Congrats

Ni!

Congratulations to the new parents!

Top 5

Congratulations to the All-State honorees.

HTTR!! Rope dem cowgirls!

Top 20!!!

Whoo-hoo!!!

A beautiful Sunday morning, everyone.

Ahhhh…youth.
Congrats Messrs. Manley, Jamora and Yap…you
are the creme of the crop. Now rise up to the top
of your game in the next level.

Good morning Tsaikos everywhere.

Congrats to the creme ah da crop.

Don’t forget that verbal commitments are just that. They aren’t binding. Gotta sign and send in that NLOI. Still get chance!! GO WARRIORS!!

starts=stars

~~•~~~~•~Good..Morning..Tsaikos..and..Warrior..Nation!!!~•~~~~•~~

…again… 😀

Congratulations to the best in the state!!!

Whoo-hoo!

Congratulations to the new parents – Neal & Natalie. I really thought you’d pick a name beginning w/ “N”…. but what the heck do I know.

Of all the All-Stars mentioned above, I think we have the best chance of signing — Arianna …. 😀

A gray shirt offer to one of these three makes sense to me.

Enroll in the Spring of 2011; red shirt in the Fall of 2011;

learn, and, compete in the Spring of 2012 and Fall of 2012.

In the mean time, get your academics lined up and squared away,

and grow (lift weights) physically.

Such a Deal !!!

D-1…

I suppose it would be… phew… costly to walk-on from out-of-State.

Happy Birthday Lefty!

re: Out of state tuition.

Someone out there knows the exact terminology and conditions.

There is a reciprocal agreement of sorts, among certain states,

whereby a student of those states pays resident tuition at those

cooperating state schools.

Anyone know ?

As fans it’s fun to speculate about the recruiting strategies and possible outcomes for the benefit of the team. But it might be a good idea to remember that the discussion is really about a real person with a real family in what sometimes is a really real situation.

Grayshirting seems like a simple solution for fans and maybe even some of the coaches but dealing with that out-of-pocket tuition, room and board and expenses for a year or even a semester may be a real challenge for some families…esp. given the times we are in now.

JMHO

WUE schools allow out-of-state students in for 150% of resident tuition

It is an honor to be just one minute behind βρεω808… 😉

βρεω808,

“Special” travel accomodations! 😆

Spoiled Children

βρεω808,

Back to 10%

USC

βρεω808,

Close enuf! 😀

Oh wait – I retract my comments regarding USC – seems my nephew has a chance at a full-ride there….. not athletics though…. 🙄

General question – Will there be Tsaiko outings to the proposed “out-door” movies at Aloha Stadium? 🙄

ST on # 16,

I’d be ecstatic to get 2 out of the 3 and be happy to kiss Manley goodbye!
I’m still irritated he wasn’t honest enough to admit up front that he sat on the scholie offer from UH during his Junior year & misled at least 2 writers into thinking UH only offered a grayshirt & that NMSU was the sole offerer(?) of a full ride. Plain & simple he DIDN’T want to come here
(at least not as a 1st resort). I don’t want any player who has to “settle” for UH. I like players like Quines, Pelluer & others who are jacked up to be Warriors!

I would’ve had a lot more respect for Manley if he had said that not taking the initial (UH) offer wasn’t a rejection, but just a way to field more offers & that regrettably he had waited too long. But he DIDN’T!
He had Nakama & Honda musing that UH had let him “get away” and that it may come back to “haunt” them later. What a crock!

Let’s see a picture of this beautiful baby.

Here is hoping some of the good ones stay at home.

Garret:

Thank you, as always, for your input #166 last night.

If this was KB’s idea, then one POSITIVE point for him.

Brew808:

This is a new year for Warrior football and nothing like dreaming – even if very optimistic!!!

Good morning everyone!

Peeking out from under my covers, the world seems about the same this side of 60 😉 …just sleeping later though.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEFTY !!!

a.k.a. “Lakerj32”

TMI….. Please – no more information regarding your covers or what hideous sites on the other side…. 3-D glasses or not! 😯

All the speculation can end now….Urban Meyer evidently will not be available to coach the Warriors. 🙄

😳 Holtz

A-House,

I think you would agree with me that one positive point for Karl Benson does *not* outweigh all the negative ones! I cannot believe how he doesn’t seem to even bother to stop BSU from publicly dissing the WAC each time they beg the MWC to take them in.

