Top Vegas linebacker commits to UH

Good Morning Liz

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good morning Tsaikos,

have a blessed and productive day. i am still protecting the natives from the tourists; it’s getting easier, not as many tourists 🙁

paradigm shift…TOURISM affects everyone of us, don’t fool yourselves for a minute, the trickle down, the ripple, the you name it effect, will hit all of our families.

ST- Nice shot of some JUGS.

Rivals ranked UH 81.

Really? Wow! Guess they’re too lazy to fly out here and find out.

Good morning Bulla and A-Joe,
It’s easy to look like Im up early cause I’m 3 hours ahead.

A-joe,

what’s happening bro? long time no smell you rock n roll star…give my best to your bride 🙂

A-Joe,

last time i made a comment like yours, ‘nice shot of some JUGS’, i got a right hook to my chest by my bride…..all i can say is U DA MAN if you can say that and not get assaulted by your significant other…

Hi ST!

HiHo!

Chawan:

Thanks for the report!

chawan_cut,

Thank you for your excellent report! I loved all of the details you were able to include.

Colt wasn’t the only QB who gave up a lot of money to come back for his senior year. Brohm lost a ton of money…and their team didn’t do nearly as well as UH last season, so he doesn’t get a rewarding season like Colt to look back on.

Now that training camps have started and contracts have been signed, we know how much the losses to Kentucky, Syracuse and others cost Brohm — an insane amount of cash. We know that in addition to giving his knee, thumb and shoulder to U of L, Brohm also gave a king-sized chunk of his initial contract.

We know how much money he sacrificed because the Cardinals sagged from a preseason top-20 team to one that lost half of its 12 games and was ignored at bowl time.

Minimum loss to Brohm: $7 million.

Worst-case loss: $33 million.

That’s worse than the hits Brohm took his senior season.

Remember: If you can really play quarterback, you will get paid. Brohm will simply have to do more to earn his cash.

Look at the NFL’s top 10 leaders in passing yards last season. Only three — Carson Palmer, Peyton Manning and Jay Cutler — were former first-round picks. Two of them, like Brohm, heard their names called in Round 2. And one was Brett Favre, the guy the Packers are pushing out of town to make room for Aaron Rodgers, Brohm and Matt Flynn.

I think this is good for both Samson and Bess.

The offensive line was opening up what appeared to be huge holes in the afternoon sessions, and the tailbacks got into the second tier of the secondary a couple of times…. WR Davone Bess is effective at slipping into soft spots of the Dolphins’ zone to make clutch catches.

Another note about Bess. I think that this was against the *first-team* D, as Henne was against the 2nd-team D and Beck was against the 3rd team D.

McCown owes WR Davone Bess for the 20-plus yard pass he caught over CB Joey Thomas, and a few short receptions from RB Ricky Williams for getting his unit in position for Jay Feely to kick a 46-yard field goal before time expired.

Update on the Reggie Bush court proceedings.

A San Diego judge will decide Friday whether details of a civil suit involving former USC star Reggie Bush will remain private, which would make it more difficult for the NCAA to punish the school.

Judge Joan A. Lewis will hear a motion from Bush’s attorneys that the case should be settled through arbitration — superseding a scheduled March 2009 trial that could give the NCAA ammunition to go after USC and even take away Bush’s 2005 Heisman Trophy. Bush, who is participating in training camp for the New Orleans Saints, is not planning to attend the hearing, said his attorney, David Cornwell.

Sanctions of some sort are likely if the NCAA determines Bush received improper benefits from would-be sports marketers Lloyd Lake and Michael Michaels. Bush has settled with Michaels, and that settlement “has a mandatory arbitration agreement in it” that also would apply to Lake, Cornwell said.

Lake is suing Bush for approximately $300,000 – money Lake alleges he gave to Bush and his family while Bush was a student at USC.

Lake’s attorney, Brian Watkins, said Bush and his family are seeking arbitration “because they don’t want anyone to know they took the money and what the terms of their paying the money back are.”

Regarding Bush skipping the hearing, Watkins said: “He’s got to prove his case. It’s going to be hard without his testimony.”

huh?? 🙁

35.

I am surprised the filters let it through.

yikes 20 minutes and its still here, oh my

Great Morning All! (#31 excepted)

Great reporting Chawan_cut! Mucho Mahalo!

Great to see some JUGS pics. (Bulla, no tell my Mrs. I said that!) Mahalo bhf2; catch you at the KKall.

homey: check your email. sjmacro

We understand that Mr. Tsai. That’s why my above post is truly #44 because I knew all of that! Yeeeeaaaahhhhh…. That’s right! That’s the ticket!! I knew all of that! 😆

Good morning Tsaikos…

Gotta say, those are some nice JUGS. Thanks to BHF2 for having the work done on them….

