2006 (Jr.) 434(att) 294(comp) 67.7(%) 4,222(yds) 50(td) 14(int)

Comment from: bulla [Visitor] · http://www.haia808.org
al,

another great one from kapalama heights, like paula akana, russ shimooka, ron mizutani, robert kekaula, and DPK....what a lineup!
05/30/07 @ 09:38

Comment from: bungahead [Visitor]
Riley Wallace with Portnoy:

Portnoy: How is life after coaching? Wallace: "It sucks"

Riley is going to Vegas, and is gonna split his time between there and here. Looking at becoming a "host" for Boyd Gaming

Portnoy asks him to rate the athletic directors under whom he's served

Ray Nagel? Entered at a tough time, very professional, dealt with NCAA re: Oneil scandal, and started it in a different direct that was professional and good.

Sherrif? Sheriff was a compromise hire between Larry Little and Rockne Freitas. Took Uh off to another level. People person who go along well with coaches. Understood coaches (because former coach), went out into the community and got support.

Yoshida? Was in training when SHeriff died. Probably wasn't ready when Sheriff died, grew in position, and became a very, very good AD in the end.

Frazier? Very professional and organized. Very good in front of committees. Not as much a people person as any of the others and needs to work on that. HF in toughest time since Ray Nagel's tenure. Never gonna satisfy everybody.

Re: coaching search

It should never have taken that long. Sherrif would have picked up the ball and known who he wanted. Yoshida would've been more secretive, but picked up Nash.

But, of course it HURT RECRUITING. Lost 6'10" guy to Utah St. That player will put Utah St. in the top 3. UH had a 70% chance of getting the kid.

Thinks the fans will be pleased with what Nash puts on the floor.

3 guys Riley was most proud of:

There are more than three, but AC Carter is number 1.

Alika Smith is next, Trevor Ruffin, Jaren Akana, Troy Bowe (off the course wasn't always the best), Micah Kreuger, Savovich, frustrated with Carl English (ego problems), Tim Shepard (tough but limited talent at the time)

Does Riley think football is so dominant at UH that other sports are suffering?

No, football pulls the train. Gotta keep football happy. gotta pump the energy and money into it, keep fans happy.

State has to support Athletics more. Can't rely on upper campus. Academia always thinks athletics is stealing their money.

UH is the only game in town, and must support it.

Most disappointing moments in Riley's career?

Xavier game at Dallas in NCAAs. UH should've won. That team could've gone 2 more games deep.

Recruiting mistakes (unnamed kids who didn't fit in Hawaii community)

Regrets his younger days ranting and raving.

Best memories?

Jaren Akana and Kalia McGee rolling in the center of the floor at the Delta Center.

Back to back wins against Tulsa at Tulsa.

Michigan St. Game.

The Indiana game.

Kansas game.

Long Beach St. game at blaisdell.

10 years from now when you come back, what will people say their "memory" of Riley is?

People knew how hard I worked, the players played the way they were supposed to play, and the teams were competitive every night, win or lose.

Closing: Times change and people and administrations change. Keep the Bows in your hearts. . ..

Permalink 05/30/07 @ 07:52

Comment from: TM [Visitor]
Al,

i agree with you 100%

Did you see Mike and Mike this morning? (Yes, I go to bed at Midnight watching Mike and Mike.) They cranked out two possible scenarios, considering Kobe's salary:

Scenario 1
Chicago Bulls get: Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum
Los Angeles Lakers get: Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, and Ben Wallace

Scenario 2
Detroit Pistons get: Kobe Bryant
Los Angeles Lakers get: Richard Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace

A: "He is our right guard. We haven’t declared (starting center) because (Johnathan) Ingram is doing a nice job at center and Samson (Satele) is doing a nice job at center and guard. So we’re going to have to make that determination yet. Rex Hadnot is our right guard. Vernon (Carey) is really developing. I’m watching him, and Vernon is really coming out and practicing like a pro everyday. Rex has missed a couple of practices because of a lower back. If that light comes on there, look out, because we’ll have us a heck of a player at right guard."

