Lefiti to miss training camp
It’s disappointing that center Matagisila Lefiti, who was understudy to ironman John Estes the past two seasons, will miss all of training camp after undergoing recent foot surgery.
But his replacement, Bronson Tiwanak, should make an easy adjustment. Tiwanak and quarterback Bryant Moniz were teammates at Fresno City College in 2007.
Brett Leonard, who is projected to start at left guard, has practiced at center during unsupervised 7-on-7 drills.
Here’s Tiwanak:
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And here’s Brett Leonard:
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The linebackers worked out extra this morning:
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If you didn’t submit your application, its now too late to apply for the vacant UH coach’s position. Head coach Greg McMackin and Nick Rolovich will go through the applications, and announce Ron Lee’s successor next week.
You know who we’re picking.
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Thanks to Tombo Ahi for finding the link to video of Jake Heun’s MMA victory:
I know June Jones was really high on Lefiti. I didn’t get to see much of the spring, but I liked the glimpses I saw of him. But injuries happen, I hope Tiwanak steps up. As the offensive line goes, so will the offense.
Stephen is right, it’s not posted on the home page of the Star-Advertiser. But it’s there when you go to warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com.
I really miss having the links to the previous (and next) blog posts. That made things easier to see if there was a new post.
Carried over from the yesterday’s blog:
Any word on where the football Call The Coach shows will be held this year? I assume that the Monday luncheons will still be at The Willows.
Will be joining folks for the CC on Friday if I can get out of a meeting by 11:15 or so. I have another meeting that afternoon, but it isn’t until 2 pm.
2nd?
Hi Jason.
Hi WassupDoc. Hi SteveM. I think I got too much caffeine from the bottomless Coca-Cola at Call the Coach.
Jason — must be conditioning from all the late nights grading papers. 🙂
Please, don’t remind me. 🙂
I guess I’ll go to bed now. Good night!
if Jason didn’t post the url and announced a new post I wouldn’t have found it. Someone needs to tweak the system. Might have to go to WB archives or earlier blog entries and comments noted on the right margin.
good luck to Lefiti and hope for a quick and full recovery. It’s tough on a big man to have a foot injury, can’t put much weight or pressure on it, conditioning will be a problem and all those lost reps.
A great Hum Day!!!
This is going to be a goooooood day. It is the last day for seniors. Yeah!
Some of them need to go away. Unfortunately a bunch of them will be back next year. Tsigh.
Better is that it is a halfday with, ugh, meetings in the afternoon.
AND, there are only FIVE wake ups remaining.
Whoo-hoo!!!
Too bad about Lefiti’s foot. Better to get it done sooner than later.
Need to get that offensive line working together. Consistancy.
Good morning people!
How did Lefiti’s foot problem arise? Or did the MDs fail to properly diagnose the problem early on?
Bad news about Matagisila Lefiti. Will he recover in time for the season or is the thought that he might be redshirting? It must be so frustrating to him to wait 2 years as the backup center and then get hurt and miss camp after Estes has graduated.
Another season and already another key component to the team hampered by major injury???…is there some kind of bad karma going on here?!!
There is a little technical error at the end of ST’s article today. It says:
Did the Pac-10 try to dump Oklahoma State to get Kansas late in the process and kill the Pac-16 chance?
The Big 12 TV deal with ESPN/ABC, and some other key TV deals with other conferences expire in 2016, so things expansion/realignment could occur in 2017. That gives UH some time to dominate the WAC and be in a good position for the next round of dominoes.
good morning everyone, howzit MC,
the challenge I have with this injury….how come it took so long to determine? didn’t he go through the PRO Day in LA….wouldn’t there exams have uncovered something? foot injuries, because of the construction of our foot with a zillion bones….is very delicate to say the least. one name….Bill Walton, another name…Ralph Sampson……all career ending foot injuries…
hoping for a quick and full recovery 🙂
Colorado is considered to be one of the losers in this round. It should be noted that the Pac-10 is talking about getting $10 million per school from TV while Iowa State and Kansas State will be getting $17 million to $20 million each from TV by staying in the Big 12.
All the analysts say that the Big 12 will get more per school from TV because Colorado did not bring enough TV interest…doesn’t that mean that by adding Colorado the Pac-10 might be getting less money per school?
If Colorado is too small of a TV market, Utah might be even smaller. However, at least Utah wins and winning teams draw some national interest. But if Colorado’s market makes the other Pac-10 schools lose money, we should note that Hawaii’s market is much smaller than Colorado.
Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Baylor and Missouri were so worried about being left behind so they offered to give all of the exit fees ($20 million or so) to Texas/Texas A&M/Oklahoma if they stayed in the Big 12. Apparently, Texas told them to keep their money and the Big 12 has confirmed that all schools will equally share the exit fees from Colorado and Nebraska.
I think that the best thing for UH would be to earn enough BCS points the next few seasons to force the MWC to add them to keep/get their AQ status. One team will dominate the WAC and that team will be needed by the MWC to replace the loss of Utah’s points.
The teams that are in the MWC will get a lot more attention and exposure after they become an AQ conference and get their next TV deal. The teams that dominate that conference will be attractive in the next round of conference shuffling.
I found out about Lefiti the backward way.
At Monday’s practice, I noticed that Brett Leonard was the center.
Hmmm That’s odd. So from there I started asking around.
Garret,
Nice to hear UH possible advancement into better conference.
Scott what a rat. Glad he did it. This may have saved UH.
ST,
I noticed in your article that Leonard has been practicing at center for a couple of weeks now, so Lefiti’s condition must have been known for awhile. I am curious like Bulla about the length of time it took to discover he needed surgery.
BSU dominated the WAC and moved to the MWC because the MWC needed its BCS points to try to get AQ status. The BCS formula does not care about travel or market size, just wins.
Utah went to 2 BCS bowls in the MWC and moved to the Pac-12.
The path has already been shown for UH. Win big and move up. The alternative is not good.
One bad thing is that if the bottom half of the WAC loses all of its nonconference games, then they will be at the bottom of D-IA again and beating them will not be worth much BCS points. So, the nonconference games for UH will become even more important.
Good morning Tsai-kos!
Best wishes and rapid healing to Mr. Lefiti.
Orlando reporter says that the SEC could make *more* money by dropping a few teams and following the example of the Big 12. This could lead to the big conferences *shrinking* instead of expanding…
Congratulations to all the spring sports athletes who garnered WAC All-Academic honors! Way to go!
http://www.hawaiiathletics.com/news/2010/6/15/GEN_0615102116.aspx?path=gen
Great (text goes here) All!