The biggest problem I have with Benson is that he does NOT show the leadership and imagination to take the WAC to another level. If the WAC was more aggressively trying to improve, maybe BSU would like to stay and the WAC coach poach teams from other conferences.

For example, a couple of years ago BYU’s President gave an interview when he complained about the TV exposure that MWC teams got and he said that the WAC had a better outlet with ESPN (I posted that article to this blog). If I were Benson, I would have publicly invited BYU to come to the WAC, which would have kept that issue in the media and let them talk about a MWC school saying that the WAC had a better TV deal. All of the open speculation about BYU moving would be positive publicity for BYU. Instead, nothing was heard from Karl Benson and the news from BYU died down quickly.

In private, I would have told BYU that they could keep the TV rights for their sporting events for their BYU channel (which is available nationwide via satellite) for all games that ESPN does not pick. That is similar to have K5 and PPV have UH games. That would be a *huge* financial incentive to BYU. Back then UH had Colt and BSU had recently gone to a BCS game, so the WAC really did have a lot of good recognition.

Adding BYU would have torn the MWC apart, especially if Utah decided they would want to join BYU. Even if BYU eventually turned down the WAC, all of the positive publicity for the WAC would have been priceless.

There will be a very important conference shuffle going on in a few years and strong leadership is needed to guide the WAC to new heights. Trouble is, I see the MWC Commissioner pushing to get into the BCS, and I see Karl Benson just saying that the current system is fine and not trying to do anything to push the WAC forward. I’m not sure how much I believe in Benson to insure that the WAC ends up in the best situation possible. And if the WAC loses half of its teams to other conferences, UH will be hurt badly.

“WAC coach” should have been “WAC could”

Garret,

…and a standout WR will be playing on Sunday as well!

Pomai,

Post ’em already! 😉

The only negative with Griffen leaving early is that Jackson Jeffcoat might choose USC over Texas because of that. Jeffcoat is the #1 DE recruit in the country and might be the #1 recruit overall in the country…and he would be motivated to make a name for himself in his first college game.

Brad Smith gets a 106 yd KOR to start the 2nd half for the J-E-T-S!

Stephen must be napping, I did not hear a hoot from Maunawili. Maybe he is hiding from A House, too many recruiting questions during this dead period.

brew, d1-
Its an honor to be on this very honorable blog to see gentlemen of such great honor offering such honors to one another. 😆

Happy Birfday Lefty!

D1 I hope he got plenty of Christmas presents from all his friends. 🙂

Ralph-
I’m happy that we are seeing their pics here and that our wishes are made known. Those three would be huge. As for the other two, let’s dream big!

Congratulations to the new parents! I hope you enjoy every moment of Arianna’s infant growth stage. Time passes so quickly that before you know, she will heading off to college!

re #70. ” EH NO MAKE ! ”

IF you know – tell us.

t’anks eh.

Frankly, I think a grayshirt scholarship offer for Spring 2011

is a good deal.

Ralph,

We’ll have to wait until after NLI day and after the deadline for players to declare for the NFL draft to really know who USC will have available for their game against UH. All I know is that they will be ready to play and the Warriors will be too…and that game could tell us a lot about the season.

For those wanting UH to add those 5 local recruits, does UH have the scholarships available? It looks like the recruiting class is pretty full already unless there are decommits or academic issues. I think that UH would find the room for those players though…

Garret-
That free play links story which you posted last night about the Lion, the Bear and the Tiger is now my all time favorite free play link story. Thanks for posting it. 🙂

brew-
If you look up the word “honorable” in the dictionary, you will see d1’s picture next to it, lookin’ all honorable and stuff.

😳

DPK,

no make…

Niners score again!

Re: #96 – If there’s a will, there will be a way….. well, I hope so…. this crew has disappointed us very recently…. 🙄

what a bias pac 5 kid was the best in the state with young and not so talented o line his stats were huge. That reciever should get offers from uh too.

my thing is that UH has solid offers out and they are giving those players time because they requested it or look like they are leaning to UH. I also think that the major part of their recruiting is done and they are now concentrating on making sure they don’t lose any of them. that sounds like an excellent idea.

