UH football: Two-for-none deal

Kelii "KK" Padello and Kaimana Padello
Kelii “KK” Padello and Kaimana Padello

Kelii “KK” Padello, the state’s top defensive player as a Mililani High senior in 2013, has joined the Warriors.

Padello is reunited with his younger brother, Kaimana Padello, as a rush end. Both are walk-ons.

KK, who earned the nickname because his older brother could not pronounce Kelii as a child, amassed 26 sacks in 12 games in 2013. He went to Southern Oregon for a year before enlisting in the Army Reserve.

He has three years of eligibility remaining.


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Tight end Davasyia Hagger has decided to transfer to pursue a basketball career.

Hagger is the answer to the trivia question: Who caught the first UH pass in 2016?

COMMENTS

  1. truegreen February 18, 2017 9:30 am

    First once again! Welcome KK!


  2. 808bowler February 18, 2017 10:55 am

    Morning,
    Anyone hear if Pagano coming home? Read he transferring out of Clemson


  3. Stephen Tsai February 18, 2017 10:59 am

    I’m surprised he doesn’t apply for the NFL draft.


  4. truegreen February 18, 2017 11:03 am

    He’s a military brat. Hawaii is not “home” to him. He won’t be coming here.


  5. tom February 18, 2017 11:17 am

    GOOD MORNING, HAWAII!

    If Pagano was not a first string player at Clemson, he may not be one at a Pac12 school unless the school needs a veteran as compared to a freshman,not-very-used underclassman,

    What he needs is a guaranteed first string status somewhere even if it is a Division II achool where he can show the NFL scouts he is worthy of consideration.

    UH should be considered – big fish, small pond.


  6. AllG February 18, 2017 11:20 am

    Why didn’t Hagger tryout for UHs Basketball team? We could use all the help we can get and he already had the football scholarship


  7. burro sabio February 18, 2017 11:35 am

    Is Hagger a D-I level basketball player?


  8. Ipu Man February 18, 2017 11:49 am

    Can always use a “sackman”…


  9. 808warriorfan February 18, 2017 11:53 am

    With Hagger leaving does that free up a scholarship ???

    LIVE ALOHA / PLAY WARRIOR / DEFEND THE ROCK … GO ‘BOWS !!!!!


  10. Ipu Man February 18, 2017 11:54 am

    Always aloha to those who come and go.
    Aloha Davasyia. BB is fun. Can understand your choice.
    Somebody recruited you?


  11. Inyoface February 18, 2017 12:14 pm

    Hagger had size and potential but couldn’t catch anything.


  12. clyde February 18, 2017 12:43 pm

    truegreen @ 4: Apparently, Pagano lived in Hawaii since he was 7 and until his graduation from Moanalua in 2013. That’s half his life. But doubt he’d pass up any Pac-12 offer to come “home.”

    The Padellos both had all-state careers at Mililani, and they’re cut from the same mold: undersized but tenacious and tough. Add two quality walk-ons from the local ranks.


  13. Da Punchbowl Kid February 18, 2017 1:10 pm

    Two Padellos! Awesome! A couple of hamahs with non stop motors and extraodinary quickness – one or both will be making big plays for the Warriors!!!


  14. Alnbama February 18, 2017 1:49 pm

    Couldn’t Ursua help out the basketball team, kinda like the Ostrowski kid did?


  15. Paniolo February 18, 2017 5:00 pm

    Scott Pagano comes from a military family?? Despite graduating from Moanalua, he was not born here so his heart was never for Hawaii. Even though his Clemson head coach said Pagano want to be closer to home (I presume Hawaii), his heart is in one of the West Coast school.
    No kidding….closer to Hawaii but he want to play for a West coast team…5 or 6,000 miles from home.


  16. Stephen Tsai February 19, 2017 8:34 am

    New post: http://hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=41958


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