Game day: Wyoming
This is what’s at stake:
And this:
Three keys for UH:
> Score touchdowns: In a game of time possessions, opportunities are precious and few. (And, yes, I just had a flashback to the 1975 Mistletoe Ball’s final song, “Precious and Few.”)
> Benneton Fonua: For the past 29 games, people have been saying: “Play Benny!” Tonight, Fonua makes his first start (in place of injured inside linebacker Julian Gener). It will be a rough-and-tumble sort of game. Fonua is a rough-and-tumble sort of linebacker.
> Limit the “wins”: The experts say that a gain of 5 or more yards on first down is a “win.” The Cowboys average 6.10 yards on first down.
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Game Day Baby.
Go Warriors!!!
With Wyoming giving 6.10 yards per first down play. That is encouraging news for Lakalaka to get some space to get out and run. Then you match that with Saint-Juste’s speed could be a big night for Hawaii.
Hmmm.
Mathematically, if UH wins, it’s in first place.
Jason ross put the hole in the right field fence of the outer fence at murakami. He punched it after a homerun.
Quietly slipped in that Nelson expected to start at corner. Let’s go Warriors!
Hilo:
It’s the other way. Wyoming’s offense averages 6.1 yards on first down.
Sorry misread it. Tsai do we know what we are giving on first down plays?
Hilo:
UH relinquishes an average of 5.41 yards on first down.
Taylor made win tonight over the cowboys.
Go Benny, Go!! Go Warriors!!
Morning, Gang!
Just win, Baby! Let’s go, Warriors!!!
Hey… comment #11 on the 11th…
Things that make ME go, “Hmmm…”
Have a great day, everyone!
Sweet column by Ferd Lewis in today’s paper.
I echo the sentiment.
“GO WARRIORS”
Win one for the Skipper Been a rough week.
Brighten his day
Hubby mentioned that Richard Torres is the DC at Kaiser High.
Amazing.
UH 21 – Wyoming 17
Go Paniolo!
Beat da cowboys!
Richard Torres volunteered his time last fall to help the Kaiser football team. Guess they liked what they saw from him.
Awesome win by UNLV over Fresno State. Hopefully the rest of the west teams keep beating each other up
Benny looks like a disrupter on defense. Go Warriors.
Good game day everyone!
Hope UH touchdowns are not “Precious and Few” tonight.
GO WARRIORS!
After today, I will no longer read Ferds column. I don’t like puff pieces and puff piece writing for columnists. Ferd should collect some money from norm for the pr piece he did today.
Miss the objective, opinionated writing of the real Ferd.
Thought that is what columnists did.
S/b “from” instead of “for”
UCLA – Oregon game: HC Jim Mora and DC Jeff Ulbrich going at it on the sidelines. Ulbrich threw down his headset after Mora snatch his notes out of Ulbrich’s hand.
UCLA fans booing the Punahou kicker Fairburn after another missed FG attempt.
Wyoming uses a slow down offense with huddles, per Stephen, in contrast to other teams that use the hurry-up offense. They snap the ball every 29.2 seconds on average. What’s the time limit ? 40 seconds ?
Is Lataimua back in the lineup?
Fresno lost to UNLV…. Hahaha
#21 FJ. Gosh I thought your appetite for hatred had been attenuated. I guess your vampirous need for blood has reemerged. I read nothing in Ferd’s column that suggested that coach Chow was doing a good job. I read only an acknowledgement of the character and dignity of a man having to live the drama of his life and grief in a very public way. I think coach Chow’s character is illuninated in such situations and in your post, so is your’s. Please let me be clear: I write this not as a challenge to your ongoing evaluation of coach Chow’s performance. Coach Chow’s performance has not acceptable and if it doesn’t change he should resign or be fired. But he is also a very public human being who has been severely challenged by life of late. You may think this is irrelevant and “puff” but I would suggest to you that football wins and losses are much more “puff” than the circumstances confronted by coach Chow.
UH WR:
They are tall, but noted for their “speed”.
kinda reminds me of a Mississippi Valley State player drafted #1 by the 49ers many years ago – tho, not at tall – at best 6’2″ – ran the 40 in 4.6 seconds and he was considered too slow to be a WR by most teams
yet, this distinguished man has the most reception yards in NFL history
UH WR coach should look at how he was able to accomplish this by using his body to block out DBs on a stop and come back move or turn into the middle; took the slow pace then raced past the DBs; etc. How does the DB play a WR – back to the QB? front to the QB? back pedal watching who?
