Moniz, Salas still not practicing

we got this game

Good Morning Tsaikos!
It’s beautiful in the Ala Moana area.

tachibana, ornellas, maracle

even with my glasses dat picture is too small for me to id faces.

did you drive up, or did you swipe the pix? 😆

Salas, Henry, Tachibana

Stuzmann, Daily-Lyles, and Dunnachie

stutzman, daily-lyles, and mike wadsworth

Aloha Kakahiaka!!!

That pic is too small. But Stutzmann is a good guess, maui warrior.

hello, I can’t tell who they are, so I guess I don’t win

Didn’t Stutz the younger have a tat like that?

NO jojo NO! Don’t ever say that! We are ALL winners here, especially you lil friend! 😆

Good morning everyone!

Is the guy on the right Stephen Tsai without a shirt?

Shutter,daily-lyles and stutzmann

I’ll donate two more tickets if ST is the one who actually took this picture….

RJ Kiesel-Kauhane, Waylon Lolotai, BR Stutzmann

Aloha Kakahiaka!
hiho!

Stretch:
November 18th, 2009 at 8:17 am
I’ll donate two more tickets if ST is the one who actually took this picture….

….awww… you’re just trying to get a ride in his new Warrior Beat helicopter. 😐

Final guess: Kamalani Alo, Waylon Lolotai, Billy Ray Stutzmann

dunnachie, gdl, tachibana

good morning all nice windy and cool day.

everyone have a nice hump day 😀 , be nice to your family, friends and co-workers

sean branick, gdl, tachibana

Shutter, Ornellas, Stutzmann.

Dunnachie, Lyles, Stutzmann

Tough training.

David Graves, George Daily-Lyles, Billy Ray Stutzmann

Cavaco-Amoy, George Daily-Lyles, Billy Ray Stutzmann

Art Laurel, George Daily-Lyles, Billy Ray Stutzmann

Mike Maracle, Waylon Lolotai, Alema Tachibana

Tonga, GDL, BR Stutzmann

Mike Maracle, George Daily-Lyles, Alema Tachibana

jordan gomes, george daily-lyles, billy ray stutzman

Ingram, Paredes, Stuz

tachibana, GDL, hansen

Congratulations rog!

(didn’t see your post)

Tazer,

Don’t think so.

Thanks ST, just emailed you.

I could never play fretless…

Congratulations to Rog and to the rest of you who attempted to guess who’s in the picture. Unless I’ve actually met and spoken with someone on a 1-2-1 basis, it’s almost impossible for me to put a name to a face/body dressed is clothes they normally don’t wear – especially when I’m at a game at least four hundred feet away from where’s they’re sitting/standing, let alone playing. All I can see are the numbers on the backs of their jerseys, their general size & physical characteristics, and whether they have short or long hair.

Same thing with people here on the blog. I recognize lots of names and have seen many faces at various events, but unless I’ve had the opportunity to talk 1-2-1 with people so that I can put a face to the blog name, then I’m lost. The last two times I put a face to a name, I was wrong so now I have to figure out some way to find out who it was that I’d mis-identified in the first place.

Happy Birthday to a true Warrior and survivor, Hawaiian Bod. Many more to come!

I like my guess the best…

morning gang!

Happy Birthday Hawaiianbod!

That’s an interesting trio on the top of Koko Head. What were the Australian, Californian, and local boy doing up there? Some kind of freshman initiation thing??

Darren,

1048 steps. Quite a workout.
(I’d never try it!)

Hey, braddah Hawaiian Bod – a most Happy Birfday to you, many more, and hope to see you at a CC or tailgate in the near future!!

Take care and speedy recovery, my friend.

Good news about the Bod!!! Hauoli Lahanau!

In for my Chinese pokey needles session.

If Salas cannot play, I vote for Pilares moving back to the slot position and put Royce Pollard at WR.

Minimizes the QB/receiver connection and Pilares is better suited at the slot position. JMO!

Please indulge an old fud’s memories of plantation days Hilo. 60 years ago we learned from our older friends and siblings how to make a good luck charm. Find 3 stones ( the size that you can pick up each with one hand) and make sure that the stones can be put atop each other so that they become a “tower” of 3, much like the ahu markers you see marking trails over lava fields.

Here’s the method. Spit on the bottom stone and then place stone #2 on top of the bottom one. Then, spit on stone #2 and place stone #3 on top of #2, then spit on stone #3. Be sure it’s in a dry place, so the mana doesn’t wash away. Needless to say, in Hilo you could lose lots of the mana! In fact, we use to do this to stop the rain so we could play outdoors, which in those days was the only place to play. Heck, I didn’t see TV until, I was 13 years old and we had only one channel for years!

Sorry for the digression — back to the stones. We were ecumenical without realizing it. After placing the stones, we would wish or pray to no particular entity, “Please make the …(insert your wish/prayer).

