Game day: San Diego State

Morning Tsaikos!
Game day, Go Warriors beat dem Aztecs!

On the way to San Diego. Traffic near San Juan Capistrano

Storm is passing South/West of us but RAIN is alooming.
They said strong winds, but nada so far and it is hot and
really muggy. Stay cool, everyone in San Diego.

Why didn’t they practice and have walk through at Qualcomm stadium; enemy eyes?

On national TV tonight (CBS Sports network); look for our 350+ Hawaii fans sitting behind our team bench from the 50 to 20 yard lines (Field sections 2-6), 10-20 rows up from the field, including the families of Kody Afusia, Tyler Hadden, Malachi Mateo, TJ Tamatuia, Simon Poti, Ruben Guzman, and Jordan Puu’ Robinson, also former UH players Nicky Clark and Cliff Sanchez. The first 9 rows may be empty, or may be partially occupied by kids.

13. — Can’t give the secret plays away.

Bring it home.

Good luck and best wishes to the coaches and players!

Hope Ikaika is well enough to play. Having back pain is no joke.

Cincinnati 28 SMU 3 1st half.

Might be good to start Reilly & have Woolsey come off the bench, as it seemed to give Woolsey a better feel of the game.

Where’s a good place to watch the game in Kaneohe?

Bowwar,
I think one of the movie theaters shows the game for $12.
Can’t remember which one.

Koolau Theaters $12.00. But will e on cable if you have Oceanic sports package.

Mahalo Nutmgger…

Trevor Davis has already caught a TD pass for Cal…Gotta ask ourselves, why we couldn’t keep him and others…

Yep, 19 Tiki808! 🙂

It’s on 246/1246 CBSC/HCBSC at 430 pm HST!

Yay! 😀

Arrived at courtyard by Marriott Old Town in San Diego. Hotel overbook, they offered an alternate Mariott hotel in San Diego Marriott Gaslamp Quarter which is an upgrade from what we reserved, with all charges waived. Chinese boy couldn’t refuse this offer, upgrade & FREE! 🙂

MWC is below SEC. No rankings for SDSU in top #25. +3

Had to make room for Utah receivers. Bye Trevor! Don’t care about how much they win by, just win baby!

C’mon Wyoming

#30 Bryson,
Yes, Koolau theater is the one across from Valley of The Temples.

So . . . It was no secret that Woolsey was banged up a little. But the reps that Reilly was getting this week were reported as getting him ready for backup. The media did a pretty good job of hiding just how banged up Woolsey is. Now there’s talk of Reilly even possibly starting? Wow!

I see that another UH football game is on DirectTV today-channel 221 CBSNN.

That the way to go.

Why pay big money for o-16’s televised Warrior football package when you can tap right into DirectTV.

Trust me when I say this, some of the bars around Oahu are right on top of this. In the old days these owners would pay 1-3 K per season (depending on the number of seats in their bar) to subscribe to UH football games on o-16.. now they a look for cost saving in the way of DirectTV.

The only drawback are UH games that o-16 has rights to (and then there would be no UH games in these bars) but that is getting less with the MWC TV/ PAC-12 TV/and the network that the Rice game was on–cutting into o-16 production and right to the games this football season. O-16, considering what their bid was to UH, I would think has to be losing money with UH football games. It would be great if UH wins today and CBSNN picks away another game from o-16.

Good wishes to the Warrior today. Get another win.

yea best of wishes to them warriors..n hope when the final whistle is blown..that we are on top..n 4 the most part injury free…

Ch 247 or 1247
No PPV.

Everyone ready for kick-off?!?

GO WARRIORS!!!

4:30 p.m. crew. I have a picture of you at 5:20 p.m. moving plates. What do you think of that phone picture? After your dinner shift, 3rd floor. Really? Watching the game from a wifi station. Yeah, you know minimum wage employees. Tuff? +3 Hawai’i and a wuess. No paper work please. I still pick SDSU. I got it too. Long time ago understood it. Really? I’m from a wifi station, not at your hotel though. Why comment on that? You love each other don’t you? Just watch the game from the cafeteria. pfff! Sorry!

