“The Catch”

I am soooovery happy the the seniors, the team, and the coaching staff! I am very happy for the consecutive wins! Let’s go get dem bulldogs, Warriors!

Great win!! Congrats to the players and coaches. Enjoy the win. The sun looks a lot brighter after a win like this one.

Finally! Awesome win. Thats was payback for tank hopkins.

Felt very sure we would win this all week and through the game, although UNLV played better than I thought they would. Very (very) excited and happy at the game and this morning for all the players, especially the seniors, and the fans, and especially for my favorite players Beau Yap, Iosefa, Harding, Samia, Malepeai, and Afusia. The senior class provided great leadership for the team through some awful seasons, but they really stuck together. Also praises to Ikaika Woolsey the last of the Rolo recruits who won me over after seeing him in preseason practices– incredible fortitude not to crumble under the pressure– we have never had a QB go through what he did and fight through it. Hoping for another win (hate Fresno) and a new head coach (although I am not holding my breath).

Congrats, Warriors! What a glorious way to celebrate Senior Night.
Hubby and I watched the 4th quarter on TV this morning and we were so happy.
Hope we come up with another Win next weekend.

I think it is wrong to be dismissive of a win. UNLV played well, their record did not make the game any easier. Remember, Washington beat us by 1 – I don’t think our record made it any easier for them.

day started great in the “valley” with a bright sun and no clouds – now, many clouds to block the sun light for our PV and solar systems – could this portend to be a sign of what’s to come?

at the start of the 2nd half and watching the plays called, I made a statement that Chow is playing “not to lose” rather then playing to win and it would come back to bite his ass – almost true if not for that 1 second left in game completed pass and it was “all the players” that made it happen from the OL blocking to Kemp’s route to Ikaika’s pass – nothing to do with coaching

after reading all the articles in this am paper, I did not see any statement from any UH coach that they need to do a better job coaching – it didn’t happen during the season and I should have not expected any today – how disappointing!

if UH wins at Fresno State, Chow, for sure, will be back for 2015 and I’m ready for a very boring offensive game plan and plays called – can I endure another year?

Really happy that the seniors got the win. Still … LOTS to work on. That was a struggling UNLV.

with the anticipated loss of key linemen – it will be very interesting how the position coaches will prepare themselves for 2015

I for one am not at all impressed with the secondary defensive back play – from the corners to the safeties – yes, Taz and Trayvon were crucial, but Taz leaves and who will be his replacement? also, #1 who let 7 or 8 WRers get pass him for TD – believe an articles mentioned this happened 9 or 10 times in 2014 -thus, whomever the DB’s coach is – is he doing his job? – did you notice on 2 passes the UH defender had no idea where the ball was and the UNLV receivers went back to catch the ball for significant gains? isolated instances? me no tink so!!!

and, the “rookie” WR coach who failed to get the WRers to create space for passes the entire season – lack of knowledge, experience? Jerry Rice was by no means “fast” – believe his 40 time was 4.6 or 4.7 at best – yet, his coach was able to teach him techniques to free himself from a DB

After reading some of the posts here this morning, it seems as if some of us would have been happier with a loss. I’d rather have a “lucky” win than a well played loss any day. The 2007 team had a bunch of lucky wins against some mediocre/poor teams, and we still were a euphoric bunch of fans, weren’t we?

Before he got hurt I liked the play of JJ. I think we got some good freshmen dbs. We got to find dlinemen. The defensive series after Scott Harding fumbled the punt says it all. TFL by Kennedy. TFL by Yap. Blocked fieldgoal by Samia. No score for UNLV. It doesn’t get any better than that.

“The Catch”

oh my, oh my being a life long 49er fan it was great to witness that win over Dallas for the NFC championship

many years later as we were exiting Caesar’s Palace on the “strip”, we came across Dwight Clark sitting amid his 5 super bowl rings – we stopped and chatted and Mrs A-House decided to buy me an authentic 49er helmet which Dwight diagramed the “catch” play and signed his name – I was very happy – then he said Montana will be there from Friday and he would ask Joe to sign the helmet too at NO charge – told him we were leaving early Friday and would take the helmet home – he said, “no, leave it with me and I will get Joe’s signature and send the helmet to you” – sure enough, 2 weeks later we get a UPS delivery – Dwight mentioned that this would be the only helmet signed by himself and Joe.

about 4 years ago at the Rio, I stopped by the Field of Dreams store and asked what would it sell for – clerk said well over $2K. — no way Jose, me no sell um!!

Need more Pereese.

With the win against UNLV, under Norm Chow’s leadership Hawaii now has 4 conference wins and 19 conference losses. Three of those wins come this season. For 2014, Hawaii currently has 3 wins and 4 losses in conference play. Those 3 wins came against Wyoming (2W-5L), SJSU (3W-4L), and UNLV (1W-6L) who have a total of 6 wins and 15 losses in conference play. Hawaii’s 4 losses in conference play came against SDSU (4W-3L), Nevada (3W-4L), Utah State (6W-1L), and Colorado State (6W-1L) who have a total of 19 wins and 9 losses. If the UH AD believes Norm Chow has accomplished a turnaround, he should pole the season ticket holders. I got a call from the ticket office after the Washington game asking if I wanted to upgrade my season tickets, so they have the resources to ask the customer. Despite the real excitement of a last second win, barely beating even a “very good” 1-6 team doesn’t constitute a turnaround IMO.

