Ray Hisatake to (video) chat at noon

2 yay!

K Den 3

Samson Satele will do well in Oakland.

good morning all…..top five(5)!!!!

Hopefully Veikune will get picked high, but no matter what, he’ll be employed in Football this next year.

Are we going to use up our last scholarship on anybody new? Or, will it go to a current player who has proven himself?

R.M. Cox
Miami Dolphins Examiner

Free agency losses in 2010
“Why it’s an issue: The Dolphins will have 12 unrestricted free agents after the 2009 season. The list includes some key positions: Quarterback Chad Pennington, tight ends Anthony Fasano and David Martin, defenders Will Allen, Matt Roth and Jason Ferguson, and wide receiver Davone Bess.”

I look for Davone to have a breakout year, test the market and up with a better team.

no worries esme!

Good Morning TsaiKo Ohana !!!1

Great job Esme!!!

Good morning everyone!

…another work day for me and I can’t watch the show live… but Bre’r Esme will be fine. I’m curious if she wears Mom pink or Tsai-ko black? What’s the betting line on this one? 😆

Good morning Tsaikos!!

Esme – no lie. I seen you on da terebi before. You’ll do fine.

Esme will be fine. I’m curious if she wears Mom pink or Tsai-ko black? What’s the betting line on this one? 😆

steveM good one, so what esme inquiring minds want to know

What is Nanay worried about, she’s a TV star already!

SteveM – You talking about underwear color?

question for ray hisatake….

i am so glad we finally got one japanese boy playing for the home team.

with that out of the way….its been a long time since you were recruited out of san mateo and you have gone through quite a bit transitioning from the defense to the offense. do you still think that you are on the “right” side of the line scrimmage or do you sometimes wish that you were back on the defense?

i hear you will get a shot at one of the guard positions, many of us will be pulling for you!

homey….for me its black. black can cover up a lot of mistakes.

al – It can also make you look smaller.

homey # 28 so nasty but das you my bruddah

gotta do errands but will be back for the 12 o clock showing. should be a good one

yep saw that item on news last night but when did they advertise the money rebate to get some of dem monies?

online:

Are you folks using a “que” so Leila and Stephen know when they are on the “air”?

Last one, they seemed to be “startled” to know that they were “live”.

esme,
just don’t acknowledge us like you know us when you read the questions. there’s a lot of non-blog readers that view the show. they’d be wondering where all the inside jokes/smirks would come from.

SteveM, re:#20: Seeing as she really doesn’t care for the color pink (I know…weird, huh???) and black, while flattering on BIG mamaz like me, is a little to, uh….not “Esme”….

My vote is some shade of green (C’mon…how could she NOT go there?) or she will show her filipino colors and use something totally not expected like peach, plum, or some other fruity color….

hahahahaha….hehehehehe….

c_c: re:#44: I agree. Those guys are probably the same one’s who believe people like me aren’t welcome to the Dark Side….

WHAT.EVER.

stephen should make it comfortable for you too. hopefully he doesn’t crack too many jokes. THE Princess has a hard time laughing and keeping a straight face.

chawan – Are you going to post your “beautiful” phrase to Esme? You want me to do it?

morning gang!

another generic question:

when was the last time you cut your hair?

Must be dress rehearsal time.

Loa – #54, same to you!

“What’s far-ful and brrrrown???”

Rob25..does the instigator of a KK have to do the first song of the evening?

Off topic..
Garret..regading electric cars. GM and the EV1 was around over 10 years ago. It went 0-65 in less than 10 sec. Cars was eventually destroyed. Not sure why.
Nissan introduced the Hypermini in 1997. Me thinks Pasadena county leased a buch of them for their fleet. Afte the leae expired in 2006 Nissan refuse an offer to purchase the fleet and destroyed them later.
Toyota in 2003 introduced the Rav4-EV 4×4. After the leae expired in 2005 they also destroyed the vehicles.
Not sure why but the technology is there and I hope by now improved. I don’t want to get into consipracy theories but it seems real funny that the price of oil and gas went sky high and continues to do funny things everyday now.

BaseBows had a good road trip. Need more improvement but you can see the quality of the devolping talent. this weekend series with Coastal will be telling. I look for them to challenge for a title this year.
Go Warriors!

