Hana

dul

Hey, we're not staying on this site very long. I guess we're moving sites. But since I generally ignore our bosses, I haven't paid attention to how things will work out.
I guess you guys will learn when I learn.

mack on l&l....June Who?

TChahng ~ Howzit TC?! Will you be coming home to watch at least one *home* game this season?

Also did you know that BG & Betty were coming to Korea during the April 26 weekend?

Yah! Kekoa!

I'll try to come home for one game, other than the Hawaii Bowl.

Wow BG and Betty will be here!!! I am slated to move to Japan next month. I might miss them.

ST:

Keep us informed!

I'm getting my fix of Warrior Football right now. I'm watching the 2006 Idaho game. Just pau the 1st Qtr. Idaho played tough for the first 15 minutes, but it's all over now. They're gonna put up 21 more points before half time.

TC - You are a true Warrior fan!

Ronnie does the same thing when she needs a "fix." Only Ronnie swears like sailor at her TV while she's watching! I heard she was on her 3rd TV since last season ended.

Hello, Tsaikos. Hello, ST.

Very interesting notes for spring ball. Hmmm.

G'nite, Tsaikos. G'nite, ST. ...

AWESOME, ST! This is what I've been waiting to see. My goodness I think our O-line is going to rock, baby!

Hisatake vs. Letuli at LT is going to be a battle royal.

AhSoon gets the early nod at LG because of his experience, but Ginlack played pretty well at RG last year and the loser of the Hisatake vs. Letuli battle may drop back inside.

Interesting to see Hansen at C. I thought Lefiti was going to be #2 there.

Ieru would be a huge RG for us, but Lefiti may be the guy based on his rep out of high school. Didn't see enough of Lipp or Lafu last year.

I gotta believe that Kia has the edge here, at least until LaCount shows up in the fall. Could LaCount pick things up fast enough to start at LT? Can't wait to find out.

Kind of curious why Daniel JOhnson hasn't made more of an impact. He was all state out of Washington I think. And what happened to Travis Campbell and Manu-Olevao?

Good Morning from the East Coast Tsaikos!

Warrior Mojo,

Good morning bradda. Good questions re Campbell and Manu Olewao. I coming Honolulu next thursday pm so I can watch practice Friday am, work late am. Maybe we can hook up. I was kiddin yesterday, in case u neva no.

Good morning Tsaikos.

Read today's HA on JJ's dispute over $400K. Funny I never heard he disputed that at the time he quit. He's relying on a 2003 verbal. Moa betta for UH the legal guys fight dis one out, no love lost here. True, I would have negotiated that away at the beginning of 07 if he'd asked. But the way he left really hiked up my panty.

Good morning
Go Warriors
Go Pepa

how heavy is Mahaley now?

AhSoon gets the early nod at LG because of his experience, but Ginlack played pretty well at RG last year and the loser of the Hisatake vs. Letuli battle may drop back inside.

I was going to post this after reading ST's post. I guess WarriorMojo and I have been thinking the same thing about the OL.

Interesting to see Hansen at C. I thought Lefiti was going to be #2 there.

I thought that Lafu might be the #2 center, but if he has the starting RG spot then I guess he would focus on just that position. If Estes got hurt, I thought that they would slide Lafu over and someone else would take the guard position...but I haven't seen the workouts and this is just my projection from last year.

Good Morning Tsaiko Nation!

Good Morning Warrior Nation!

Kekoa, you are too funny!

I'm so glad today is Thursday. Rob arrives today with her family. It will be great being able to hang out again!

Both Hisatake and Letuli have so much potential, I cannot imagine having one of them just serving as the backup LT...which is why I figured the person who doesn't get the starting LT spot would move to guard.

WarriorMojo,

Did you mean to write about LaCount starting at LT or RT?

Ronnie,

Say "Hi" to Rob25 for me! I'm sure that you will have a great time together during her visit!

After the Sugar bowl debacle, I fully expected Ahsoon & Steinhoff move to Guard where they both seem more suited.
Winner of Hisatake-Letuli to LT and loser to RT?
With Estes at C, O-Line would be solid.

Hi Garret! I'll let her know you said, "Hi". I hope you are feeling better.... And guess what I found last night while going through a stack of papers? The parking pass for Legoland that you let me use! Yikes! Do you want me to send it to you?

dcwarrior,

I don't know how heavy Tua is now. Will look for him late next week, along with some others, and get back.
Its starting to get exciting around here.
Mahaley get speed no doubt and da bradda can hit the QB. And the 2 Watsons gotta inspire baby Watson to compete. I figure he probably going have to move out now. Coach Cal is a home wrecka. Nah, blood is tick.

bwahaaahaaaa.

