Walk the walk
* * * * *
Wideout Royce Pollard and his three rings:
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As an initial walk-on, Richard Torres did not sign a letter of intent. But he gets the last word, filling out his graduation card:
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Linebacker Aaron Brown and his mother, Donna Mutch:
* * * * *
Quarterback Shane Austin, Pollard and wideout (and future doctor) Joe Avery:
* * * * *
Defensive end Zach Masch:
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Defensive tackle Kaniela Tuipulotu:
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Offensive lineman Brett Leonard and Masch:
* * * * *
Cornerback Tank Hopkins:
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Defensive tackle Vaughn Meatoga:
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Masch, Brown and Hopkins:
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And the whole gang . . .
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Congratulations Graduates.
Congratulations to all of the graduates.
2sies
Was turdle instead. Congrats Warrior grads. Congrats all grads too.
cinco
Congrats to all the graduates today.
Congratulations to the graduates!
Top 10, busy today, bbl.
And a big congrats to the graduates. Good luck in the future. Once a Warrior, always a Warrior.
CONGRATULATIONS to all.
GOOD MORNING HAWAII!
Top 10?
Top 20?
CONGRATULATIONS!
The graduates look handsome in their caps and gowns.
Congrats!
Can’t believe watching Wyoming and how similar they look to Hawaii’s defense, not necessarily schemes, but how they don’t tackle well. Wyoming finally scored and Temple comes back with 1 play for 60+ yards and a touchdown with 20 seconds left in the half. Eerily like our season. That’s why I hope the next coach is from outside he system. Watching teams like Alabama, LSU, etc. tackle and the inability for Hawaii to tackle consistantly for the last few years, may be UH’s philosophy in practice. Looking at the Wyoming fans’ facial expressions reminds me of UH’s fans when we think, “oh, oh, here we go again.” Having an “outside the system” coach may change a lot of the practice ways, which have been going on for quite a few years now. Retaing some of the current asst. coaches would be alright, but at this late stage, he may not have too much of a choice. I do like the passing game though, as 1 pass may equal a touchdown.
Glad to see the players here at the graduation.
And now, good afternoon!
Congratulations to the Warrior and ‘Bow graduates!
Top 20, too!
Whoo-ho!!!
Ipu man, the Lingle add on the top of the page has been there for awhile. Looks like she owns the SA or even that this is her blog.
Miah Just picked up his diploma. Didn’t realize he was graduating.
Way to go Warriors. This is what it is all about.
Good morning Tsaikos!
Congrats to all the graduates!
18 Warriors graduate, per Na Koa Mike.
http://www.nakoa.org/2011/12/18-warriors-graduate/
Congrats Grads!!! Thanks for the thrills Warriors! Aloha and good luck with future endeavors.
Amber Kaufman picked up her degree also.
Congratulations Warriors on getting that piece of paper!! Your diploma will be with you forever and is something no one can take away. You all have what it takes in terms of time management, that’s for sure – something employers will look for.
Former BYU QB Jake Heaps is still looking for a school. He’s visiting Kansas and new HC Charley Weis this weekend.
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/12/17/2642888/jake-heaps-byu-transfer-kansas-football
I guess UW and WAZZU have other plans. Surprising since he’s from Washington State.
Hurry up and hire Norm Chow. Maybe the idea of being coached by him will attract Heaps to UH. Manhattan, Kansas or Honolulu?
Job well done, graduates! Good luck in the future, continue to make Hawaii proud. Forever Warriors. Hoo-ah! I count 18 graduates in the picture.
You have to credit Coach McMackin for prioritizing the academic side. Thanks coach. Hope some more senior players are graduating in the spring semester.
Wow, all those all stars. What a honor roll.
Congratulations to all the young men and women
who graduated today. Now, get to work!
Opps. Make that Lawrence, KS, not Manhattan.
Congrats to the grads.
That’s one thing Mack used to do, put on his cap and gown and attend commencement.