#60 – Your kids Barney in his diaper?

NorthShoreFan:
March 24th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Rob25..does the instigator of a KK have to do the first song of the evening?

NSF – I think that’s a GREAT idea!!! Frank is the one who wanted a KK with the Tsaikos, he’s the instigator on this one.

Loa??? You don’t know dat Frank Delima song???

C’mon…..try…cause I’m laughing to myself here…AGAIN..people think I’m crazy. Don’t know why…

1

Question for David Veikune…

First off, good luck with your NFL career, you remind me of a modern day Al Noga. Being a rush-end at UH, how do you feel about the possibility of being used as a Linebacker in a 3-4 package at the NFL level?

Question for Ray Hisatake…

What has been the hardest transition to make from the DLine to the OLine and do you feel you have and advantage as an OLineman knowing DLineman tendecies?

loa….hisatake already get crew cut these days.

Howzit, Stretch!

Aloha Everyone,

It’s been awhile since I have given you an update so thought I would take this opportunity to do so now. Florida Ted is doing well, improving each day. He still is not able to sit on the computer and blog, and this makes him very anxious and frustrated. He wants so much to thank you all for the lovely cards and warm wishes, they really make his day. He received one card from Kelli Horita, so many nice greetings! He is wondering how you all got together to sign the card.

Another special item he received was from Jerry Anaya…a wonderful picture of your special group…..oh, how I wish Ted and I could be in a picture like this (with all of you). Such a fun and loving group you all are. Think I enjoy all these cards and correspondence as much as Ted!!
I hope someday that we can meet each and everyone of you.

I am still trying to get him some speech therapy. Today we did go to see someone, filled out forms and wait to see if he qualifies for funding. All in all he is doing really well, still has a sense of humor and we manage to laugh from time to time.

Again, thank you all for all your concern and well wishes…..sure wish I had your group here with me when he was in the hospital…but felt your love and ohana. God bless you all.

Its a beautiful day so I am going to take my favorite man for a walk in the sunshine, look up to the sky and thank the Lord for a beautiful day, and my darling Ted.

Much love,
Florida Patti

aloja Tsaiko’s!

Florida Patti – good news and mahalo for the update.

too bad i can’t watch ST and Esme, missing out i know. go get’um “Mother of all mothers” [hope i got that right?]

Patti:

Please tell Ted that there should be no hurry to get back on the computer and blog – the Tsaikos will be around for a long, long time and will await his return when he is ready – it may be a single word or as many as 5 words, but it will lift our spirits and cascade a rainbow from Hawaii to Clearwater.

Ted, it took billions and billions of years to form our universe and it’s still at work – time will also be with you!

Ai soos, homey, no tell Esme that!!

Esme is one popular Mama

Lunch time…

al ™:
March 24th, 2009 at 9:44 am
homey….for me its black. black can cover up a lot of mistakes.

Yup…also need some stealth technology built in too. 🙂 Doesn’t apply to Esme though…

I assume lavalier mics for th broadcast– don’t give Esme a wireless mic to twirl… 😉

Florida Patti — thanks for the update on Ted. Glad he is improving and we know he will join on the blog soon!

WOOOO HOOOO esme strut your bad self!!! HIIIIIIIIIII

Ray:

Thank you so much for being a Warrior.

How do you feel about doing the haka? Is that something that the team still enjoys doing?

As a Bay area guy, did you follow the Raiders or the 49ers?

Best of luck to you next year. I love your aggression and your power game and I think this year you are going to open a lot of eyes.

HA needs to buy a new bigger table. When there are 3 people, ST sits on the side away from the table and can see his opu. Need to hide it.

1036 viewers!

chawan – it went up to 1065.

The underwear is pink.

stephen looks uncomfortable.

chawan – maybe he needs a bathroom break.

That was a good show.

When I first got to the page with the video, the first thing I thought was “Why does Stephen have a hibiscus in his hair?”

You guys are kissing up to the wrong blog host….