Next month will be very cruciel for recruiting as all of the schools will be putting on their final push. Hopefully all the recruits who commited with UH will not waiver and stand by their commitment.

Garret, your old school, UT, may be done with recruiting, but if they get killed by Alabama, it would not surprise me to see some decommit. At the same time, whoever wins between TCU and BSU, will they get more recruits??? Probably. I like the idea of WAC schools recruiting against other major schools, but would like it more if we started to schedule them for non=conference play.

talking about future scheduling, i hope UH starts to play Nebraska in the near future. Colorado is a great start and hope we can continue this. Oregon State, USC, and Washington & Washington St are excellent. Texas would be great, not only great exposure, but mucho money.

whatever coach meyer decides, my best to him and have his health be back to full strenght.

“It’s going to be good to stay home and play in front of my family,” Umu said.

Safety Marcus Umu of Saint Louis School
December 23rd, 2009 😀

urban “rubbah slippah” meyer.
the flip flopper.

kekoa, may need more than a shelter, but if you hide a bottle of scotch in case of emergency, i think that you would be a better idea.

whitey – Li’l Darlin’ is the baby granddaughter! Scotch….. 😈

ralph, at least yu get sum computer smarts. i thought ram was a male sheep and you had 256 of them.

whitey,

UT-Austin has *rarely* had decommits…maybe one decommit every 3 years. But the recruiting culture in Texas is different than in other places–some high school coaches in Texas openly discourage their players from wavering on their commits…they place a high value on the word of their players and there have been cases where recruiters from certain schools have been banned from visiting a high school if they try to convince a player to decommit or if they pull an offer from a player that committed.

Texas is still in the final 2 or 3 for DE Jeffcoat and LB Hicks, so recruiting for them is not done.

ho ho ho, that kekoa he always get something up his sleeve. now he get fuud and he not going share with al.

Whitey ~ Back in the day, me and Pops could destroy a bottle of Johnny Walker Black during happy hour at the Chief’s Club near Bloch Arena. Now, just looking at a bottle makes me woozy!

Besides, any wrong doing detected by the Sheriff of Kaupe’a (Diana) and my shore leave is terminated…permanently

As for the Raida’s…. 🙄

long time lurker. you hit on the nose yoshi

Pride-
Not sure.

Q: Who has multiple nics and likes to snipe at the regulars on the blog…? Hmmmm… Who could that be… ? I wonder….? 😆

Would be happy to see Beau Yap don the green and white at aloha stadium for college. Of course everyone knows that Beau is the son of Boyd, the former high school standout running back from Kamehameha/ Kaiser.

But Beau reminds me a lot of mom’s brother John Gerard, who was a two-time all state defensive end at Kamehameha in 1976 and 1977. John also walked on at UH but never cracked the starting lineup due to different reasons, including injury.

Maternal grandpa was a prominent major for Honolulu’s finest. As a black belt in Karate, the major spent many years teaching the art to the youth in the Pearl City area.

If Beau were to stay home and play for the Warriors, there will be many fans from the family as well as the HPD. Kamehameha and Kaiser ‘ohana that will be watching Beau with much interest.

Let me see, someone suggested and offer from U-H to Andrew Manley to “greyshirt” was a good offer.

Yeah, like popping firecrackers on an airline flight headed to Detroit.

Simply IDIOTIC !

And it’s not just Manley that should concern us all, University of Hawaii is NOT in on ANY of the top Hawaii high school football recruits. If your list is 3 players long, 5 players long whatever, Wariors are in on NONE of them.

My God, we’re asking questions regarding Beau Yap, a stud…should they offer hime ? I hope at least the grey shirt him, I wonder if they’ll ask him to walk on after his visit.

Are you kidding me…?

Hawaii’s recruiting efforts are poor, their approach is poor, most importantly their results are poor. Hell, the team is poor right now. I love ’em, I cheer for him, I pay, I contribute, I suffer like the rest of you.

The program is like a “kamakazi” pilot right now, free falling, with no end in sight.

