Training camp schedule

Ah, still no post numbers.

Good Sunday morning worshipers.

good morning tsaikoland.

Nice golfing weather.

I would golf but can’t pass up food shopping day.

another scorcher day in hawaii hitting upper 80′ to lower 90’s

no time to be indoors unless get AC (not not the bball player) someting like da kine mu’u mu’u lady get when she hot then gotta the put on sweatta when cold. hey culcha trivia: who is dat person uh808 fan, rob25, gigi, midori7, lizk, mrsAhouse, addahknowsports who you figgah.

reminda to get your stuff together so can display on talble at party

djmichko my damien cuzin better head for high ground way cooler or hit some lake.

I would tell the locals here to hit da beach but we get invasion of jelly fish and plenty owee’s if got caught in dem. can go watta country but kinda expensive but oddah stuff can do like movies, cruz mall while shopping, out door bbq with fans or if in windy place den ok.

my friend up dea to visit his wife’s bruddah in yakima. they must be boiling dea. rememba on spring wen was hot we went to the tri cities to cool off, had much fun at the tin cup river race festival.

ST- I remember the Leahy (Chuck?) commercials for Passas Sports. God Bless.

HiHo- off to see gigi and Mr. gigi!

good morning Tsaikos,

please check on Wreck, i think he has a gastrointesinal bug of some sorts, seems like he was going to the poddy a lot yesterday in an email i got……chit chit chit or something like that. hmmmmmmmmmm

Stretch,

did you read about the Great White Shark on the west side, no not DPK, a real one…maybe one day someone could make an offering of some sorts? I nominate Homey……maybe like the Joan of Arc deal? who knows……he’s got my vote.

sorry al this is for you and the valley isles MAUI

Koakane,
I got too much sun yesterday at my friend’s pool. I’m thinking a movie or hanging out in my bedroom, it’s the one place that has air conditioning in my apt.

Good morning Tsaikos. Conrad Passas!!!!!! Wow, now that is truly a gentleman and send my best to his family.

homey not registered good advise go marketing to get out of heat. especially around 11 at Sam or Costco. plenty AC and fuuud samples. bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

koakane. may have a problem with the memorabilia from Maui. we going give it to al and hopefully he no eat um all. anyway, we don’t think we going take home any of the memorabilia that we bring. you guys going eat em all. hahahaaaaahhhh!!!

ST

thanks for letting us know Derek Inouchi is/maybe reading this blog. So I’m reposting Marlis’ excellent (lengthy) ideas to Derek.

June 28th, 2008 at 8:56 am
re-The August 18th launch of the new and improved official UH athletic web site

Whatever they do I hope the new site realizes the notion that potential athletes, recruits and potential students to the school often open the door and look what’s inside. And they can be either be captured or released from being interested from the school. And maybe the program. As much as the school spends on landscaping and maintaining a campus that makes the school inviting and welcoming, the same foresight should be put into improving on the web old sight in making the new sight attractive and appealing to the athlete, students and even the fan.

The focal point of the new web site should extract a warmth and strike a cord with the athlete,students, fans and visitor. Visually pictures of teams can do this. And daily stories and stats do, too. But what’s behind the heart and soul of the program should have a special tab where we hear the voices relaying this attractiveness to the school. The nurturing effect, so to speak, I believe will work in delivering this now missing warmth. The mission statement of the school, including letters from the President, Chancellor, athletic director, coaches. And one step further prestigious alumni and leaders of the State of Hawaii, including Governor and Senators and Representatives should be honored and at the same time promote athletics at the UH and the state in relaying statements for the visitor to embrace upon. A special tab for the professional athletes in all programs with updates can have a nurturing effect.

As it stands now the focal point of the old site’s home page is buy,sell and trade tickets. When I open the homepage this is what I see. And this isn’t good. Peddling the tickets I see is purposeful for the UH but it turns me off if this is the first thing I see when I open the UH web site. I don’t want to see ticket selling. Instead the selling that’s important is the program. And the State. Something indigenous to Hawaii and UH athletics should be the first thing the visitor sees. Not buy, sell and trade.

For the UH the resources are there to improve upon. Leaving a good impression on the visitor…and who knows maybe the next big recruit to the program can happen if you impress upon them something thats impressive. I think having your leaders of the school, state and distinguish alumni writing a few words would leave an impression on the visitor.