Q: Do you wonders why Rex played center previously?

A: “That’s really what you’re looking for; you’re looking for guards who can play center. He’s our right guard and a center. When you get in a game, you need to have at least three guys who can play center every game. I remember when Charley (Casserly) and I were together in Washington, we went down to Tampa Bay, and it was the only time I can remember getting down to our last center who happened to be our short snapper – Trevor Matich. He might have been our fourth. You’ve got to have some guys who can play center, even if they’re guards.”

Ht: 6-foot-3
Wt: 182 lbs
Forty: 4.75 secs
GPA: 3.50
Class: 2008 (High School)

Last year's stats (from rivals.com):
2006 (Jr.) attempts: 434 completions: 294 completion %: 67.7 passing yards: 4,222 TDs: 50 INTs: 14

Student Sports Baseball caught up with Tyler Wilson on his recent two sport success at Greenwood High School. Tyler, a member of the 5-0 Chicago SPARQ Midwest team at this year's Area Code games, recently added an Arkansas state championship in football to his impressive resume. Wilson, who plays quarterback for Greenwood, defeated Polasky Acadamy in the 4A state championship game 56-55. Tyler is already is known as one of the top pitching prospects in the 2008 class, has now proven to be a very good quarterback as well.

The two sport phenom is not sure whether he will play both football and baseball in college, "It depends on how things go in the next year and a half," Tyler said. Tyler enjoys playing football and baseball equally; it just depends on which season it is.

The SPARQ team went 5-0 and as one of the youngest players at the Area Code games, Tyler got quite an experience. "It gave me a lot of confidence, I got the opportunity to play with the best players in the country, we mixed well together and had good chemistry and I loved it" he said.

Tyler's goal after high school is to graduate college, but doesn't put the opportunity to play pro baseball out of the picture. "It depends what happens, I have a lot of choices, I'm not really thinking about it too much just yet," Tyler said about going pro if he was to be drafted out of high school.

Tyler said that the Area Code games opened the door to many opportunities, including pro teams being interested in him, as well as many colleges be interested. Some of the colleges Tyler is interested in right now are; Arkansas because of their great tradition and it's on 30 minutes from his home, as well as Oklahoma and Miami.

Did you see Mike and Mike this morning? (Yes, I go to bed at Midnight watching Mike and Mike.) They cranked out two possible scenarios, considering Kobe's salary:

Scenario 1
Chicago Bulls get: Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum
Los Angeles Lakers get: Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, and Ben Wallace

Scenario 2
Detroit Pistons get: Kobe Bryant
Los Angeles Lakers get: Richard Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace

Greenwood's Tyler Wilson received 3 more written football offers this week from New Mexico, Missouri and Hawaii.

This brings his total offers to 9.

Written offers: Alabama, LSU, Arizona, Tulsa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Missouri and Hawaii

Verbal offers: Mississippi State and Arkansas State

Others colleges expressing sincere interest: California, Tennessee, Auburn, Illinois and Oklahoma.

June visits include: University of Missouri, Nike Elite 11 camp, Alabama, LSU, New Mexico and Arizona.

Yea, Some guy named "Pick" from Kansas. I mean Pick aint a name you need to be QB. Pick just got picked, Oh My!!!!

5A West All Conference
Tyler Wilson

All Area
Offensive Player Of The Year
Tyler Wilson

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't kobe instrumental in Shaq wanting out from the lakers??

Bryant was left "beyond furious" by a report in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times that read, "as a Lakers insider notes, it was Bryant's insistence on getting away from Shaquille O'Neal that got them in this mess."

O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat after the 2003-04 season, and the long-held belief has been that the deteriorating relationship between O'Neal and Bryant was a factor in O'Neal's departure.

In response to the Times' story, Bryant, who was interviewed by Stephen A. Smith for a Philadelphia Inquirer, said Buss "called a meeting with me after he spoke with Jim Gray [of ESPN] to talk with him about Shaq's future in the middle of the 2004 season.