We need a coach !

kekoa,

you see rainbow. that’s good. wasnt talking about whitey. was talking about brew. after a while hes nauseating. i agree have your fun, but be considerate of others who might want to read something intelligent. garret is intelligent..and to say you enjoy his trivia doesn’t make sense when you should be saying that you enjoy the knowledge that he passes on

Pride,

John was one bad ______, just like the theme song to the movie Shaft…… i forgot that he went to UH…..

LOI day is coming up, but the real deadline comes in August / September when all conditions need to be met by incoming student-athletes.

GO WARRIORS

Eh No Make,

all i can say is hmmmmmmmm, argggghhhhh, and hmmmmmmm, anything else would be ill advised at this time…………………

yoshi,

you can’t win. this blog belongs to them. didnt you know that?. your opinion dont mean squat.

Bulla, I feel you brother, I feel you…..!

Tell ‘e, Bulla, tell your fellow Tasiko’s I know what I speak about!

eh no make, fair questions, but we have different views about the present coaching staff, so no sense dragging on about it since he going be here for another 3 yrs.

whitey,

dpk,

looks like you’re breathing easier……sounds like it on the blog 🙂

Toshi ~ I consider myself a very good friend of Garret’s. When we’ve had our chance to speak to each other at Tsaiko gatherings, he always impresses me with his well spring of knowledge. Whenever I speak to his parents, it’s no wonder he is such a brilliant man. The apple to not fall far from the tree.

I simply meant that some of the articles that he shares with us are bits and pieces of trivia. Some are hard core facts. Still there are times when he will make corrections to a post, just to set the record straight. He never belittles any one who wants to post. He would never have labeled anything from another poster as ‘ridiculous.’

I still welcome yours or anyone else’s comments. This blog belongs to Stephen Tsai, and he alone has the power to delete. Peace ‘n….

Go Warriors!

if recruiting is all about getting the top rated players, where did the no 1 running back, Chris Johnson of the Titans, play his college fb??? What was his hs star rating as a recruit? Where is he from?
1. East Caroline, Conference USA
2. Was a 2 star rated player
3. From Orlando, FL
So how did he not get signed by any the of SEC or ACC teams. He lives near UofFlorida and Fl State.
He was the #1 draft for the Titans, so they made an excellent selection, but he did not blossom till he went to college.
This is an example of why I said there is no such thing as poor or good recruiting. You don’t know what you got till they show up at practice.

that is one of the main reasons why i am so optimistic about the oline for the upcoming season. they have sum potential studs and if they develop, they are going to do sum damage to the WAC next yr and yrs to come. the defense is no slouch either and look for them to get out of the mold of having a poor d backfield. our lb crew is exceptional on paper and hope they live up to their expectations.

eh no make, i hope that gives you a different view of how recruiting is viewed from another tsaiko.

Eh, No Make!

gotta wait until feb before you can say da recruiting is junk.

i get hope. if you throw water on da fire before da bugga is big and bright, bad karma contributing nothing but bad karma.

bhf2, an wen i get to be really good, i going paddle to kawaihae to have a beer with you, then paddle home. yeah, right!!!!!! hahahahahhaaaaa

I’ve been so out of touch keeping up with UH’s FB recruiting, but man this one really took me by surprise–Manley was only offered to greyshirt? Hell! What’s up with that? I’m not sure there that much to get excited about UH’s recruiting class next year! But, if Manley is part of the mix….:(

mo808-

Go back the past few days and read this blog about Manley.

Manley was offered when he was a junior, but he sat on it

and never said yes. So UH moved on and offered someone else

for next year. Manley supposedly now has a grayshirt offer for 2011.

Get plenty posts on this subject over the past year +; where have you been?

Hey westsidewview:

Brain atrophy – classic my friend just classic.

Guys & Gals,

I hear your points and I still disagree. It’s just about the names involved in recruiting, but it’s the process, the routine, the planning. I mean U-H is late to last to jump on the quality kids in our own back yard. I have pesonally talked to at least 7 of what many would call the state’s top high school football players, and to a man, they’ve eached told me U-H has been the least aggressive recruiters.