Great to see the dedication of Bain and Fonoti…

Thanks for the report Chawan….I can use it for work now…MWAHAHAHAHA

OK, thanks for the clarification Stephen.

Pomai, I nevah mean you in #40; unless dat one get deleted in which case nevah mine wat I saying hea, but eef dis post get deleted den you not going know I wuz sorry so…..

….wat we was talking about??? 😕

Okie Dokie. Will remember not to use #’s

Da Punchbowl Kid:

July 31st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Sorry for the double post.

No problem dawg. How’s it hangin’?

Good Morning Tsaikos!

Where is everyone today? Not too many posts…gives me a chance to read last night’s posts.

Everyone recovered from the CC yesterday? I couldn’t even eat dinner last night because I was so full…had to work hard to keep from trying to take a nap.

I heard Wie is even par! Of course she hasn’t teed off yet though.

Those soccer Wahine can school many guys, awesome athletes. Shoutout to Chelsea Deptula! GO CHELSEA!

Saw recent UH Softball recruit Dara Pagaduan the other day…GO DARA!

ST – Would you happen to know the status of Josh Andrews?

Mr. Stephen Tsai,

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Good morning everyone.

homey — H2CO3? … I guess bulla is bring the C2H6O gasoline additive mixtures 😕

homey,

2 to the 6th?

ST – I noticed you have 2 different spellings for the new recruit’s name.

Maybe he hit so hahd, you fo’get how spell?

d1 – cube root of 262144?

chawan – Thanks for the report! Now get back on the bike and exercise!

homey,

I’ll take your word for it…I could only find 6 oddah guys around fo’ figure out da las’ one!

heheheh

ST…does Alofipo have any familial ties to Hawaii??

alofipo has ties to kahuku if i remember correctly. not sure if he’ll be playing his senior year in tacoma or vegas.

great news! here’s alofipo’s high school highlight video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-mEWj9Q-7Q

or maybe they aren’t teammates, just playing in da same city – LV

Quote of the day from ST’s main Bain article in the Sports section, from Bain’s gf, Wahine soccer player, Kristen Oshiro.

“We were good friends before we went out,” Oshiro said. “He’s a very nice guy. He’s my best friend. … He didn’t really ask me out. We started hanging out and he never left.”

I was watching the video on Alofipo, someone should take a look at #13, the kid spent most of the game in the opponents backfield.

LV, you name is getting harder to read.

Wie update – 1 over after 2 holes.

ブラキ is that “Buraki”

or

ブラｯキ”Blacky”

Homey-*giggle* You could always make spicy edamame for the KK!

Thanks for the Wie update…trying to get my reports out before lunch.

Blackie. I tried to do a phonetic translation and this was the closest I could come. Maybe I should have paid attention in Japanese class.

I have no time to learn Korean…language.

Amazing to read the details of how recruiting budgets are increasing significantly. To most schools, it is the “cost of doing business”…I’m glad that UH had JD now instead of HF to set the recruiting budget. Even D-IAA recruiting budgets are increasing rapidly!

Forty-eight percent of NCAA Division I athletics departments at least doubled their recruiting budgets from 1997 to 2007, according to a Chronicle analysis of financial data reported to the U.S. Department of Education. Of the 300 Division I institutions for which data were available, 21 each spent more than $1-million chasing talented players in the 2007 academic year.

On the whole, the 65 biggest spenders shelled out a total of more than $61-million in 2007, an 86-percent increase from 10 years before. That amount does not include salaries for recruiting coordinators or construction and operating costs of the gleaming multimillion-dollar facilities that help lure prospects.

Institutions in the six most competitive conferences, and in Division I-A more broadly, spend by far the most on recruiting. But expenses grew even more significantly at Division I-AA and I-AAA institutions, which are a competitive notch below Division I-A and historically have tended to recruit more regionally.

Among the 65 biggest football programs — the nation’s largest spenders — the University of Maryland at College Park showed the greatest percentage change in its recruiting budget. In the 1997 academic year, it spent $242,000 on recruiting. Ten years later, it spent $912,100.

Great news about Alofipo’s verbal to UH.

Since Tony Tuioti was the DC for Silverado High School, maybe we get chance on their highly touted DE also!

Thanks Z

Rob25 – I can always give you the bag and you can make the spicy edamame!

guess they are teammates, hopefully they’ll continue to be teammates for their collegiate careers as well 🙂

IIRC, da coaches offered 3 guyz from this same school that tuioti came from. – TJ Alofipo, Keenan Graham, and a 6-1 DB. hopefully they can get da package deal

re: Alafipo – i’m sure Kazz will be happy he chose Hawaii over that red team

Homey – Let’s get Myki! She’ll try anything…right?! Oh wait, that was A-sports.