Come Saturday morning (great song, by the way), I will find my stones/rocks, spit on them, and, in the language of the days of old, say,
“PLEASE MAKE UH WIN AN’ PLEASE NO MAKE INJURIES FOR DEM.”

Very unfortunate to hear that about Rausch. Its a shame. I always thought he was going to have the edge and be our QB next year. I am sure think he was thinking the same thing too.

Very personal opinion:

I believe that cetain coaching positions can be “dual-hatted” such as HC and DC, OC and QB coach because of the limit set by the NCAA to “level the playing field” for the smaller schools against the BIG BUCKS programs.

This will allow the HC to fill other positions to enhance the learning curve of the players and allow the “game plan” to be more effective.

I too would like to see Stutz1 come back and be a full time receivers coach – that’s for all receivers – he has the knowledge, skills, and works well with the players. As Pilares said in the morning paper, the receivers must always communicate on the field and on the side lines to make their plays more effective (tendencies, blocking, routes, etc.). What one sees may not be what others see – a teaching point amongst the players to enhance their skills, help team mates, and assist the coaches.

When a pebble is dropped into water, what do you see? what do I see? It is common for 2 or more individuals to witness the same event, but have totally different story to what they saw and remembered.

Bring Sexy back too!

Question,

Do we ever use Jesse Sapolu as a contact for recruits in the “Northern California” area?

You can always catch a glimpse of the Teru Teru Bozu at the Bon Dances…just look at the top of the Yagura “Dance Tower” and you will usually see one hanging there.

The Punahou Carnival could stand to hang a few…I have never been there when it wasn’t rainy and muddy.

eru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
Like the sky in a dream sometime
If it’s sunny I’ll give you a golden bell

Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
If you make my wish come true
We’ll drink lots of sweet rice wine

Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
But if it’s cloudy and you are crying
Then I shall snip your head off

IWWTHM:

With all the dang nab NCAA recruiting rules, UH needs to be careful how they make contact with players.

It’s so stuip that even you or I as supporters/contributors of the Warrior program cannot approach a player and “coach” him to play for UH. I’m sure it happens all the time, but we would be the ones caught.

Rainbow Cliff is in an excellent position to “push” some of his “students” to UH, but he knows he cannot. Remember his post on this young tennis protoge he personally knows, but cannot entice her to attend UH.

Hope he can post many UH posters/pictures of his playing days and UH sports schedules (football, basket ball, volley ball)! Hmmmmmm, is that a violation?

Coaching vs Talent
Scott Robbs had a good discussion on the radio today about this and I wanted to write up something about it. Your thoughts?

http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33635

1) A promising set of middle blockers for the Man of War for next year.
That’s what we need. Talking about middle blockers…
2) How well the Rainbow Wahines block will tell how far they go in the NCAA tournament. If they win the blocking match up or at least break even, then I think the Wahines can go all the way. If not, the best they can do is the elite 8. So, the keys are Kaufman, Hewitt, Forsythe, and Danielson. Stephanie Farrell is not hitting for a good percentage. She makes a lot of errors and gets blocked a lot. Shoji should pull her out and put in Corinne or somebody else with a quick hook until Farrell settles down.
3) Rainbow Wahine basketball are off to a good start. If anything, they will be a scrappy team and will hustle. That’s all you can ask for.
4) To the UH recruiting staff….don’t recruit a QB who is not mobile. That said, I don’t think we should go after Andrew Manley. He’s not quick enough, to me anyway….and I’ve seen at least 4 or 5 of his games on TV.
5) I still say the best recruit in Hawaii is Hauoli Jamora. To me, he’s been the most impressive. Hauoli.. you stay listenting? Stay home…we need you, brudda. Just wishing and hoping and praying.

Coaching vs. Talent.

If it had to be clear cut and dry the following would be my best guess. Having both means the best *opportunity*, one gives you some opportunity, none gives you a fat chance….but keep in mind that I use the word *opportunity* because nothing can be guaranteed. All of this stands to reason and just simple logic so anyone could probably figure this one out.

In order of “best situations to be in:”

1) Talent + Coaching
2) Less Talent + Coaching tie for 2
2) Less Coaching + Talent tie for 2
3)Less Coaching + Less Talent.

However…

I think in Hawaii’s case we want both, but we need more coaching because while we may be able to compete a bit better with the lower rung BCS schools (Washington State for example), we cannot compete with the marque ones now nor anytime in the near future.

At the same time coaching will only get you so far…if it were as easy as that I along with several hundred thousand people will spend $20K on lessons from Butch Harmon or David Leadbetter and try out for Q-school, make it and join the PGA to play against Tiger Woods every Sunday.

Sadly, if you don’t got it…u probably will never get it. If you got it, but don’t have someone to break the shell off so you can show it, well sucks to be you if you are stuck with a coach who doesn’t get it. Got it? Good.