Guard would be a good fit for Tuioti-Mariner as he would be able to concentrate on blocking and not have to worry about calling schemes for the entire O-Line.

No matter how you look at it, the interior O-Line looks solid, and spring ball will bring out the best tackles.

Hmmmmm,
Only 4 inside backers, that's a tough position to be so short on.
Traditionally, it seems that someone is always hurt.

I don't know about anyone else but this line up sure looks good, with a lot of playing time for a lot of the backups too. Waaaahoooot
14-0 baby undefeated all the way to the BCS Bowl where we'll kick their a$$. My new slogan this year is "Yeah I'm a homer and proud of it"

☺Happy Birthday Dr. Hinshaw!!!☺
(Okay, I know I'm a couple days late!)

☺GoodMorning Tsaikos and Warrior Nation!!!☺

For completeness, here's a list of the 2008 recruits. Yeah - many may be redshirted, but the JC guys may play and contribute and Paipai at LB too!

• UH FOOTBALL RECRUITS - 2008 Recruits

Greg Alexander, QB, 6-5, 240, Santa Rosa (Calif.) Junior College
Craig Bell, WO, 6-1, 188, Cerritos College (Calif.)
Chris Black, CB, 5-10, 170, College of the Canyons (Calif.)
Dustin Blount, SB, 5-8, 175, Compton College (Calif.)
Jeramy Bryant, CB, 5-9, 177, Los Angeles Harbor College
Steve Christian, CB, 6-1, 175, Kennedy High (Calif.)
Haku Correa, DE, 6-1, 270, Damien Memorial School
Paipai Falemalu, LB, 6-3, 220, Kahuku High
Geordon Hanohano, DL, 6-2, 270, Saint Louis School
Ryan Henry, SB, 5-9, 185, West Los Angeles College
Jake Heun, RB, 6-2, 250, City College of San Francisco
Kainoa LaCount, to, 6-7, 290, College of the Canyons (Calif.)
Art Laurel, LB, 6-1, 205, Leilehua High
Brent Rausch, QB, 6-4, 190, College of the Desert
Earvin Sione, WO/S, 6-5, 190, McKinley High
Alema Tachibana, LB, 6-3, 200, Kahuku High
Jovonte Taylor, WO, 5-9, 185, Los Angeles Southwest College
Mike Tinoco, WO, 6-2 1/2, 200, Saddleback Community College
Tuiatua Tuiasosopo, OL, 6-1, 290, Saint Louis School
Christian Vasconcellos, S, 6-2, 190, Damien Memorial School
Lewis Walker, CB, 5-11 3/4, 170, Judge Memorial High (Utah)

• Gray Shirts

Levi Legay, OL, 6-3, 270, Kealakehe High
John Manu Olevao, OL, 6-3, 300, Kahuku High
Miah Ostrowski, SB, 5-9, 170, Punahou School
Steve Stepter, CB, 5-10, 180, Crenshaw High (Calif.)
Drew Uperesa, OL, 6-2, 260, Punahou School

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Feb/07/sp/hawaii802070372.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Feb/08/sp/hawaii802080386.html

http://www.sportshawaii.com/sh/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13462

http://www.rivals.com/commitlist.asp?Year=2008&School=136

BTW - Mahalo again to ST and Princess for scheduling and hosting the chats! These are really informative and provides the fans a multi-dimensional insight into "our Team!". I'm sorry I missed Rocky and Coach Mack but the Tsaikos did ask most of the important questions. Mahalo! :-)

Good Morning, Brew!

Are you ready for the Fresno St and Boise St games? :-)

Ronnie,

I'm glad that you found the parking pass. You can just give it to me at the next Calf Call.

The starting offensive lineman who just quit Michigan's team really got some things off his chest. His father also played for Michigan, so this is a long-time relationship that has gone bad.

Offensive lineman Justin Boren is not leaving Michigan quietly.

Boren, who made 14 starts for the Wolverines, received his release papers on Wednesday and will transfer after completing this semester, according to his father, Mike Boren, a former U-M linebacker.

A day after Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez announced Boren had decided to leave the team following four spring practices, Boren issued a somewhat vague statement saying, in part, that the "family values" he had grown accustomed to while playing for Michigan had "eroded in just a few months" under Rodriguez.

"Michigan football was a family, built on mutual respect and support for each other from Coach Carr on down. We knew it took the entire family, a team effort, and we all worked together. I have great trouble accept that those family values have eroded in just a few months. That same helmet that I was raised on and proudly claimed for the last two years, now brings a completely different emotion to me, one that interferes with practicing and playing my best and mentally preparing for what is required.