…hoping for a speedy and uncomplicated recovery for Mr. Lefiti.
Good Morning Tsai-kos!
Garret,
The AP story that made print in the HSA says that the smaller (lesser) schools will be giving up their shares of the exit fees to the Big Three. Is the Statesman story more current?
I really hope “ferd” is off-base on his column this morning and the Sept. 2 game is a “Go”
….as in GO WARRIORS!
Howzit chopsueyboy!
Gotta make a trip in your area today…will you be in da shop?
It’s good to remain optimistic, but for all intents and purposes, I don’t believe Sila will be ready for the season. HE might as well begin gathering all the documentation for a medical redshirt year. Foot surgery? Won’t be ready for camp? Well my friends, that is not good prognostications. The bad news is that he has been the understudy of estes and has been in this offense for several years. Sila is a beast, no doubt. HOwever, Bronson T was never that far behind. He’s even bigger than Sila and can make all the calls too. I don’t think there will be too much of a drop off. I think Bronson gonna do fine. The problem lies in the the second team. NOt much experience there.
BIK
j/j
how can I contact you via email?
d1shima,
The AP story in the HSA is an old story that was already shown to not be true yesterday.
Bigislandkurt,
ST’s article even mentions that he might not be available for the USC game either. Unfortunately, he might be in the situation where the medical evidence shows that he has to miss part of the season but not all of the season–then he might not qualify for a medical redshirt, especially if the doctors clear him to play in September.
Nice Majam interview with BC this morning.
The Big 12 will let its schools start their own TV networks just like the SEC does. Florida makes a LOT off their network, so Florida actually earns more TV money than Big 10 schools ($17 mil from the SEC, $8 mil from their network > $22 mil for each Big 10 school).
I agree and disagree with Garret on his assertions. First I am intotal agreement with the fact that we have to win and win against those that really count, BSU, FSU, CU and USC (if they’re still around) and not loose stupid. I agree that we need to buff up BCS points to get a look see by MWC.
Here’s where I differ. The UH needs to set a strategy beyond that. They need to be that west edge team that people will want in their conference and not be the team some conference settles on. How do you do that?
Invest. If Texas could and the Big 10 could and ND could, why can’t we? We need to get away from the “poor me”, “we’re just a spec in the Pacific”, “cut us a break” mentality and get a new strategy. Let’s become the “we want you” program, from anywhere.
How? Build that bridge to the Asian market. Be the first one to get in and lock the television market in Korean, China and Japan. The investment would be to build a relationship with universities in those countries that are popular and have some reach into their more populated communities: television revenues. Be that US team that will do numerous home and home games with these folks (get off your marketing butts and go get those countries to sponsor these events). Become that Notre Dame of the Asian/Pacific arena. Can you se Chinese college students wearing the under armor football jerseys all over the place? of the same for the baseball tops in Japan, get the picture?
When, not if we do that, we will become that team the others will want. At that point, we can be like Texas and not like Kansas hoping crap did not hit the Big 12 fan.
THis is a business, we want to spur industry? This is an piece of commerce. You think Texas got to where they are because they ran a great educational institution? Somehwere along the line some business guy at that school decuided to make texas athletics a business model and treated it as such.
Let’s chnage the way we do things. Don’t know about you but that article in the sports section about the teams we’re looking at to fill BSU’s spot about made me hurl. It’s like the WAC strives to be the top bottom feeder in college football. And, we’re supposed to be happy with this?
Oklahoma wants its own TV network but there may not be enough people in Oklahoma to make it a profit.
I wonder who ST is picking? does it squeak?
Do they have a depth chart for the center position? Wasn’t Faamui also at center?
d1
most of the time, I’ll be here.
Got a few deliveries in the morning towards Kalihi and downtown.
All the best for Lefiti.
ST: What is the timeline for bringing the blog up to its previous quality? I’m think numbered posts, alternative backgrounds to distinguish between posts, and the forward navigation links so we are not posting on three day old blogs.
RedZone,
Just hope that the one selected can defeat the “better mousetraps” out there….
chopsueyboy,
Thanks. Hope to see you…
Remember whennnnn???…UH was the talk of the town, so to speak when they were Sugar Bowl bound……how they were the hardest hitting/point producing, non-BCS team in the west? seems like overnight, UH was the unwanted step child.
Win that Sugar Bowl and probably people would still be talking bout how superior the Warrior program way out in the pacific is, yadah, yadah!
So, yeah, winning is the magic touch that puts your name up there in the bright lights.
Good Morning Gangeez! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Quick healing to Lefiti!
Good morning, gang!
Hope Lefiti heals quickly. It can take up to 6 months to recover from foot surgery depending on how extensive it is. Hope this was something minor.
the doubt about UH’s Sugar Bowl season was their D1 weakest schedule. after UH won all it games while Colt’s Heisman run, Devone, Ryan and co. was setting records and winning, UH became a curiosity. All doubts was confirmed when they got blown out by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, then the following years was just mediocore even with a weaker than average schedule. Don’t get me wrong, now. I love and cheer on the Warriors, but like everyone says, this will be their make or break year. Just win baby!
Hey 808ike
text ST with you address for your book.
Jm2375
you in a heap of trouble
Garret:
Your post a few days back mentioned that Hawaii residents with Oceanic pay about $5 to ESPN, but on the mainland subscribers pay only $1. Why the difference?
I feel like ESPN is a kin to Chevron where their bigest profits the past 5 years has been from Hawaii with the sky rocket gas prices. Yet, they always come up with the “reason” that it’s a small market with little competition. If so, how can they justify making the biggest profit from this tiny state?
Garret hope you have a nice vacation, but before you go, do you expect the MWC to qualify to be a BCS conference next year without Utah? Would adding Fresno now make them BCS eligible?
Good morning Tsaikos….
Healing prayers and wishes for Lefiti to make a quick and full recovery….
Duffer, I think D1 sent you my e-mail contact..if not, let me know.
ST:
Intresting article about Lefiti and possible successors. No mention is made of Kahai. Is this because he is only a “red-shirt” freshman?
Several posted about that “tall” guy in the last photo of Kahai blocking. Is the tall guy Jordan Loeffler(sp) from Hilo. He stands about 6′ 6″.
j/j
ok, at work now. Maybe can get Coach Dana for the bash
j/j
you got mail
Speaking of the Bash….