What a wonderful evening in Halawa last night. It’s how we won that matters most. Would have been easy to fold, but the boys didn’t. Could this be the turning point going forward? More questions will be answered in Fresno.

Still happy this morning about the win.
As to letting Coach Chow go, I have resigned myself to the fact that we will not fire him. So my plan B is to give Chow enough money to hire a new Offensive Coordinator and improve the offense like we did the defense. Let the offensive coordinator decide on what to do with coaching receivers and quarterbacks– he what to do with Wynn and Matthews– great if we can find a place for them.

#33 well said.

Unlv got Robbed from the Time Keeper the last play Before the TD Took Longer then 5 seconds.!!

31 … NotNasti: We went to the game last night too. It was an exciting game.
Regarding your comments (in quotes):
1) “way to dwell on the negatives.”: I just restated Chow’s conference record.
2) “What’s obvious: we’re not a good team. Chow’s record has been a disappointment”: The question we should be asking is why are we losing.
3) “we need better talent; we make too many mistakes”: You seems to blame the players for lack of talent for mistakes and losses. I think it would be better to examine the long term lack of staffing of key coaching positions and how that impacts player performance.
4) “we’re not exciting”: The strategies and play calling under Chow’s leadership has struggled to produce both wins and excitement.
5) “But you know what? The 22,000 fans at Halawa last night were excited and entertained.”: And I was too. But I was not very entertained at the Nevada & Utah State games. I hope that significant leadership changes are made so that next year we can have a lot of exciting games.

we have begun watching last night’s game and in the pregame show, Kekaula gives Blaine Gaison credit for starting the “senior walk”

no, no, Robert it was Nelson Maeda who should be credited for this special event – we were there and Nelson appeared in the tunnel and started to walk about – then he turned back into the tunnel and a few minutes later he and Gaison appeared and both began to walk around the stadium

why do certain sports individuals keep claiming it was Gaison??? Maybe, Blaine should publish an article telling the public who is really responsible for UH Senior Walk.

how disappointing!!!

d1:

my position is Chow should be let go, period!!!

winning at Fresno or a 3 game winning streak is NOT the reason to retain Chow.

Pomai,

56 -14 d1shima

Happy for the seniors and team for securing that crazy victory. There will be plenty of time to discuss staff changes. Gotta savor this one in the here and now.

On another note, does anyone else realize that #1 Mr. Honolulu gets chewed out by Demo quite a bit during the course of the season? LOL. I thought Demo was ready for throw blows at and vice versa last night. Was kinda funny to watch.

Great fun to be at Aloha Stadium last night. Perfect game? No. Perfect victory? No. Did the time keeper get it right by leaving one second on the clock? I dunno.

But for the first time in a while we won a game when the opportunity presented itself. Felt great for Marcus Kemp who dropped a crucial 3rd down pass not long before the end. Catches like the final TD will build his confidence and belief in himself.

Should coach Chow be retained? Not if we have the money to buy him out (and probably pay someone else more). We don’t have the money. I predict he stays. Does this mean the team will continue to struggle? Not necessarily.

Was it fun to be at the stadium last night? It absolutely was.

Oneseason:

I was summarizing the criticism of the team and coaches by some people on this blog and many at the water coolers during the week. I am not in a position to criticize the hard working, fight to the end players. Not necessarily my personal views. I should have put them in quotations like you did. I believe that if we had Joey for the last ten games, we would be 8-4 or 7-5 right now.

As to the play clock, if you remember on our second to the last drive, Joey was ruled down at the one yard line and the call was reviewed. The clock was stopped at 2:00. After the review, the game clock should have been started up again, but after Joey scored on the next play, the game clock was still at 2:00. Had it been running, perhaps UNLV would have run out of time. But that’s neither here nor there. UNLV can grumble all they want about the timer’s “slow hand,” but in the end, the penalties are their fault and they let us score.

If Hawaii gets by Fresno State, obviously, they’ll end the season with a 5-8 record.

And don’t forget that Rice was a replacement for New Mexico State. Potentially, we’re talking about a 6-7 season. In my mind, Chow probably did enough to merit another season relative to our athletic budget.

I think the triple-option is the future. When McMackin was let go, I alone on Thanksgiving Day at my auntie’s house, made a case for Navy offensive coordinator Ivin Jasper.

Watched game of uh and is it just me but
RK and especially Miano are so bad
I understand Miano trying to be relevant
but he is so bad on TV!!!!

What the hell No.9 you just can’t be happy for these student/athletes for their win. It doesn’t matter who the win is against. These young men have worked hard all year and also are working hard towards their degree.