For Hawaii, when it goes ‘sports car read: football’ shopping there is…Speed, Price, Quality…we can pick 2…cuz until you are a Texas or USC you can’t have em all. Hope that analogy makes some sense…best one I could think of hahaha.

iwonderwhytheyhateme:

I know Boise pays their assistant coaches about twice what ours gets. So their total Coaching budget might be higher. I ‘m wondering about some of the other schools, though. Wonder what Utah, BYU and TCU pay?

madeinhawaii,

i am pretty sure that BYU and Utah definitely pay their coaches more. I think BYU’s info will be hard to come by.

As for Utah and Kyle Whittingham here is an interesting tidbit regarding his salary

From University of Utah press release:…..

btw this contract was announced and signed AT the Sugar Bowl when Utah was playing Bama.

“The contract, which will pay Whittingham $1,200,000 annually, includes a base salary of $200,000. The remainder will come from radio and television rights, appearance fees, public speaking, fundraising and official outfitter compensation from Under Armour.”

Garret is right…NEVER underestimate the importance of the assistant coaches. They play the role of all the officers in the field under the 4-star general.

I said this before but LaVell Edwards NEVER wore a head set because he trusted his Offensive Coordinator to make the best plays and that really shows you how important such a “assistants” position is.

June was just a beast, he could multitask, play call, sort things out, prioritize, plan, execute etc….there aren’t many people that could do what he did imo. I don’t think anyone can say Mack will be as good a head coach as June is yet….but does he have to be?….. Me thinks he doesn’t need to be if he brings in the right assistants and let them do what they are being paid to do.

Welcome Home Pauoa Boy!

wwf….hahaha.
it just didn’t look like stutz2 to me. my how he has grown(?) doesn’t he look a lot thicker???

i was shooting in the dark.

what about those two guys who guessed, “tachibana, ornellas, marcle”.
ornellas is lean and maracle is thick.

What?!?!?!

Pauoa Boy is home AND it is Hawaiianbod’s birthday?

Dang! This is indeed a great day!!!

iwonderwhytheyhateme:

Maybe we should also ask what % or the total football revenue goes to the coaching staff and recruiting for the various WAC schools?

wvb news: HS Los Alamitos HS will play Newport Harbor for the CIF SS 1A championship this sat. Nov 21 on Fox sports West. Emily Hartong plays for Los Al and she had 11 kills. Her teammate, Jane Crosan, who wants to play for Hawaii in 2011 had 21 kills. Los Al beat Mira Costa. In CIF SS division 2A, Michelle Waber’s Lake Elsinore HS will play La Canada for the championship this Saturday. Michelle had 12 kills.
http://www.hsgametime.com/inlandsoutherncalifornia/pages/schools/stories/PE_Sports_Local_W_hsgt_elsinore_vb_18.49fb5f8.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAWAIIANBOD!!! May your health continue to improve!

wbb has a 5’8 recruit in Hayden for 2010, plays center in HS but has played other positions. Interesting to know how much time she played center compared to facing the basket, dribbling the ball and getting a shot off the dribble. No way Na Wahine succeed with a 5’8 center. Adolpfo from Molokai is 6’1. Na Wahine is a very young team so I don’t know how many scholarships are available for 2010. Not everyone is on scholarships, does Mike Tsai know.

Well, maybe Ole’ June will give his Mustangs the same “play like you belong” post Sugar Bowl speech before the Hawaii Bowl.

Final UH 41 SMU 10.

Then again… doesn’t seem like Ole’ June will be viewing tapes of other schools he may be headed to as opposed to preparing for the team he’s about to face this time.

do you think coach mack is not using moniz and salas in practice as a way to trick coach tomey into thinking they’re out of commish for this sat’s game? leaving the coach wonder who to prepare for? they do have a lot of reps from these previous weeks. using these last few days to let austin and the backups get more reps. and then by closing practice the next few days, and not letting any news leak out about player status…..
and surprise! look who’s starting on saturday!

chawan_cut,

…and if that was the coach’s motivation for leaving the use of Moniz & Salas up in the air, you just broke the news…but I’m sure Tomey is smart enough to plan for that…he’s ‘the sly fox’, as reported here. Not having Moniz practice, gives Shane more reps, and probably Brent Rausch, as well, which is a good thing in case he’s needed.

Hope everyone heals up before Saturday. Safe travels.
GO WARRIORS!!!

Good night, all!

See you before sunrise!

150!

wafan, Izzy, and djmitchco:

you guys stay safe and dry!!

Is it me or did the UH coaches in different sports just do a upgrade in recruits?

Does Shoji have another scholarship for Jane Crosan? Is he interested?

happy birthday hawaiianbod!!!!

you da man!

Football season flies by way too quickly.