Michelle is doing her job- regardless of her golf- she is drawing the crowd to the tournament and her gallery is growing – and is very supportive!

She’sbeing covered by a blogger:
http://www.pgatour.com/2008/tournaments/r472/07/31/wie.blog.thursday/index.html

All times eastern

6:01 p.m. — Believe it or not, not all members of the sports media are in great shape. Including yours truly. But I just walked by a couple of reporters who are going to seriously struggle to finish this nine. They are stopping for breaks! It’s only funny until there’s a health issue, so for now, it’s funny.

Michelle hit a great approach on this hole, but her birdie putt slides by. She’s still 1 over after four holes, and eight shots behind clubhouse leader Jeff Overton, who posted a 65.

5:49 p.m. — The size of the security detail has gone up to five. The crowd is starting to show signs of fatigue from all the hills on this course. But they still scramble to get a view everytime she approaches. I have a new appreciation for her ability to grow the game. Tons of young girls are in the crowd. They will remember this forever.

Tombo Ahi-

Mahalo for the great video. Alofipo’s pick off of the pitch out for a TD is pretty funny. Not something he’ll ever forget, I’m sure.

…plus da little buggah’s fur keep blurring the lines 😆

SteveM,

…or click on my name at 115
gtdi (go try dat instead 😉 )

d1,
the “island” was hard enough, but da “bag” is killas

島袋

This site picked the top up-and-coming players on D and a Florida DT made the list, with 2 other Florida DL making honorable mention. These guys will be great motivation for the UH OL, probably the best test they will get all season!

DT: Torrey Davis Florida
Along with Dunlap, Justin Trattou and John Brown, Davis was one of the gems of Florida’s absurdly rich defensive line class last year, and though Trattou played the most of that quartet, Davis got on the field enough to drag down a couple quarterbacks (including Chad Henne in the bowl game) and has the higher ceiling. The only way he doesn’t break out if healthy is if fellow VHTs Brown, Trattou, Javier Estopinan or incoming Omar Hunter and/or Troy Epps also force their way onto the field. You can’t double team them all.

eagle, you got dat right, and there;s so much potential for this class to just be ridiculous w/ all da offers and local products out there (even if we don’t get the top 2 or 3).

top passer – maybe one of the top passers, but da top qb gotta be Matt Berkeley (sp?), colt’s old HS’s qb bound for ‘sc

LV,

Yep, da mouse saw dat one and tried fo’ runaway. haha

Thanks Liz…that was awesome. Love seeing Colt getting some love!

Wie 2 over thru 5

Garret

Sent you email

sorry bout da misunderstanding eagle, dat’s right, his stats were unreal, perfect qb for our type offense. getting a bunch of recruits this highly rated b4 summa’s even out is a definite change going in da right direction, especially on da local front. would be nice if one of these years we get the consensus #1 local recruit, (although it could be argued paipai was 1a last year)

go warriors, and keep bringin in dem awesome recruits

btw, never heard of DIAAA.
I guess it’s only non-football schools but interesting that their recruiting budgets would expand like that, too.

Sorry about the acronym but I’m trying to fit in with the Generation Y (Millenials) bunch.

d1 – yep, hard for keep up
lets see there’s doing an esme, too much koakane, hiho, rotflmfao …..

I’m looking at the picture of Bain with the JUGS and was wondering how does one practice with it if you are the only one there? How far can the JUGS “throw” a football? Why is it called JUGS? Where is gigi?

are there jugs machines specifically different for football and baseball or is it all da same?

chawan – even Einstein had speech difficulties as a student… 😆

Hope the “BCS” lure does not sway any of our top football palyers.

BCS schools, such as USC, got talented players from across the nation and being the “best” in Hawaii may put a player way down the depth chart. Some may get to start their Junior or Senior year. Maui LB found out SC had tons of better line backers and each year better line backers committed, a further slide down the chart.

Be like Sol and Adam, come in and start as a Freshman!!!!!!

Garret-
RE: your post about OR St. game honoring veterans…the NM St. game is the week of Veterans’ Day and they are also having some kind of special promotion.

homey,
i’m still dyslexic. you don’t even want to how know times i edited last night’s report from Waimaul.

homey: etymology of JUGS while Jason is away. 😀

http://www.msblsports.com/jugsstory.html

This device was named the JUGS Curveball Pitching Machine, from the old-time baseball expression “jug handle curve.”

sjmacro

hey chawan – thanks for the report from last nights meeting.
i think all our student athletes do well with the media because we have a great media corp in hawaii

homey – i was thinking the same thing about the jugs, the baseball ones require someone to feed the balls

BTW JUGS can be used for punt coverage practice and returns. You could be the operator and change the angle for a sky “punt” , run and catch your own ball. Machine can probably launch 60 yards. Maybe put one on either end of the field and do modified “220s” 😈 sjmacro

edit…. *
but we need use it and would use it smartly.