SDSU TD. Defense needs to step up.

SDSU does not respect our defense.

10 – 0 them. They are tough to stop on the ground.

Ita going to be a long game for us.. C’mon Offense.. Go Warriors!

Hawaii offense = snoozer…. It’s like Hawaii didn’t even game plan for SDSU… Just use same Wyoming game plan vs completely different team..

TD Hawaii! Way to go Marcus Kemp! 10-7 them.

what a lucky touchdown.

this is qb progression though. two games ago, woolsey would’ve thrown this pass into the stands.

4-Prong

Isn’t that what he did on the last play of the first half against Rice? Progression indeed.

Nice concentration by Kemp though. Our team is playing hard. Anything can happen in the 2nd half.

start Beau Reilly in the second half. We need some offense.

Ewaliko

Bullsh!!!!!!t

I pick San Diego State Aztecs because they have better uniforms. 10 – 7 San Diego State Aztecs still yet my choice, 3rd quater. I don’t like the other guy, so I’ll choose San Diego State to win. I went to LAX 17 times already. Get the idea?

85. please stop talking.

That means that nice girl or cheerleader he saw already had sex or wants someone’s kid, whoever she invited to the game. Too hot!

Defense we need to force another punt on this drive

Corners…we need corners.

SDSU cheerleading squad is probably more interesting than the UH offense. although there was a pretty bad looking cheerleader during one of the commercial breaks.

Right Now!

try just hype!

I’m sorry but put in the other QB… Woolsey can’t throw…. That int was short that’s why it got int. If you are going to throw that ball it needs to be thrown on the outside shoulder period….

Put in Beau…we have no offense.

Pretty bad game all around… no two ways about it.

What can you say…..offence awful….changes badly needed from the top down.

Entering this game, I thought the Rainbow Warriors would progress out of their offensive mistakes, but I guess it is pretty hard to change. I was hoping for the best for Coach Chow, but it looks like Father Time is passing him. At this point, am hoping that the Rainbow Warriors can still put together a winning streak, but the light on the horizon is disappearing as each game passes.

Woolsey’s long bomb passing is not up to the play calling. But why are the coaches calling those plays? Woolsy’s passing otherwise looks better to me.

There are 2 standards of holding tonight. “Allowable holding” by SDSU and “whenever we touch a SDSU player it’s holding for Hawaii.”

Embarrassing…

No one knows what the future holds, but right now it is getting harder and harder to stay upbeat about the Rainbow Warriors under Coach Chow.

abunai. don’t kid yourself. those millions of “blatant” holding calls you guys are seeing are probably just fan bias. even if ewaliko’s td wasn’t called back, UH’s offense was so inept, it wouldn’t have really made a difference. thank the football gods that pedroza caught that tipped hail mary, because otherwise the score would’ve been 20-3.

I disagree that colt brennan spoiled us. He was an exceptional qb, for sure. but we’re used to at least competent qb play. aside from sean shroeder in the second half of last season, the norm chow era isn’t giving us that.

4-Prong

That wasn’t Pedroza that caught the lucky pass that was kemp… But anyways on the holding calls I’m not being bias at all… I’m a realist… If they called that hold on the kickoff they(refs) need to call a fair game because there was a lot of holding calls that wasn’t call on SDSU….

About the kickoff return it would have been a huge swing of momentum if they didn’t call a hold. And honestly you and I will never know if it would have made a difference or not. So stop kidding yourself for seeing the future that you know what will happen before it happens…. Question did you know UH was going to win vs Wyoming lasts week?? I bet my house you didn’t….

abunai: tell me more about these phantom blatant holding calls that weren’t called. aside from the announcer saying maybe twice “that might have been a little bit of a hold, there.”

so wait. you’re telling me “you and I will never know if [the touchdown call] would’ve made a difference or not” so i should stop kidding myself about seeing the future, but before then you said “i believe it would’ve made a difference?”

so question: why can you believe whatever you feel like but i can’t conclude after watching the EXACT same game you did, seeing the EXACT same inept offense that’s been going on for the entire season, that in the long run throughout the course of the game, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference because the things that UH needs to do to win (execute both offensively and defensively), they weren’t doing AT ALL? are you gifted with psychic powers that i’m not?

btw, i didn’t see UH winning the wyoming game. I don’t see what your point is.