Yes, Jerry Rice was all of that
are the UH WRs unable to grasp these concepts or is the WR coach to inexperienced to learn/teach these concepts to UH slow WRers? or both?
#28 You got it exactly right!
Go Team Go!
Fei..Fei…Fei. And you wonder why you always eat alone.
No guarantee Graham can win the game. Example, Notre Dame 35 and North Carolina 36. Offensive game going. Can this game mimic this? probably not.
Hope we get a good crowd to cheer on our Warriors tonight.
I remember when Miami had good teams. This shot I saw earlier this morning makes me wonder…
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/10/11/6962393/miami-hurricanes-football-attendance-cincinnati
Lucky they stay in one money conference.
Lakalaka RB, Keelen Ewaliko WR, Kemp WR, and Graham QB for offense for Hawai’i. Are they good enough? I’d give it to Farrington, but last I checked there were 6 players making it into the Polynesian Hall of Fame from Hawai’i. Are they that good? Probably not. Still with Pearl City Mustangs.
I think Tiki808 has had one too many concussions.
Maybe he went to Kalaheo & Pearl City.
Good luck to whatever QB(s) plays and the rest of the team! Win together Warriors!
GO WARRIORS!!!
PUNCH THE COWPOKES!!!
Heck of a finish for the TCU/Baylor game. 24 points unanswered in the 4th by Baylor.
Bama in danger going against Arkansas on ESPN.
So does anyone know if Lataimua is back?
Who starts tonight Woolsey/Graham
I think whoever is covering and reporting on this teams behalf should keep us mainlanders informed on past injured that may be back or are still out. Iosefa, Tilumaseali’i, Lataimua and others this may apply to. Or do we just have to wait until game time.
fifty-one sounds good to me… being very optimistic here..
no vampires here.
UH 51..COWBOYS 14
hey fei.. save sum candy.. me eat with you he he he
peter pauls mounds – almond joy only….
seems like a very good day to ‘bet’ over… gosh sum scores like nba games at half time…
Go Rainbow Warriors!!!!!
KDA great.. me second that motion..be nice in a lowly marketing manager up there at UHAD to post regular on here..to keep us ‘ALL AWAY’ fans..on the goings on with the injury report..or one of them ‘busy’ media types up there..
SUBJECT LINE… ‘news n discounts’… to lazy just to put out a special e-mail ..game day up date etc…n mine for e mail addresses etc..be interesting to see the clicks n how many open their mail…
sum one up there should go to the survey that shows.. what subject line gets the most hits..but if u don’t care….guess it does not matter..like me said before.. amazon n e bay addresses me by name..is a little more personal… n they must send out millions of e mail a day…
wonder if ne one up there ‘bleeds green’ or just there to get a check……
Westside I was shocked to see the empty stadium in today’s broadcast. It didn’t look much better early in the second half and Miami was winning!
#21 Fei Jai some things have nothing to do with sports. Your heart is dark. Go find something that makes you happy. It’s not here. Life’s too short.
I say Graham has a hard time tonight. Notre Dame won over North Carolina. 50-36. Lakalaka can’t run. The edge goes to Wyoming on offense. I’ll have to go with Wyoming 45 and Hawai’i 10 final score prediction tonight. Maybe? 1420 ESPN AM sports
graham will probably struggle. it’s his first start in a while. but hopefully there’s progression.
I still say you can’t get arrested for picking the wrong team or if you didn’t go to Pearl City High School and get a diploma, but on the internet.
Anyone know if the game is streaming? In Vegas.
GOOD EVENING, HAWAII!
It is almost 9:00pm here. Post the scoring = and GO RAINBOW WARRIORS!
The game is streaming on the Mountain west network from what I see. Not sure it matters if your in NY or Vegas.
Play hard Warriors!!
54, kdaGreat, I’m at the stadium. It’s for some friends. Thanks!
Remember Who was Michael Carter? If you see him at the games, point him out or put him on the blog. Holiday Bowl 1992 and played with Ma’a Tanuvasa. They left him off the 6 pack, Polynesian hall of fame. Why? Denver Broncos not a good enough team or didnt’ know him.
It is beddy bed time in Wyoming pretty soon.
Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
The game should be streaming on campus insiders soon
I dunno about anyone else but that was one of the best National Anthem performance I’ve seen in a while.
IWWTHE, I wholeheartedly agree! Those ladies did it justice!
Okay, RB Warriors regroup!
Mililani Leading UH 7-0…lol
They ran St.Juste to the outside it’s a miracle…
Lakalaka!
St Juste!