On this day in musical history:
1960: Decca Records in England decided not to release Ray Peterson’s “Tell Laura I Love Her” on the grounds that it was “too tasteless and vulgar,” and destroyed about twenty thousand copies that had already been pressed.

Undaunted (some 18 years later), Rap Reiplinger released this now Hawaiian pop/comedy classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJg8ICcjVH4

Liz here is the Leaderboard!

http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/r472/

Or just click on my name.

Parker is at 3 under after 17 and tied for 17th

Michelle is Even par after 10 and tied for 59th

Tell Fate Yanagi I need her…

Chawan_cut – Thanks so much for all the hard work. It was very informative.

sjmacro – that must be some old time baseball slang because I never heard of it.

Thanks, Rob25! The link to the full leaderboard from Michelle’ blog was broken…
phew!
Busy day at work.. can hardly see whassup odda places!

homey:

did Raiola start as a true freshman at Nebraska?

anyone else comes to mind?

how about the line backer from St Louis who was #1 Parade All American and came back with Arizona St to play Hawaii at Aloha Stadiium and they lost. he kinda disappeared after that game.

I always assumed that JUGS refered to the manufacturer.

A-House – Oh my memory…I remember talking with Raiola’s uncle and he mentioned that Dominic started as a freshman on the o-line and later moved to center. Sheesh, now I can’t even remember the uncle’s name…it’ll come to me.

Rob25 – I think gigi is at Costco buying a new microwave oven.

Someone answered earlier but here is link to company’s FAQ

http://www.msblsports.com/jugscurveball.html

I think that Legends leaderboard is down or something haven’t been able to get on since I last posted results.

was jason gesser a frosh when he started against us in ’99? although he didn’t start til the last quarter of the year or so, IIRC

A-House – Joe Siofele? Wayne Apuna? IDK…

Rob25 – What kind of dad would put their kids in the microwave oven!?!? Where did you get that idea? You’ve been hanging around myki and A-Sports too much!

Rob25 – Some of the players do wear those skintight under armor shirts. The kind that Stretch uses.

ST – I think I’m a better auto mechanic than a computer mechanic. Anybody, need an oil change?

chawan – you can go hang out with someone and then don’t leave.

(J)J – Being raised in Texas I only knew one meaning of JUGS.

Well I did say oil change and not radiator flush.

FWIW, Wie has a par 3, 5, and 4 left. Her best chance is to eagle the par 5 and birdie the par 4 and she’ll be in the clubhouse at 2 under. And don’t forget to sign the card!

Good Afternoon All… Too lazy to read through all the posts through today but wanted to say What’s up. I need a nap before heading to SSC for the Game On dinner. See everyone later.

Arrghhh! Wie just bogeyed the par 3 and is now 2 over after 16

Hi Chawan,

I popped it in the office mail last week. Sometimes there’s a short delay as it works its way out of the building, but you should have received it by now. I’ll check and see if it was held up for some reason.

(J)J – Are you hiding pecs like Libre?

ST – OK, then I will follow you around and make like I’m your intern or something to that effect. You take the pics for the blog with your old camera…I’ll take the pics for the Tsaikettes with your new one.

Deal or no deal?

Or as Rob and Russ would play…meal or no meal? hehehe

Howzit howzit

ahem,
Fight Hawaii Fight
Fight Hawaii Fight

Fight Hawaii
Fight Hawaii

Fight Fight Fight

an da name ah da cheer is
Fight Hawaii Fight 😀

Howz about dis one from ole ’51 Hawaii.
Da name is Cheer Cheer

“Cheer cheer for dear Green and White
Sons of Hawaii, come on and fight

Forward, forward, down the field
Fight on, and fight to victory
Break through that line and smash them up
Pile on the score till victory’s won
Fight and Fight and fight fight fight
For the dear Green and White, fight fight.”

😀

LizK, (#131)
saw the vid. cool! to have a wash fan to already get on the colt bandwagon.
what was cool was that i saw some of the clips i had in my vids in his vid.

Brother Mike…so how goes the HOG???

Okay gang…I, like ST, have to go and run some errands…and than head off to a meeting tonight….hope everyone has fun at the SSC dinner….

Talk to everyone laterz….

(J)J – Yes I did see where she was touching you!

BTW – Who’s hiding Gigi and WD? Homey?