ST you were GREAT as usual! 🙂

maddiesmom – you should have seen the question I asked. It must have got moderated because it didn’t show up on the screen! 😆

duffer, talk about kissing up! 😆

FloridaPatti,

Thanks for the update on FloridaTed.
Just be b>sure you want him talking like his old self again? 😆
Nah, just kidding. Hope you keep getting better Ted! 😀

hey duffer I just read what you wrote on “the pink side” lol

i guess that the blog questions were over looked 🙁

Almost 1100 viewers on today’s show.

al – Either overlooked or you pissed her off. 😆

Florida Patti (re #78)

Love to hear the positive news coming from our Fla ohana! Tell hubby when he gets frustrated, to remember the time tempered ditty: “Plan your work. Work your plan. Give your plan time to work”.

Sounds like the present is a practice in patience…something all of us would like more of! lol If he can lurk now, it’ll just be a matter of time before he’ll be chattering away! Ted (if you’re reading this)…”no need be perfek speling and gramma”.

BG

esme,

agree w/ al, very nicely done.

You get the Rolaids Award for the WB this year.

homey,

Look, now al is working on pissing off the Princess!

smooth d1…..that was smooth.

Really enjoyed the show. Hisatake just has a good feel to him. Liked how he came across. Good job Esme and ST. Hosting is not an innate ability…takes some work.

First time watching…can’t watch at work. There are some advantages to being laid up for a day or two. Also got on the internet and made my reservations for the UH-UNLV game…thought I had it done last week, but it seemed to have dropped into the cyber black hole. NOW, I can get on SteveM’s site to update my info. BBL

sry mispell a=i

Okay, homey…what? re:#89

Hi braddah Kazz!

just pulling over something I posted in the Mommies site. tell me what you guys think

GREAT job Esme – maybe you should have a Mama’s show also. bring in one mama as a special guest every week where people can ask questions. First guest should be Coloma!! That would make for some entertaining lunch conversation.

Hisatake showed well and for the most part was very articulate.
He accounted well for himself.

His 22 reps @ 225 lbs is an underachievement for his 320 lb size, frame and senior class.
That is what a good RB can rep.
Haku Correa is a frosh and does 32 reps with 225lbs.
Haku is a DT–wonder what Hisatake’s DL opponents will be repping when they line up against RH this year.

Last year RH was part of the OL that was huffing and puffing for oxygen after runnijng a 40 yeard sprint….I didnt hear any specifics in his conditioning that tells me he is working on running other than a few vaque references.

Ray also mentioned that Brian Smith is the smartest coach he played under….c’mon dude, get real.
Brian Smith set two infamous sack records in 2 consecutive years as OL coach for Portland State and UH.
Im looking forward to Gordie Shaw who coached Big 10 offensive linemen.
Dunno his IQ compared to Smith but I guarantee our OL will improve and will be able to run more than one 40 without blacking out.

Who cares if he wears aloha shirts, eats ulu or walks with rubba slippas.

fanny- what benefit to the team do you think your comment #146 will produce?

Whoosh!

Stephen Tsai:
March 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
HIsatake says Nate Ilaoa is going to be helping out this spring.

that would be an interesting guest to have on

Coloma – I guess I better not show up Friday….

Coloma – no say that, Koa-mahu may be lurking

Big C – I’m just saying that the Mom’s TV commercial played and you were on it. That’s all. Sorry, fell asleep.

Streeeeetch – no worries, you’re not my type. i like guys like Chawan and J (J). mmmmm.

homey: WTH? Sleep??

Stretch,

The Monday night doubleheader on ESPN on Sept. 14 will feature Buffalo, with Terrell Owens, at New England. That game will be followed by San Diego at Oakland — all original AFL franchises.

Hey gang…man, it’s been a long couple of weeks and hardly had time to drop by. Hope all is well with everyone. Just wanted to stop by for a few and say hello and see what everyone was up to.

ST – You might be one of the 10% that did not see it. It was posted on the blog.

Big C – BTW, who were the other moms on the commercial, besides you and Esme?

j/j

Who won that contest? And who were we voting for? I mean the mom, not JaSmine. 🙂

ST #159- yup…das an old one. Here’s the retort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4M-5y5_PE&NR=1

Jjjjames… what you finally get day off???

ok…airport time.

Latahs!

tripleS and LiLmissMama.

Yup, Kazz….almost pau wrap up “real” work….gotta hele to my kids school to register SIX of them for next school year…..