Visually having a picture of the campus, foreground, and having Diamond Head and the ocean in the background would be a good selling point. But the biggest selling point are the island’s leaders and UH alumni and if they can say a few words it would make for an impressive web site.

And not to be forgotten I think a special tab identifying the hard work that the band members and cheer leading squads of what they do for the program should find a new place on the new web site.

Combining the union of what goes behind the program, a few words from distinguish alumni, and the daily press releases from the athletic office balanced with whats happening today and the lore of the past would have a very good nurturing effect on the visitor. And this is very important for the new athletic web site to potentially accomplish.

following up on the themes by LizK, koakane, homey not registered yet , bulla, kekoa and AHouse,

dis collective ohana rocks! really honext and great peeps here, no foolin. ex, sum who no drink no put down us dat doo. an da dolla dollla collekshun sure can add up supah swiff. like take me, no can buy one JUGS, but can fix.

an my mouth, da buggah works! try watch.

VIRGINIA HINSHAW,

i coming da bash party 7/10/08.

There are Hawaii and run and shoot connections to Nease High where Tebow played and where Rick Taylor played and coached with his Dad. The head coach of Nease, Craig Howard, was a teammate of Wes Suan’s and another Oregon Mouse Davis deciple. Howard coached at Oregon Tech with their head coach Mack and his assistant there, Ron Lee.

Good Morning my Tsaiko Palys!

Got up late, and then had to drag this ovah from do old blog…

djmitcho ~ What about all those festivals get up dere surrounding the 4th of July? Wouldn’t the Wenatchee Indians be dragging their T-P’s into the fairgrounds and setting up their village right about now next to their cousins the Yakima Indians?

If not, you can always join the Rattlesnake Roundup I guess, that’s a good way to practice your Texas two step!

Don’t worry about us Wessai guys…we always manage to find something to either heat things up, or cool ‘em down…our Tsaikettes, not the Rattlesnakes! Yikes!

BHF2 ~ I would confer with the *Crusader* Wabitts in da house before jumping on the Tengan wagon. Really…get da inside scoops from dem first.

Ok gang, gotta run some errands…check back into da playhouse wen the Esme intrusion alarm goes off. J/K Esme! Thanks for your gracious support of the Tsaiko All Star Band – looking forward to your version of the “Funky Cold Medina!”

Article mentions the big cheerleading camp run by UHi.

Each summer, 100 of the nation’s top high school cheerleaders are invited to attend a training camp hosted by the University of Hawaii to which Haddad was recently honored as one of the invitees.

Oklahoma State’s AD just donated $1 mil to their school! This is such a contrast to UH’s former AD and to how UH cannot even finish getting JD’s contract together:

Oklahoma State University athletic director Mike Holder credits everything he’s learned and attained from his days as an OSU student.

Holder, who earned his OSU undergraduate and master’s degrees in business, announced Saturday he has made a $1 million donation to the Spears School of Business at OSU. The money will go towards the creation of an entrepreneurship department within the school of business.

Holder said he was moved by the generous $57.2 million donation last Thursday from oilman Malone Mitchell III and his wife, Amy Mitchell, to make his donation to the school of business.

Article about the non-BCS-conference teams that could make it to a BCS game this year. They do NOT mention UH but they do mention BYU and Fresno State as their top 2 most likely teams. This is what they said about Fresno State:

#2 Fresno State

Big Games: at Rutgers (9/1), vs. Wisconsin (9/13), at UCLA (9/27), at Boise State (11/28)

Why they will succeed and earn the bid: They, like TCU, have it set in place for a run. They return almost every skill position player from last year besides Clifton Smith, but they are deep at the RB position as it is. Tom Brandstater will need to be as consistent and throw even better this year if Fresno wants a chance to perform on the national stage.

Why they will fall short in their attempt: they face a tough schedule in the beginning of their season, and will need to win both and at worst one if they intend on banking on a big season. If they can make it through that tough stretch, then they should be fine as the WAC is definitely on a down year.

This is what they said about BYU, the team they think is most likely to make it to a BCS game this season from the non-BCS-conferences:

#1 BYU

Big Games: at Washington (9/6), at UCLA (9/13), at TCU (10/16), at Utah (11/22)

Why they will succeed and earn the bid: Max Hall and Harvey Unga are the cornerstones of this offense and will have no trouble scoring points. This team is as loaded on offense as they are on defense and will pose a problem to any BCS team they approach. Also, Hall brings his top 4 receivers back with him.