Hail Mary TD catch by Kemp just made #9 on ESPN SportsCenter Top 10!
Hey, it is nice to see our Warriors get some positive national publicity.

abunai: i see. so your issue is that i didn’t use the word “maybe, but we’ll never know.” quite the solipsist, i see. okay. so allow me to amend my statement. if you don’t mind, of course.

even if ewaliko’s td wasn’t called back, UH’s offense was so inept, it wouldn’t have really made a difference. maybe, but we’ll never know. however, my reasoning behind this conclusions, the only drive where UH actually came close to executing in its offense was the final drive of the first half, and that score was off a lucky tip on a hail mary. maybe, but we’ll never know. i do feel an ewaliko td at the start of the second half would’ve given momentum to UH, but momentum is something that’s not measurable. and there’s no reason to believe that the td would’ve all of a sudden made UH’s offense competent.

maybe, but we’ll never know.

so that’s my reasoning behind my conclusion vs “I JUST BELIEEEEVE!” but hey. we’ll never know.

thank the football gods that quin (not pedroza) caught that tipped hail mary, because otherwise the score would’ve been 20-3. maybe but we’ll never know.

whether those two possible holds were actually blatant, idk. it’s in the eye of the beholder. but definitely, bigger picture, those two “blatant” holding calls that you think you saw probably woudln’t have made UH win the game. UH played poorly more or less in all phases of the game (except punting. because scott harding is magnificent doing that). but you know… we’ll never know.

jeezy: maybe, but we’ll never know.

4-Prong
What I’m saying is you can’t just say they lose. I mean if that’s the way you want to think then what happened last weekend? I know the offense is not working all that great but still you can’t just think negative and say we lose. Even though we were still in the game. It’s not like we getting blownout or something. I can see if we were down 35-7 at the half that kickoff TD might not matter but it was still only a one posession game.

Why do you still think Quin/Pedroza(same person) caught that lucky pass when it was Marcus Kemp who caught it??

When your team didn’t have a QB coach or a WR coach for the first two seasons, is it surprising that the passing game in the middle of season 3 is still a work in progress? When your team still doesn’t have an OC for the 3rd season in a row, is it surprising that offensive strategy and play calling continues to be a problem?

btw, when i say wyoming seems to have been an outlier, i’m not necessarily saying that the win itself is an outlier (because wyoming isnt’ that great of a team and they were playing on the road), but i’m saying the offense’s performance and woolsey’s performance as an almost-competent quarterback seems to have been an outlier.

I’m assuming chow will still start him because who the hell else is he gonna start? mckenzie milton? but it just doesnt’ seem like the guy is making meaningful progression when the game starts. so i’m not expecting a very great performance by the offense next week against nevada either. and i’d be very surprised if they won.

4-Prong

I understand how bad our offense is and I feel you on that it’s frustrating to watch. I’m not saying that the kick return wouldve sparked the offense to be like colt and co was. I’m not saying that at all. They just might get some production on offense.

Even with that lucky pass TD they were still just one possession away it was only 10-7. With that kick return it would’ve been 14-10. But that didn’t stick so it was still 10-7 which it is a one possession game.

Wyoming game I think the difference in that game was the use of DSJ. He had almost 17 carries 135 yards rushing in that game. This game 6 carries for 32 yards.

I agree on the WR…. We need someone to take charge and be that one go to guy. But lack of speed at that position is why no one can break away or separate themselves from one another. They are both possession WRs with no real speed or that break away speed/second gear.

abunai: i think the td would’ve given them some motivation. whether or not it would translate to sustained production that would lead to scoring and winning the game, i’m not sold on that. but on this point, we can agree to disagree.

also, i’m not sure that st juste would’ve torn up the SDSU defense the way he did wyoming either. It would be really nice to see competent qb play, and i was hoping with taylor graham, we could possibly see that.

but then his foot happened.

arcumfortis: i don’t really fault chow for cleaning house and letting go aranda and rolo. new coach, new staff. he wanted to clean house and bring in his own people. that’s fine. i do fault him for pretty much everything else after that, though.

i just don’t understand why we can’t get st juste in space more to wreak havoc. idk if it’s a schematic issue or if the deficiencies at quarterback prevent this from happening.

either way, both reasons would land squarely on chow. he either can’t recruit good quarterbacks, or more likely, him and his staff can’t develop the players they have on their team.