Anyone wanna make donations???

Big C…why? You need more kids??? BWAHAHAHHAHAHA

Ok…got to see the replay of the Whoosh & Tsai Show and was pleasantly surprised at how well David presented himself. Esme was doing a very good job of filling in for PL, and ST…well he was just being his usual cool 😎 self. D-1 and Homey, questions were spot on.

Now that the show is mellowing out technically, I think the viewers are able to relax and enjoy the show more. Kudos to Scott, John and the tech crew for their hard work.

(J)J makes donations at the bank.

YESSSSS, homey?? Cat got your tongue?

Mama C-Ta ~ You are on cruise control girl. Just relax and enjoy da ride. Schools need your chirrun to justify all that stimulus money. Dey gotta take ’em in.

Where is everyone? Watching the Esme and Tsai Show (EATS)? I need to catch up with it one of these days. One day I will not have any meetings or problems with the kids.

Right. In my dreams. HA!

Regarding #146

I could be wrong but I don’t remember Samson Satele being able to do a huge number of reps at 225#’s. I thought the problem with our O-line last year was poor footwork and balance. This though might have been due to so many of them being injured.

David Veikune got a nice review in this article on ESPN.

8. David Veikune, Hawaii: Smooth athlete for his size, and his best football should still be ahead of him.

I think that this sports writer’s agents really went too far…asking for $1 million per year in this economy?

Earlier this month, we heard that contract negotiations between NFL.com and its top reporter, Adam Schefter, had gone south. Yesterday, the Watchdog reported that Schefter’s work – by all accounts, he was NFL.com’s version of Fox’s Jay Glazer and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen – had not appeared since March 3rd, he had made no TV appearances, and he wasn’t present at the owner’s meetings in California.

We hear that contract negotiations went so poorly – a source says the NFL Network offered a raise in the neighborhood of 100k a year, but Schefter’s CAA agents held out for a million a year – that Schefter was told to turn in his blackberry and that he’d be paid until August, when his contract expired.

The NFL just adopted 5 new rules. All of them seem to be geared towards safety concerns.

NFL owners passed several safety rules and adjusted the calls on the kind of tackle that injured quarterback Tom Brady in the 2008 opener. Defenders who are on the ground no longer can lunge into quarterbacks if the play is still going on.

Four other rules also were adopted. The initial force of a blindside block can’t be delivered by a helmet, forearm or shoulder to an opponent’s head or neck and will bring a 15-yard penalty.

Initial contact to the head of a defenseless receiver also will draw a 15-yard penalty.

On kickoffs, no blocking wedge of more than two players will be allowed.

Also, the kicking team can’t have more than five players bunched together pursuing an onside kick.

So… Kale Ane will be part of the UH coaches clinic as he has a portion of the program all to himself….

I’ll try to be back in 3 hours…

201 and 203 . . . Shucks.

I just spoke with JD. He’s in SoCal visiting family and has expressed, actually insisted, that the LoCal Tsaikos join him and Kindashy Thursday evening to eat pupus and talk story. Ronnie is scoping out an alternative site since there is basketball on Thursday and the ESPN Zone location may not work for us. Either Ronnie or I will post tomorrow to let everyone know where & when. Hope a lot of lurkers can make it. Email me or Ronnie. My email is rich2176 (at) yahoo.

rich2176

are you anywhere near huntington beach?
i may end up in that neighborhood mon/tue/wed.

al,

If you’re in that neighborhood, why not come out to the “suburb”, too?
I’ll be there from Monday. 😉

Scout.com’s top 300 recruits for 2010 list came out today and I did a brief scan for recruits from Hawaii. This is what I found during the quick scan.

128: V.J. Fekoko (4 stars)
237: Graham Rowley (3 stars)
241: Kona Schwenke (3 stars)

I know that scout hasn’t updated the schools list for several recruits, so I don’t know how accurate the lists for these 3 players are. When scout.com themselves has an interview with a recruit in Texas and the recruit lists 4 schools, and the scout list doesn’t list several of those schools in their “interest list” for the recruit, I don’t think their list updating is foolproof.