Okay gang…once again, it is time to announce an event of epic proportions…Okay, well, maybe not that epic…but going be big…well, I guess all Tsaiko events are big…anyway….
Blog Bash 4
The Tsaikos will once again gather to celebrate the blog and the 5 Fs that have made this a special community and loyal supporters of UH sports. This is another chance for the old timers to meet again and for any new Tsaikos/lurkers to finally come out of the woodwork and meet this fun group in person. Please join us.
All-You-Can-Eat Buffet:
– White Rice
– Toss Green Salad
– Macaroni Salad
– Fried Noodles
– Kalbi Short Ribs
– Salmon w/Teri-Miso Sauce
– Boneless Fried Chicken
– Sheet cakes
– Coffee
– Fruit Punch
– Water
– Tsaiko made pupus/desserts
Fountain Sodas and Alcohol (cash and carry) – purchase from restaurant
Time: 4:00 p.m. Pupus/drinks/meet and greet
6:00 p.m. Buffet dinner/music/program
10:00 p.m. Start closing down
Cost: $30 per person. Tax & Tip included*
*Please note that any remaining funds from this event will be placed into the Tsaiko account for use by the UH Athletic Department.
RSVP and further details to follow….but save the date.
morning tsaiko country, bright and sunny hump day. hope all is fine with you’s
Recurring injury as ST identified Lefiti’s foot injury in his article today
Hmmm that sounds like…(?)
Plantar Fasciitis is a common athletic injury of the foot.
Plantar Fasciitis **Prevention**
1. Warm up properly
This means not only stretching prior to a given athletic event, but a gradual rather than sudden increase in volume and intensity over the course of the training season. **A frequent cause of plantar fasciitis is a sudden increase of activity without suitable preparation**.
I know. Stands to reason. Especially when I watched the Warrior football team last year, for what do I see? Ghost calisthenics, ghost stretching and ghost leadership from the coaches so it makes sense that the the athletes incur injuries. With Tommy aboard now, who I heard is doing a better job, the ghost of the past will become a thing of the past. And athletes won’t be as vulnerable to injuries, hopefully. Recovery time, sadly, for Lefiti can be anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months (as what I read off the net) assuming this is the foot injury that Lefiti has.
A-House,
No, ESPN charges every cable system and satellite system the same amount of money. Hawaii residents pay the same for ESPN as do California and Texas residents. The cable companies (for example, Time Warner owns Oceanic) make deals to get the same price everywhere. Your attack on ESPN is not correct, they are one thing that Hawaii residents don’t pay more for!
Specialized channels like the Big 10 network get about $1 per TV household in Big 10 states and a dime in states without a Big 10 school. The Pac-12 TV network will be set up the same way, since they have the guy that set up the Big 10 network setting up the Pac-12 network.
Hope Pomai’s BP is settled as he meets with Coach Coolen at this very moment. 😆
Old Diver,
I honestly think that the MWC would have definitely become an AQ conference if Utah had not left. Now I think they will get AQ status in 2012 with the appeal process if they do well on the field in 2010 and 2011.
One thing that the MWC might do is add another team *next* year. That way that team would start playing in the MWC in 2012, the same year that Utah starts in the Pac-12.
Waiting until next year lets the MWC compare the computer averages of their candidates. Houston is predicted to win (or come in #2 to SMU) the C-USA West and Fresno is predicted to be in the top 3 in the WAC. I think that Houston is worth slightly more BCS points now, but 2010 and 2011 are unknowns so far.
By adding a team next year, the MWC would not be able to count their score towards AQ qualification. However, they would be able to show in their BCS appeal that they are losing Utah in 2012 but replacing them with a similarly strong team. If they did that, I think that the BCS appeal process would grant them AQ status.
Adding Houston or Fresno would boost their numbers now…but what if either school tanks for the other 2 years that counts towards the evaluation? If I were them I would wait a year and see which team was stronger. Some other team could also rise up and earn their way into consideration.
Even if the MWC invites a team in 2011 (which would start in 2012), they will probably need to add 1-3 teams in 2012 (which would start in 2013) to boost their average for the 2010/2011/2012/2013 evaluation period.
One of UH’s big problems is that their conference schedule drags down their computer ranking. If WAC teams such as SJSU, NMSU, La Tech, and Utah State keep taking the $1 million payments to play multiple games at big-budget teams, and if they continue to lose 99.9% of those games, the WAC’s nonconference record will continue to be poor and that means that the WAC will keep getting dragged down in the computer ratings.
The nice thing about the BCS computer rankings is that they put everything up on their website (click on my name for the link). You can see all 6 computer polls that they use and check on how any school was ranked for that year. You can compute the average for each conference so that you can compare them. You can track the progress of your team week-by-week.
So, after a win you can see how many BCS points a team earned and you can see the effect a loss has. Everything is done in public. The exact formulas for the some of the computer polls may vary, but they seem to end up with reasonable results…and the BCS has no control over the computer.
Think of it like a video game. Win points by winning games. If a league earns a high enough score, they become an AQ conference. Unfortunately for the WAC, NMSU, SJSU, and Utah State don’t earn many points.
Kazz,
Hope Amanda is available to answer questions for Pomai & the Coach about NCAA regs. According to what Amanda previously told me, the donation-in-kind for the bracelets won’t work. NCAA wants to see an invoice paid for by UH (Foundation).
Utah leaving for the MWC is a unique case…they had covered how adding teams (like BSU to the MWC) could help a conference get AQ status, but there had never been a case where losing a team could factor into AQ status. It looks like Utah will NOT count for the MWC in their AQ hopes…that hurts the MWC for their 2012 chances.
Slugger,
NOOOOO!!!!!! I called Amanda Paterson’s office and she is out of town until June 25th!!! No one else apparently is assisting her while she is away.
and “boom” goes the dynamite…
Graham Watson said:
But Bill Hancock, the executive director of the BCS, told me in an e-mail that a team would take its numbers with them.
I find this to be odd. I would be curious to see the BCS directive stating that Utah’s 2011 BCS numbers wouldn’t apply to the MWC even though the evaluation would be based on Utah’s last MWC season. Thats if, of course, Utah enters the PAC-10 season in 2012. I can see Thompson inquiring further…
Kazz will send email soon.