Oh well…
Run, run, pass..let’s switch up the cadence in playcalling…makes it so easy for defenses to pin their ears back
Wow……just wow…
this is a train wreck
Falling to pieces right now they need to regroup and do it quickly
So much for Taylor Graham turning our offense around SMH… Chows going to get fired after tonight.. Still a warrior fan 4 life..
Bright spot is Lakalaka really running hard tonight…
And Lakalaka look like he injured his hand on the last play…
running hard to the outside…such a beautiful sight
Wyoming is stacking the box on 1st and 2nd down…by switching up the cadence I didn’t mean run 3 times in a row….Field Goal I’ll Take It
I know the stadium is empty cause I have no trouble posting…usually I can’t even get through…
Defense needs to step up and make a stop or cause a turnover
still settling for FG’s… A draw play on 3rd down…SMH
Bryson – exactly. And then we run a draw on 3rd and 7… and wonder why we get stuffed. C’mon…
All right D
C’mon Defense.. Stop them on 3rd down!!
Time for the O to do its job and put some points up!!!…
We should throw on first to break up tTe defensive rythm
I think I’m the only person watching this UH game on the east coast.. It’s late.. Go warriors!!
Who was that young RB? Looked good…
They threw on 2nd down.. Thank you!
Matto – That was Joas Parese he’s a junior walk on
Hitch and go would be perfect right now the CB are playing the ball if Graham pumps it’s a TD
Touchdown Great Job Offense
Ladies and Gentleman we may have found ourselves a QB
TD!!!
Beautiful TD pass on 1st down!! THANK YOU!
Bryson calls it!! TG looking good.
Great pass by Graham.
I just seen Rod York on the UH sidelines.. Hopefully Milton will be a futur QB for the warriors
Allright we seem to be rolling now…gotta keep that momentum going on both sides
I’ve been saying it for awhile Hawaii needs to offer Milton,Vaevae and Maybe Timoteo…Hopefully that offer comes after this game
We got the momentum. Let’s get it Offense!!
Right back to run, run, pass…killing me seems like anytime they find something that works they go away from it
Bryson you’re right
Warriorfan I would rather be completely wrong…lol
LOL
C’mon offense!!
Vele is cracking some heads tonight…
Graham put that pass on the money…receivers have to help him out
The next offensive series Hawaii should take a shot downfield…
C’mon Harding..
On first down…
Ok Harding way to make it up with that punt lol
How about that bounce? Geez
C’mon defense!!
Corners getting burnt!! SMDH!
Hello, Secondary…nap time is over.
Need a good return from Ewaliko
Wyomings drive started at the 2 yd line. 98 yd TD drive
Can we please replace Nequan
No mo dbs.
On a positive note at least at least #23 hasn’t been getting picked on.
Graham injured, Woosley warming up.
It was nice knowing you all…..—> cliff
Graham broken foot.
Graham broken foot…SMH.. Goodbye Norm!
Bad call on Nequan..
Reverse!
Finally we mix it up with the play calling and we kept the defense honest on that drive…it’s about time hopefully they continue to do that on offense
Btw, that kid should be ejected – targeting helmet to helmet on a defenseless receiver.
Matt – I Agree he didn’t even make an attempt to look for the ball….but that hitch and go was a thing of beauty
Bryson – loved that play call and the one after. Finally some variety!
Speed kills
Auwe…
Jesus Christ when are these refs gonna start calling holding on Wyoming…I swear I see alot of Jersey pulling going on in the trenches
no facemask? seriously?
I think we’ve run out of feet to shoot ourselves in…
Wow that collision was violent happened right in front of where I’m sitting…
Looks like we may see Beau Reilly shortly Ikaika seems to be favoring his hip
Mistake free 4th and we can win this thing
Woo hoo!!! Wide open! But Woosely limping…oh no…
Way to keep ‘ um guessing
KEMP!
Why is the blog so dead…I remember game days post would get into 500 plus
Bryson: lowing = less interest = less activity, sadly
losing not lowing
1st Place baby….
Could it be? Ikaika leads us to victory?
St. Juste running his heart out!
Let’s close this out Defense!!!
#142
Does this mean that the light has turned on for Ikaika??? GO BOWS!!!!
Well, 38 – 28, busy listening to the game. Can’t comment.
Time difference has caught up to Wyoming.
2:46 to a W
way to go warriors! We gotta hold on to this lead. Great game so far by Ikaika!! #Warriors
Beau with the sack!!#92
Best offensive play calling so far this season..