"He met with me at the Four Seasons Hotel here [in Los Angeles] across from Fashion Island, which is now the Island Hotel," Bryant told Smith. "I went up to his penthouse suite. [Buss] looks me dead in the face and says: 'Kobe, I am not going to re-sign Shaq. I am not about to pay him $30 million a year or $80 million over three years. No way in hell. I feel like he's getting older. His body is breaking down, and I don't want to pay that money to him when I can get value for him right now rather than wait.

"This is my decision. It's independent of you. My mind is made up. It doesn't matter to me what you do in free agency because I do not want to pay [Shaq], period.'"

"Dr. Buss said that," Bryant told Smith. "And I haven't said anything for years because I've always felt like folks were just looking to create controversy. Now I know. I realize what extent [the Lakers] will go to, to cover themselves."

Reached afterward, O'Neal told Smith that be believed his former teammate beyond reproach.

"I believe Kobe 100 percent," O'Neal said when reached in Los Angeles. "Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is telling the truth. I believe him a thousand percent.

"I would have respected Dr. Buss more as a man if he would have told me that himself, because I know he said it. But he didn't [tell me]. He never said a damn word to me."

Wilson led Greenwood with 563 passing yards and 6 touchdowns on 39 of 66 completions.

Greenwood quarterback Tyler Wilson has been wracking up an abundance of recruiting attention over the past couple of months, and he now boasts some of the best offers in the Southwest.

"I don't think Arkansas is totally out of the picture but I have known for awhile now that I would probably have to move away for the right situation to occur.

"Moving away is going to be a part of the situation."

“I think our offense is clicking at the right time,” Wilson said of the Bulldogs, which gained 656 yards of total offense. “Receivers are making big plays and the offensive line is doing a great job. You don’t go out there planning to score 54 points.”

Greenwood's Tyler Wilson could be underrated at this spot, and he could move up with a solid summer and 2007 campaign.

Putting together a top 10 for Arkansas this year is like trying to pick a Lamborghini over a Ferarri. The class is deep in this group, probably even deeper than last year from 1-10, which was one of the deepest overall classes in the state's history.

Wilson has already been offered scholarships from Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, LSU, Minnesota and Tulsa. Arkansas is taking a long look at him and may have already offered if he was not so good at baseball. Arkansas has a commitment from Camden (Ark.) Fairview quarterback Jim Youngblood, and he is also a draftable baseball prospect, which could concern the Hogs in offering both in the case that if both choose baseball over football. That could leave Arkansas in a pickle at quarterback, and Houston Nutt's record with getting baseball/football prospects on the field is not good at all.

Wilson is a precise quarterback with solid height and athleticism. He had 4,222 passing yards last season, a 67.7 clip, with 50 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

Minnesota chasing elite talent
First-year head coach Tim Brewster already has seven verbal commitments for the Class of 2008, six coming from in-state recruits, and the Star Tribune reports that he's just getting started.
The Golden Gophers have extended 101 scholarship offers to highly prospects from all across the nation. The list includes QB's Jacory Harris (Miami, Fla./Northwestern) and Tyler Wilson (Greenwood, Ark.), WR Harry Adams (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./Dillard), lineman Courtney Campbell (Los Angeles, Calif./Fairfax), and Arizona pledge, ATH Gerell Robinson (Chandler, Ariz./Hamilton).

Hootens.com Top 10 Recruits

1. Joseph Adams, CAC, 6-1, 175 WR/CB SR
2. Tyler Wilson, Greenwood, 6-3, 180 QB SR

Jake Santos,Senior Quarterback
St. Augustine Saints

A league title, a playoff berth, and a new CIF record...just a typical day at quarterback for Jake Santos. Throwing for a CIF record 8 touchdown passes in one game, 4 to WR Albert Williams, Santos led the St. Augustine Saints to a 62-10 win over the Scripps Ranch Falcons. Santos included a 90-yard touchdown pass as well, one of many on his way to Kubroco.com Player of the Game honors

Santos played two years at Mesa College and earned a scholarship for the 2006 season at NCAA Division II Missouri Southern State.