Garret,
I doubt the MWC is going to base so much of who they choose on who does good next year. the success of non-BCS schools is very cyclical, mostly because they don’t get the same quality of recruits that large schools get. one team that is good today might be mediocre tomorrow and vice-versa. hawaii is a perfect example of this. the MWC is going to consider long-term success, market viability, and geographic factors before they look at next season’s w-l record. because of that, UH is a long shot at best to get an invite, unless they go undefeated and get to a BCS game this coming season. even that may not be enough unless they agree to pay a ridiculous travel subsidy again.
Aaron,
You are correct that the MWC won’t care about just *1* year. However, they are looking at working towards AQ qualification and that is based on a *4-year* cycle. However, 2 of those 4 years have already been played, so after this season the MWC will be able to see the 3-year averages for their candidate teams. I was only talking about the 2010 performance because I already averaged the 2008 and 2009 seasons for each team.
Does anyone know how much the wbb season tickets were this past season?
By the way, I had some time during my lunch break so I made a spreadsheet that keeps track of the 6 computer rankings for certain teams (UH, Houston, Nevada, and Fresno). The BCS formula cares about 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, so I organized my spreadsheet that way. Each year the highest and lowest computer score for each team is thrown out and the rest of the scores are averaged, so I had the spreadsheet do that.
I was surprised to find out that Nevada was actually rated higher by the computers than Fresno! I also was surprised to find out that Houston *blew away* all WAC teams aside from BSU. If you just look at the team rankings and throw out the highest and lowest computer rating each year like the BCS says, here is the comparison:
Houston: 50.3
Nevada: 60.6
Fresno: 64.3
Hawaii: 74.8
The BCS then takes this number and scales it to a different scale, but the important thing is to compare schools. Houston is far above the other non-AQ candidates for 2008/2009 and both Nevada and Fresno are pretty close.
I’ll update this as 2010 goes along. My computations are a little incomplete because I could find the 2008 numbers for Massey and Wolfe, but the other 4 computer rankings were pretty close to those 2 in other years so these are probably good comparison numbers.
Jerry Jones is going to throw his money behind getting *Arkansas* and *Notre Dame* to complete the Big 12? Arkansas did have more success with the Texas schools in their conference (they got a lot of recruits from Texas back then) than they have had in the SEC…so, if the money was the same I could see that.
The Big 12 will let every school have their own TV network…that might appeal to a school like Notre Dame since the Big 10 Network forbids any Big 10 school from having their own TV deal.
Good morning ladies and gentleman!
Hope everyone is doing fine
Good luck to Mr. Lefiti on way to recovery. Hope he heals fast. We will need as many experienced OL.
BTW, congrats to Mr. Heun.
Duffer,
Wahine Basketball season tickets for 2009-2010 were $60.00.
And, oh, before I forget, check this website out.
It’s a fun test. Tests you knowledge of advertisement. Hope you enjoy!
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For his own sake, Lefiti shuld start collecting medical records just in case planned recovery does not go as planned.
Even if he is cleared to play by 8/1/2010, his physical strength will be concern as he will be limited in doing lower body workout/coodinaion. Thus, I cannot see him even playing on 9/2 and make the road trip to NY and CO. Atophied muscles will take a long time to regain what has been lost and being out 6 or more weeks is a bunch!
Garret:
Did I attack ESPN? Are they deserving? Hell, yes!!!
atophied = atrophied
Ask my question again:
How many schools must participate in an event before it can be considered a “sport” within the WAC? For example, rodeo!
Grrroan…Before my eyes start glazing over again about Conference clatter chatter…I’m just wondering.
There was a time when Kaha’i was being utilized at Center. Just wondering if he is still on track for this position. For somebody that was once considered one of the strongest guys on the team…I’m not hearing much about him anywhere on the Oline.
BTW ~ What ever happened to Tui Tuiasosopo? Is he being groomed for a spot? We’ve heard more rumblings about da Beast den da ‘Tui!’ What’s his status?
ST ~ Anymore pics of the guys working hard during the unsuperstud practices?
Mahalo Kazz
Just love this deal on espn saying that UTAH is joining pac10 as early as friday.
Ahyah!???, too bad MWC no AQ/BCS anytime soon.
That being said….time for the WAC to lure away SDU/UNLV.
Good afternoon everyone!
I was paying bills this morning. Very disturbing when the checks are gone before the deposit slips…especially if you don’t have automatic deposit 🙁 Looks like Richie’s cuisine for my cattle call budget.
I am hopeful the rumored lead candidate for the UH coaches position gets the job. Maybe he can make things more interesting.
It was interesting when June Jones’ Run & Shoot started winning.
It was more interesting when Timmy Chang strove for the NCAA passing record.
ESPN started to get interested. Backed the Hawaii Bowl.
It was very interesting when Colt Brennan starting throwing 500 yard games
ESPN got very interested. Multiple broadcasts.
Super interesting when Colt started to break a bunch of records
Other sports media got interested and expanded coverage of UH
Teams backing out of playing UH gains more interest
Very interesting UH + undefeated season = impossible to ignore.
Sugar Bowl
No, I don’t expect miracles, but it could be interesting if we go back and “dance with who brung us” a little.
Garret:
Several Tsaikos have been pushing for the WAC to invite UNLV and SDSU. The games with UNLV has been most benefical to UNLV as any game with Hawaii in LV has been a “garan” sellout and one of 2 games, other being Wisconsin, where UNLV makes most of their revenue and boosts its attendance figures.
Can you give us a “heads-up” on Aztec status: stadium to play in; financial condition; fan support, etc.
I know you posted several times earlier that both would “lose’ $$ if they joined the WAC. Why would they consider moving to the WAC?
Any idea if the NCAA will begin to push its 15,000 average attendance before schools get disqualified from D1 status?
SteveM:
ARe you saying thhat JJ will forsake this $2 million salary at SMU and return to coach the Warriors? What is your time line on this? It would be very interesting if this happens!!!
Buffoman ~ One key issue I agree with you is on UH public relations, and their lack of a ‘good’ one. Some of your ideas are very valid points to consider, and the glue that holds it all together is marketing with an outstanding PR firm.
It’s been brought up by others on the blog every so often, but then it always gets killed off when someone mentions ‘paying’ for it. I don’t know why that becomes an issue. A really hot PR company can generate more than enough money to sustain itself and grow profits for UH within the current budget.
So I agree Buffoman, let’s get away from that “poor UH” attitude and create our own revenue. We have a lot to promote here.
