Hawaii football: QB Cole McDonald wins Mountain West weekly award
The aftermath of Saturday’s one-sided victory added up to Hawaii quarterback Cole McDonald being named the Mountain West Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week.
The Rainbow Warriors won their league opener, 54-3, over Nevada at Mackay Stadium.
“It feels like a great team win all around,” McDonald texted to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser this morning. “The defense handled business, special teams came out with energy, and the coaching staff called great plays and schemes.”
McDonald was 25 of 30 for 312 yards and four touchdowns. He was not intercepted.
“I think it’s been the last two games,” head coach Nick Rolovich said of McDonald, who was 25 of 32 for 300 yards and four TDs a week earlier against Central Arkansas. “He’s who I thought he was going to be a little earlier. … He’s really been dialed in the last two weeks. It’s given some validity to some of the things Stutz (quarterbacks coach Craig Stutzmann) and myself are trying to make all the guys understand.”
Of the past two games, McDonald said, “We’ve done nothing differently. Just had to get into the film room and clean some stuff up mentally with Coach Rolo and Coach Stutz.”
The Warriors have a bye this coming weekend. They will resume practicing on Thursday.
Congrats to Cole, and the WARRIORS !!!
Mahalo, Ke Akua! Mahalo Rainbow Warriors for being unified and clicking on all cylinders as the fabulous TEAM we know you are!
Mahalo for bringing the Pride to Pride Rock for Kekoa’s last game on earth.
Why is there no Down to Earth or Whole Foods in “Mil-ville”?
September 30, 2019 5:19 pm
Why is there no Down to Earth or Whole Foods in “Mil-ville”?
If there were the slightest hint any hippies to have entered Mil-ville (which was known only as Mililani at the time. No parentheses for Mil-ville, by the way. Sigh. You’ll get it right at some point) way back when, they would have just about immediately and fully gone corporate. So there.
Mil-ville . . . our wires are subterranean. Yes. Be jealous.
All facets of the team was rolling, awesome team win!!!
I’m delighted, but not surprised by Cole’s performance.
Most of us remember the learning curve for new Run and Shoot QBs. We could see the games where the proverbial “lights came on” for each QB and the difference it made. Cole McDonald has “seen the light” and will only get better. He is surrounded by terrific athletes on offense. We’ve seen flashes of brilliance in all of them. We aint seen nothing yet. Let the good times roll.
Offense, defense and special teams deserve our applause too. They are feeding off of each others’ energy. Scoop and score, fumblerooski. ‘Nuff said.
Warriors all, all Warriors, GO WARRIORS!!!
Remember—that play wasn’t a fumblerooski. McDonald did NOT fumble the ball. So. Technically NOT a fumblerooski.
Heard it described throughout the workday as a “Rolorooski.” That is acceptable. Great trick play. And at a great time: “crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentation of . . .” great, like Conan the Barbarian said (also a Warrior!).
Re-posting from earlier – shows Cole’s accuracy.
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September 30, 2019 1:59 pm
If this hasn’t been posted …
Cole McDonald – Offensive Player of the Week.
This is the MWC link; it covers all sports.
Scroll down until you find Football Players of the Week, 9/30/2019.
Film shows Cole’s accuracy – take a look.
https://themw.com/
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Very true. Even one of the more prolific passers we had, Bryant Moniz didn’t click right away but when it did, that offense did significant damage.
The largest improvement is the defense! It’s starting to come together. That and no turnovers. Or alse starts, or drove killing penalties. The team is playing for eash othet.
If Hawaii duplicate this when they play Boise state on the 12th, I have all the confidence Hawaii will be victorious.
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Besides no turnovers, what definitely helps the defense is when the offense gets off to a fast start. Going up 7-0 or even 14-0 can give the defense and entire team a big spark. The defense gets all pumped up and plays with confidence and aggressiveness. Conversely, going down 0-7 or 0-14 puts pressure on the defense rather than putting pressure on the opposing teams offense.
On Sept 19, Tulane ran this fake kneel trick play that looks the same as the one UH ran on Sept 28. However, today’s paper said UH had been working on the play for 2 years.
https://twitter.com/FootballScoop/status/1174885721934585856?s=20
Hi-Nevada game replays tonight at 10pm. Espnu.
Watching it again, right now 🤗
Sigh. Two things I noticed during re-watching the re-broadcast of the great Hawaii vs. Nevada game:
• This is in the last, say, 5 mins of the game, when Che7en went in. One of the ESPN announcers mentioned, yes, the terrific-osity of St. Louis QBs. Went down a list, mentioned Che7en, correct. Even mentioned Gesser, yes. Mariota, of course. And before mentioning Tua, you know who apparently was a Crusader QB? That’s right, per that announcer . . . Mililani Trojans’ McKenzie Milton apparently found time to QB for St. Louis. Oi. 🙄
• Within the last two mins of the game, camera goes to the Nevada sideline. One the Nevada helmeted players does a shaka toward the field. You know. As in how EVERY college and professional team has seemingly taken that? Hey, Wolfpacker. Not when you’re down whatever-your-team-scored-compared-to-what-might-as-well-have-been-infinity. 🙄 again.
Thank you.
It’s too bad certain posters take such delight in finding the faults in others’ posts and even announcers, but don’t bother checking their own posts for errors.
Cappie, you have it right. It should be in quotation marks as you had it posted.
And I went with “fumblerooski” because I heard it called that by a lot of people too.
Not to mention, the “corrector” missed the larger, more important point of my post – Cole gets it.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/10/01/sports/it-all-makes-sense-for-hawaiis-cole-mcdonald/?HSA=f4e3d4951348f855d4e3ca807dc8965a1dd8464a
I wish the “corrector” would “get it”. He should stay in his lane. He’s weaving.
And it’s wrong to throw a shaka? May be he was saying hi to friends? Are you in charge of shakas now?
GO WARRIORS!!!
New post: https://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=51345