I remember listening to Freddy Shaka… Not so much his jokes but he did a really good “Deck of Cards”… I have been searching for that recording ever since…. Never found it yet…

“Glory Glory Cawabungus!
My Brain Is Really Made of Fungus
And My Piko is Humungous!
The Punch Bowl Kid Marches On!!!”

chawan_cut,

brother mike!
never get the special kami yet. i hope it didn’t get lost!
thanks!

You ARE lame! 🙂

Man, it really seems like trying to matchup with the TE’s is gonna be crucial come Aug. 30.
Cornelius Ingram is on the watchlist for the Mackey Award.

With Andre Caldwell gone, Ingram is UF’s second-best receiver behind Percy Harvin in what should be an offense that thrives off two-tight-end sets. Ingram averaged 14.9 yards per catch last year, so if he ups his reception total from 34 to 45, he could approach 800 yards. The only thing holding back Ingram’s stats could be sophomore Aaron Hernandez, who could blossom into an integral part of the offense in 2008.

Hernandez figures to be the other TE.

I think the key to winning Florida will be rotating alot of players, kuka pile ice water, lots ah smash mouth football for 60 minutes, an da O playin dah best game ah day lives, right on dis side ah da edges.

Lets go Warriors. Go Go Go.

Go Warriors!

…And ask permission nicely from ESPN for the rights of our other games, and re-broadcast.

GO WARRIORS!

Yo James! Big Red is good but getting fed up with midday bumper-to-bumper traffic from UH to downtown. Lemme know when you get your wheels rolling so we can hit the road for a real ride.

Aloha Ted,
Sorry I missed yestereday. No email came through. I have been having server problems lately with my incoming mail. Might want to try again.
Thanks for the compliment. The Ohana is buzzing as high as I am for the season to begin. Our boy might be able to attend the Fresno game with his Warrior fans cousins. The drive from S.F. is not far when there are 4 eligible drivers in the van wearing UH gear!

chawan_cut:
July 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm

how come nobody stalks me?

chawan-
you’re a spontaneous-picture-taking-with-girls-coming-out-of-bowling-alleys kind of guy. Don’t sweat it. I can’t imagine it being any fun. But if you want, I can send Homey over with his paper bag.

Great to see the early commits from big time players, just hope they stick and sign the dotted line on LOI day. That’s a nice size LB core coming in…PaiPai, Alema, Art, and now T.J. hmmm…wonder when that Te’o guy is going to join the bunch?

WE WANT MANTI!
WE WANT MANTI!
WE WANT MANTI!

Historical footnote.

In 1951 UH Rainbows played
Town Team, Sub Pac Raiders of San Diego,
Idaho College, Shrine Game, Pendleton Marines, U of Arizona, Pineapple Bowl, and the Elk’s Milk Bowl against “Mainland college AllStars”

The team members were:
Harry Ono QB 5’7″ 145
George Mamiya, RH 5’8″ 150
Donald Pacheco, LH 5’7″ 165
Francis Shon RH 5’7″ 150

Edmund Toma C 5’8″180
John San Diego E 5’11″160
Wade Ah You
Spencer Lum T 5’9″175
David Takushi FB 5″8″ 175
Donald Ho LH 5’8″ 170
Robert Schutte E 5’10” 150
Sam Nahoopii T 5’9″175
Frank Kahoohanohano C 5’11” 185
Joseph Ah New RH 5’8″ 170
Walter Kato RH 5’7″ 170
Richard Souza RH 5’9″ 165
Melvin Alencastre T 5’10” 190
Moses Marino T 5’10” 180
Thomas Lau C 5’6″ 175
Edwin Paaluhi E 5’11” 170
Ellsworth Bush 6’2″ 180
Arnold Naumu
Sadao Matsukawa QB 5’10” 165
James Asato LH 5’8″ 160
Richard Carpenter E 6′ 180
Albert Vierra E 5’9″ 160
William Cross LH 6′ 165
Arthur Sullivan RH 5’10” 170
Warren Chibana G 5”4″ 165
Elmo Kahalekai T 6’2″ 225
Gilbert Koga T 5’10” 220
Phillip Kim, Jr C 5’4″ 165
David Mendez E 5’6″ 162
Terry Plunkett T 5’7″ 180
Yoshiji Asami G 5’7″165
Abe Chu QB 5’9″ 180
Stanford Takeshita
James Miyasato FB 5’8″ 210
Raymond Chung T 6′ 200
Mamoru Oka T 5’8″ 205
Eric Watanabe G 5’8″ 185
George Fujiwara FB 5’8″ 170
Roy Inouye
Richard Nelson LH 5’7″ 155
Darwin Cjamg C-QB 5’9″ 190

Go Warriors!!!

evening tsaiko nation quiet time to relax and read da blog

good to see bhf2 last night. he called me this morning and wanted to know if anyone is planning a friday pau hana. so here goes;

PAU HANA EIS CALL
New Violets Grill
1210 Dillingham Blvd.
Hon. Hi.
841-8535
gathering between 5:30-6:00 pm
Kapalama shopping ctr.
Across from old Kapalama Gems now the satelite city hall
Resturant/Bar atmosphere similar to old Kuhio Grill or Flamingo’s

If you can make it come and enjoy the company of other Tsaiko’s.
Reservation made for 10 +

Good evening,

Finally got a chance to watch the vid LizK linked to. YouTube is blocked at work. Good vid. Soon, the world will see what we saw for 3 years. Go Skins!!