Pomai and other Tsaiko blog dogs have come up with some really great promotional ideas to help. Yes Compliance is an issue, but not a barrier.
Looking at all the big time schools gives you several examples of what they do to keep their image out there. They are very good at MARKETING their images on wearable items or products that bring revenue in and become an advertiser’s dream!
I would urge expansion of the Rainbow Boutique by putting that mobile van they have on the road. Every weekend, position it at high volume shopping area parking lots. Lease a storefront in Kapolei and stack it with all the stuff they have been hoarding in the Bookstore. What about Waikiki? or Windward? The military exchanges have an ample display, but they could use more variety.
Time for this school to “get off their duff and promote their stuff!”
Let’s Go Warriors!
the June Jones train left a long time ago. he will have no interest in coming back to Hawaii unless we really bottom out. he likes turning programs around but doesn’t necessarily enjoy maintaining them. the emotional rewards aren’t as great for him.
I firmly beleive that an Asia Pacific sports conference would be a winnah for baseball, softball, men/women VB and basketball, track & field, diving & Swimming, men/women golf, men/women soccer. Top 2 universities from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, PRC, Phillippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia/NewZealand, and Hawaii. Can even consider fencing. Only language problem may be with PRC, but with their headway into global economics their top tier university/college must require English as a 2nd language.
To minimize cost, each must have mens and womens teams travel together and compete with the “host” country’s teams.
Each country can broadcast over its own TV network with all contributing to “shared” cost of a satellite feed. Maybe PBS can challenge K5 for rights to broadcast in Hawaii.
It woudl be a very good venue to view, first hand, any future olympians.
Also good for tourism and State of Hawaii and language dept at UH and all community colleges.
I enjoyyour post. I’ll keepon reading your post regulary.
A-House — I was referring to one of the candidates for the coaching position that ST mentions above. He was the mentor for JJ and credited as the father of the “Run & Shoot”.
Interesting is exciting. You can only break so many records but got to get/peak the interest of the national media somehow. Potent offense… akin to the Wahine softball team putting balls over the fence. Breaking NCAA records. 🙂
SteveM:
That’s a good idea if he will be a mentor to Rolo and the “receivers” coach.
However, Coach Mack did mention the “quality” applicants for the job. Wonder what the future holds for us fans?
A-House,
Tsaikos and other UH fans like to post that UNLV and SDSU should return to the WAC, but there really is no realistic reason why that would happen unless the MWC broke up.
1. They would get $3 million less.
2. They would have increased travel costs (Ruston, Honolulu).
3. Both schools have had more success in basketball than football–moving to the WAC would be a big step down for a sport that makes both schools a lot of money. The MWC had 4 men’s NCAA tournament teams this year (more than the Pac-10) and had far more ranked teams than the WAC.
4. They have a chance to be in an AQ conference. If they leave the MWC, they would actually *guarantee* that the MWC would pass the AQ bar, but even if they stay they have a chance that in 2 or 4 years they will be in an AQ conference. That is a big prestige difference and about $1 million per year per school more.
5. When the new TV contracts get negotiated, do you think the MWC with BSU will get more or the WAC without BSU?
How could you have a sports conference with Japan, Australia, and Hawaii? The travel time would kill the grades of all of the athletes. Right now many sports play 2 games per week (Thursday/Saturday or Friday/Sunday)…I’d hate to tell an athlete they had to play in Australia on Thursday and Japan on Saturday.
Other problems are that the countries don’t care about the same sports and there is no market in those countries for many of the sports that UH would like to play.
Uh…hello?
Hmmm….lost a posted comment earlier.
Anyway…
Just got back from chopsueyboy‘s shop and met, who I am presuming to be chopsueygirl.
Had a terrific Waffle Hotdog and a great peanut butter chocolate shake….Mmmmmm….
Did the Mouse leave da house?
The font in the comment box is bigger now
Is the Cat in the Hat?
I hate you. 👿
heheheh
(I better not mention the Garlic Bagel Chips that I got from there that I munching on now.)
A-house,
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association
http://www.collegerodeo.com/index.asp
A-House your idea of the “Asia Pacific sports conference” is a good idea but I see it a lot further down the road, you need to entice those countries into being fans first, then groom them for something like you suggest. I think the first step would be to get a few players from those countries on our teams so that the different countries would start to follow the Warriors. I suggested a long time ago that we should recruit some baseball players from Japan, seeing how popular baseball is there.
I recommend Bulla for the UH Bull riding coach, he knows a lot of Bull.
I agree with much of what Buffoman says. However, investing won’t change the population of Hawaii and there are some limitations there. If Oklahoma may not be able to get enough people to watch to get a TV network to break even (with 3x the population and a much bigger national draw), having UH start its own TV network to cover the US is not feasible. Texas didn’t have to work hard to get a big fan population…they live in a large state that loves football.
The Asian market *is* a good idea. UH has been trying what seems like forever to build that market. However, what people should know is that the *Pac-10* schools have been working on this for a long time. They have understood about trying to tap the Asian market and did exactly what buffoman suggested by going after all of the Universities in Japan.
When the University of Tokyo wanted a US partner to work with on solar energy research, they picked *Arizona State*. That research project already have over $100 million in funding.
The Japanese government set up 5 World Premier International Research Centers. to promote research AND SPORTS throughout Japan. One of those research centers is iCeMS (bioscience, medical research, etc.) at Kyoto University and they selected UCLA as their exclusive partner.
The University of Tokyo has another one of the 5 World Premier International Research Centers and they are using some of that funding to fund their research collaboration and educational exchange they signed with Cal just this past December.
USC’s school of engineering has partnerships with Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, 4 of the biggest Universities in China, 3 in Korea, and 1 in Taiwan. Their pharmacy school has formal partnerships with 6 Universities in Japan, 2 in China, 2 in Korea, etc.
One prominent University in Kyoto (Doshisha University) has an exchange program with Stanford and Stanford has a building on their campus where they work on joint projects. Stanford established a location in Japan 21 years ago and Doshisha University gave them a lot of incentives (including a free building, free utilities, etc.) to move to their campus.
Stanford also set up an institute that helps startup companies throughout Japan. They have a unique expertise in that area with all of the startups they incubated at their campus. I took their Entrepreneurial Engineering class and you would be amazed at how the founders of HUGE companies come back to the school to teach for free about their experiences.
huh? what did i do? 😯
…maybe we could get a University partner in Asia who could help us with some other area…
maybe Agriculture.