Hawaii was both late to the dance, and real stand-offish, unless of course you were a 5’8″ slot back or somewhere near such diminutive numbers.

Anyway…

What irks me, is thta U-H as a football program, at least in our own back yard, should be all over these kids when they’re sophomores and juniors. We should be first to talk them AND last.

Perception has a LOT do to do with it, and U-H right now is being perceived as “lacking”, for lack of a better term.

I agree that no entire story can be told until the team practices and actually plays a game, but until then, should we as fasn expect them to be “on the ball”…?

Two seasons ago we celebrated a perfect regular season, over the past two seasons we’ve taking 2, 3, 4, maybe 5 steps backwards in many areas.

Can anyone honestly say that our product lived up to it’s potential the last two seasons ? Seriously ?
With what we had, players I mean, with the talent assembled, should we not have been much better ?

I believe we should.

Why weren’t we.

Coaching.

Specifically, HEAD coaching.

Enough said.

Your thoughts…

Mahalo, Ai-eee-soos! That’s what I get for putting family first! :/ !

Oh well, I agree with UH dragging its feet on prospects big time. I mean I myself have been to many high school games in my area in California and have seen many prospects who were on the UH radar but get no offer. I myself have tried to send these prospects names to our coaches and recruiting coordinator but to no avail. Some of these kids are now at big time programs making a name for themselves. I dunno I know coaches have a plan on who and what position they want to recruit, but for me I’d rather recruit the best player available instead of trying to plug specific spots. Many of these high school kids are awesome athletes and can play multiple positions anyway. I mean June Jones was the main one with an eye for that kind of talent. Honestly I wish June was still here, but we all know who screwed the pooch on that one.

Garret:

Must agree with you that KB is sorely lacking in leadership – no wonder he is such good friends HF!

But, still feeling sad and sorry cuz was lookin forward to see’in Manley on da UH sidelines! Okay, moving on…so, whose the recruited impact player for UH next season?

eh no make

I believe we have met before.
What’s your real identity?

ahem…while size matters as they say in some circulars.

i always go back to boise state. here’s a perennial undersized team that consistently over achieves at the high level. how they do that?

at the present moment they have less than half the verbal commits as we do. they will probably have as few 3star recruits as we do. and yet, inspite of two head coaches in the past 5-6 years (altho from the same mold) they continue to find success.

how they do that?
it behooves us to find out and clone the developement.

You have to wonder when Hawaii doesn’t have not one commit from a first team All-State player in Division I. That’s where the big boys are. At this point in time, it’s getting late w/ only 1 more month before letter of intent day. If players doesn’t make it to contribute to the team it’s not the player’s fault. It would be the fault of the coaches because it tells that their assessment and evaluation of the recruits were not good. And that tells a lot about the state of the football program if we are getting better or if we’re getter worse. The trend the last 2 years has been getting worse.
It doesn’t seem like we are going to get anybody from the state of Texas.
Unless I see otherwise, I’m not too encouraged about the new crop of recruits so far.

Brennan plays a waiting game

You have on your roster an inexperienced quarterback who will be 27 next August. He is signed through 2011 with a relatively small salary, so there’s no issue there. He was one of the most prolific quarterbacks in NCAA history, but he’s unproven in the NFL–save for a promising rookie preseason–and presents some mechanical concerns with his sidearm throwing motion.

Jim Zorn will be history; Colt’s future uncertain–but, I remain hopeful cause–he’s ohana!

Who dat ?

Have we met ? Really ?

U like no who me huh, first, who you ?

Anyone know when the recruiting “dead period” will be officially over? Is it after the last bowl game or earlier?

Hope this down time is regenerating ST for the final recruiting rush and NLI day.

You guys saw the news, Urban Meyers, rescinded his resignation and changed it to leave of absence. Meantime, offense coordinator will run the team (after the Sugar Bowl) till Mehers return.

Thanks TYAiea.

New Years in Hawaii or LV?

Bowl game expenses are totally at the hands of each participant as they decide who goes and qualifies for the “free ride”.

Bring the “kitchen sink” and your “profit” takes a hit. Why take all the “extras” in such trying economic times and shrink or lose your profit. Makes no business sense to me!

