Maiava agrees to 4-year deal

ST,

I hope traffic court went well.

Feature article on Jesse Williams. He turned down UH’s scholarship? I thought academic reasons prevented him from going to UH…

At just 18, he’s been offered a sporting scholarship to a prestigious US university, with gridiron scouts signing him up for two years at Arizona Western College.

Williams, from Morningside in Brisbane, was offered a full football scholarship by the University of Hawaii in 2007 but turned it down because he said “it didn’t work out with the school side of things”.

Lots of colleges are having cut back severely on their Athletic Department budgets, with the first wave of teams being eliminated now. 30 schools have cut at least 1 sport, with MIT cutting 8, Cincy 3, and U-Dub 2.

In February, Stanford eliminated 21 staff positions in its athletic department and cut funding to the school’s nationally ranked men’s fencing team. Stanford officials told the fencing team it would have to raise $250,000 to cover operating costs next season and raise additional money to create an endowment for future expenses.

“We have to cut $7 million over the next two and a half years,” Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby said. “It’s not an insignificant amount when you consider salaries and scholarships are a pretty set amount. It’s substantial.”

Pac-10 school Washington shut down its men’s and women’s swimming teams in an attempt to save $1.2 million, which is about half of what the athletic department needs to cut from its budget.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which mostly competes in sports at the NCAA Division III level, cut eight of its sports teams (Alpine skiing, golf, wrestling, competitive pistol, men’s and women’s ice hockey, and men’s and women’s gymnastics) to save $1.5 million on its athletic budget. MIT students even kidnapped the school’s mascot, Tim the Beaver, in protest of the cuts.

Big East member Cincinnati plans to eliminate scholarship funding for three of its men’s sports (track, cross country and swimming) over the next four years. The plan will save the school about $400,000 annually.

Elsewhere, Indiana State dropped its men’s and women’s tennis teams; Maine cut its men’s soccer and men’s swimming teams; and Vermont dropped its baseball and softball programs. All told, nearly 30 schools that compete at some NCAA level have been forced to drop at least one sports program.

Happy birthday Myki!

And top 10 today – will miracles never cease?

garret.

as i read between the lines, “it didn’t work out with the school side of things”. that statement tells me that he did not quality for entrance to manoa, therefore, i am at a jc.

Wow, that’s a major tat on Billy Ray. Happy Birthday, Myki and cheers to many more.

I just took Warrior Jack around the Village photographing him in various locations. That got me thinking that UH should do a “Where in Hawaii is Warrior Jack?” photo contest on its Facebook Fan Page. Then they can give away season tickets. I have some hilarious photos of Warrior Jack out and about in Waikiki…getting a tan, at the bar…near the penguins…you name it.

pp…. did you get his autograph?

Happiest of Birthdays Myki!!

Wow. Left me in Sunday with system restore.

Hauoli Lahanau, MYKI!!!

Reboot.
Sheesh.

Happy birthday myki!!!

al, whose autograph? Warrior Jack? He is going to be a celebrity around here very soon. I don’t get autographs for myself, just others. There are a few Tsaikos who can verify that. 🙂

PowderPuff – great idea, maybe even some outer island sightings too

Happy birthday Myki. Thanks again for the cruise information.

Happy Birthday myki!!

My Warrior Jack needs some “guns” before he can get any tats!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYKI!!!

I’ll be sure to join you and SJ back at “da tree” come fall camp!!!

Hau’oli La Hanau, Myki!!!

I’m wondering who will be the first with a Warrior Jack photo from The Dark Side.

heheheh

d1島 — the Bulla commute could be awful, considering he and Lyn don’t necessarily work the same hours but both work in Waikiki. Only consolation is that maybe they can find a place to overnight if necessary…. 🙂

Happy Birthday Myki!

Aloha Bulla… 4 more days… 🙂
Is Bella gonna be around for the CC with brother?

pp…i forgot. you just like to yell at the celebs.

Hiya.
Still fixing buggy PC.

Hiya Big C. I guess the stands for big Commute. Sympathies to the Bullas. But wessai living can be mighty fine!

Happy Birthday Myki!!

Bad news about RGM. It appears that he’s lost his starting spot after the first two games of the season and he’s being replaced by a WR from SJSU.

But apart from that, receiver Rufus Skillern and offensive tackle Daren Heerspink continue to get plenty of first-team reps at practice.