…..
Develop better strain of taro….
…..
…..
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uhhhh,
….never mind 🙄
Wow!
The garlic in these bagel chips kinda sneak up on you…
…good thing I stay home alone right now!
Which is kind of why I like the BleacherReport proposed WAC lineup..
Pacific division
Hawaii
San Jose State
Fresno State
Nevada
Idaho
Utah State
Portland State (non-football member)
Sacramento State (non-football member)
Southwest division
New Mexico St.
Texas St.
UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio)
UNT (University of Northern Texas)
Lamar
La. Tech
Denver (non football member)
UNA (non football member)
This would increase viewer-ship by including Oregon.. Colorado.. and Texas
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/401022-why-the-wac-should-consider-a-meaner-greener-future
RE-utah and colorado going to the pac-10 does it affect the out of conference scheduling for them? and also the games that were on the future schedules of utah and colorado with the pac-10? i think it would.
so it looks like utah and colorado are going to the pac-10
I looked at utahs out of conference schedule for 2011,2012,2013
they have 5 out of conference games presently scheduled with the pac-10 schools (oregon 9/17/11, washington st 8/30/12, colorado 9/22/12, washington st. 9/14/13, colorado 9/21/13)
would those game be voided now?
would that also mean that oregon 9/17/11, washington st 8/30/12, colorado 9/22/12 ,washington st. 9/14/13, colorado 9/21/13 will then become open dates to those schools
and would utah be looking to re-schedule 5 new opponents in filling their out of conference schedule for those years once they enter the pac-10? and would oregon have to look to fill one spot on their schedule in 2011? and the same with washington in 2012? colorado 2012? washington st. 2013? colorado in 2013?
also when you take a look at boise’s out of conference schedule for the next 4 years 2012 -BYU 2013-BYU 2014-BYU 2015-BYU would those games be voided and would boise be then having to look to scheduling a different opponent in filling their out of conference schedule?
even when i looked at colorado’s future schedule – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 they will have to void their out of conference games with wash, oregon, arizon st, arizona st and replace those teams with other opponents?
does hawaii have any openings on their schedule?
maybe get rid of a cupcake like lamar and play a noteworthy game would be my wish.. seems like the availability of games are out there now
mih,
Why would Portland St. be a non-football member?
nvm,
Read the article…sorry
Rodeo?
Can the NCAA set standards on the livestock…? 😆
SteveM,
only for the training table!
Friday’s Cattle Call at Tsukiji’s.
Date – 6/18/10
Gametime – 11:30 AM
Roster:
Booster Club President: Stretch(Probable)
Head Coach – Pride(Highest Salary)
Assoc. Head Coach – Kekoa
QB – Jason
Long Snapper – Koakane
Left Wideout – Calvin from Kona(Probable – Day to Day)
Nose Tackle – Wassup Doc
Right Corner – Curveball
SteveM, can you imagine bulls on steroids? hmmmm……
Fascinating…and I agree with all of it. Keep up the good work…I will certainly be back soon
Do I see date? Can’t see one on this post.
The reason that I ask is that I have this event down on my calendar as 8/7/10. I’m just trying to make sure that I have the correct date.
Last night in conversation with Koakane, he told me that the bash was on 10/7, then he said 10/12. Then he said no it’s on the day when we play away at UTEP.
So now I am confused. I don’t know whether to believe my own calendar or to believe Koakane?
UTEP? Huh?
Good idea by roysan16 to look up the schedules for Utah, Colorado and BSU.
UH’s schedule for 2011 and 2012 are full, but there is an opening (probably for a road game) in 2013 and lots of other openings after that. It looks like UH won’t be adding any Colorado games for 2014/2015 since they are already scheduled, but maybe Utah might have an opening. We should note that the MWC/Big 12 plays 8 conference games now and the Pac-10 plays 9 conference games now, so both Utah and Colorado might have *less* nonconference games to schedule.
2011:
09/03 Colorado
09/10 @ Washington
09/17 @ UNLV
09/24 UC Davis
12/03 Oregon State
2012:
09/01 @ USC
09/8 @ BYU
09/15 Lamar
09/22 UNLV
12/01 Western Kentucky
2013 (all home games!):
08/31 USC
09/14 BYU
11/30 Army
12/07 Washington
2014:
09/13 @ Oregon State
09/20 @ Colorado
12/06 UNLV
2015:
09/05 Colorado
09/19 @ Washington
10/03 @ UNLV
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remember you told me it would be pretty funny if I sent ST a text when 808ike won the John Wooden book?
Well I did text ST and he sent me a text asking for my address. Had to explain Ike was the winna and you put me up to it.
Pride.,
August 7th is the Blog Party.
Reminder: Join Na Koa and bring your membership card to be used in a drawing for a UA Na Koa polo shirt, size Medium. http://www.nakoa.org/membership.htm
Here is Utah’s 2012 and 2013 out-of-conference schedule currently:
2012
8-30 Washington State
9-8 @ Utah State
9-22 @ Colorado
9-29 Boise State
2013
8-31 Utah State
9-14 @ Washington State
9-21 Colorado
9-28 @ Boise State
Two of those OOC games will be gone once they start Pac 10/12 play. Even though Utah will likely have one “less” out-of-conference game once they go BCS, how many of their “new found” vacancies will be devoted to keeping BYU on their schedule? Should they pursue that path, of course…
In my previous post:
I meant one “less” out-of-conference game in comparison to the current 9-game conference slate played by the Pac 10 right now. Utah would still have 8 conference games when they move from the MWC to the Pac 10/12.
Thanks Slugger. I already knew the date though. I’m just playing.
K.Mark Takai posted this article recently on FB.
It makes a strong case against Utah in the Pac10 and a case for four others who should have been the 11th or could be the 12th….
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/407042-the-pac-10-would-be-wise-to-add-hawaii-not-utah-as-12
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Eh PowderPuff,
Look who you let in the clubhouse. 🙄
Hi!
Hi wafan!
d1-
Thanks. That bleachereport was a good read. What do you think of his arguments about Hawaii’s inclusion into the PAC10 or PAC12 as it is in this case?
BTW- That was one article about re-alignment which didn’t make my head wanna explode. Thanks again.
d1,
The article states that Portland ST would be non-football until they and the other schools, too, can build up their fan base. The other schools that the article suggests as “football” programs are already FBS or ready with money, fans, facilities, and support.