And, why does the WAC conference need to “supplement” the losses of a conference team IF the school decides to bring everybody’s mother, father, sister, brother, cousin, cousin’s cousin, etc?

Lastly, if a team is “bowl eligible”, is it mandatory that that school is invited to play in a bowl game? Nevada’s fan representation has been very poor, less than 150 for the past Hawaii Bowl, that bowl officials are seriously contemplating why invite such a school? or, is it if that school “sells/pays for its allotted tickets”, that’s all that matters?

It begs the question of why have so many bowl games when attendance is poor and falls below the 25,000 average per game over a three-year-period. With the poor economy now, wonder how many bowl(s) will lose their “certification” and be dropped in the next 3-5 years. Fewer bowl games makes more sense then to keep adding new ones. Does the NCAA take a hit with poor attendance?

A-house,

Be careful for what you wish; the Hawaii Bowl never really pack ’em in this year…

like “Ferd” said, last year’s ND game going help with the rolling average but still…

btw, my in-laws going be at MasaBoy’s hotel. They really looking forward to it.

After reading all of the posts I have to add my 2 cents.

I do believe that UH’s recruiting has gone downhill. Although star ratings are not the absolute measure of a players potential in the big picture there is a relative correlation between stars and success.Of course there are 5 star flops and 2 star first round draft picks but overall the stars are directionally correct. Some of the recruits I really have problems with that I do not believe are D1 worthy are Lau, Shigematsu, Fonokalafi and Loyd. I think we reached for these guys. Players like them should be the last minute offer type if the bigger recruits turn us down because they have no other offers so they would still take a late offer. Now we have too many guys committed and maybe can’t make room for some of the bigger names if they miraculously choose us. Just my thoughts.

pono…i have watched loyd play twice and he looks good. in the goodwill games he more than held his own and has good feet and should fill out to 300 lbs on his 6’3″ frame.

fonokalafi will surprise he is stout and very quick for a big guy. he often lined up as the running back on goal line formations. sort of a lafaele type athlete. i think he was lost from the publicity playing for kaimuki.

Who recruited Alex Green, Chizzy Dimude, Greg Alexander? Those guys did all right didnt they? I cant wait to see what Green, Dimude, and Lister do next year. Who recruited Tonga, Falemalu and some of those other younger players? Some posts here make it sound like we got nothin and we’re gettin nothin. Yeah, maybe things look weak at this point, but we aren’t done til LOI day. Let em play, then we’ll see whats up.

Sounds like some of you folks are ready to jump ship. You all going to move to Boise?

This past year, no matter where the Warriors played, you could hear their fans on the radio or TV… Nevada’s fans were sorely absent in the Sheraton Bowl. My wife and I sat behind the SMU contingent and we were looking all around for the Nevada group. Even the Nevada cheerleaders who started on our right side… meandered around the Stadium in the first half until they finally settled down on our left side.

TCU’s head coach is trumpeting the MWC’s success in bowl games so far, which is not a surprise. At least he didn’t point out the WAC’s record…but by getting the media to talk about the MWC’s bowl record, he knows that the media will look into the WAC’s bowl record this season. 3-0 MWC vs. 0-2 WAC is not good for the WAC.

TCU’s coach did not point out that they blew out 5 teams that have played in bowl games so far, and all 5 of their opponents have won their bowl games. That is an impressive stat for TCU.

He hopes all those Mountain West Conference naysayers have been watching, too. Especially the games involving MWC teams.

Wyoming, BYU and Utah have won, beating teams from the Pac-10 and the Western Athletic Conference. The No. 3-ranked Frogs (12-0) meet No. 6 Boise State (13-0) on Jan. 4 in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz.

“I’ve watched every one of them,” Patterson said Sunday after the Frogs’ first practice following three days off. “No, I wasn’t surprised. The people that are surprised are the same ones that say we’re not a good conference. They can say this team didn’t want to play or that one wasn’t ready to play, but the bottom line is you’re judged on the last game of the season you played and right now we’re 3-0.”

SMU’s 45-10 win over Nevada in the Hawaii Bowl makes the Frogs’ 2009 regular-season opponents 5-0 this bowl season. Clemson beat Kentucky 21-13 on Sunday night in the Music City Bowl.