Congratulations graduates. U make us all proud.
Kaniela, Brett and Zach are Wearing there UH baseball caps. Warriors Forever!
Papajoe #19 about Linda Lingle ad, yep she’s been thar awhile
up in that little corner, kind of a long shot. You think she would
put on a helmet or black eye shadow or something to tie in with
Tsai’s football theme. Well, at least she was pro inter-island ferry.
Nice story about Utah State’s turnaround and success this year. Credit to them and I hope they win the bowl game today. I went to Logan, Utah to see Colt Brennan play in 2006. Strictly a college town. It was the beginning of November, but the weather was quite nice.
UH-49, Utah State 14. After that game, Colt was named USA today National Player of the week. BYU QB Riley Nelson was a starting QB freshman for Utah State. After the game, I remember our tour group went to have a buffet dinner at Riley Wallace’s favorite restaurant for his team, the Golden Corral. After that, we went to a Wahine Volleyball game on campus where the Wahine swept Utah State. It was a great day!
Seeing all those graduates makes me proud of our Warrior Football program. I hope the next coach will at least maintain the high level of APR that Mack had managed. Mack would very reluctantly dip into the red-shirts to give the student-athlete a leg up on his “student” obligations…It may have lead to his release, but he should stand proud for his firm commitment to the educational needs of his players.
Mahalo Mack!…
Congratulations WARRIORS CLASS OF 2011 !!! Whootah! You guys rock!
Oh yessssss! The Legendary Golden Corral.
I miss that place.
BIK
Hana Maika’i Graduates!
BIK
#20 OLD DIVER
Just curious – how come Miah doesn’t appear in any of the Lettermen’s photos?
Miah and one other ‘Bow has a game tonight on Maui. At least I think it is on Maui. They are doing a grab and go.
Zane and Miah are graduating today.
Congratulations to the new graduates: Shane Austin, Joseph Avery, Aaron Brown, Joey Cadiz, Kenny Estes, Tank Hopkins, Clayton Laurel, Sila Lefiti, Brett Leonard, Zach Masch, Vaughn Meatoga, Corey Paredes, Royce Pollard, Casey Purdy, Rocky Savaiigaea, Steven Stepter, Richard Torres and Kaniela Tuipulotu.
More graduation photos:
http://nakoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DSCF5986-300×225.jpg
A resounding, job well done for all the student athletes who will graduate today – ditto for all UH grads!
and thank you Coach Mack for paving the way for your football players to keep the straigth and narrow when it came to academics!
Wyoming finished in 3rd place in back of TCU and Boise State, next season Wyoming will be the highest finishing team in the MWC with TCU, Boise, and 4th place SDST leaving the conference.
Hawaii will be left with the bottom feeders of the old MWC and the WAC retreads Nevada and Fresno State.
The Cowboys are having a difficult time competing with the Temple Owls today.
Wait a minute. We’re selling ads on this blog?
you all forgot to add in miah ostrowski to the list of football grads.
Temple wins their first Bowl game since 1979… second over all… and we complain…
37-7….
Boise State and San Diego State will still be in the MWC next year. They aren’t scheduled to join the Big East until 2013.
Because this is the most popular blog, and because the SA owns this blog, then yes, technically, this blog sells ads. 🙂
The lingle ad appears at the top of this blog.
BIK
How much to remove the lingle ad?
OOops.. Wyoming made a TD in the last few seconds.. my bad… Temple 37 – Wyoming 15, final score.
AL #46 …and Zane Johnson?
Andrew Faaumu got his masters degree also.
BIK
ST . . . Why not put the picture of the head coach candidate that you’re endorsing next to the photo endorsement, I mean advertisement, I mean spam photo of Lingle?
j/k . . . I don’t know whether you endorse Lingle
yup zane too.
here, here mr. faaumu.