Garret,

I'll do that.

http://brahsome.com/2008/03/27/kenneth-page-appears-to-have-a-large-bag-of-bills-for-an-amateur-athlete/

It’s pretty safe to say that each and every academic institution in America doesn’t have the cleanest reputation when it comes to participating in Division I athletics. We like to turn a blind eye most of the time, but when we get the following email (with the above picture attached), it’s pretty hard to ignore.

This pic was on Clemson recruit Kenneth Page’s Myspace page and it came down about as quickly as it went up. As some of you know he was a huge 4 star OL football recruit
this past year and it came down to Clemson and UNC where [UNC] lost out on signing day.

He must have been working hard this winter.

Now, one would assume that Kenneth — whose Myspace page you can see here — would be smart enough not to have a picture taken of himself in the backseat of a car, wearing a Clemson orange polo shirt and holding a huge bag of straight-from-the-bank $20 bills. On the other hand, we thought Kelvin Sampson could quit texting his players by now.

So we did our due diligence and checked up on his Scout.com page as well, and frankly, it’s pretty hard to argue that it’s not in fact Kenneth in the photo with the bills. It’s entirely possible that Page just has a really rich grandmother who likes to hand out wrapped bills in plastic bags, but either way, you gotta figure Kenneth and Lil’ Bobby got some explaining to do.

Yes, Clemson recruit Kenneth Page could have some explaining to do. According to the site Brahsome, Page posted this image on his MySpace page and "it came down about as quickly as it went up." Unfortunately for Page, somebody grabbed it during those few precious moments.

Page, an offensive guard from A.C. Flora High in Columbia, S.C., was graded a four-star recruit by Rivals. He picked the Tigers over North Carolina, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, South Carolina and Tennessee. Golly gee, wonder why? As Brahsome points out, those are "straight-from-the-bank $20 bills."

The NFL again is looking into the possibility of allowing a designated defensive player to wear a radio earpiece similar to the coach-to-quarterback communicators already in place.

Teams are expected to vote on the proposal next week at the annual league meetings in Palm Beach, Fla. The proposal, which needs 24 votes to pass, fell two votes shy a year ago.

"I don't want to get overly confident about a vote, but I do feel that its time has come," Rich McKay, Atlanta Falcons general manager and co-chairman of the competition committee, said today in a conference call with reporters.

Both offensive and defensive coaches objected to previous versions of the proposal. Offensive coaches wondered why defenses needed the devices, which allow teams to send in adjustments without using hand signals, and defensive coaches were concerned about how it would be handled if the radio-wearing player wasn't part of a particular package and therefore was watching from the sideline.

McKay said the focus on New England's illegal videotaping of defensive hand signals could make teams more willing to vote for the defensive helmet radios.

UH did not make it on this list.

Pop Crunch ranked the top 50 universities based solely the attractiveness of their women ... and Arizona State tops the list. Though frankly, it couldn't have gone wrong choosing Florida or Washington or USC or Cal or Alabama (just kidding).

ST,

Your new blog site is above. I personally don't like it because the comment font is a lot smaller than your blog font. Also, you are going to have to adjust your list. I don't think it's xhtml anymore.

Good Thursday Warrior nation.

Great lineup for the '08 season.

Question -
1. Who is the backup for our " Iceman" Dan Kelley.
2. Who will replace punter Tim Grasso ?
3. Would Jake Ingram be considered 3rd man for Center posistion incase of injuries to Estes and Hansen.

These are 3 critical posistions that can make or break the game.

The new site may have color, but man is it hard to read the roster. And wut up wid da mostest recent posts? And da font is putting a strain on da maka. Oh well, more change to go with the trend. Gotta go with the flow. Ahhhh, spring is in the air. There's nothing like the smell of football in the morning.

Good morning Tsaikos here and around the world. Spring is here and hope it is starting in your place.

Bulla, duffer, al and I had "dinner" last night. Weighed myself this morning and gained 4 lbs. Nuff said about dinner.

Forgot to say, Happy Birthday Chancellor Hinshaw. May there be plenty more.

Stephen- I like the old (this) blog format better. The new one makes your post hard to read because of the lost formatting.

ALOHA KAKAHIAKA!

Hope everyone is healthy or making good progress in that direction!

Hauoli Lahanau to any birthday- celebrators!