Why they will fall short in their attempt: Well their lone challengers seem to be UCLA and Washington, while they aren’t high caliber Pac-10 teams, they still can give the Cougars problems. Also, their hardest conference opponents are at home when BYU plays them, making it more convincing to the committee, but posing a much tougher challenge in the end.

So there they are, your 2008-2009 BCS Party Crashers. Now will they dominate and rise to a #1 ranking? Probably not, but they still can make a run at the Top-10 and earn the bid to a BCS bowl, which really isn’t that bad of a consolation considering theyre in non-BCS conferences.

Garrett,

howzit. thought we wuz waiting for the new fiscal year next month to announce JD’s contract. something about we get one temporary/acting AD with a year contract.

bighilofan2,

I guess it would make sense to have the contract announced for the start of the new fiscal year since they have waited so long already. However, they wasted no time in elevating Clapp to interim AD (and giving him a big pay boost) in January and Ferd’s article didn’t mention any reason why JD’s contract was being delayed. Ferd’s article made JD’s higher-ups like bad, with the implication that UH was delaying the contract without a good reason.

SOAP BOX TIME – skip this because it isn’t directly sports-related

A very quick response to the anti-rail post in the last blog – i don’t know where the writer got his figures, but the additonal tax paid on $40,000 worth of goods & services covered by Hawai`i’s General Excise Tax would be $200 a year or $3000 over the 15 years. The increase is from 4% paid by the rest of the state to 4.5% paid here on O`ahu.

Granted, that $200 would rise as the costs of goods & services increase over time due to inflation, but then so would the cost of gas and diesel fuel.

One of the problems with the anti-rail arguments is that they assume that there are unlimited supplies of petroleum available to make into fuel. Unfortunately, every aspect of our lives is controlled by the supply of oil – the power to run this computer, the transportation costs as well as the production costs of the cup of coffee sitting by my side as well as the soap in the shower stall, the ink used to print the books we picked up at the library yesterday afternoon after eating a nice lunch cooked over a gas stove at Cinnamon’s in Kailua – all these anti-rail folks care about is the freedom to drive their cars no matter how much it costs because they have the money to do so.

In addition to all of these reasons, Hawai`i, like other islands around the world is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of sea level rise and increasing numbers of significant weather events as well as long-term climate changes stemming from a huge increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Denying reality will not change it for the rest of us.

BACK TO SPORTS:

Mahalo, Stephen, for posting the August practice sessions. Which ones are open to the public?

Also, would you please try to find the answers in my 7:51 pm post yesterday.

Also, please try to get the posting numbers back!!

Time to go – want to get the chores done before Kailua reaches the boiling point. DrDoc says that when we finish we should catch a bus into town and go to the Restaurant Row $1 theatres which are still going strong. Sounds good to me.

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bhf2, i don’t know if VH is going to be there on 10th, but i think she going make it cause she reads this blog and knows that what happens here directly affects UH. she has been very nice in answering questions I asked her directly and i think she will be good for UH in the long run. i think you should tell her what is on you mind and even tho we live on different islands, i share your thoughts about UH.

homey,
We gotta hit a couple of practices when those pads come on. Maybe get some o’ them loverly biscuits from Jack’s afterword. Do you remember when you, James and I had our first meal together there? How everybody was so proper and serious? 😆 That prim and proper stuff didn’t take long to fade away… Look at us now!

Washington just pulled scholarships from 2 of their players.

The school made no official announcement that Hasty, a junior running back, had finally been cut loose for good, simply releasing an updated roster on its Web site that didn’t include his name. The name of senior cornerback Jordan Murchison, who battled legal trouble last season and played sparingly, was also absent from the roster. A school spokesman later confirmed that neither will play for the Huskies again. Both were recently told by UW coach Tyrone Willingham that they were not having their scholarships renewed for the 2008 season.

Hasty was considered the plum of Willingham’s first recruiting class at UW in 2005. He impressed coaches with his play early on as a true freshman and he made trips to away games at UCLA and Oregon as Willingham debated whether to play him before it was decided he would redshirt.

A school spokesman said Hasty and Murchison were academically eligible.