Skillern, a second-year Lion out of San Jose State, is getting a look at wide receiver in the spot Ryan Grice-Mullen has occupied for the first two games of the 2009 regular season. Grice-Mullen, considered possibly the fastest player on the team, had trouble with dropped balls in both the season opener in Regina and last Friday at BC Place against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

ST and Al,

I think that you are correct about the Jesse Williams situation with UH…but the article made it seem like he turned down UH to go to “prestigious” Arizona Western. Taking nothing away from Arizona Western (excellent school for that level), UH is at a different level for both Academics and football.

LizKauai (iPhone):
July 13th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Hiya.
Still fixing buggy PC…

Liz — isn’t the usual fix just to buy a new one? New one for $500…if at work, you’ve already cost the company that much in just your time. Is that why you use the other brand at home when you are on your own prime time? 👿

the arizona jc’s are good options for the local boys.
the distractions are fewer than their socal/norcal counterparts.
and more importantly they offer scholarships and many have dorms on or near campus.
for those that don’t have scholies they also offer WUE benefits, thereby reducing much of the tuition expenses.
whereas, in cali that does not exist.

Maaan. Looks like Firefox was my crasher. Trying Chrome now.

Maaan. Looks like Firefox was my crasher. Trying Chrome now.

😯
Jus’ pau switching over all my machines at home this past weekend to ff!

Did you try any of these things?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/firefox/troubleshooting-problems-with-firefox-3-crashing-or-hanging/
(sorry, no can access tinyurl from this computer)

I’m sayn slow like waitin fer a light to come on durin a blackout.

I know…been missing you crazies too!!! Timing is just bad….too many parties, not enough bottles to drink…..Hahahaha….

When’s the next one?

Not sure right now. Uncle KK going to Kauai and nothing in the works right now, but I will definitely let you know if one pops up and gives you enough time to plan for the keiki.

what do you mean by “mature now”?

Re-Playing night games or day games

With the presence of the swap meet, Saturday home day games out at Aloha Stadium weren’t a possibility in the past. Now, with rumors going about, I hope it happens that the Saturdays are open exclusively for Warrior football.

And maybe opening the door to having some home day games in the future.

The pluses of having day games for the Warriors is that it might make it more appealing to the family orientated fans, elderly and others that are day people…that an early starting time affords. Not everybody is a night owl. Not every one likes staying up past ten, like the families with kids and elderly. And by default, late starting games may eliminate these fans.

I even think walk ups to games would incur more during the day amongst the visitors and military enlisted. I think people in general feel safer attending a game in the day than at night. Even I would feel less vulnerable to harm going to a day game.

An earlier starting time, like a 200 PM , I believe, appeals to those demographics. And might bring more of these types of fans out to the stadium.

Even for the neighbor island fans coming over for the game earlier start times might make it more attractive, where they can return home that night. A late ending game may not allow for return flights. And may deter fans from coming over because it might put a bigger strain on their budget if they’re faced with lodging cost, too.

Not to sure if late ending games put a strain on visiting teams in finding flights back. But an earlier start time wouldn’t. Keep in mind that visiting teams staying over night are incurring additional expense.

If the Saturday demise of the swap meet comes about it wouldn’t surprise me if the school explores this idea–earlier day games. And if the school doesn’t then they should because if he they look at all the angles there are too many benefits not to ignore.

But aside from the peripheral things we see on the surface looking at how it might make sense in earlier games to John Donovan, UH athletic director, and Coach McMackin the school’s football coach.

For Donovan earlier start times affords the Warrior televised games back to the mainland more visibility.

Adding the time differences to the east coast and west coast, currently games starting at 600 pm are over around 100 am to 400 am on the mainland. Keep in mind, not every one’s a night owl. This is the knock on having the current home games starting games at 600 pm here. With a certainty earlier start times would bring a greater televised viewing audiences.

But envision how earlier games bridge a lot of the demographics here and even the viewing audience on the mainland.

There also potentially might be a rise in mainland subscribers paying to watch the game, especially of how the earlier start games are more conducive for viewing to them. And perhaps, also, early games falling in better time slots for the mainland viewers might make it more alluring for the networks to televise UH games in the future. And consequently this would only put more money in UH’s pocket in the long run.

Late games, I believe, takes money away and it doesn’t allow UH to reach it’s full potential in marketing and visibility. UH scores aren’t reported in early editions of Sunday papers.

For Coach McMackin’s team having a greater home field advantage would happen if there were earlier games, especially if the visitors are faced with the hot afternoon suns. For the coach and the Warrior team it’s all about gaining an edge. And the hot baking sun bringing discomfort and tiring out the visitor teams gives the team an edge.And more so of an edge then of playing the visitors under the lights.