The four opponents won by a combined score of 182-98.

TCU defeated the five winning teams by a combined score of 191-69 during the regular season.

I do not understand why anyone would complain about brew808! I personally really enjoy his posts and wish that he would have the time to post more. He does some amazing artwork for the blog and also posts about the 49ers–lots of other people here are also fans of that team.

He is also an excellent Warriors fan. I was lucky enough to watch the 2007 and 2009 UH-SJSU games with him and enjoyed talking with him in Vegas for the 2007/2009 UNLV games and at other times. He has excellent insight about the Warriors and other UH-related issues.

He is also a good man. My daughters really miss seeing their “Uncle Brew”.

I’m sure that I’m probably the most guilty of “chit chat” on the blog, so other Tsaikos shouldn’t be criticized for it if I’m not getting criticized for it.

For the WAC’s sake, I hope that Idaho and BSU win their bowl games.

China revised its 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) to be 4.5% larger than it had previously estimated. China’s economy is growing so fast that it could hit $5.5 trillion next year, passing Japan (estimated GDP of $5.19 trillion next year).

Cute story about how a reporter served as an “elf” to help a Texas woman who decorates houses for Christmas.

Golf Digest had HORRIBLE timing with their January 2010 issue that features a photoshopped photo of Pres. Obama and Tiger Woods on the cover with a feature article on “10 tips Obama can take from Tiger”.

PONO,

One problem for UH right now is that there are a LOT more schools recruiting in Hawaii than before. There are also a lot more camps, combines, and all-star events that provide opportunities for Hawaii recruits to get noticed. So, players that might have slipped under the radar before might get multiple scholarship offers now…there are definitely some players who would have been walk-ons to UH in the past that are now on scholarship at mainland schools. Even a D-IAA teams like Weber State has a lot of Hawaii recruits now.

So, when the top recruits all got offered by UH and didn’t jump at the offers, I can understand why they moved on and offered other recruits. They might have gone overboard with the offers though and not saved enough scholarships for late recruiting, but we won’t really know that unless we know how many scholarships UH can actually offer and what the Academic qualification status is for several of UH’s current commits.

The only thing that surprised me was the early offers to two smaller slot receivers. OL recruits might get early offers from mainland schools, but small slot receivers do not generally get early offers. I thought UH could have waited until at least halfway through their senior seasons before making offers to two slot receivers, giving more time to evaluate them and see how the rest of recruiting was going.

Another thing is that the Coaches need to evalute what positions they want to recruit for first…Just because a player is very good doesn’t always mean there’s a scholarship position available for him. You’d wish that were the case, but if the Warriors are already three deep or more in a position with a red shirt and a gray shirt in the wings, they need to place their recruiting focus elsewhere.

Congratulations to Neal and Natalie! Nine months pregnant with Arianna, she was running the show in the pressbox during the HHSAA football championships. You go girl! Santa has to work EXTRA hard in the Iwamoto house – NO combo gifts!

re # 237.

I still say that a grayshirt scholarship offer, starting in the

Spring of 2011, is a good way to go for Manley at this point.

He can grayshirt / redshirt, while learning the rns; and getting

his academics lined up and squared away; and grow physically.

Some posters can’t get it in their head that it’s difficult for a

rookie QB to start in the rns (the SMU QB being an exception).

I am for Manley, but the situation has evolved to where it’s at,

and a tough decision has to be made.

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royvic on # 217,

I disagree on your criticism of Coach Gordy Shaw, UH’s O-Line coach, in saying UH could do better if he left. He’s a respected coach that enabled a number of players to attain All-American status at Minnesota & Michigan, I believe. He’s already gotten improved play from a number of players. It’s because of the quality & reputation of his coaching that I was afraid he might leave, but I was relieved to hear (when being interviewed) that he is not likely to seek out a head coaching or coordinator position at this point and just wanted to continue coaching “his guys”. If anybody might leave, I would think it would be Coach Tormey who’s much younger and still has the hunger to be a Head Coach if the situation is right, but I’d like him to stay for a long time to come, also.