The US Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along the border to get rid of smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants. They actually may repeatedly spray poison from helicopters until all plant life is poisoned…and this is in a populated area!

NASA has made public access to its scientific and astronomical data a high priority, and they announced an agreement with Microsoft to make planetary images and data available. NASA Ames will process and host more than 100 TB of data and additional data from space missions will continue to be added.

Free play links pau.

Soooooo….was that a GREEN shirt Esme was using??? #46

Hi Colomaohana — please send me an email… stevem.hnl (at) gmail.com

BIG KARAOKE CALL – FRANK’S R&R PARTY
Saturday, May 9, 2009
7:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Krazy Karaoke (1308 Young Street, Honolulu)

We have the big (green) room at Krazy Karaoke for up to 60 people.

Please join us in welcoming home Frank25 as he enjoys a little vacation from his deployment to Iraq/Kuwait!

In addition, we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate some of the numerous May birthday babies! (Jason, Peaches, Brie, d1shima, Mrs. Longtimeuhfan to name a few)

Feature performances by: (hopefully)

J(J) – Ventura Highway
UHFan808 – Funky Cold Medina
Pride – One In A Million
Addahknowjoe – Me & Mrs. Jones
UHFan808 & Lefty – Tricky
Plus many, many more!

• $15 per person for the room/karaoke
• BYOB
• Bring food/goodies (like indoor tailgate)

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Please continue to RSVP on the blog or email SteveM.

Continually updated Karaoke Call info and pot luck contributions in the Events Calendar section at:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/

Current count = 16

Hi Coloma…gotta come join us at the KK for my hubby!

BG April scrimmage at Cabana C or is it Cabana A…see SteveM website…it list C and we talked about this at Nancy’s last sunday, and you said no, same place which is A….

It sounds like Miami’s head coach thinks that Grove will be better for them at center than Samson because he has better weightlifting numbers…this kind of relates to a discussion earlier in the blog.

Unlike some of you, Sparano has no question new starting center Jake Grove will be an upgrade over Samson Satele. Although Grove has struggled to stay on the field because of injuries and really isn’t that much different in height and weight than the departed Satele, the coach is confident Grove will be there for games and will stronger at the point of attack against AFC East nose tackes: “We’ve done our due diligence with the whole thing, obviously,” Sparano said. “Jeff and Bill have done a tremendous job of getting into the background of all these guys we’ve brought here. I don’t think that was really a concern of ours at the time. It certainly isn’t.

“When you talk to people about Jake and his strength totals and the way he works in the weight room, you certainly get the picture. From our end, our offseason program is something that is important to us and Jake’s there on campus right now. He’s involved in lifting right now and the program hasn’t even started. So we feel like that’s something that helped an awful lot of our players last year.”

Miami is focusing on the pass rush, specifically looking for a college DE that they can turn into a pass-rushing OLB. With their bringing in David Veikune for an interview, this could be an interesting team to watch in the draft for Veikune.

The Dolphins need an explosive receiver and the starting cornerback job opposite Will Allen is open to competition, but anyone who knows Bill Parcells can surmise that he will spend much of his time during the NFL Draft trying to add a different key element to Miami’s roster.

Pass rush, pass rush, pass rush.

It is important for Miami to get more help for outside linebacker Joey Porter, who had 17 ½ sacks last season.

”Very important,” Sparano said. “It’s very important we find somebody who can do that other than Joey. In the last three games of the season, where teams started to take the protection completely to Joey, we had to come up with ways to still put pressure on the passer.

“As you know, you can never have enough pass rushers. That’s what we believe. And right now, we don’t have enough.”

spring ball is around the corner and where is bighilo? Samson is traded and no word from the him…Mr. L L you should have bought a new computer cuz staring at the keyboard won’t unfreeze your mouse cursor nor can you view the WB..

😯

I won BaseBow tickets?

How come nobody sent me an email? I wasn’t in my office today, so I didn’t catch the webcast today. I was having trouble watching it tonight too.

You coming on May 9th homey?

Can’t even get the replay to play on my laptop!! 👿

G’nite Cindy…see ya on May 9th

Rob25 – SteveM has me listed as attending.