ST,

How are the freshmen QB’s looking in practice? I am getting excited to see the development of Corey, Cayman and David.

Re-Potential candidates in filling coaching positions

My hope is that schools, like UNLV for example, looking to hire a head coach doesn’t eventually hire one with ties to Hawaii, including assistant coaches.

The logic for this is self explanatory, for you don’t want the new head coach (or assistants) with ties to the islands eventually recruiting against UH.

One name that has surfaced for the UNLV job, with ties to the islands, is BYU offensive coordinator Robert Anae.

Now, if he were to be hired at UNLV there’s no doubt in my mind that he would lure away a few potential local recruits UH would be going after.

Privately I’d think the UH staff, too, is thinking along the same lines as I do and hope that the next head coach at UNLV is a Texan, Georgian or Floridian…someone from the East and not from Hawaii. Although I’d concede RA would be an intriguing hire for UNLV.

Mr. A House, Howz it kind sir as I read your post #115 and a BIG smile came to my face. All I can say sir is that I can get the Warriors “LEAPERS” from South Central with 40 time that will AMAZE you !

The Wooten Center is in the “MECCA” of all this young talent that USC, UCLA and NOW New Mexico State Head Coach Dewayne Walker who has ties to Los Angeles is cleaning up in Dorsey High School, Crenshaw High School, Inglewood and Leuzinger.

Want to help BAD but I have been told I am a violation and that I can’t have NO contacts with ANY outstanding H.S.athlete as I watch and see them “EVERYDAY” !

Heck, Southwest J.C. has built a beautiful on campus football field stadium which is just 8 minutes away from Al Wooten Center and they have fast linemen like “GEORGIA” had BUT all i do is watch and dream of them in Warrior green, white and black tapa.

As far as my tennis girl teen sensation Coy Hunter she will be going “PRO” as at age 15 right now her game is far along advance then
Serena and Venus were at this age. I know as I saw and trained both sisters when they were little girls hitting the ball with pace, touch and accuracy. The Father Richard Williams was smart to let them go to Florida and train with Coach Macey as we raised money for the Williams sisters from Carson and Gardena USTA as you see the results and fame that these siblings has accomplished on the WTA tour.

Will be heading on up to San Jose as I will FINALLY miss a working day after 17 dedicated years at Al Wooten. Sent Pomai the dvd of the ceremony as if you may contact him will LOVE for you and Mrs. A House to see it as I turned South Central into Aloha Paradise !

Got Massa Boy a belated birthday present as I need to send it to him. Can you e-mail me his Vegas address or I can send it to you at your Kailua addy ? either way it is on the same level that I gave Mrs. A House the Warrior lunch bag “A CLASSIC” !

Always a PLEASURE Mr. A House as ONE day I will grow up and be just like you ! “Simply the Best, Better then all the Rest” !

Last night a passenger in a traffic stop was found to have multiple warrants. I guess he did not want to go to prison so he ran across I-5. Unfortunately, he was struck by two vehicles.

He will not have to worry about going to prison any more.

God does work in mysterious ways.

Warriors in the Hawai’i Bowl — get chance!!!

Welcome back Pauoa Boy!

Honolulu Weekly has an article on the food and fans at Aloha Stadium for UH games.

The hot dog is the most popular item for sale at the stadium (boiled and roasted peanuts come in at a close second). Local employees for Centerplate, the hospitality company that manages food service for Aloha Stadium, estimate more than 3,000 hot dogs are sold at each UH football game. One year at the Pro Bowl, they even sold out.

Centerplate’s Dara Barcelona says the “wackiest” food that made it onto stadium menus was an octopus dish, “tako balls.”

“Although a rave in Japan,” Barcelona wrote in an e-mail, “it did not take off at the stadium.”

Good morning Garret, hope the software does not act up as I post to you. Question: The weather in San Jose does it ever get warm enough to wear shorts and tank top in the afternoon or is it safe to say that long pants has to be worn at all times ?

I know at night that a coat is required. What is the temperature in San Jose from day to night ? Mahalo Mr. Human Spots Wire !

Good morning Tsaikos everywhere.

RainbowCliff,

Howzit o fine Master of the hardcourt even in your twilight years. ha ha.
You still got the talent, the keen eye for detail and the motivation to help
develop the youth of your neighborhood. Good for You!

speaking of what you see at the MECCA everyday, but you cannot
speak to those speedy/hefty buggaz about Warriors because maybe a violation, may I ask you if you get Tony Tuioti’s email address? because sir, if you knew Tony’s email, and you knew the names of the ballers/speedy’s high school adviser, or whatever they callz the high school hookups in South Central, Tony could get a jump on his planning schedule.

da reason I’m saying is because we could use the help in spotting talent.
especially da kine dat like play speedy kine smash mouth. 😀 our coaches are looking at Rivals and stuffs. mo betta we concentrate on using help from a Genius like you!

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