But when you process all the pluses that an earlier start time affords the UH from all standpoints it makes perfect sense that the school taps in it’s full potential. On paper, fiscally, and on the field.

For the fans attending day games in the hot sun, sure, it’s a burden. Sure you’ll have to bring a lot of bottled water, sunscreen and hats, but realize the trade off-a little sacrifice-helps the team strategically on the field and fiscally. The Florida and Alabama fans do this willingly in helping their team. A little hot sun doesn’t turn them away.

Yes, there are benefits, but on Saturdays, people have to…

work during the day
take the kids to soccer, baseball, football games of their own
work during the day
coach their students at math league (ok, that’s a reach)

attendance might even go down, or be a wash

maybe Hawaiian Air can arrange a late returning charter for neighbor island fans?

Firefox crashes regularly in it’s attempt to block some of the unwanted, but persistent adware popups.

Day games, didn’t a BYU game with McMahon start at 11, would be great for ST and staff. No deadlines, more time to write more stories, get more photos, videos, etc. Been a proponent for day games for a long time. It’s how virtually every other college does it.

Roysan, we have been down this road before re SAT nite live @ Aloha or day…..it’s UHAD–something about the beach culture, projected noon traffic congestion, swap meets, soccer games, PPV and the like. Staus quo people thinking with horse blinders and special interest…..so, what else is new in this State?
All the negatives they could think about except creativity.

Geez, forget about what makes college football sense–the noon heat, making the Sunday media deadlines on the eastcoast, the college tradition…. creating an advantage for the home team.
It always made me wonder if only surfer Joes and soccer kids and parents attended the games; there was never traffic to deal with on H1; swap meets were the the number one mission statement of John Burns when spearheading the movement to build Aloha Stadium….well, u get the picture.
Let me say, if the rail ran past Aloha Stadium at 6AM in the morning Donovan would schedule games in the AM….and that’s the way it goes…….union mindsets, special interests and politics rule.

mih – there’s a solution to that – less popups!!!

Hey mauiwarrior! Long time no see! Howz you?

shoot i was really looking forward to malepeai. hope he is greyshirting. we all kinda knew powell might not qualify.

i think malepeai is greyshirting. not sure about the others.

Debating if I should send a Warrior Jack to buddy in Seattle or be all greedy and keep it for myself.

The one in the package has a nicer facemask because it’s not all smooshed. Maybe a switcheroo is in order.

A friend of Malepeai told me that he wants to grayshirt.

if a 2009 high school graduate greyshirts, does their scholarship count toward the ’09 class or ’10? IIRC the limit is 25 per class?

Sorry, I meant they pushed the band away from midfield.

Way to go Shane Victorino! Batting #7 in the lineup tomorrow!

The last time the Brit Open was played at Turnberry in ’94, Tiger was 18, nearly the same age as 17 year old Japan sensation Ryo Ishikawa who is paired with Woods….except Woods wasnt playing.
Ishikawa is called Hanikami Oji or bashful prince by his admirers in the land of the rising sun.

Weather forecasts for Thurs, Friday and the weekend are ANYTHING BUT SUNSHINE as showers are expected on start day and rain called for Friday and SAT until it clears on Sun. Winds are blowing off the Irish Sea and will be making it beastly for drives that are lofted. Looks like a tournament with all the challenges that make a better golfer….or as in the case of Bethpage Black–the better luck of the draw at Tee time.

Happy Birthday Myki

Congrats to Kaluka Maiava.

….although when combining my two current posts, it doesn’t do much for bolstering the recruiting pitch of the Home Team 🙁

…and then again, it didn’t really seem to bother the Bearcats 🙁

Ok… after my schnack at Hamuras (came out of the PC fixerupper’s place, sniffed the BBQ sticks cooking and was a goner), got home and had a test drive of my latest batch of gimchi, rice and nori for dinner. Blood tests tomorrow morning so no mo fuud for the rest of the night.

Watching the tropical weather maps now… with an eye on Carlos- which is back down to a tropical storm.

Al hinted at this a day or two ago, but I figure I should post it. If you look at BYU’s commitment list, they are having an amazing recruiting year…much better than in past years. They got the QB rated #1 by some scouting services and he’s apparently been calling the players they have been recruiting (perfectly within the rules), they got a WR to break his commit to Texas, and there seems to be an high number of highly rated recruits who are Morman this year.

Kona Schwenke, the top defensive line recruit from the state of Hawaii, committed to BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall after making the long trip to Provo.

“I was trying to figure out what school to go to, and BYU was the school that kept coming up,” Schwenke said.