Congrats to Caryn. As a fellow Lostie, please post more in the Lost blog, pretty please?

Hey, HA tekkies, you fixed it once, fix it again. Da right side stuff is all the way below this box. Stop tinkering already. Sheesh.

Back to watching more Shark Week shows.

Hi jm2375!

I have some time so I’m going to do my nightly search through the Miami papers for news on Samson, Reagan, and Bess.

REALLY bad report on Reagan.

Finding ANOTHER fullback to compete with Boomer Grigsby might be a real good idea because I’m expecting Reagan Mauia to be cut any day now if he doesn’t pick it up.

I forgot to note about that Miami practiced in helmets and full pads for the first time in several days.

Some notes from practice:

Beck starts off 1-for-5 and finishes 4-for-10. He has some nice throws, but also throws an interception to Renaldo Hill. Not sure if that was a nice play by Hill, bad route running by Reagan Mauia, or a bad throw from Beck.

Henne’s up

Completes a nice short one to Davone Bess, a short out to David Martin (nice catch), a square-in to Ginn and a dump-off to Sean Ryan. 4-for-4, with one coverage sack.

Some interesting notes from Miami Herald’s beat writer for the Dolphins. Putting Bess at 6th on the depth chart at WR (7th after Miami signs Glenn) puts Bess in some danger of getting cut. I had thought that Foster was quite a bit below Bess on the depth chart!

Tin: I believe your question was which receivers will make the team.

First off, I don’t know for sure because they haven’t played a preseason game yet and if I don’t say that, someone will take what I write out of context and use it for their purposes.

Having said that, I think we all know three guys are pretty solid — Wilford, Ginn, Hagan, who is lately looking better than all of them.

The next level is led, in order of likelihood to make it: Camarillo, Foster, Bess and Armstrong, which is a surprise because he just joined the group.

Kircus has been hot and cold while Dunlap hasn’t really flashed in my opinion

When I spoke with Bill Parcells, he brought up the fact Foster has a good chance as a returner. Given his dual role ability, that increases his chances with this team.

LA Times has Fresno State as the 4th most likely BCS-buster.

Fresno State. Probably the best the WAC has to offer this year. The issue, as it is most years for Pat Hill’s Bulldogs, is the schedule. Fresno State opens the season at Rutgers, comes home for Wisconsin and Toledo before a possible roadblock at UCLA. A 4-0 start against that schedule probably puts the Bulldogs in the top 10, and then it’s only a matter of whacking everyone in the WAC.

Hard to imagine that NMSU hasn’t been in a bowl game since before I was born!

In just two seasons as New Mexico State’s starting quarterback, senior-to-be Chase Holbrook has already sketched his name on 36 different offensive school records. The one thing Holbrook is looking to do in his final campaign as an Aggie is to become just the third quarterback in school history to lead NMSU to a bowl game.

The Aggies have not been to a bowl game since 1960

The only thing on the mind of the QB is registering NMSU’s first winning season since 2002 and recroding a postseason berth.

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

MIT reports that the key to storing solar energy efficiently lies in splitting water. This new technique is supposed to enable solar power to be provided 24/7.

Another link for this info:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10002704-54.html

This drug can actually build significantly more high-efficiency muscle fibers in a short period of time.

Japanese parents are playing matchmaker for their children, especially since 71.5% of men age 25-29 are unmarried, a huge jump from how 47.1% were unmarried in 1990. 32% of women age 30-34 are single now, where only 16% were single in 1990.

lefty,

Stretch has one “r” and two “t”s

This one is the rocket scientist who’s posting now… 😀

Koakane,

roger that for tomorrow nite. i’ll be there…

i was at the Duc’s on MaunaKea St this evening. great comopany, great food.

Well it’s here game month. So here is this years first Tsaiko weekly pik’s. For those who are new these are the rules.

