South Bend will catch them off guard.

We come into the Hawaii Bowl wounded from the give away loss to Cincy pissed off and angry and anxious, where as Notre Dame comes in limping with a loss at home to Syracuse and an expected blow out by SC (blowouts are never good even if you expect them).

Charlie Weis will have some obstacles to overcome himself with having to undergo surgery before the flight to Honolulu and I am still not convinced that Weiss is the kind of coach that the kids at South Bend would “take a bullet” for so I won’t even bother to factor in “Notre Dame will play to win for their coach” stuff.

Our boys get to stay home, our seniors get to spend a little more time in Hawaii Nei, everything is as it should be for them and no BIG adjustments need to be made off the field. On the field, it’s the same thing. The things that killed us and allowed Cincy to come back to win the game is the conservative play calling and the players loosing focus in the dying moments of a well played game. Both things can be fixed. It’s easier to get results off attempts to improve past situations when you know the skill and ability to win were there and everyone had a brain fart.

The fact remains, Cincy did NOT deserve to win that game against us, we lost it for ourselves plain and simple.

Right now, with all that I have mentioned, there is NO excuse for NOT beating the Irish on Christmas eve.

***Off topic tidbit***

Sports Authority at Waikele is selling #1 UA home jerseys in ladies sizes.

So all da Greg Salas stalking Wahines can at least dress the part! 😆

Ralph: There is a great book that I just so happened to find at a bookstore one day. It’s called Play Football the NFL Way. It’s a great textbook on the fundamentals of all positions. It contains diagrams for drills, explanations of what players are supposed to do, etc. It’s a bit dated (1990), but still pretty good. I am slowly going through the book, studying everything that it says.

Ralph:
December 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
how come my computer refreshes faster with firefox than chrome? Chrome is a faster browser per techies or is the HA server not friendly with chrome?

Ralph — from my observations this year , I would say that the HA bogware is almost equally unfriendly to all browsers. So don’t feel bad…they are trying to keep their hit count down for some reason… 🙂

why do you beg to differ Al, 10 sacks in the last two games alone…how many qb hurries and at least one deflection for an interception…

coach ron is conservative from the third quarter on but everything starts with the OL on offense. ESPN bowl mania, as bad as ND is and they favor Hawaii, they state the game will be close because UH doesn’t do a good job run or pass blocking…

Have a nice night everyone. Gotta run….

Al replied to your e mail…

ok, al san. got all 3 mail. must be using your new toy.

…or Nitoto’s toes… 😆

whitey…3?

what was it?

“physical superiority cancels out all theory”

if you ran a 5.5 forty, why are you even playing…you should be in the stands with the tsaikos wondering with the rest of us-gee, what just happened…..the coaches teaches alignment and assignment, if you that slow al, it is the coaches job to bench you for being slow…proper alignment and knowing your assignment and will lots of smarts might give you a chance at taking the proper angle to make the play…but it is best to keep you on the bench and ignore you with your 5.5 speed..Brew add one of your smileys here….

oh ralphy, you so silly.

upper deck of the arena looks empty…..is chawan wearing a white shirt with an H in back of the basket…

…Feeling like Katrina with no FEMA…Like Martin with no Gina…

you can tell who the false al is.

sorry, but blog is so slow, i can go to the darkside and back before my post shows up.

ok, Im not changing my name cuz I was here first.

he’s good.
hahahaha.
okay, i’ll leave so the false al can have fun.
har, har, har……….

Coaching can always get better. It’s not A++, so it can get better. But I wouldn’t say that’s the only issue. I’m with al; we don’t have Adrian Klemm, Tala Esera, or Dane Uperesa here. Brian Smith could probably coach them up better, but they aren’t the best athletes either. In all, I think everyone shares a little bit of the accountability.

where’s tsai tonight? Wena esmed earlier!

get sum geniuses here.

Pride,
you got all da inside scoops.

So Im gonna spend 22noon – Xmas morn in Honolulu. I’m ready to celebrate Christmas with my friends at da stadium. yee hawwww!

back in a few!

Well, one is a take-home exam, which I just have to turn in. And for the other one, I have ten more review problems, and I’m pau.

And I’m recording the game to watch tomorrow. 😀

shoji recruited two vb players, hopefully the other one is an OH

Ralph,

If you are using Google’s Chrome, you hopefully have downloaded the latest version. Chrome is out of Beta with this latest version.

3D biometric facial-recognition software is coming, and they are looking to embed the technology into passports.

Hackers have illegally gotten permits to cut down 7 million cubic meters of the Brazilian Rain Forest.

Free play links pau.

