Ease for efforts
When Eric Okasaki started at UH nearly 40 years ago, George Ariyoshi was governor, Booga-Booga had its original members, and the only rail was the one at Pearlridge.
In other words, Okasaki brings old-school values to the school, one of which is an athletic-department-bonding session dressed as a potluck. Okasaki is the organizer of the annual event — held after work hours, of course — that brings together administrators, staffers, coaches, custodians and their families for fun, food … and serious games of dodgeball.
It also marks the end of a (relatively) less-hectic part of the year. Things will get busy with next week’s opening of training camp. For a few hours, there is no talk of the NCAA, budgets or UH’s new football uniforms.
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Good Morning Hawaii
Good morning Tsaikos!
Any pictures of the event, ST?
When do the new uniforms get shown to the public ?
Eric O has been a reliable part of UH athletics over the years…
Just read Colorado will have a 13 game season with no bye week also.
Eric Okasaki and his staff are the unsung heroes of UH Athletics that keep the players going and help them recover from injury. I remember when he started and I think that Al Martindale was the head trainer. Before Martingale was Dean Adams. Showing my age.
Guess easy to get 13 game exemption… maybe they are have a snow days there exemption huh…he he he
I remember going to see Booga-Booga at the Territorial Tavern in the old Transportation Building at the bottom of Bishop Street in 1976. Hilarious.
Good morning everyone!
Glad to hear the UHAD personnel get together for an office potluck picnic. kudos to Eric Okasaki!
For those of you that may not know….starting Aug 3rd…if ur not a subscriber to the SA…..you will not be able to post ne more here…just sum heads up for those of you that maybe buy on the street the paper now n then…u now have to scribe to post…
Eric is a great guy who has to deal with so much that the general public never hears about. I wouldn’t want to be at the end of one of his dodge ball throws if the potluck was in season.
Can anybody confirm that Mililani football put a whipping on Kahuku last night? I heard through 3 person.
I heard it through 3rd person information.
Anybody want to join us in Reno; got a small group of 10 here:
HAWAI’I vs. Nevada football
Event Date: Sat, Oct-24-2015
Event Time: 1:00 pm
Onsale: 8/5/2015 at 10:00 am
Text Tom at: 415-324-0585
http://www.hawaiiprepworld.com/football/mililani-holds-off-kahuku-in-tatas-first-test/
kahuku/millilani scrimmage report
fRRINGTON/PUNAHOU GOING ON NOW..OR JUST ABOUT FINISH ??
http://www.hawaiiprepworld.com/football/live-blog-farrington-punahou-scrimmage/
SAT: I think Colorado can play 13 games because they are playing at Hawaii.
I’ve always admired how much respect trainers from other schools have for Eric who is one of the really good guys.
ST,
Any more late surprises before we open training camp???
P.S. I recall you mention some blogs ago about Professor Mak. I had him for ECON 150 and ECON 151. I struggled in ECON 150, so I got so pissed off that I worked my arse off and aced ECON 151 🙂
Awwww ok nasti… means ne one that play Hawaiii can play 13 games huh ??
That is a pretty good incentive for teams to come here…
Then me not understand why we have a problems filling the schedule ?
Eric is a great and dedicated guy that really cared about the athlete’s well being. He used to tape me up when he was a “trainee” under Dean Adams leadership. Glad to know he is still going strong. He’s come a long way and now the “Trainer” for the young ones.
Holomua Eric! I got many a tape job from that fine fella…
It’s something like non-conference teams don’t want to come here on a week when they don’t have a conference game to play and then have to travel a long way back and get ready for a conference game.
If we are no longer able to participate as of August 3,
It has been fun
Besides my family in the islands I have enjoyed knowing all the tsaikos
To make playing in Hawaii more attractive, Matlin needs to get NCAA approval to start the season at least 1 week earlier. Very few programs are willing to play straight for 13 weeks. Plus UH would also welcome a bye to heal up.
I won’t be subscribing since i currently live and go back and forth in Singapore and the philippines. St Anthony Trojan thx for the heads up…shoot me an email at vierrap@gmail.com maybe we can meet up in Phils one day.
Its a shame that now a lot of people won’t be able to voice their opinions. Eventually you may see only the same 10-20 people posting to the blog and the flavour of this blog will die off. Not saying anything is wrong with that except to say the variety of viewpoints will die off.
Anyways, thanks, it still is a good blog and info outlet 🙂
24. Dennis Halloran August 1, 2015 at 6:41 pm
If your family subscribes to the SA, have someone create a log-in.
Then see if you can use their log-in, from LAX. Who knows, it might work.
#26, There are other options for people to voice their opinion. Hopefully this will
help the Star Advertiser with the moderation of the blog and filter out the “crazy” no logic, no /incorrect facts and “Broken Record” posters who repeat the same rant over and over.
As long as SA keeps adds off the blog pages, I could see them make a case for limiting comments to subscribers. But lets dump the “Trending Articles” and stuff. Let’s not have the “cake and eat it too” marketing strategy.
Online newspapers have to make money in various ways.
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