Imagine if UH students had voted for the Max of $20 per credit for their activity fee like Northern Texas U?
DPK,
I wear boots when walking on glass!
Interesting conversation this afternoon. A dad who works at Boeing asked then argued that a 58.53% was close enough to passing . . . so I should just give his kid a “D” so he can graduate. I held my ground. But, he kept going. I had enough so I finally asked him if he was willing to fly in a Boeing plane if the wing was not quite affixed correctly but was definitely close enough. Heck, what is a rivit or two, anyhow?
He stopped. Laughed, and said he understood. I suggested they look at an on-line class the kid can complete in the next four to five weeks.
Too bad the kid made poor decisions and is the way he is . . . darn helicopter parent. Should be interesting when the kid goes to college or goes to work.
U-Dub might have to cancel the 2013 game since that would be on the day of the Pac-12 title game.
I think that CRW’s mention of BYU is the most likely use of one of Utah’s extra spots in their schedule each season.
d1.
I think like that article for Pac 12 inclusion better than the one I posted earlier…
mih,
😀
Credit to K. Mark Takai for finding that one.
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I was sure that both Fresno State and Nevada (and probably UH) have been hoping for an invitation to the MWC…but I never would have expected *Utah State* would be trying to get into the MWC!
d1 and K. Mark Takai,
I actually also liked that article because it actually made sense. In all the scenario’s discussed his arguments made to much sense. Yes, the small TV market and travel cost are very big draw backs but as the writer stated with the right conference (Pac-12) and with the right money ($13 million a year) those two aspects could be offset.
I am sure if Hawaii joining the Pac-? ever happen, it would be a big boost to the school financially and to the reputation of the school.
But of course, Money talks and unfortunately Hawaii walks.
wafan, what college the kid going to??? UDub or Wazzu. hahahahahha
That’s gotta be a bunch of Bull,
If USU gets into the MWC that would be just crap. Yes USU has a good basketball team in both men’s and women’s but what else do they have. They do not bring much to the table when speaking of BCS points. Yes they are close to BYU but what else. This is just getting out of hand. Pretty soon you going see reports stating that NMSU trying to get into the Big-12. This is just nutz.
Whitey . . .
University of Dummy — aka UDum. Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
I sure hope kid gets his act together real soon. A good kid but really without direction. Really sad to see.
Nytal!
Continuing to hope for sanity with the realignments and a far healthier UH.
evening gang!
wth! they took off the blog link from the home page
had to thru back channels to find’em
betta add the bookmark now
sheesh
Good afternoon Tsai-kos!
Duffer –
I had a feeling that would happen. ST’s memory can be almost as bad as KK’s. bwahahahaha!!
BTW, ST, take your meds!
Rainbowcliff,
Your book is on its way. May the book motivate student athlete to succeed.
Duffer,
Shame on you.
d1島 – mahalo for the bleacher report. makes sense to me
This article is from an Orlando TV station, but there are at least 5 different places mentioning this…the Big East may be inviting Central Florida and Memphis in less than a week! The Big East is worried about being raided by the Big 10 and they only have 8 football schools right now.
C-USA might need to replace both teams with La Tech an obvious choice according to what I’ve read. They could stay at 10 and not add La Tech, or they could decide to go to 12 teams and invite NMSU and La Tech…so, the WAC might still lose more teams.
Colorado Springs newspaper has other speculation that could be bad for the WAC. The mention of SMU makes me think this is just speculation since SMU would drop the MWC’s BCS average due to 2008.
Texas’ head coach talked about the importance of money in today’s Athletic Departments.
d1:
went to the rodeo site you mentioned and looked at the teams in the Rocky Mountain, West region, and big Sky and Boise St is not listed in any of those regions.
So, where did Boise St get points for rodeo for Pres cup points in the WAC?
A-House,
The WAC doesn’t give any points for rodeo. People were just joking about that, trying to say that BSU got points for things that didn’t matter. BSU won the WAC in football, soccer, swimming & diving, women’s tennis.
Despite Garret’s put down, the Asia market is where UH needs to secure a foot hold in sports.
Yes, some PAC 10 schools have an “academic” foothold in several top notch universities in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, but has anyone of them invited any student athlete to join their teams? I don’t believe so because in the “American mind” bigger is always better.
Pomai’s suggestion may be that first step is securing “sports” interest in UH; UH should not only look for the best student athlete, but one or two to make a team and build from there.
Will agree with Garret that the “time” difference maybe a major factor for Hawaii, but there is more than one way to eat a french fry – someone will come up with a heck of a schedule in the future. The time zone difference between Japan/S Korea/Taiwan and PRC and Singapore and Australia is one or 2 or three hours and in the same time zone unlike Hawaii which is plus one day late minus 4 hours. Which means if it’s midnight in Hawaii, its 8pm the next day in Japan. To Singapore, its also plus one day minus 6 hours. Hope my memory from my military days is still strong. Did I get this correct?
Garret:
Boise St beat Hawaii in swimming and diving?
A-House,
UH was in the bottom half of the WAC in swimming and diving.
JD on L&L right now talking about conference realignment.
Sounds like a lotta Horse s**t to me…
…confirmed by Garret! 😆
Boy, if there’s one place you don’t wanna be in diving it’s at “the bottom”
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Garret:
my bad, I was thinking of the Wahine water polo team who has done well the past 5 years.
IIRC, didn’t UH at one time have some very talented swimmers and divers from the international scene?
I know that someone posted a year or two ago the “mandatory” sports a conference member must participate in – football, basketball, and ????
Re-The post game celebration tomorrow
If the Lakers win game seven and the NBA Championship tomorrow will there be celebration and rioting on the streets outside the Staples Center?
Probably.
Past history shows when the Lakers won at home in 2000 70 vehicles were destroyed, including 2 police cars.
For tomorrow’s game hundreds of police are being deployed.
With USC being stripped of two bowl games will this also give the rioters and celebrators added reasons to potentially go overboard tomorrow and cause bigger destruction.
I’m hoping nothing happens. In fact maybe it’s best that the Celtics win, and the city of Los Angeles will be sheltered from the post game celebration, rioting and destruction.
I guess over the next 7-10 days, we will learn what transpired in the WAC conference call today. Jim D mentioned that he will not acknowledge the “solidarity clause” amongst the remaining WAC members which leads one to believe that Fresno and Nevada and possibly Hawaii would not sign on to.
If so, this must have been a jolt to other members!