1. Closes to the actual score without going over is the winner
2. No ties the first one with the pik gets the score.
There’s more rules but I wen forget’em

UH vs FL – Aug 30th in the romp in da swamp

24    – 21    Pocho
31    – 17    Pomai
35    – 32    longdistance808
44    – 38    d1shima
45    – 35    Ronnie

here’s JD talkin
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/chawan_cut/ResizeofDSC00953.jpg

and GM thanking everyone.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/chawan_cut/ResizeofDSC00940.jpg

and food! some sort of kaua’i shirmp thing.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a387/chawan_cut/ResizeofDSC00923.jpg

# Kekoa:
July 31st, 2008 at 7:20 am

koakane, how come CC had to chug it up the hill? Why nevah you pack his bike inside your SUV?

Go put one check mark in the unsatisfactory block for – “Works well with others” on your report card…go.

# chawan_cut:
July 31st, 2008 at 7:31 am

kekoa,
koakane offered, but i needed the exercise. now that i sit here with pains, maybe i should’ve taken him up on it. nah, i still needed the exercise.

# Kekoa:
July 31st, 2008 at 7:39 am

Chawan_cut ~ Ok…got it! Koakane is official off da detention list and put on the “Good Citizen” Bumper Sticker list.

kekoa starting to sound like the parents when dey hear their child crying about teacher no like me, the odda student when strart it first or my favorite from parents ……… oh sorry I neva know dat, was it stated some where. Um yea at the pta meeting which you don’t attend, in the weekly bulletin we send home with your child or on your telephone home recorder which if you ask your son/daughter probably erased because they neva like get busted by you.

could go on but nuff said.

have a good one, tired now, so going beddie bye play nice and whomever can come you will get to see bhf2 do his UH cheer against gators.

# homey ®:
July 31st, 2008 at 3:09 pm

A-House – Joe Siofele? Wayne Apuna? IDK…

Wayne Apuna.

mmmm. thanks for the fuud pix chawan!

Hi Pride.!

Pomai (seems like old times!)

LizKauai
28 – 27

Hi Liz.

Sorry for the double post.

Pride. Pretty impressive list there! I really know nothing about football except what I have learned as a fan. It certainly doesn’t compare to the experience perspective one gets as a player.

Each person must make his way with what he has been given- in talent, volition and circumstance. We all seem to get what we need to grow and become better, huh?

Here’s Colt- screwed up early and found redemption and a chance to live his dreams.

Here’s Jordon- sat out his Sr. year to prep for college, had an amazing CU career and screwed up at the end just before the NFL draft.

Both now have something to prove to themselves to make it at this level.

But hey, they are both great guys and we (I) love ’em and want to see them be great human beings no matter what.

Life is interesting. One size does not fit all (my latest litany). Whether people stay near the place they grew up or head out into a bigger world, it’s all about the journey and coming through it a better person.

Nitey nite and sweet dreams!

Pride:

Good analysis of the D1 local bruddahs. Wherever these bruddahs go, we should be proud of their opportunity to play D1 football and get that degree.

Ralph I bet UH comes out on the short end of the stick.

Just looking at the commit list at a scout site, and noticed that JJ has recruited a tightend, has he change his thinking??

Also Bosie got the number 14 in the country WLB, three of the WAC schools do not have any commits at this time, Idaho, New Mexico State and Utah State.

Quite a few big time schools have only a couple of commits so I guess that we are not doing to bad with the five we’ve got so far, and three out of the five are rated as 3 star(but I don’t put to much in the rateings)

BELIEVE! – Go Warriors!

Hawaii 37 Tebow in lots of pain 34.

Aloha Merv! Hope all is well with you.

When does UG begin fall camp?

I think that UGA reports to camp next week, but I am not sure. They usually start three weeks before kickoff.

My pick for UH vs uf is Warriors 35, lizards 31.

~•~ 😯 8) 😀 ~•~ Good Morning Tsaikos and Warrior Nation!!! ~•~ 😀 8) 😯 ~•~
~•~•~•~•~•~•~ Happy Aloha Friday! ~•~•~•~•~•~•~

Aloha Merv! Nov. 1, geckos-20, Dawgs-35!!! 😀

morning gang! howzit brew, merv, hawaiianbod, koauka, hoohiki

merv – congrats, just heard bulldogs no. 1 in coaches poll

have a safe aloha friday!