ST,

the new site sucks...plain and simple

whitey,

you guys are too much...awesome times always. glad you had a bite with al, he looked like he was getting taller the last time i saw him, haha

have a great day, and it is snowing in Ogden Utah right now, haha

Good Morning Tsaikos!!

bulla - no need be shame, just tell us how you really feel about the new site

regarding the new site....i vote NO!

tell the powers that be, the volume of hits that are generated will DROP DRASTICALLY, that is my 2 sense

Bulla
Succinct
Word

stretch,

if i had your youthful eyes and good looks, the change in venue would not be a challenge. i am an aging 'wannabe' whom the older i get the better i was. haha

i have to type in CAPS on the other site, just to see what dribble i am posting....oh no, what is AL going to do.

could it be the return of Fearless Fly with the big black rimmed glasses? stay tuned boys and girls, for the breaking newz

I guess the designers don't realize that less "whitespace" on the page strains a person's eyes.

Eyes get tired quicker = less posting and reading = less hits to the site!

I hope this is a beta site and input can be given to make it better!

and the xhtml tags don't work on the new site.

and I think it's kind of funny to have to answer a question to post...

ronnie,

see the influence that our Phi Betta Kappa Wappa boy wonder resident JASON has over ST?

all the questions are math questions....we should make them essay questions, so the host/monitor has to read all of them before allowing the posts....

like....how can we have world peace?

"Shidler donates additional $1 million to UH business college"

Upper Campus is on a roll!

if i wasn't dyslecix before, i thnik i am ytterp close now.

Can someone tell me how to check out the "new" Warrior Beat??

Hi bulla, Ronnie, haka!

Hi xs-homey - when do we get to see the new 2???

hiho!

allub - no worry, you not alone

morning bulla, liz, ronnie, haka, stretch, whitey, maverick, rage, garret, brew, lv, and the rest of the early morning gang!

stretch - see Rage at 6:20, awaiting your wtf.

oh yeah forgot, Howzit Stephen!

i'm with you folks, don't like the new one

bulla - scary thing is i understood your 7:04

Stretch - link is above.

Loa,

haha, oh no the word is out.....in dog we trust.....speaking about dogs....the new site is not user friendly, not that we should all be using our friends, but you know that sometimes, we gotta make a stand.

so Al and Homey, stand up...Homey, stand up....sorry, i didn't know you already were. next time use the chair. but really, ST, can you answer because inquiring minds would like to know......HOW COME?

Aloha Kakahiaka Liz

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE SPONSORS FOR THE NEW SITE FOR ACCELERATING MY DEGENERATIVE OCCULAR NERVES. MAY I SUBMIT THE BILLING FOR MY ‘COKE BOTTLE’ CONTACTS I WILL BE ORDERING THIS WEEK.

I CANNOT TYPE AND HOLD THE BINOCULARS AT THE SAME TIME, JUST LIKE THE PEEPING TOMS AT NIGHT…WAIT, THEY USE ONLY ONE HAND. OK, NOW I SEE, WE HAVE TO TYPE WITH ONE HAND….OUCH.

CYA, GOTTA HIT THE ROAD

June Jones and Daniel Mary Smith now have something in common -- the hear what they want to hear.

Me too. I hear what I want to hear. I'm going in to payroll later to inform them the boss gave me a raise not reflect in my paychecks the last seven years. It was at a cocktail party before a company dinner. He complemented me on my shirt, and things went from there. A raise, yah, that's the ticket......

Geeeeeez

bulla - now i even more confused on which one to read and post. at my age very difficult to multi task.

Hi Stephen, Loa, Bulla, Liz, Haka, stretch, Whitey, Maverick, Rage, Garret, Brew, and LV! (Loa, thanks for letting me "use" your list)


Bulla - I like your idea! "Name 10 things you can do to help preserve our planet's resources. Explain why you chose each of the 10 things." :-)


I guess now would be a good time to mention that I don't like the beta site for the Advertiser either... I think it looks too busy.

New blog looks blah. I can't read it. I'll need to get glasses.

Oh by the way,
GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!

We got an inch of snow this morning between 4 and 7 and now the sun is out shining bright. When will Mother Nature make up here mind?

I'm sticking with this site until everybody else leaves for the new one.

why do they have Korey Reynolds playing rumming back we need as many DE as possible?

I don't care what JJ says was "said". Especially if it was from HF. The contract was not reworded and that is that. Leigh should have demanded that. Or did they "trust" HF?

JJ, just pony up, k?

Go Warriors!

G-RAM
I believe Korey was at RB last year already.

Haka,

"JJ, just pony up,k?"

Too Funny!

ronnie - your welcome, glad to see that rob will be visiting, don't get in too much trouble eh.

Aloha Kakahiaka! Aloha Tsai-meister!

WOW! Wish I could catch some of the Spring practices.

IMUA WARRIORS!!!

The new blog is too hard on the eyes. Stay here until the sheriff comes.