Alabama fans are starting to wonder if they are getting their money’s worth from Saban.

Nearly a year and a half into Nick Saban’s tenure at Alabama — with $6 million spent on his salary alone — has the school gotten a good return on its money?

The rap sheet on Saban at Alabama — well, perhaps, not an appropriate phrase to employ this week — is seven wins and six losses. The school is making massive profits from the man since you can’t beg, borrow or steal your way to get seats for this fall’s games.

Saban appears to be one of the most competent and intelligent coaches the Tide has had in eons.

But what about 10 players being arrested for a collection of charges ranging from the garden-variety disorderly conduct to first-degree robbery to the latest — five counts of distribution of cocaine? (In Mike Shula’s four forgettable years, Alabama had five players arrested.)

i don’t know if dane sardinha has relatives on Maui, but if he does, he comes from good baseball bloodline. john sardinha from maui went on to play pro ball in japan and i understand he is still active in makule softball in the state.

Howzit Gang,

Stretch – Nice the mugs with the personalization on top, good work.

Stretch-

Nice! Half-a-six-pack at a time is the way to go! 😉

Had a nice chat with Riley Wallace, who offered these updates:

Hey ST, did Riley update you on his golf game and his winnings? 🙂

Kekoa, my bro, my uso, my spiritual advisor, when LizK is busy…if it is parents or alumni giving the bad rap on Tengan…I would dismiss it. For my radio segment I always got calls from parents/alumni regarding kid’s coaches in both the ILH and OIA (my ears are stlling buring from the Kahuku player strike stuff) My sources inside staffs and around them usually gave me the bigger picture, and some of the behind the scenes stuff that you would never believe the coaches had to deal with (which was never reported primarily to protect the kids or because it was too petty). I stand by Tengan as a quality guy for UH, as a St. Louis PE teach, or anywhere he may choose to go. I have no opinion as to whether Delbert would be a good AD at St. Louis or not (I do like Afoa)…I have only had experience watching Tengan closely on the field and in person. He has always been a thoughtful gentleman. As far as St. Louis’ clutch losses, which I believe is the real root of the anger…I apologize for offending here, but I felt Tengan overachieved with the talent he had. St. Louis has only had a few real stars lately compared to the Cal Lee Days, but should be commended for playing exceptionally well as a team. St. Louis had the best o-line in the state as far as consistency, without having across the board superstars. Having visited Leleihua’s Spring Practice a month ago, having watched Leleihua get beat by Punahou last fall, and having been on the field for the State Championship game vs. St. Louis, I found that Leleihua has incredible talent. You wouldn’t believe the talent of the underclassmen there. Leleihua will be a power for the next two years. Would everybody be holding hands with Tengan had he won States this past season? Leliehua has raw kids, and some with early academic issues who were nurtured into a refined machine by the state championship. Personally I would put my efforts into saluting the Mules head coach, than spending one second thinking ill will of Tengan.

just my 2 cents:
June 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am

the warrior beat blog should not be poisoned by the kind of personal political opinions contained in the post of 10:48

Eh why you wen say dat, I think that we all can express our thoughts on different subjects, no get all hu hu. If you no like read da comment den no read’em.

Stretch how can us guys who stay on da mainland get one of dem mugs???

Re: mug shot
We will be selling those mugs, a little smaller mug, and other “Tsaiko” stuff at the party. All profits from sales will be donated to UH Athetics. If we run out of items, I will have an order sheet and more can be made. We can work out something for the guys on the mainland.

Nice mug Stretch.

St, for brother Mike (or anyone else who knows): Did that kid Wong from KS Hawaii ever sign or will he be headed to UH baseball? Saw in the West Hawaii Today that he was not happy with the money being offered so he was thinking about joining UH instead.

Stretch, the Tsaiko Adult Shot glass is in front of me on the shelf of my computer desk. I’m keeping it. Decided I didn’t want to influence the kid with any suggestion of downing the good stuff, like you kindly provided last Karaoke Call. I am very appreciative, and I am sure it will become a collectors item…no, I promise I will not e-bay it. Mahalos Stretch. Now I would send Abe a black XXXL collar shirt if I can figure out how to get SteveM to sell me one.

Old enough to drink??!!…my friend call him Grandpa.