Good night Cenn… when the lights go down in the city

If anyone miss it or is interested

HONOLULU – University of Hawai`i head football coach Greg McMackin and his coaching staff will conduct the 2nd Annual Warrior Football Coaching Clinic Saturday, April 18 at the UH Athletics Complex. The clinic is open to all football coaches at a cost of $15.

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and includes instructional sessions conducted by the assistant coaches throughout the day. Participants are invited to watch the Warriors’ practice at 3:00 p.m. Lunch and post-practice refreshments will be provided.

“Last year was our first clinic and it was a huge success with coaches ranging from Pop Warner to high school,” McMackin said. “I’m really looking forward to this year’s clinic. We’re still looking to instill the basic fundamentals of coaching and we have a terrific staff who’ll share their knowledge, including two new members in Gordy Shaw and Chris Tormey.”

For more information, call 956-6508.

homey ℞:
March 24th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Rob25 – SteveM has me listed as attending.

Yes. Be nice to Rob25 — she’s new at figuring out RSVPs. For example…

homey almost never says on the blog or in writing that he is attending. But considering his past attendance record at ALL large Karaoke Calls, his pink friends, the only guy to get (and earn) a Bomber shirt, his famous adventure rides home… well, his response to Rob25 last night was as enthusiastic as it gets. 😛 😆

al,

Orleans

SteveM pls check your email.

D-1 ~ Homes would be proud of her. She looks taller than him, but then…doesn’t everyone!

Well done Esme.Good luck for future.

d1…i believe he is the one they really want.

d1….she’s sixteen?

yikes…..jasmine trias needs to stop going to the p.i.

what pipes!

More snow this morning. Dang it. At least I do not have to over the hill — 2 more feet of snow last night.

Nearly 20 hours (1200 minutes) of parent conferences and I have all of 150 minutes scheduled with parents. Their apathy is pathetic. And we are supposed to raise their kids’ test scores?

-fanny,

been thinking about your post about RH’s take on BS,
an Mis Liz’s comment.

imo she’s right… Coach addressed the prolem wit his new hires.
main thing is we got ingredients an it appears we made a big +

i agree with your assessment about last year’s oline features.
but this is a new year. i like Gordy’s smell. but da unknown, Coach’s real time decision making, is gonna be da key dis year. on dat one, we’ll see. Its not on RH’s head, we’re talking about decisions at da highest pay level.

for Ray, I say give da new coaches a chance fo show dare stuffs, polish up our green gems.

Al,
he is not da first Japanese.
now wit da outta da way. 😆

Bhf2 ~ Your gramma?…She say she had it wicchu!

Howzit my biggest fan? You coming ovah for da coach’s Kleenex April 18? Mebbe bring your Posse. Ack like you don’t need da classes. Axe all da hardball questions you already know da ansah. Be da honor grad and make da rah- rah speech. Can or wat?

btw, howz tings wit basketbolla? i watchin da sweet 16 an wonder what kine excuses he get next year? nuttin like a bad marriage and both sides gotta “stick it out” in da same house. gotta stay married till age 72. 😀 but at least can terminate da mrs.

pssttt…

how you watch da Hisatake video? gotta plan fo next week.

Go onto da HA site. Click on da ‘sports’ banner. When you get to dat page, click on da top right hand yellow box dat get ST and da beautiful princess pitcha inside. Dat going take you to where you can choose which interview you like watch.

I hope get plenny groceries homey can grind! He goin’ put on one exhibition today at da Towah.

One WAC school and 3 MWC schools cracked this preseason top 25 list from CBS Sports.

16. Boise State: Look what going undefeated got the Broncos? Certainly not the Fiesta Bowl. The best non-BCS program in ’09 soldiers on.
Watch: The opener against Oregon. It will set the tone for the remainder of the season.

17. Utah: Bad news for the mouthy Mountain West. Utah isn’t playoff caliber this year. The two best players (Brian Johnson, Paul Kruger) are gone. The Utes should still be good enough to win the league.
Watch: The defense. Eight starters are back from a top-11 unit in ’08.

19. TCU: The Horned Frogs have to reload on the defensive line for the second year in a row. Defensive end Jerry Hughes returns.
Watch: For a more productive offense that should be able to win close games when the defense plays their hearts out. That wasn’t the case last season.