Congratulations to Miah Ostrowski too. Unfortunately he didn’t arrive in time for the photo and also wasn’t on the list of graduates that we initially received. We have received confirmation that he did indeed graduate and have revised the list in our article.
http://www.nakoa.org/2011/12/18-warriors-graduate/
Looks like Gary Anderson’s secret interest/hiring at Hawaii is not affecting his teams performance in the bowl game.
Miah still has one more season of football eligibility though, right? How many credits will he need to take to be eligible?
Congrats to all the graduates!!!
kev-1,
Do explain #58. Where did you hear that?
iwwthm . . . complete sarcasm. Just building off of early hype of those that wanted Anderson, mixed with hype of a candidate with anonymity. I meant to right j/k at the end of the post, but hit enter too fast.
I mean write j/k, not right j/k
kev-1…you heard that too? i thought it was hush hush……
just from the voices in my head
Kev1:
I was a Republican when I had money, but now that I don’t, I’m back to believing in social programs. My political views are based on the size of my IRA.
Got all of our graduation photos up now:
http://www.nakoa.org/2011/12/18-warriors-graduate/
Andrew, you da man! Masters Degree.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GRADUATES
ST,
Size matters now?
Congratulations to all of the graduates!
Just got back from wandering around the practice field looking for the graduates. Missed Brett and Joey. Always nice to meet the family & friends, take pictures, and share smiles. Discovered that one of my classmates from K-12 received her PhD today! Way to go, Frances!!!
Now that Miah has a Bachelors.. does that mean he can go anywhere to play his final year?
I was searching online if Uncle Norm had applied anywhere else. No rumors of him doing so. Maybe he really does want this job.
Congrats to the graduates!
One word: Beautiful.
Part of Mack’s legacy was his comttment to the “student athlete”. In those Warrior graduates Mack’s legacy endures.
Congrats to ALL of the winter graduates!
The officials doing the Utah State-Ohio game up in Boise are the same SEC officiating crew that did Utah State’s heart-breaker loss at Auburn back in August.
Hmm…
Good post and thank you so much for sharing such an insightful piece.
Shoots, missed Fauumu at graduation. Congrats!
did mack atend his boys graduation.
So the next question regarding UH football grads is:
Who will find employment in the NFL or CFL?
Royce Pollard—has talent in catching, maybe CFL?
Richard Torres—another Chad Owens in heart, CFL?
Aarron Brown—definitely NFL
Zach Masch—monster hits all season—NFL?
Kaniela Tuipuloto—NFL?
Brett Leonard—definitely NFL
Tank Hopkins—CFL db but could crack NFL special teams…
Vaugn Meatoa—definitely NFL
#80,
Out of that list I see a lot of positives taking it to the next level…Well all but one name on that list.
Oh I forgot one of the greatest players in America,
Moniz da pizza delivery guy.
Seriously, he should at least try the CFL or Arena football.
Of course I hope they all find a profession they love
whether it be a doctor, fireman, coach or pastor or????
Did you notice – only two messages mentioned the coaching situation and only of the two only mentioned it in passing!
…and only 84 or so comments so far…
Yahoo!
Congrats to Miah for graduating! Dual sport athlete and still graduating!
You can almost bet on it that we have not seen the last of Bryant Moniz. I’m guessing Canadian possibly.
BIK
I pulled my insider card today with the longhorn coaching staff.
Re: Akina:
“Great man. Great coach. Players love his intensity.”
BIK
Say what?
http://paulbisquera.hubpages.com/hub/How-Fans-Are-Ruining-Sports
If Duane Akina LOVES Hawaii so much,
is he willing to be the DC @ 150+k ???
Seriously.
Heads up all, Billy Ray Stutzmann Dads’ ute has been stolen, gray Nissan xterra NFG-374, if sighted please phone cops.
Daddy Stutz’s Native American is a gray Nissan?
Oh . . . a truck.
Hope the law finds the clowns quickly! Before the sons find the perps, anyhow.