Our little Tsaiko, Winnie, would like to lurk on Warrior Beat (so she can learn about rail, shot glasses, cute players with tats, etc), but only has an Nintendo DS (which is not internet friendly). Please let me know if any of you have kids or grandkids that have a current generation Sony PSP (no need the games) that they are bored with and would like to trade for a mint condition Nintendo DS with 4 games, charger, and case. Yes Garrett, it has Hannah Montana, Animal Crossing, Tetrus, and Brain Boost. At my daughters intermediate school there is a clique of Nintendo DS kids…I think she is growing in independence and maturity and realizes that when she hangs with the Tsaiko’s she eats well and gets to wear a badge that others at Aloha Stadium bow down to.

ST: a correction on Carl English being a dad…I think the Animals interviewed him last week and Carl stated the baby is due in July…unless of course he (baby boy) decided to peek out early…

GO Warriors!!!

Barry ~ I just sit and listen to what others who are close to the situation are saying about Tengan. I have no personal knowledge of the man, but I do respect the folks who do. I’m sure there are other opinions, but you do have to ask yourself why he made the move and then relegate himself to remaining as the PE teacher…at the same school…hah??

Isn’t that a bit like JJ leaving his Head Coach position and then staying on as the Head Trainer. I’m real curious about that sort of transition in Tengan’s case.

BarryM,

Isn’t there an Opera Browser for the DS? The DS already has WiFi so she should be able to surf the web with her DS. We already have a DS-Lite but no PSP, so we can’t trade with you.

We just got back from seeing the Sesame Street Show: Elmo Grows Up. It was a good show, I’d recommend anyone with kids 4 and younger to see it if it goes to Hawaii. Lori won the tickets from her radio station, so we got to go for free. Our kids know that we won’t buy them any souveniers at a show so it was a cheap afternoon out!

Back to family stuff now…

Ralph . . .

Thank you for the heads up.

LizK was working on attempting to secure another ticket for Izzy to attend the OSU game in the same seating section as the rest of us.

Kekoa, you are very right…I really don’t think any of us has all the information, but I will error in judgment on the guy who has played by the rules and appears to be respected by local and Div 1 coaches. Seeing how Tengan’s career goes from here will tell us his worthiness, as if there is any baggage, future employers will know. Football and sports is a very small incestuous family. I may be under LizK’s influence too much, as she imparts to me to look for all that is good in others. I truly want to see goodness in all…its sad that we all usually fail to be Mother Teresa all the time (well except LizK, Gigi, Esme, Jojo, D1, James, DPK, Jeje, Wena, Leila, Al, Peaches, & Jason, of course). As far as Tengan staying…could it be a simple explanation that he truly loves St. Louis and the kids and wants to maintain a longterm commitment there? Many, many people work at low paying jobs at Kahuku H.S. because they truly are “Red Raiders For Life”. All of us that lived in Kahuku’s Community have seen coaches come and go, but alot of those committed background people are still there 20 years later. I think there are several UH employees that have remained committed to UH because they love our university, regardless of the good and the bad that comes with it. Many alumns who work at a place they attended do so, even with the problems, because they want to make things “pono” over the long run. I will keep an open mind…and luckily I am part of no process to determine anyone’s future, except what time my dog gets fed.

Garrett, so I just checked. Winnies Nintendo DS is a “lite”..I don’t know what the Opera Browser thing is…maybe you could e-mail me if it applies to the Nintendo DS Lite.

kekoa,

is the blog bash filled? i had someone ask me at church today if we still had any slots open. he is a regular blogger, but was traveling for business; oh well, i told him that i would check.

if anyone thinks DT overachieved with the talent at SL, then it should be fair to say that KA underachieved with the talent at Punahou? just a thought……but if the shoe fits…

Crusader for Life, I respect your differing opinion and the way you expressed it, in a polite respectful manner. You are right, as far as me not being immersed in the loop at St. Louis…but I would disagree with the validity of a Sports Hawaii blog quote as a gospel fact. Hey Doris Sullivan are you out there? What has been your experience with Tengan? Was he proactive in helping the kids to secure college opportunities? How do the Div 1 coaches react to him?

Great photo of Stretch; I can see his eyes…haha!

Barry, check what Doris had to say on Wes’ post about Tengan.

Very well presented and written post, arlis. Many very cogent points made. I can’t wait for the Swamp.