I understand the unwillingness to burn Reilly’s redshirt, but it’s now to the point that Chow is going to have to put Reilly in at QB. Better to put Reilly in now with half the season left. That’s enough games to find out if Reilly has potential. If he preserves his redshirt year this year, he’s likely to be stuck behind Wittek next year. Reilly needs to really lobby to Wynn and Chow to give him a chance to prove himself. If Reilly performs well enough to possibly permanently take over as starter, then Wittek has to step his game up to be able to start next year. That bodes well for UH no matter who starts next year.

Looking at it from a coach’s point of view, UH is still just 1-1 in MWC and the West division is so weak, UH still has a chance to win the division as the defense & Harding’s punting will give UH a shot in just about every game. With that viewpoint, Chow will likely continue starting IW as long as he can still stand on his own two feet.

My viewpoint is that Chow is going to have to realize he needs to make the change to try and save his job. At this point, I’d take a healthy, untested freshman over a banged up Woosley, who by the way hasn’t been good when healthy. Just by watching at Woosley play, I guess he’s barely at 60% health (to put a % on it). Now he can’t run in addition to his ongoing struggles with accuracy.

Chow has given Woosely way more leeway than any coach should. At this point, this feels like Rex Ryan sticking with Geno Smith (sorry Jets fans).

Abunai…me agree you that one 100%…harding n ewaliko…should be on the field a lot more…very lot more…n if they are both ‘electric’ with their plays… we will not need a kicker…not so ?

Almost all the games have been competitive and most of the teams were of okay caliber. So, I don’t know how you can say you can’t see winning anymore games. It could happen but it sure is a pessimistic outlook. I can understand it considering the past but still….

139… Rolo ain’t coming back to UH to be just an OC. I would guess he’d be interested should there be a HC opening in a couple years. I thought Rolo was a bit too inexperienced before becoming OC at UH, but I think his time under Chris Ault really helped him as a playcaller. As a QB developer, I’m not sold on him just yet. Fajardo is a good dual threat QB, but his efficiency hasn’t improved under Rolo other than Rolo’s 1st year at UNR. In fact, Fajardo’s efficiency is down 20 points or so from the last two seasons. I want to see Rolo manage the offense next year after Fajardo graduates. I fear UNR is in for a rough drop like Fresno and SJSU are going through this year after losing Carr and Foles respectively.

I expect UNR to drop somewhat next season, but if Rolo’s offense can at least maintain their production, then I think Rolo will have earned my blessing to go for UH’s eventual vacancy.

I don’t know how much Rolo is involved in recruiting now, but he wasn’t great in that area while at UH. If he does come back, he and Ben Jay must do a good job of retaining or hiring the coaches that are the better recruiters.

yea ‘big fan’.. maybe u can’t see it.. but it seems to me…n sure most on here would agree…the first 3 games were winnable.. n against pac-12..competition… but it seems like …they are playing the same as the competition they are facing n not above it..rice was the case…to me if they had ne kind of offense…they should be 2 td’s favorite for most of the remaining games…but as you say…being a ‘pessimist’ is hard to figure out i guess…. but 4 me it is being more a realist…

i value the ‘football knowledge’ as stated on here … by a few… like jeezy..a house..rainbow cliff.. al …n a few other…even FJ HAS HIS POINTS…can’t keep doing the same thing n expect different results…

we are one dimensional… can’t pass… so we are dead…the rest on our schedule will see that…n unless we can generate 30 to 35 points a game..wee are doomed…thew defense …while great..will start to take its toll…holding a team..ne team to 15 to 20 points a game..is very good in my book…but only if that same team is ‘offense minded’…which we are not..