Forget records last night was a good football game. I understand nobody will confuse beating unlv to upsetting the usc’s of the world but it was a marvelous game. I mean cmon we scored a game winning td with only 1 sec left. Does it make up for the horrible win percentage of chow? Obviously not but let’s enjoy the moment.

2015 recruiting will be very interesting to watch – who comes and who goes

like 2014, I will not pay attention to any of the “hype” – good or bad!

Mrs A-House berates me every time I become critical of a coach or player – I keep reminding her it must be my military training – cause for every mistake I make someone or more than someone will be killed – quite different from a “game”

perhaps it’s not a good thing, but training is training.

A birdee is chirping that Hawaii has a path to the MWC Championship game after all!

😯

#61:

you joking???

On inside access they actually talk about the play clock on the play before “the catch”

Good win… But doesn’t reflect the program moving in the right direction. Defense not looking good. Offense still conservative when they can put a team away. Still making mental mistakes taking care of the ball..

Chow said Ikaika called the last play of the game.

#62 – It’s all good A-House. The wins are satisfying enough for me.

LOL Robert made national news LMAO

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/11/23/7270749/hawaii-beats-unlv-on-final-play-2014-video-announcer-robert-kekaula

Glorious moment…
Jeezy and I high five-ing it as we exit the aloha stadium, albeit with a huge smile on our faces as did everyone else who attended.

Wahine now 4-1 with tonights win over UNLV.

Woooohooooo!!!

Kifi November 23, 2014 at 9:22 pm
#62 – It’s all good A-House. The wins are satisfying enough for me.

A-House — Ditto. Would love to have lunch with you, as we have many times before, but NOT because you lost a bet. 🙂 But thanks for making the last 3 games real interesting with high stake Tsai-ko lunches. Wow, this was getting serious…

Re-Inside Access

It was classy that RK sought out Graham to say a few words on senior night.

As the show progressed most of the focus was on the luminaries, with those players giving their acknowledgements, impressions.

And to the player, whose career was a roller coaster ride of emotion and a career ending injury from earlier in this season, was given the opportunity to say a few– lasting words it must have made him feel good inside, respected, and accounted for. I thought it was a very good touch by RK to include Graham. It means the world to the player and to those watching that think highly of Graham as a person.

14 – Is it safe to say that if a plays fails, then it has nothing to do with the players and is all about coaching?

14 – it was “all the players” that made it happen from the OL blocking to Kemp’s route to Ikaika’s pass – nothing to do with coaching. Does the same hold true if a play fails? Is it all on the players?

Before a team can become a winning team you have to learn how to win. Winning is a process. This team learned how to win on the road at SJSU and they learned how to comeback and win on Saturday. Last year they put up yards and points and couldn’t win…….they were close. This year they were close against a lot of solid teams including three from the Pas12……..but couldn’t do the things necessary to post a win.

They made a lot of mistakes in their loses.

Last night they made the plays they needed to make down the stretch to pull out a great win. It is a great win because of how they did it. Down with 20 seconds to go.

And don’t kid yourself the team is loaded with young players with talent that contributed these last few games: Kemp, Ewalinko, Nelson, Lewis, Castro, Saint Juste, Small, Joas, Unga, Tupai, Allen, Henderson, Koloomatangi, Barker. And we do return a solid bunch of players with a lot of experience: Philips, Garcia-Williams, Lakalaka, Pedroza, Marrell Jasckson, Woolsey, Williams, Gener, Poti, Vele, Dimattei, Fonua, Urbadn, Clarke, Haynes, Moleni, Tulimaseili, Shawley, Manoa.

And these guys are waiting on the wings and haven’t hit the field yet: Higdon 6’3 DB, Stubblefield 6′ WR, Rogers 6’1 DB, Mageo 6’2 LB, Mulanga 6’3 2o0 DB, Philips 6′ WR, Tago 6’2 220 LB, Waa 6’4 310 OL, Fairchild 6’3 230 LB, Sai 6’3 305 OL, Falemalu 6’1 LB, Tavai 6’4 LB, Eli 6’4 290 OL, Hollins 6’4 280 OL, Rasmussen 6’2 DL, Josey 6’2 WR, Patterson 6′ WR, Torres 6’2 TE, Gifford 6’4 DL, Ortisi 6’2 WR.

There is more speed and height on the way.

We just need to shore up the DL and we are still in search of a QB that can throw the ball accurately.

A lot will rely on how well Woolsey and the other young QBs can develop and we need to see what Wittek can do.

How big were the smiles on the parent’s faces for senior night?
Down on the field their smiles lit up the stadium. This is part of the game as well.

I had a chance to speak with Frank Lloyd Sr. (parent of Jr. #70). He is right; playing for UH and getting your education is a great experience.

Who is the head coach right now? Who are the other coaches? Who are the players?
That is what we should keep in mind until the end of the season and keep up the support for the UH Football Program 2014.