Barry Markowitz:
June 29th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
…. Now I would send Abe a black XXXL collar shirt if I can figure out how to get SteveM to sell me one.

Sorry Barry, the black Bonafide Tsai-ko polo shirts from me are not sold…they are awarded. However, shirts handled by James are the best route to purchase a Tsai-ko shirt in larger sizes.

I suppose I should explain the polo shirts … ST knew I was giving them out but I never told him why. At this point, the men’s shirts given by me (with Addahknowjoe) are gifts to Tsai-kos of distinction. These are the ones who where instrumental in developing the “character” of the blog in it’s first crucial formative year. Later Tsai-kos include those whose unshelfish actions on behalf of the Tsai-kos contributed to its growth and development.

Shirts first went out to ST and those who first inspired the Tsai-ko caricature. However, I cannot find relatively inexpensive polo shirts larger than XXL so the following notable Tsai-ko’s do not have polo shirts yet:

Addahknowjoe
Bulla
Da Punchbowl Kid
prideperiod
Robert Kekaula

So unless they can supply suitable size black polo shirt, they will not have one at the Blog Party. Polo shirts will also be made at the specific request of ST.

“marlis” I meant… 😳

Weird. I’m gone for half a day, and Kekoa is accusing me of breaking and entering, while Barry is equating me with Mother Theresa.

I think Barry is my bff today. 😉

So … did I miss something? How come ST is not posting the photos directly into the blog anymore? Takes forever for the photos to load up. …

And … ST! You’re a big tease. The link to Stretch’s “big mug” appears to be broken; I get only an error message. Help?

Crap – I think my pic broke the blog…. good job ST!!!

Hi Barry…I heard you calling my name…

Here was my post on Wes’ blog.

“I’d like to bid a fond farewell to Delbert but I know Ill be seeing him on campus for years to come. Thank you for all your help not only with the athletes at Saint Louis, but for giving my son the opportunity to develop as a player and more importantly as an individual. He is a better person because of you Coach!”

Lets give the man the respect he deserves for 25 years with the young men of Saint Louis and privacy for making his own decision. He knows his reason, maybe Ulima and the President of Saint Louis but everything else is just conjecture.

Marlis,
while I agree with most of what you say, I’m thinking that Percy Harvin is going to get 16-20 touches. Meyer speaks highly of him.

But you wrote a excellent piece. Hope Ron gets to read it.

Need some help?

whitey, my son and I would love to help setup the party. Just let us know when you need us to help. Then we’ll arrange our flights accordingly. We might even get Al to pitch in,

Stretch,

I’ll give you a call tomorrow! Off on an errand!

A few updates for the party

1. We are at the max but if you would like to be put on a waiting list in the event someone can’t make it, email me at tsaikoparty at yahoo.
2. I will be making nametags for everyone. It will include your blog name (if any) and your real name. If there is anyone who has a problem, please email me at tsaikoparty at yahoo.
3. We will have “Tsaiko” logo items for sale. Glass mugs and stickers. There is limited supply but if we run out, we will take orders and make more.

I have just added a similar picture of Stretch and the mug with preliminary info at:

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/smurashi/tsai-kos/tsaikoware.html

Unless you just hand over the whole card and the pin… we fine with that too.

I forgot to ask this earlier, I know we have quite a few Tsaiko military members:

I have a friend from church who recently graduated from high school. He was thinking of joining the Army Reserve, but I told him to talk to one of our uncles in church, who is in the Navy. in addition to the advice and info that he is giving my friend, I also have my bro-in-law (Air Force) counseling him too. If any of the Tsaikos currently in the other military branches would like to help my friend out with some counseling, I’d appreciate it; in particular, we addressed the need for advanced education (study now or later?), rank advancement, job types, and benefits. Please e-mail me at jnagaoka (at) hawaii.rr.com with a phone number and times available or an e-mail address, and I can pass it on to my friend. Mahalo!

Jason, has your friend sat down with any of the recruiters at all? The best thing for him to do is to talk to each recruiter from each branch of service. I encouraged this alot when I was recruiting for the Marine Corps. The reason is so you can honestly tell who is feeding you BS and who is actually telling the truth. I would be willing to sit and talk with your friend and actually go with him to talk to the recruiters when I get back next week. I’ve been in the recruiting bizz the last 3 years so I would know first hand who the sweet talkers are right off the bat. Don’t worry I won’t be trying no jedi mind tricks to influence him as I am totally done with that aspect of my military career and want to stay far from ever doing it again. I would like to help him though and for my own personal fix see what they have to say.