Loa, I'll try to keep us out of trouble, but I make no promises! ;-)

Hmmm... I wonder if my son knows he watching kids tonight....

mei ling - hopefully we get to see some video of the practices.

djmitcho - wow snow, be safe and stay warm, well at least the sun is out.

haka - you think the former ad when pull one fast one or what

Are you kidding me??!! I guess that the Honolulu Advertiser has determined that the vast number of WB readers are ants or something, because that's what you'd have to be to read the new site!

DON'T FIX WHAT AINT BROKEN!

Comment from: Ronnie [Visitor]

I hope this is a beta site and input can be given to make it better!

Permalink 03/27/08 @ 06:59

Ronnie,

It was a beta site, but now it's going to be the new site. When I first learned about it on Kim's blog, I complained there, then I sent an e-mail to tell them I didn't like it.

Have you seen the home page? Talk about information overload, I think they tried to cram the whole paper on the home page.

OK, I just woke up.
So here are the best answers I can provide:
• To organize spring ball, there has to be three distinct teams. So while some guys may be listed at No. 2, if this were an actual game situation and No. 1 went down, someone other than the No. 2 might slide over.
• Grasso is in Utah this semester. He returns in August.
• Ingram's backup is going to be ... Ingram. Yes, his younger brother joins the team in August.
• Another Temecula kicker walks on in August. He'll serve a year as an apprentice to Kelly, then take over in 2009.
• I left off the heights and weights because the weights vary so much at this time of year. For instance, Salas is listed at 185. He's 205 now.
• And I have no idea how to code the other site, which is why everything came out in one paragraph.

Loa,
I wouldn't put it past HF to say he did say it, whether he did or not, just so that UH will be out $400K. I don't think however, that it will release JJ from having to pay the penalty unless something more tangible comes up to back it up. HF was removed for not doing his job soooo...

And the boosters should get half the kala or at the very least, all the money should be put into the football program exclusively. IMHO

Try clicking on the honoluluadvertiser.com banner above the date. It doesn't take you to the Honolulu Advertisers homepage, it tries to take you to the blogs front page which doesn't exist.

New site:
I agree. I don't like it at all.
Mostly because I can't find my darn blog.
First, the color isn't Advertiser red.
Second, the format is just like another paper's.
And it's too hard to read the comments. I don't like jumping from page to page. How the heck are we supposed to do chats?
But there are a lot of geniuses who get paid a lot of money who make these decisions.
It's all above me.
And, Gigi, you might not have a choice. The blog might be on the move permanently.

Good morning Tsaikos: Bulla, and those visually challenged (includes me)- In Windows and IE you can use Control plus the "+" or minus "-" keys to zoom in or out of the page. Should leave your hands free of binoculars. LOL
BTW still used to the old format
--sj-macro and myki

Haka-

Good point.

What about the other $400K ponied up by donors? JJ should do the honorable thing and give that portion back as well. 400 G's can go a long in helping our program in other ways.

re: JJ.
My take is that this gets settled.
We can all say a contract is a contract, but he coached the five seasons of the contract, gave UH the biggest season in its history and made the athletic department a lot of money.
This debate is being held at the Upper Campus level.
But if UH sues to get JJ to pay, then it's going to be very difficult to atract a top-level coach here.
This arrangement only benefits the bad coaches who get fired before their contracts expire.

ST - So they pay these "geniuses" a lot of money but not the people who run the paper??

Hey ST...

I noticed Korey Reynolds is listed as a running back...what's the scoops on that???

GO WARRIORS!!!

When JJ left my thoughts were he gotta do what he gotta do for himself.

With this morning's article about his "cockaroach" attempt it shows his true self. It was always about the money. Nevah mind about his professed love for the land & people of Hawaii, his book and his foundation. Money truly is the "root of all evil" and in this case da kala got a hold of him, all $10,400,008 worth.

Just like when family starts fighting over an inheritance. Money & Greed can really make things ugly. In this case of JJ, it's the wrong shade of green.

Be a man JJ, practice what you have been preaching to your players for the past 9 years. Honor your commitments & maintain integrity. Garans if it was Coach Mac, he would have paid the $400,008 due.

Mahalo ST for your prompt reply on my questions. That makes my day to read about our backups in place.

For some reason, I thought Grasso was gone for good. He is a darn good punter too. Hate to lose him, and need him to mentor the next punter in line. Jason Elam Jr. perhaps? :>

Trust me. The people who came up with the new format make a lot more money — a lot more — than me and the other writers.

Hi Stephen, are we stuck with that new site? Are we being punished?

ST

WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN MANU OLEWAO???????? I was waiting for dat bradda to step up. A missed typo, He injured or something???? plz, wats da scoops???