Winnah Winnah
We batting 1000 in the MWC.
Wow, good win ‘Bows – thanks for a great game this week!
1-0 MWC! Cheeeee! For Coach….
1st place baby!
Wow! That had me going, overcame turn overs and injuries. Warriors played tough.
Congratulations, Warriors!!
YAHOOOOOOO!!!
Way to go Rainbow Warriors!!!!
Good win for Chow and the Warriors. Take it one week at a time. Lets get this thing going.
GO WARRIORS!!!
We saw a lot of character on the Warrior Team tonight! A great win for many reasons!
GO WARRIORS!!!
GO WARRIORS!!!
Way to fight and take it to um! Good win for our Warriors
The Offense finally came through for the Defense
38 Hawai’i and Wyoming 28 final. 1-0 MWC Hawai’i (2-5 overall) 6th win in 3 years for Norm Chow. Yes! Congrats!
That was a hard game to watch especially in the third quarter. I am so glad the guys kept fighting and pulled out the WIN! Thank you, Coaches and Players! With all the injuries you folks persisted and everyone stepped up! Mahalo!
2-4 overall for Hawai’i correction. Congrats! Sorry. MWC 1-0
Taylor Graham needs to improve. Ikaika Woolsey did the trick. It just goes to show you that Notre Dame produces good offense every year. But, if UH can connect on its receivers, they too produces NFL stars. One more for the 6 pack. Keep adding them up.
Yeah, Baby! Gonna savor this one… especially after all of the mistakes we kept making. Was on the road the whole 4th quarter… yelling at the dashboard while at stop lights… people looking at me weird! Hahaha! Loved saying… “We just scored one touchdown! We winning!!!”
Heal up, wounded Warriors! Beau Reilly better be ready!
Gratz, Warriors, on pulling this one out! Keep it going!
@San Diego State Aztecs next week. 1st place. Keep running. Working!
well wonder what the score be without those fumbles… n if graham stayed in..
but good for ikaika.. maybe he pick up sum much needed confidence…
me was hoping for a 51…. 12 points short…
Prayers for quick healing to all injured Warriors – depth was key tonight. Really nice to see the way Graham spread the offense around in the early going. Woolsey did a great job stepping up, along with St. Juste. Really loved the fire in the eyes of players and staff.
Super stoked on the solid win. Hopefully the light will stay on for Woosely, best performance to date. If the offense can continue to step it up, we are going to the Hawaii bowl. The D is great this year.
I can still get tickets for SDSU if anyone wants to join our 330+ Hawaii fans–just found out I can email these tix since it is too late for mailing. $18 each. Text me at: 415-324-0585.
Tom-warriornation,
I’ll know tomorrow if I’m going to be in town for the game in San Diego.
Thanks for the update.
Great win. Congratulations team.
TG’s leadership was key. Saw him on the sideline getting all the units fired up. Players need to have this mean streak. Others need to step up their leadership.
When the team got down at the half it was great to see the players and coaches overcome adversity and fight back.
IW did well throwing the ball, 8-9. Great.
St. J had a good game running the ball. Career day, 100 some yard.
Defense caused Wyoming 9 (?) three in outs in the second half. This was the difference maker in Hawaii winning the game.
Savior this win. Even for the critics. I do. The remainder of Saturday night feels better (as opposed to the opposite).
Omelet Monday for the players, which doesn’t come very often-enjoy. The players deserve it. Getting this win puts a good taste in the players, which I hope makes them more hungry for more wins.
Good to see Vele getting more pt tonight.
Awesome win for the team. I really feel for Graham though. His senior year and then getting injured like that must be really tough. He played pretty well in the first half though. Go Warriors and beat the Aztecs
Nice win tonight… St Juste def showed up to play. Props to Woolsey filling in for Graham in 2nd half. Maybe the benching lit a fire in him. Very efficient. Trayvon was a beast tonight…
No complaints from me tonight… I won’t even say anything about the 1st quarter 🙂
jeezy33… but their were sum short commings…(on offensive side) n those should be pointed out..so the ‘boys’ n coach play calling can get better…
Great win! Healing prayers to all the injured Warriors. 1 – 0 in the MWC!
Despite spotting all of Wyo’s points, our men demonstrated their ability to come together and overcome adversity. Proud of them all.