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Looks like Utah State loses a heart breaker in the last few seconds…
And Utah State goes down on a last-minute TD by Ohio U.
Maybe we should also congratulate Austin Hansen who graduated in the summer but hung around to help the team on the scout team.
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My son introduced me to Miah, kid seems really nice. Cory Parades told my son his shoulder is not bothering him and will begin training for the Pro-Day. Richard Torres was on the field with his proud dad Reggie. My son also took a picture with Aaron Brown. Nice to see Aaron covered with leis from his friends and family. Only in Hawaii.
ST & Tsaiko Blog Dogs:
Congratulations to the STUDENT-Athletes!
I would be happy to see Norm Chow selected.
If a turtle doesnt have a shell, is it naked or homeless?
UCLA takes the first set from Illinois, lead set 2 14-11.
mih:
thanks for posting http://paulbisquera.hubpages.com/hub/How-Fans-Are-Ruining-Sports.
To me, it was a great article.
Illinois goes on a 12-3 run to win the 2nd set.
Shoji needs to recruit more athletic and taller OH and MB. UCLA OH are 6’0, 6’2 and 6’5, with the MB both 6’3. Illinois counters with OH at 6’2, 6’3 and 6’6, with the MBs both at 6’3.
UH tried their best with the OHs all under 6′.
The shorter ragin cajins just ran back a punt…
beating up the taller SDSU team
Well, before the game started, the announcers mentioned
that Lafayette were smaller on defense.
Geez…if you wanna talk about hungry, thirsty, ready to bleed and burn for the win…go watch that Lafayette game.
Those coaches are intense.
Ralph,
Is there a reason why Shoji has recruited shorter girls? Does he run a particular offense/defense that works better with shorter?
Why did God choose little David to defeat the giant Goliath?
Trap play.
Ipu Man – Goliath got smarter and faster since then.
Actually God picked Goliath for David’s target practice.
Congratulations Graduates! Mahalo Parents, coaches and Ohana for helping make this dream come true!
Size means nothing. Put me up against someone thats eight feet tall 500 pounds and give me a gun and that guy is toast. 😉
Congratulations to all the Graduates. W-O-R-L-D!
RALPH: Shoji tries to recruit for height – Juniper of USC, for example, was highly recruited by Shoji.
It’s like our football coaches trying to get 5-star or four-star players; its like us trying to recruit locally.
It is not a lack of trying but if you had a chance to go to a Stanford, a USC or UCLA or a Penn State or some power-house volleyball team, would you even consider Hawaii?
Ralph – you want size or you want the girls to stay home? Not enough roster spots for both. Recruit for size and the only local kids would be back row players. Besides, I’d take Kanani, Jane, Kim, Lily and even Chanteal any day.
When all those “fans” were clamoring for McMackin’s firing, I wonder if they ever took into consideration all the supporting staff that might be replaced with his retirement?
Rich Miano
Cal Lee
Nick Rolovich
Dave Aranda
Brian Smith
Gordon Shaw
Tony Tuioti
Mouse Davis
Dick Tomey
George Lumpkin
Inoke Funaki
Ryan Biesemeyer
Bianca Tokumoto
Chris Williams
Thomas Heffernan
Kyle Kamau
Jacquline Falch
Total attendance for the entire NCAA tournament was a little over 100K and is a record. I figure the 4 Honolulu games accounted for 30%. Hope the NoClueAtAll people realize this and keep awarding UH at least 1st and 2nd round games. Yeah, right. 😈
Congrats to Mike Sealy and UCLA. The crown is finally back where it belongs, in the West.
you want to win national championships or do you just want to watch a good volleyball match?
Tom I think UH is a powerhouse, we’ve won a lot of games and we have made it to regional finals and national semis and finals, but we haven’t finished, we’ve been close, but we lost to an equally talented team with taller players.
USC and UCLA this year barely beat us but their height was enough of an advantage to win in 5. Washington in last year’s round 2 ate us up with their big and stronger players. Then in the national finals in ’09, Penn State killed us.