Anyway catch you guys in the a.m. before my head hits the keyboard again from dozing off…

Good evening to all…

Marlis and Pauoa Boy: Great points..from the info gleaned from the UWs it looks like there will be cohesiveness as a team come this fall.

SteveM: Sorry ..didn’t know that the black shirts were awarded…I guess I put both feet in my mouth at the last Karaoke call!

PPV Discount for season ticket holders..I did email JD regarding this issue. He did say that as it stands now only ticket holders on record will be entitled to order at the discount. I did inform him about how LizK picked up my tickets so that we could sit together as a group which now precludes me from the PPV deal. He has stated that he has asked J. Lee to look into this and possibly have tickets transferred to my name with LizK permission.

Yesterday I saw a couple of guys at the Speed and Quickness camp. I didn’t recognize them from the glance.(one with kind of long hair).aside from the fact I do have poor eyesight with my monovision lens.

Blog Bash ..can’t wait!!

Anybody know if the Heather McMackin Clinic is confirmed for the 19th of August? need to book a flight and want to be sure to be back before then.

Go Warriors!

I forgot to mention this earlier too: It was refreshing to look at the PDF that UH released with the ticket prices for 2008 football, and see the breakdown of what sections are available for what group. I had heard of UH sideline tickets for $77, but didn’t know what sections that corresponded to. And I had heard that students could bring guests, but didn’t know how much that set cost.

I meant to say that I can speak fairly intelligently on active duty service in the Coast Guard, but my knowledge of Reserve issues is more limited. The blog decided to send my post before I was ready. I’d be happy to talk to you friend if he is interested though.

hey whitey….

no forget kirby yates from kauai
brandon league from st. louis school

these guy are part of our major ballers right now.

JaM— the ladies shirts are a separate matter. Long story. Peaches has obtained the shirts and informed me that the next run of ladies tops will be for JaM, Mrs. Long Time UH Fan, and fellow Bulla’s angel Dee.

So I nod and help make them…. 🙂

Hiya!
What a great day today!
Check my blog for da pix.

Nitey Nite and sweet dreams!

Esme:

June 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Weird. I’m gone for half a day, and Kekoa is accusing me of breaking and entering, while Barry is equating me with Mother Theresa.

The intrusion alarm just went off! Esme slides open the trap door and falls into the playhouse…hehehe! Now my deary, you are locked in until you sing your way out with the Tsaiko All Star Band

I do not know why JaM is being so modest. After gigi and Ronnie, she was one of the first known Tsai-kettes to blog. She first appeared and met with gigi at the 2007 spring scrimmage at Aloha stadium (where gigi got rained on). She attended many Tsaiko-Gates, Sugar Bowl calls, karaoke and will be sitting with LizKauai and us this coming season. 😐

Stretch has put out a few more bits of info regarding the bash. We have hit critical mass, and he has instituted a wait list. We were limited to the number of seats to begin with, and are trying to play the hand we were dealt. Next time we will know to handle things strictly our own way.

We are dealing with a menu that is basically centered on heavy Pu pu’s. Not really our choice, but we go with what we can afford without our folks having to pay much to enjoy each other’s company. Next time we know we do better when we prepare the food ourselves.

The beer will flow freely thanks to Budweizer. Those who would prefer a brand of their own are welcome to bring it in. Those who want just water or juice, no problem we wll provide that free of course.

Note to Ralph: Ed Wong Room is located below the UH Ticket office inside the Stan Sheriff Center. Follow the directional signs from the parking garage to the main doors of the Wong room.

Good morning Tsaikos!

Jason-
27 yrs and counting in the Air Force. Have your friend look into the new GI Bill that President Bush is about to sign. It’s a great deal. My advice for visiting the recruiters is to get a guaranteed job.

RE: Florida. Everyone has them as their preseason number 1 but I’d put them at 3 or 4 behind Ohio St., Georgia, and maybe USC. They are going to want to run, and then run some more on us. Eight guys in the box? Hopefully a couple good licks on Tebow will have him asking Coach Meyer to send in some pass plays.

ha