Sorry Merv I forgot all about you being a TSAIKO, will now include you on the email account list, if you would like to use the email account just let me know. Your email address would be like this – Merv at tsai-kos dot com

bruddah wreck – 😯 . . 😀

Oh yeah – congratulations to the WSU guy and to Caryn! Hey – a Cougar scored…big time…. but they’re still going to get spanked by the WARRIORS on November 29!!! 😀

Addahknowsports©:
July 30th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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Wreck, I was going for the pan fryers and not necessarily the twenny pound ulua. (You should see the giant crabs that UHFan caught)

HUH!!!! 😯 😯 😯 😆

Did A-sports catch more fishies than whitey??? 🙄 😀

morning to all

guess the dinner at UH for JD and coach Mac was a success. can’t wait to read about what happened last night unless “what happen” is the rule again 😕

no forget about EIS pau hana tonight, reminda below again

PAU HANA EIS CALL
New Violets Grill
1210 Dillingham Blvd.
Hon. Hi.
841-8535
gathering between 5:30-6:00 pm
Kapalama shopping ctr.
Across from old Kapalama Gems now the satelite city hall
Restaurant/Bar atmosphere similar to old Kuhio Grill or Flamingo’s

If you can make it come and enjoy the company of other Tsaiko’s.
Reservation made for 10 +

btw anyone need DD I can do dat now so take up the offer while it last 😀
I wil check on blog all day or call me.

Good morning Tsaikos!! Happy Friday! 😀

Hope you all had a great time last night at the fundraiser. How much money was raised?

My nephew played on the line (both ways) with Max Unger at HPA. For such a small team (in size & number), they held their own against their BIIF competition. Got spanked by Castle at the state tournament (before they had DII). Didn’t know who he was at the time and I was focused on my nephew, so … Plus, I know nothing about the nuances of playing each position.

Time for my daily trip over the mountain. Back to school (clothes) shopping and laundry tomorrow. We’ll see about Sunday. Hubby leaves tomorrow nite for SD.

Have a great weekend.

PS Pomai – UH 35 FL 38. Still hoping Warriors win. Just being a tad realistic.

Goooooood mornining Tsaikos here and around the world. Went to the north country for a week and all kinds of things are happening. Super!!! A House caught all the fishes in the north country, so had to settle for CRABS!!

Pride, got to add one guy named Rockne and another name, Sam Harris.

What!??!! whitey AND uhfan808 both got CRABS!!!??? 😯 😯 😯 😆

BTW – Suzuki and Victorino are still playing well and hitting too! 😀

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

brew808:
August 1st, 2008 at 6:52 am
What!??!! whitey AND uhfan808 both got CRABS!!!???

I wonder who gave it to who

whitey – My buddies are catching plenty of 15-30# halibut in the SF bay. Supposedly, they don’t eat in the bay – so they should be safe to saute’! They use to go for salmon – but that’s banned. I wish they’d go back to diving for abs! 😀

I heard that sometimes whitey straddles the “dark-side” (Stretch would know…..), but I thought uhfan808 was pure as fresh fallen snow…. 😀

if any tsaikos are looking for another option to get to the Seattle area, try Alaska Airlines. plane is similar to aloha, but has more seats. the flight time is about 5 1/2 hours and the brew (808????) is very good. they serve both alaska and kona made beers. our flight attendent home was nappy napoleon, one good braddah.

brew, no get me in trouble with uhfan808 cause she is one nice young lady. you right about she is fresh snow. me, i go places where i not suppose to go, but the “sound of music” affects my brain. funny thing you should say mentions abs. be something if a group of people start protesting that the abs are threatened or may become history in the bay area because no one controls the sea otters. that would be a kick in the rear.

pomai, not the first time, but i always have more fun and memories from each trip. with that said, i going back to the north country next month, but going to one different place. this place i going to get BIG CRABS, but i got to worry about the BIGGER CRABS who have moved into my BIG CRAB country.

ok, got to go to meet my breakfast gang at jacks.

Mahalo everyone! I am proud that the Dawgs beat out some good teams for the pre-season top ranking. But time will tell.

Pomai, I’ll check out the tsaikos site more often. I am starting to get excited about football. We are already planning the first tailgate party.

http://www.redskins.com/

Colt has a video interview… people are shouting at him from the peanut gallery!

Hiya Merv!

Re: Colt being nervous

Wouldn’t it be CLASSIC if Colt takes the field for his first play and right before heading into the huddle to give out the play, he lifts his helmet and throws up!!!

Hi Stretch! – Just out of curiosity, how long were you a JrBow? I wen start in 4th grade and was in orchestra, so spent almost everyday at the Elem School building. sniffle sniffle. 😥

Pomai

UH 38 /UF 35

Pomai UH 21 Florida 17

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Hey WreckinEyez,

I saw your blog back on July 31st about Freddie Shaka! I am looking for the record for my father. I remember when I was a kid he played it for me. And I just moved here to maui to help him out. And he played it for me again. So I thought I’d look for it for him. Have you found it? I found the one website that lists his name, but they did not have it at the time. My father however does have a cassette he recorded from a friend way back when. If you’d like a copy, I’m sure we can try to copy it and send it to you. Let me know, either way, take care.

Chris Satoshige

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