UCLA wins the national championship, last title was back in 1991.
mih – #123 – Heffernan and his staff are employed by the Athletic Dept and work with many teams.
Ralph – when was the last time a non-BC$ conference team won a national championship in volleyball????? just sayin.
jm2375,
But he no longer will be the conditioning coach for the football team unless recruited as such, right?
jm2375 – even more reason that we need taller and more athletic type players, when you have an athletic player that is 6′ 3 vs 5’11 it makes a big difference when reaching for shanked balls or tipped balls off the block.
RALPH: the thought came to me that we lost to USC in five and UCLA in four or five games, all of their starters were considerably taller than ours.
‘nuf said
just because a non BCS team hasn’t won a national championship lately doesn’t mean we stop competing, we’ve been there, the nationals, but we need to finish. Penn State, Nebraska, Texas, Stanford, Washington, and USC have been there because they had tall players who were good volleyball players.
UH is an excellent program, we beat Pepperdine and Colorado State with their big players, played UCLA and USC to 5, but for us to reach the finals we need to finish and all I’m saying, we need height to neutralize the opponents 6’2 to 6’5 girls.
Tom is in charge of strength & conditioning coach for all sports. I think he was DeLaura’s actual supervisor, not JJ or Mack.
Howzit, everyone! Very busy day today/this evening.
Way to go, graduates! Congratulations!
We may not have height to match the USCs or UCLAs but next year, Britany, Emily, Kalei as well as Goodman and Tuianga will be back – Jade Volster will be joining the team and so we will have a bunch of 6-footers plus and Jade is 6’4″. I forgot who is coming in but I recall there were a couple of tall ones also.
Tom but we lost, moral victories don’t count, and it wasn’t for the lack of trying or inspirational play that we lost those matches, their talent matched ours and they were bigger.
Manu-Olevao is the lone announced recruit out of Punahou, she is listed as 6’1 OH.
Brittany, Emily, Kalei, Tuianga and Vorster all play the same position, MB. Emily has the versatility to move to OH.
I thought the football Head Coach is entitled to name his own Conditioning Coach. When Heffernan took over the conditioning program for the football team, didn’t they make it seem like he was getting a promotion, didn’t he also get a boost in pay?
When Mac appointed Heffernan as FB S/C coach, De Laura found himself without a job. I don’t recall De Laura having the option of continuing to work in the weight room.
If Banker is chosen for HC, watch everybody call for JD and admins head. He will make Hawaii look like fools. I guarantee it.
USC and UCLA’s talent was better than Hawaii’s. I don’t know where people are getting the idea that Shoji does not like tall players. It is not like Hawaii’s coaching staff is not recruiting the same players as USC and UCLA but the fact is that Hawaii is not their first choice and probably never will be. Hawaii is lucky that Shoji can evaluate and develop talent to get these results.
Glad to see people have a crystal ball and knows what will happen in the future. If you can guarantee who will win this years Super Bowl, let me know ….
#143,
No crystal ball here. Just know that Oregon state got smacked by two division two schools this past season with a horrible finishing season record.. Wait isn’t banker the DC of Oregon state? And now he wants to be head coach? Yeah he’ll be awesome!!
Crystal ball says… Only one of two teams will win the Super Bowl. More specifically, it will be the one with the most points.
He can barely run a defense and now wants to run a whole team?? Again, he’ll be awesome!
#145,
Hopefully it’s green bay. It’ll be cool to know that Alex green gets a super bowl win and ring in his rookie year. That’ll be nice!
From the UHAD website:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/sports/20101124_strength_coach_steen_earns_his_promotion.html?id=110329609
#139 – no, no, and no
Sorry, no, yes, and no. They made it sound that way but he was always the head strength coach.
Whoa.. I had completely forgotten about Steen.
I guess Steen/Heffernan will be written into the pre-nuptials of the football contract…
K State stops #21 Alabama 71-58 in mbb. Next up, the Salukis in the Diamond Head Classic on Thursday.