Good morning Tsaikos. Successfuly rescued my friends from the darkside.

d1, time to wake up and get ready for work!!!!!

dang, is this Sun or Mon morning??

Yeeesh, achieved goal of #250.

Thanks for the clarification, Stephen.

Aloha Kakahiaka!

ST- mahalo for #237.

To borrow and modify a phrase,
In God I trust, Coach Mack, I support.

Why? He is our head coach. He is doing his best. He, like the rest of us, moves by the Will of Ke Akua. Ultimately, love, not backbiting is the answer.

Have a GREAT MONDAY!

re 217 –
You gotta be off your rocker! =) Gordy Shaw is a great coach. Coach Mac would be hard pressed to replace him with someone that has the same coaching ability.

I see no blessing if coach Shaw leaves.

Doesn’t he coach the RB’s as well?

shaking my head..

Could you imagine if Miami of Ohio gave Big Ben a “take it or leave it” offer his Junior year.. wow!

4 years from now… from the Herman Frazier school of recruiting..

Reporter: Coach Mack, you let 2 time All WAC QB Manley go away to NMSU which has beaten you 3 out of the last 4 games. How did you let him get away out of Hawaii?

Coach Mack: ahhh, we made him an offer “take it or leave it” during his Junior year in high school.

Reporter: Really? Junior Year?

Herman Frazier!

Regarding #260 – No, he was second team All State 4A for DB. I guess Kevin plays both sides of the ball.

Just a few more days remain of ’09 — a good year for some and a wretched year for others. Hopefully, ’10 will be a brilliant year for all.

So Manley’s Shcollie offer, which went to Spain, who doesn’t even make honorable mention at QB?

…Herman Frazier school of recruiting?

Folks are throwing around HF’s name.

To me, the HF methodology would have been to wait until 2014 before studying the situation. Then announce a news conference to be held on a Friday in late January of 2015.

Postpone it at least once because of all the flak he was getting from a crazed group of unknowns hiding behind fake names on a blog.

“At the end of the day, when all is said and done, we need to continue looking at the evidence. What you need to understand is that we are moving as quickly as possible to ensure we get the right fit. In addition, I am pleased to announce the completion of the 2012 football schedule with the signing of the Mighty Ewes! The Northeastern campus of Southern North Dakota College of Sheepherding.”

Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂

Great breakdown of the Manley situation, Mr. Tsai. Lets hope that he ends up a Warrior.

I too like Coach Shaw. It was clear to see that the O-line was improving. Let’s see what Coach can do after he has had some quality players in his system for a couple of years.

Great discussion here yesterday.

Oh yeah…

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 BREW, YOU DA BOMB!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

I believe Manley’s stats weren’t as good in his Senior year as his Junior year, too.

But if I’m reading this right.. a gray shirt offer is a scholie offer but deferred by one semester.. The gray shirt player has to pay his own way for 9 credits in fall. As a resident, that’s not too shabby.

Good morning Wafan and those of the Tsaiko nation. I’m trying my best to keep from throwing my breakfast. The mere mention of HF makes me ill.

Please stop all this talk of HF before Col. A-house gets riled. The worst case scenario would involve the Secret Service security detail shutting down the entire Windward side because of it.

A little more Peace on Earth please!

I’m not sure if I really understand the situation with Andrew Manley.

My take is that UH wanted to recruit and NEEDED a QB for recruiting-year 2010.

Andrew had an offer on the table 2008 and did not accept it.

Spain, on the other hand, was available and accepted the offer.
I do not know why another QB was needed at this time having 5 or 6 underclassmen available for years 2010, 2011 and even up to 2012.
They were good enough to recruit but of course you want to better the pool.

Spain comes from a bigger school of possibilities – larger conference.
If Andrew was given a scholarship at this time, we would have, what 7 scholarships out for a QB.

From all the discussions from the experts here, we need reinforcements on the OL and DL. To get them, we certainly need scholarships.

I would like to see Andrew Manley on the UH team as he seems to be a good person and Player of the Year – even though no other school, other than NMSU, seemed impressed enough to offer him a scholarship.

Sometimes it’s really that simple, isn’t it? I feel a little stupid for not thinking of this myself/earlier, though.

Great idea, thanks for this tip!