UH 85 – CSU 65

Sorry, I had the wrong score anyway.

don’t know where she is transferring to, she got a release from shoji, and she is from des plaines, Illinois…maybe she doesn’t want to follow in the footsteps of a fellow Illini, Cayley, and seat on the bench. she would have been an academic junior next year….a 6’3 vb player who can jump, what a waste…

It is official this time…the Arena Football League has canceled its season. That is too bad for so many players, including a few Warriors.

The Arena Football League canceled its 2009 season today pending an agreement with its players’ union. The decision throws the future of the 22-year-old league into question just days after it said next season had not been suspended.

The AFL’s owners voted against playing next year during a conference call Sunday night. It was unclear what had changed since the league issued a statement Wednesday night that said the 2009 season had not been suspended “despite rumors and reports to the contrary.”

Since things a little slow right now, please check the Tsai-kos in Las Vegas (Sept 2009) logistics page if you are planning on attending the UH-UNLV football game:

http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/las2009.html

This is a compilation of data from the Las Vegas surveys, email, and other sources. If there are updates, errors or omissions, please email me: stevem.hnl (at) gmail.com with the corrections. Thanks.

For the long-time Tsai-kos…. just curious, who coined the term “Tsai-kos”?

I think it was princess Leila who first used tsaikos

the SMU players seem to be very positive about McKnight based on articles in ponypride, and the fans who go to practices think the OL and the rest of team received alot of positive coaching compared to years past. The ponys played nearly an entire freshmen OL this season with soph receivers and fr qb…JJ took his lumps for next season..the juniors and seniors hardly got any PT. I only wished that mac was true to his word and rotated more players in all phases of the game…

i don’t think too many of coach cav OL players from OSU made it to the nfl…most of the OL guys he is credited with developing played for him in hawaii…maybe it was both the available talent level and his coaching at UH, and the talent level after manuwai, forney, satele, etc.were not at the same level…a lot of the kailua players, including satele, lacount, etc, were recruited by cav.

The problems with the 2008 offensive line actually is a very complex one. Our issues actually began in the 2005 season when June Jones appointed Wes Suan as the O-line coach. Again it isn’t Wes’ fault either. Wes was a running back coach for years at Linfield. Jones then had Mouse Davis help Suan. Mouse Davis had his own O-line philosophy and techniques that he established at Portland State.

The O-line during the 2005 an 2006 seasons possessed a few linemen with strong personalities, and leadership qualities. These individuals on their own stuck with what they were taught by their own line coach Cav. It worked out well during those two seasons because the line had a good base foundation that was taught by Cav.

When the 2006 season rolled around, coach McKnight was given the responsibilty by June Jones to whip up the O-line. Two things happened. First, I am not sure what kind of experience that Mcknight had coaching offensive lines. He was a good ball player, but in my opinion lacked experience at coaching the O-line. In time I am sure that he will be a great O-line coach. Luckily he had two Sateles, Esera, Uperesa,and a steady Estes. He was good for one season with the carryover of linemen that learned under coach Cavanaugh.

The problems with steady and good offensive line play started at the start of the 2007 season. The problems were hidden by really great play at the skilled positions, especially at quarterback. McKnight didn’t have the benefit of having Cav built linemen. He now had to deal with players that didn’t have the good base foundation that Cav’s line had. The players now had philosophies that originated from Linfield, Portland State, Drake, the Chargers, Lions, and Eagles.

Brian Smith was brought in this year to shore up the line but now had to start from scratch. Inexperience at the skill positions added to the problems. With the inability to go down the field with the QB’s this year, defenses could just pin their ears back and attack at the point.

Smith’s trying to build the line from the bottom up, but in the process has to have them ready to play games. He’s trying to teach basic fundamentals like A,B, and C, while at the same time trying to get them to play at level X, Y, and Z.

Another factor in the line play could be that Smith’s assistant Zerke hasn’t had the time to catch up with philisophies and style of offensive line play. That can put a strain on the kids if one coach is teaching something but the other coach can’t lend adequate support.

In time, I believe that Smith will be able to catch up and have the troops ready to perform at a high level. This year’s recruiting class will be a big help.

Even with all these problems, Hawaii was five minutes away from being 9 and 4. One minute against San Jose and four minutes against Cincy. Throw in the hiccup against Utah State and we are 10 and 3. What an awesome season if you look at it that way.

okay, brian smith has taken a lot of flack all season.

but, did you know?
did you know that there are more than one oline coach?
should we be sharing the blame??

rumors flying around that chizzy has decommitted…he visited colorado state this past weekend.

two more months of agony waiting for NLI day…who will sign the dotted line for UH…

off to dream land. nitey nite.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

Nice blog!

I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…