Omlets are on the menu. Let the feast begin. You deserve it, men. Job we’ll done…
I found it hard to believe we were going to win until Trayvon’s last interception. We have been close so many times before and somehow found a way to lose. Arkansas and their hapless SEC record seems similar. Arkansas should have beaten Alabama today but just couldn’t perform when the game was on the line. Today we did preform when it counted. Don’t know what happened to IW but he had a command of the offense and seemed to have Wyoming off balance the whole second half. Good for him. He deserves some payoff for his hard work. It felt good to be in the stadium tonight and see smiling faces. Winning is a mindset. I hope we can start to develop this mindset. I wish were home next week as our road record is truly awful. But if we can get a win on the road we might really start to believe. I feel great for the players. They put in so much effort. At least for tonight I hope they can feel that it is all worthwhile.
I’m happy the team came through for their coach. They ran a more diverse offense tonight with a lot of different formations. They included the RB, H back and TE in the passing game.
I was at the game thinking Wyoming’s defense was ripe for Woolsey to fake the handoff and take off running. Then it dawned on me it would be a disaster if Woolsey got hurt while running. Beau would be the next man up. I wouldn’t count on seeing Woolsey running too often from here on out.
I’m dying to see the replay to check the formations and personnel groupings.
There was Graham on the internet stream singing the Alma Mater, i think, after the game, along with the others.
Great win for the Warriors after two key offensive starters go out. Talk about getting each other’s back:
From Jason Kaneshiro’s article:
“UH’s five touchdowns were scored by players who hadn’t reached the end zone in a Hawaii uniform prior to Saturday night, with the wide receiver corps accounting for four.”
Now that’s a TEAM. My recommendation is the western omelet. 🙂
Didn’t get to watch the game but pleasantly surprised the Warriors got the win.
Looks like the light came on in Woolsey. Hopefully it carries into the rest of the season. Need consistency at that position.
DSJ was a beast last night! Glad he got the opportunity to make an impact and was able to step up. Averaging 8 yards per carry? Damn!
Kudos to the defense in the second half to give the offense a chance to come together.
Huge and much needed win!
excellent win for our warriors, i know they’ll savor this one for a long time. happy for the coaches too. ikaika may finally be seeing that light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully he’ll take this game and continue moving this team forward.
imua warrior’s!
Finally, as ugly as it got in the first half and the turnovers in the 2nd. The refs are terrible…..again!!!! The MW stream was so slow listened to it on the radio…..now they have to find enough healthy bodies to compete on the road….something tells me there is something good that comes out of this besides the win. Special teams were OK….KO team needs to tighten it up. OL did its job and the D….the opponents will look at the 2nd half defensive stats and take notice….imagine a game like yesterday with no turnovers by us that result in scores and completed drives…..it is not a game….I will gladly take it as I sat in the dark till 2:30 am to listen to Bobby Curran—–I am one dedicated Warrior backer–Go Warriors!!!!
…still basking in the glow of victory.
Offensive and defensive lines were the difference. Afusia at guard because of his hand was a good move. QBs were relatively comfortable all night. Norm’s offense works when the run is effective. Opens the pass and the occasional misdirection (Ewaliko).
GOOD MORNING, HAWAII!
Great win! Thanks for posting!
Game replay is ON OC16! 16 and 1016!
Good morning, Tsai-kos!
Still stoked about last nite’s win!!! Hehe Sure feels great! 😀
Great Morning All!
I love the smell of victory in the morning…
…now on to kicking some Azz-tec!
Pomai,
56 – 14 d1shima
Some trends that were broken.
Behind After 1st Quarter –0-16 UH was behind 14-3
Behind At Halftime — 0-17 UH was behind 21-10
Behind After 3rd Quarter –0-21 UH was behind 28-24
Allowing 21 points or more– 2-23 UH allowed 28
In October– 0-7 First win for Chow in the month of October
At 0-14, I thought we would leave the stadium after halftime. By then end of the first half, I thought we would see a repeat of the Rice ending. After Graham came out and was replaced by Woolsey, it seemed that the offensive play calling became aggressive and could lead to a win. If this style is maintained, Aloha Stadium could return to an exciting place to watch college football.
Pomai:
UH 24 SDSU 10
Please no postem no like Bachi em.
Glad to see UH finally try to test the outside instead of running up the gut.
I’m thinking the Tampa 2 defense that Wyoming runs might not be effective at this level. Nevada ran that same defense last year and was coached by Bohl’s former defensive coordinator a few years back when they won the championship. Nevada’s Run D ended up being the worse in the conference and near bottom in the nation. It’s a bit surprising that Wyoming was able to win against run-heavy Air Force offense this year.
Hope they show the final play of the half again. I didn’t see how Graham’s foot got injured after the first viewing.
Time’s up.
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