Hewitt graduates this year, not sure if she will be back. Shoji mentioned this on the radio
Hopefully Fonoimoana takes care of business and gets on the team. This could become the key to the loss of Kanani.
Whoa! Looks like another last minute change of lead game with SDJU now on top with half a minute to go… Two well-matched bowl games today…
OMG! … UL-Lafayette makes a 50 yd FG with 4 seconds left to snatch the game away from San Diego State… whoa… wish our Warriors had won a couple more like that.. dang!…
If Banker or whoever wins the job, people can call for Donovan’s head if that guy fails and Donovan might get fired in the worst case scenario.
Should be a great TRUTH TELL ALL BOOK TO FOLLOW considering all signs point to someone else calling the shots and NOT Donovan.
not a good day for the MWC and WAC as Wyoming, SDST and Utah State losses in Bowl games.
re #159.
yup – not good at all.
Donovan will never tell the truth. His termination agreement will have that same “no talk stink” clause.
JD also has to worry about Kinda Shy’s job
heffernan, i believe is not an appointed staff member such as the assistants. he is not on a year to year contract but is employed by the state of hawaii on regular status.
kinda shy is employed by the state of hawaii as would regular status employees.
c’mon now…why we trying to act tan taran with other peoples??
how many coaches have you hired braddah?
how many teams have you coached braddah?
mih…of your list
one was not coming back anyway
lumpkin is paid by na koa
two were grad assistants who technically may have ended their term
five others are state employees
121 Just think if SCs Jupiter had come to Hawaii and played along side Kanani. Got to get FF eligible for next year. With the youth on this team, future would look bright, but we need FF as a terminator
I watched Jupiter the last 2 games. While she is definately good, she wasn’t as overwelming as she was against UH. I take Kanani any day as she is an awesome overall player. Does everything exceptionally well. Now, like you said, if they were teammates…..
Congrats to all the graduates!
So these are the staff members that the new HC would have to make a decision over…
Rich Miano
Cal Lee
Nick Rolovich
Dave Aranda
Brian Smith
Gordon Shaw
Tony Tuioti
Dick Tomey
The rest are somewhat built into the program.. (including Lumpkin, unless Na Koa no longer wishes to pay his salary.)
Inoke Funaki and Ryan Biesemeyer will probably move on. Best of luck to the both of them.
lol, once again a guarantee backed by an opinion that means very little…..
171
No not an opinion. It is definitely a fact! Did Oregon state not suck and lose to division two teams this past season? That’s worse than Mack’s team this past season. I’d rather have Mack than that guy lol.
OSU lost to two DII teams?
Thanks a lot for writing your opinions. Being writer, I am generally hunting for unique and different tips on how to think about a subject. I uncover great enthusiasm in doing this. Thanks once again
Nope just one division II team. I typed a typo in my previous post. Meant just one division II team.
OSU 2011 Schedule
09/03/11 vs. Sacramento State Corvallis, Ore. L, 29-28 (OT)
09/10/11 at Wisconsin Madison, Wis. L, 35-0
09/24/11 vs. UCLA Corvallis, Ore. L, 27-19
10/01/11 at Arizona State Tempe, Ariz. L, 35-20
10/08/11 vs. Arizona Corvallis, Ore. W, 37-27
10/15/11 vs. BYU Corvallis, Ore. L, 38-28
10/22/11 vs. Washington State CenturyLink Field, Seattle W, 44-21
10/29/11 at Utah Salt Lake City, Utah L, 27-8
11/05/11 vs. Stanford Corvallis, Ore. L, 38-13
11/12/11 at California AT&T Park, San Francisco L, 23-6
11/19/11 vs. Washington Corvallis, Ore. W, 38-21
11/26/11 at Oregon Eugene, Ore. L, 49-21
No DII teams there. Move along….
Sac St. is a D I-AA…
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