The presence of St. Augustine passing machine Jake Santos at quarterback makes the South explosive. Santos led the Saints into the section Division III final, passing for 2,767 yards and 35 TDs.

Forcier is the 4th straight St. Augustine Quarterback named All State. He follows Richard Kovalchek, Jake Santos, and his brother Jason in being named All State. Coach Ralph also had All-State quarterback, D.J. Busch at Santana. This is his and Coach Dick Van Raaphorst's fifth straight All-State quarterback.

Final score: Grossmont 70, Mesa 7. And it could have been even more lopsided.

After stumbling out of the gate in a 22-10 loss to Los Angeles Valley on Sept. 4, Mesa's Olympians rebounded for a win last week at Glendale on the passing of former St. Augustine High standout Jake Santos.

Santos passed for 248 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and the San Diego Mesa defense held the Glendale offense without a touchdown all day as the visiting Olympians won 16-10.

Santos, who clicked on 10 of 21 passes, connected with Tyrell Spain on an 80-yd TD pass in the first half. His 56-yd TD pass to Michael Stapleton proved to be the only points of the second half, breaking a 10-10 tie with just under five minutes left in the 3rd quarter.

"If Santos gets outside, he completes his pass automatically," Grossmont coach DAVE JORDAN said of the Mesa sharpshooter. "So we have to keep him contained, put the pressure on."

Want to run the ball? Go ahead, with Westbrook and Correll Buckhalter and Ryan Moats and Tony Hunt and Nate Ilaoa, five backs (not all of whom are likely to be on the team, but that is a story for another day) with different styles and skill sets.

Bryant will obviously waive his no-trade clause, but he has a trade kicker in his contract that will add $9.5 million to his total contract value, a cost to be absorbed by any team that acquires him. The money would be paid like a signing bonus and would be spread out over several seasons toward the new team's salary cap. The Lakers had to pay a similar fee to Lamar Odom when they acquired him from Miami three years ago, paying him about $8 million.

The 2003-04 season started with Bryant returning shakily to the team while standing trial, already focused on leaving as a free agent the next summer.

It even made Jackson's book, "The Last Season." Phil wrote that Bryant told him he wanted to get away from O'Neal, noting, "I'm tired of being a sidekick."

This is how it works: Nobody is making anything up. Everyone clings to a scenario that absolves them.

I'll never believe the two things were compartmentalized in Buss' mind. I'll always believe Bryant's looming free agency factored into Buss' decision.

About a decade ago a local station tried to put these state high school "brain bowls" on TV.

Well, Kobe Bryant has part of what he wants: he's dominating the NBA Conference Championships.

The morning began with a startling declaration from L.A.'s most recognizable athlete, a demand by Kobe Bryant on a radio show that he wanted to be traded from the Lakers, the only team he has played for since he was a teenager.

Before it could fully sink in with die-hard followers of the Lakers, Bryant's ultimatum zigzagged as he appeared on two more radio shows, an apparent realization by the nine-time NBA All-Star that, well, things just might turn out OK after all and he might like to stay.

Then, late in the afternoon, Bryant told The Times that, sorry for the confusion, but he still wanted to be traded.

When he spoke to The Times at 5:27 p.m., he reiterated his position from earlier in the morning.

"Nothing's changed," Bryant said. "It's just a matter of I don't want to go no place else. I don't have much of a choice. When things like this go down, you just sit back. What can I do? It's like a broken record."

When asked if he still wanted to be traded, he answered quickly and firmly: "Yes."

Though they would win three NBA championships together, Bryant chafed at being perceived as O'Neal's wingman, and at Jackson's insistence that the basketball be delivered to the low post before Bryant jacked up a jump shot.

“Turn my game down?” Bryant bristled in December 2000. “I need to turn it up. I've improved. How are you going to bottle me up? I'd be better off playing someplace else.”

At the time, the Lakers were defending NBA champions, and they would win two more titles in succession. But Bryant's priorities – then as now – were, in order, me, me and me.

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