25. BYU: When was the last time the defense led the way in Provo? Eight starters return.
Watch: The standings. Until further notice, BYU is still the third-best program in the Mountain West behind Utah and TCU. Thirteen of the team’s 28 turnovers last season came against TCU, Utah and in the bowl game against Arizona.

Florida International has to cut more than $1 million from their Athletic Budget for the coming year! And this is after their teams had a good year…

”Through ongoing discussions with the university administration,” FIU athletic director Pete Garcia said, “a decision has been made that athletics, along with a number of other significant programs in this university, will have to adjust their budgets. The time has come to cut more than $1 million from the athletic budget, which will include significant layoffs within the department.”

Whether it was the FIU football team tying the program record for wins last season, the baseball team producing the No. 15 recruiting class in the country and this season off to its best start since 2002, or the volleyball team winning the Sun Belt Conference, many of FIU’s teams have begun to turn the corner within the past year.

good morning tsai-ko country 8) anoddah beautiful day in Hawaii
early shout out to bhf2 and happy trails to jm#’s

patnah going call dis am so no use up all the juice.

something interesting thoughts JJones brought up with nIlaoa and bsmith if true.

Kekoa,
thanks for the info. very much.

Koakane,
howzit bradda! 😀 about JJones thoughts.
I think Coach Mack has shown he is not a quitta.
he’s giving BSmith every shot at being
a very sound coach, now he’s giving him
experience at dis level and bringing in some
great teachers and leaders who cannot help
but improve the whole team, incl. coaches.
for me, BSmith was not da great communicator
it wasn’t just da occasional stutter, it was dat
da Warriors on da Oline neva pay attention to
him last year. I think they’ll pay more attention
to him now though. know why? he get backup.
their job is partly to make him look good. and he will.
thats my edumacated guess. 😀

have a hidee hooo day peoples!!!

Go Warriors!!!

Great Morning All!

was interesting to hear Hisatake’s assessment of coaching styles and his view of BSmith as a “knowledgeable yeller”

Hope erryboddy has a good day.

NoHiHo today….

koakane,

Da lines are now open.

(Did someone say, BaseBow tix?)

University Athletics is buisness. Football is a branch of the overall Buisness that Mack is ultimately responsible for. Bad buisness moves have been made before resulting in broken promises hence the “Stutzman Project” Great move by Mack it did land their top WR recruit. I am sure an improved OL unit is what was expected from the BS experiment which has went sour and is now been shuffled around. As bhilo mentioned “da Oline neva pay attention to him last year.” Position coaches shouldnt need backup for their players under the position they coach. There is a thing called Dead Weight not trying to be harsh but with UH trying to expand the use of the RB beyond an additional lineman his skills, background, insight to how to make a person miss, catch the ball, set up the blocks will not be his strengths. Instead of trying to make a coach into something he is not, (He wasn’t even that good at something he was) Cut your losses and upgrade. As mentioned its a buisness and a buisness trying to create a new identity, with the Run and Tight end. If he couldnt fire up the O lineman who he could better relate to there wouldnt even be a flicker for those he cant relate to.
Go UH Warriors

July not June, u begin to touch on a sore spot, re RB coach, but mahalo for scratching the surface and revealing a legitimate issue.
This coaching position has been neglected too long.

Since, JJ, we havent seen a legitimate RB coach.
IMO, we have suffered as a result.
The trend continues.

I wasnt a Gerke fan but at least he changed some drills and worked his players during agility drills.
He also had drills that emhasized ball handling but….that is where it ended, once the RBs went to 7-7 or 11-11 his contact with his players wasnt consistent becz he would shift over to OL with Smith.
Basic stuff during live drills were lacking such as shuffle pass snags.
Many times our RBs had their palms turned the wrong way–simple basics.

Look, this position deserves a legitimate coach that can apply basic fundamentals of ball handling, stepping, cutting, ball shift, grasp, spinning, clutch and cover-at-contact skills.

Either the coach has actual experience and communication skills or has had success in coaching that position.

We have gone through Wes Suan, Gerke and now Smith.
Nasty is proof positive how a good RB can contribute and make this r-n-s system GO….if only, we could get a legit RB coach–we might have more consistency–year to year.