Jim D also mentioned the continuing 2-way commo between UH and PAC 10.
roysan:
on the other hand, if LA loses, which I hope, the fans may just be pissed enough to riot as their Lakers were favored to win the championship.
d1
thanks for stopping by. Glad I made it back before you left.
chopsueygirl is actually flowergirl
her mom & dad original owners of Sweet Leilani Florist that was on Nuuanu & Vineyard
got a call this afternoon, someone from Smithsonian Institute was in town last week
and collected old Tasty Chop Suey dishes. they want to include in an exhibit how
chop suey restaurants are part of American history. they’re requesting an interview
of whatever I can remember of my mom & dad’s restaurant.
chopsueyboy,
“flowergirl” it is!
Wow! That is an amazing phone call to receive!
Maybe I ate off of one of those plates! 😉
I agree the Lakers should win tomorrow A-House. With the Celtics center unable to play, odds makers favor Laker by 7.5 pts. If Odom (the Laker player) plays like there’s a fog (this is what I heard on the radio) then the game is a toss up. Ahh, game 7 exciting, exciting, exciting.
Hmmmm….
kinda quiet here tonight.
It’s almost as if the HSA took the link off the main page. 👿
Wafan
Been watching you counting down the days like a true “short-timer”! It’s just around the corner. Looking forward to seeing you again!!!
Your conversation with that Boeing dad was hilarious…
d1 – I was getting that stupid cPanel screen for over an hour. This is totally ridiculous. I think they took the worst parts of both papers, instead of the best parts. Who makes these decisions anyway? Shouldn’t they be using focus groups first? I mean they had several months to figure this stuff out.
Go Lakers!
The translation:
“Top design, this blog. Where did you get the template? Was determined very expensive.”
So ST…this German woman thinks you own a very expensive template. No credit for your creativity!
Hi Kekoa!
Damn, had to hack my way in.
I was wondering why no one has been posting for spell..
Just save the URL…
Suspect they are trying to get the backward & forward links working, because they now have the last posts falling sequentially after the current post with a link to comments via the number of comments. BUT, nothing shows up in their BLOG paglet. Ah, well, keep trying…
Guten nacht! (sp?) Going moe moe.
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Slugger – I’ve been using the url since the beginning. I got that stupid cPanel screen for over an hour. I don’t know anyone who likes the new website.
ack!Found a back door…is this going to happen all the time? Anyone i can contact to let ’em know what’s happening?
Wow.. you guys aren’t kidding! There’s no link to this blog?
I’ve bookmarked the blog as:
http://warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com/author/stsai/
maybe everyone else should too.
I don’t need to…just hack away.
Mahalo to those of you who responded to my e-mail. Have managed to put this on my Favorites list, but this really sucks because newbies will never find it. Also, there are other blogs I want to read which don’t seem to be on the Star Advertiser site either.
This is fine for today’s blog, but what about tomorrow’s and yesterday’s?
What the heck is going on here? Maybe it’s time to shake a few rattles and throw some voodoo out there to get some attention around here.
Hey…there’s an ad for Norwegian Cruise Line right now in the upper right corner. Which reminds me, I better get started on my June Tsai-ko Cruise News. If anyone wants to be on my cruiser mailing list for tips and general info, please send me an email. All this is in prep for getting a bunch of Tsai-kos on a cruise–together. 👿
Current known Tsai-ko Cruisers and their voyages are listed at:
http://home.roadrunner.com/~smurashi/tsai-kos/cruisers.html
…and Bon Voyage to Garret, Momo, and family !!!
According to an email I got from Scott Morifuji in response to my complaint that I couldn’t access the blog:
testing
Feast or famine on the blog crawl, huh? For a while, it looked like anytime someone updated a blog, it generated a new hyperlink and left the old one there. I found you guys by using Safari top sites. 😉
Wow!…Numbers are in place now, and every other post is shaded. I’m wondering how long this will last.
…and as soon as I posted that little bit of news, the numbers disappeared and no shady spots! Hrmfh@$#@!
Good morning!
It is Aloha Friday Eve!!!
The Pac-12 will apparently play *9* conference games. That is really bad for UH since if they had reduced to 8 conference games then more Pac-12 games would be available to other conferences. This also means that Utah will have some trouble with their scheduling–if they want to play BYU every year, they will have to bump their scheduled game with BSU.
Interviewer – Now what is it that you remember about your parents restaurant?
chopsueyboy _ Wow lau lau, busting my okole working all da time for free.
Nah Just joking……
New post up.
how do we get to the new post
Roysan16,
Go to home page.
Click sports.
Go to blog section.
Good luck!!
Sometimes “Warrior Beat” doesn’t get on the home page blog until later.
hey whats your myspace page.
It is time that the the 2nd tier of non qualifying AQ conferences start taking a look at forming their own division. Maybe some in the qualifying AQ conferences, 2nd tier team may want to consider and join in too.
A new division in college sports which can create new rules of competing, recruiting, playoff qualification, and conference rewards on how each conference does against another conference.
The schools not getting what the big and wealthy schools are getting should disband and leave these 30 or so schools. Let these 30 schools play amongst themselves and as time goes on interest will wane. The reality is half will have winning records and half will not. 50% of their games will lack the interest after a while.
The other 70 to 80 schools can start creating better ways that will continue to bring money and competitiveness to all. By playing only with teams of the new division and not the other 30, will help build the identity and image of the new division. The new division should not be concerned about what the 30 or so schools do from that point on. As time goes on new rivalries will be created in the new division. Nationwide interest can be developed in crowning a school champion in every sport.
Also depending on the sport an all star conference team to play amongst other conference all stars to determine a conference champion. This will create conference interest and fans of each conference will not only be backing their school but their conference as well. Greater interest and support will be created during conference all stars playoff games. Conference identity, loyalty and pride will be born. Networks will like this too because every fan from each conference will have an interest bringing more viewers to conference all star playoffs.
Believe me that the majority of the 2nd tier schools in or not in an AQ conference can create a better and greater division in the long run to benefit all members and all have the opportunity a chance to play in a championship game. The goal is not how much a school can profit but how all can compete and stay afloat financially with the support of one another with a chance to be a champion. Not like the system today which is basically controlled by the 30 or so schools. The best in any sports needs the weaker ones to look better and garnish the rewards. With the 70 to 80 teams not following the top 30 or so it will force the 30 to conform one day to the success of the new division. The majority rules not the minority. The needs of the many are more important than the needs of a few.
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