Warrior offseason training: Week 2

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That sounds like a good thing!

More splendid photo-journalism, Mr. Tsai. Warriors lookin good!

Looks like a sock hop…
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Now this is the off-season for football program. The University of Hawaii AD should be doing right now? Rescheduled next year football teams that Hawaii plays!. UCLA, BYU & UMASS is alright. But what about adding a team from the Big 12 like Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech and Baylor. Maybe about Middle Tennessee?. Because remember the old time! That Hawaii had played teams like Tennessee, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Notre Dame and others!. Or why not finish it up with the Big Ten teams like Penn State, Indiana and Maryland! Because we never played them at all!. Or schedule University of Hawaii football team to play North Dakota State, Youngstown, Northwest Missouri State and South Dakota!. It will anyone great game ever played for the University of Hawaii! . Because a lot’s of large and famous Universities don’t want to play with those small Universities!. That what the people on ESPN and even all your colleagues magazines said that every years!. You may even ask Head Coach Rolovich about it?. Because look what University of Nevada Reno schedule every years since Rolovich were there as a offensive coordinators. They’re never played a push over teams and never had a easy schedule at all!. That’s is why? Their now have better looking helmets designs and uniform then University of Hawaii!.

ST, any silent commits?

I’m kidding….

Maui no ka oi
#stayloyaltothesoil

kapakahi…
Shaka dat!

CJ Ah You doing work for Vandy recruiting Feleti, Myron, and Miki. Rolo has his work cut out for him going up against poly coaches and programs like this every year. Cali, Samoa, New Zealand and Australia will have to be bigger players for us in the years to come. But if that’s the case so be it, I’m convinced Hawaii will embrace them as our own as they will be the next Warriors.

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North Dakota State is what Lewis and Clark State was in baseball under Coach Cheff in the late eighties/early nineties: a de facto Division I school.

North Dakota State would win the Sun Belt.

Hawaii should stay far, far away from the elite FCS schools.

Local player shunning the Warriors to play on the Mainland is exacerbated when there are less than 20,000 fans for home games. But yet at other Mountain West venues, 20,000 would be a great turn-out, but the perception here is a big disappoint, in part, due to the huge success UH experienced during the late ’70s thru the June Jones/McMackin era when.average attendance was in the mid-30,000 range. So the talk around talk is more about the demise of UH, rather than the upswing of the program. It doesn’t help when the state raises so much controversy surrounding the cost to maintain Aloha Stadium versus having to build a replacement venue. With all this going on, it’s no wonder local prep football players look to the mainland to play. AD Matlin has a huge task in rebuilding the Warrior image around town. Coach Rolo is delivering by turning around the program with a 7-7 season that ended with an exciting and entertaining win against Middle Tennessee State in the Hawaii Bowl. But it’s going to take a lot more to make Warrior football the place where local local players would be excited to play and I think it all starts with the parents. And the school somehow will have to get the student body excited about being a Rainbow Warrior. Their no-show is so obvious that its like an open sore in the stands at Aloha Stadium.

Build it and they will come.
We are building it.
No worries if they go.
Embrace the ones that come.
Nice gets on the way.
We will be smiling.
Love the Warriors.
Be a Warrior.
#DefendPrideRock.

The silence is deafening in regards to recruiting-I think it’s great because I think there will be some big surprises-there is an awful lot of activity along the decommit front across the nation. The Mountain West has about three teams with quota filled that being AF, Utah State with BSU and SDSU almost done. Average commits is 19 and we show 16. Unless I took it wrong Stephen had a cryptic message about running out of space on the rock…….I took it that we have more solid commits that are not out there so as to insulate against poachers. When it is said and done it will be a very solid class. Let’s not forget there are quite a few red shirts that will play key roles in a winning season in 2017-GoWarriors!!!!!

the “glory” created by Mariota carries on to Hawaii players who feel they can replicate what he did at Oregon

sadly, his was an isolated case and the best bet to repeat is the Alabama commit

like Coach Rolo said before, Hawaii kids are “dying” to get away from Hawaii — yet, we as fans know that only a few from Hawaii playing on the mainland will become successful and most will get “pine burns” sitting on the bench

someday, they will realize that other mainland players are bigger, stronger, faster, and maybe smarter than they — yet, the heart burns with great expectations!!!

and, perhaps, there will be surprises on signing day — yep, it would be sad if NONE of the heralded local players sign with UH — but, hope springs eternally!

A-House we were in the sixties over th w/e now back to normal low 30s and 40s. So far not a bad winter except for about 10 days. Once we hit February I can see the light of day. I have penciled in several mainland games this year so UMass is almost a sure thing. I just booked my golf outing for August 5th that benefits Na Koa so it looks like August will be a busy month-GoWarriors!!!!

Another ancillary issue affecting our local recruitment is the well-intentioned 2015 ruling by the NCAA to allow additional stipends to scholarship athletes.

In short, NCAA allows schools to give cash stipends to cover the cost of things like late-night snacks, student fees, laundry money and movies. To be certain, scholarships cover the core expenses of college such as tuition and room and board. The new stipends are supposed to close the gap between scholarship money and what it actually costs to attend school.

The stipends, available at most of the country major sports programs, range from about $2,000 to $5,000 a year, although some schools are reportedly offering a few thousand more than that. That may not sound like a lot, but that’s real money for students from poorer families. My understanding is that at schools, like Oregon, Washington, Stanford and OSU, they are funding these stipends at the $5,000 plus range, one in which UH is not quite at yet….

If you are a poly or any local kid from a low-income background this money means not just participating in regular college life, but also maybe even helping out back at home.

Guud Morning Tsaikos…Bootiful Day!

boola….just a random thought … a student athlete gets a part time job at the local burger joint….he/they get a W2 and a statement of wages earned for paying taxes…a student athlete gets a $5k stipend to do with whatever they want to…buy snacks, wash cloth, send it back home etc…do they get a W2 and have to pay taxes on the stipend they receive?