Schwenke, who chose BYU over the likes of Oregon State, Washington, and Hawaii, said he hadn’t made his decision until he was able to tour the facilities and sit down with Mendenhall.

“My family knew BYU was the best school for me to go to, so my family played a big part as well,” Schwenke said. Schwenke is not the only one in his family excited about his commitment.

“We are pretty ecstatic,” said Mckay Schwenke, his father. “We were looking for a university with the same values he has. At the same time, it was his decision, and we are very excited he chose BYU.”

Kona Schwenke said BYU was the first school to offer him a scholarship, and that also had a heavy influence on his decision.

As with most recruits for this class, quarterback recruit Jake Heaps worked hard to influence the defensive lineman’s decision.

“He called me out of nowhere, and told me he was coming to BYU, too, so that helped,” Kona Schwenke said.

Free play link time. Please ignore my next 5 posts if you do not want to read the off-topic stuff.

The World Health Organization now says that the swine flu pandemic is unstoppable and all countries around the world will need access to vaccines for it.

Pretty amazing that this company’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) power plant has the potential to actually create “carbon negative” power plants. A CCS power plant using a mixture of coal and sustainably harvested wood could generate power while actually *reducing* the amount of greenhouse gas in the air.

15-year-old girl was walking while texting and fell into an open sewer via an unattended manhole!

Garret,

That was a “crappy” way to end your free links!

heheheh

d1shima,

LOL! I cannot imagine how upset and uncomfortable that girl was! However, I’d bet that she would have falled into that open manhole even if they put up some orange cones or had a sign up. Of course, the fact that they had an open manhole with nobody watching it to warn people means that they can expect to have to pay some $$$ to settle her family’s lawsuit.

HA! One of my girls walked into the wall at school while texting.

No, but I think she left a nose print.

Really rude of me to have nearly forgotten.

Happy birthday to Myki!!!

Good evening to all! Many thanks for all the birthday wishes received today. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting all of you but hope to some day soon. I feel it’s just awesome to have so many opportunities to make new friends at my age. I guess the fact that we share so many interests will continue to keep us on the same page.

Looking forward to fall practice and the beginning of the season and T-gating with you all.

Mahalo again!

Da Punchbowl Kid:
July 13th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

# SteveM:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:58 am

Kid — how many Warrior Jacks do you have?
_____________________________________________________

Why you like know?!! j/k

One for Sweety, and one each for Rich and Ted, which I’m going to mail to them.

Kid — Very nice of you! I was just wondering if I should pick you up on Thursday so we can strive toward getting another…a few more times 😆 👿

BTW, I’ve got one for las vegas 🙂

Liz…

“PC will be breaking … tomorrow”?

Doesn’t sound good to me.

hey hey checking in sorry to be so l8 but very busy monday

a hippo birdie 2 ewe myki and a safe journey home to ronnie who leaves tomorrow back to america

finally tonight ………….. congrats to local boy shane victorino who will be the starting center fielder in tomorrow NBBL all start game. giv’um

W-Doc

Davonne Bess will be interviewed

Slugger is the name chosen by that person for this blog. Seems only right to use it…just like we use your handle.

“PC”…all of the above. It depends on context, yeh. Likt CO could mean Colorado, company, commanding officer, etc.

Make it a great day tomorrow.

Remedial Blog Summer Session available soon…(for folks who have a hard time keeping up with the rest of the class).

>Learn how to read the WB blog from front to rear.

>Learn how to pay attention to detail.

>Learn to read the headlines posted by the blog meister.

>Keep track of the principal bloggers.

>Remember that not everything posted necessarily applys to you.

>Don’t take the blog so personal, it may not be any concern of yours.

>Remember that the players are every mother’s son, treat them with respect.

>Encourage…not…discourage these young men.

Go Warriors!

off topic.

shameless.

“Public-sector labor unions today offered to take a 5 percent pay cut to help with the state’s budget deficit, the same amount as the governor, the lieutenant governor, state lawmakers, judges and department directors have approved for themselves.”

to think that the lame duck gov was going to take a 5% pay cut while she was wanting to impose a 14% cut to the masses via her three day mandatory furlough.

and she wants to run for one of the dan’s offices in the senate!
shameless.
that’s just not local…..oh wait she isn’t.

I agree with #145.

He has nothing good to say about anything Hawaii –

in fact he doesn’t mention Hawaii at all.

He seems disdainful of his roots.

I remember a few years back that they were trying to limit the people on the sidelines since it was getting out of control. not sure how many more people they would allow down there.