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The WARRIOR BEAT IS BACK!

TIME TO LEAVE THE LIFEBOAT!

BACK TO THE BEAT!!!

http://warriorbeat.honadvblogs.com/

ALOHA AND MAHALO FOR HANGING IN THERE!

One Snap and Clear

Auntie MariaLani brings you da news:

Aloha Kakahiaka!
Hoo, wee! We get hurricane next doah but de beeg news is da tornadoes in our back yards..
Planny wind all ovah- and tunda and lightnings too!
Jest like da Warriors, no?

Da birdies are flying and whispering da news on dis last day before da Warrior Beat going open again. Coach Mack says Inoke Funaki- dat cute, happy feet, no-quit-give-hope braddah going start for our first home game with Weber State dis Saturday!
He going get one week for get ready for Weber State. Funaki is one fourth-year junior who led Kahuku High School to a State title-- and no wonda he get da spirit- he wen do his church mission before college. Good boy!

Not only dat- how about Adam Leonard!
Dat braddah wen sack Tebow in da Swamp.
He not only talk- he get da job done on da field- no wondah he stay one team captain, eh?
Das why- when he go tell his teammates aftah da game: "this (Florida) game does not define us," you know he get the beeg pic-cha.

I hope he had get through to da odda braddahs- One Snap and Clear, Brahs!

We got to look FORWARD, not keep looking behind.

No forget our GOALS, eh?
100% GRADUATE
WIN DA WAC
PLAY ONE BOWL GAME!

Ok, Warrior Fans, now we gotta get pumped up for da First Tsai-ko Gate of da Season and CHEERING for OUR WARRIORS on Saturday!

Preseason Reflections

 

Tsai-kos on TV

Pride. sums it up:
Congratulations to the Warriors for making a fine showing in their football game against Florida. As some Tsai-kos have said, I agree that we made a better showing today than we did in the Sugar Bowl. We went head to head with Florida for a full fifteen minutes before the dam broke open. We can look at what we did for the first fifteen minutes of the game and build on that. We can look at the other forty-five minutes and see that we need to eliminate the big plays, and tighten up the special teams. 

The effort was good which is always important. A lot of what we saw today was simply great speed and athleticism on the part of the opponent. There were some things that happened in today's game that we will not see for the rest of the year. The interception that Inoke threw would be a completion in the WAC. That was a great play on the part of the Florida's DB, that we will not see later in the season. The punt returner will be doing that to NFL teams on Sundays in a few years. 

I'm not trying to make excuses. I'm just trying to point out that we will have a very good football team. The last two games that Hawaii played were against fast athletic football teams, the type that we will not see in awhile. The Hawaii players can now face any other team that they play knowing that they played against great teams with great players in Georgia and Florida. They can be confident that Boise, Fresno, Nevada, LaTech, Cincy, and Wazoo, will not intimidate them. 

The defense looked real good today. The offense did real well too. I like the way Ron Lee will keep defenses honest and keep them off-balance. Once the passing game comes around, we will be a force to reckon with offensively. The special teams will need lots of work, but I'm sure Ikaika Malloe is doing that right at this moment. 

The most important thing for the football program right now is to be a consistent winner in the WAC. We need to put together a string of WAC championships and make sure that we can beat the Boise States, Fresno States, Nevadas, and LaTechs on a consistent basis. That is where our focus should be. 

We shouldn't worry about BCS bowl games and top twenty rankings. Those things will come as a result of you succeeding at what you are supposed to be doing. If we can win the WAC on a consistent basis, we will be a top twenty or twenty-five team on a yearly basis.
August 30, 2008 11:47 PM

The Ha'a

The rain came down.
The clouds kept us cool.
Our cups are more than half full.

Tree!!!

And then 10.

Sent from my iPhone

Clouds of Adversity

Big Storm

The clouds are gathering and the field is turning dark. Thunderstorm
may be coming.
Temp dropped about 5 degrees as the Gators bite again.

Sent from my iPhone

Kickoff

GA is qb

Da Bannah

Showers POURED and we are soaked. No banner rule so it was a quick show.

Ha'a

The ua came on with the ha'a!

Warmups

The ua is coming. We have a little shade for a few mins. But it will
blazing. Lots of clouds and a bit of wind. Gator fans have been very
friendly so far.

Fwd: Hawaii Section

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

From: Elizabeth Hahn <liz@lauhala.com>
Date: August 30, 2008 11:42:06 AM EDT
To: Blogger <LizKauai.tsaiko@blogger.com>
Subject: Hawaii Section

Sent from my iPhone

Hawaii Section

Welcome to the swamp

Joel, bhf2, chawan-cut,mr salas,lizkauai

Tailgate

DABANNAH

GAMEDAY EXCITEMENT

Busroute Blogging

This is the Tallahassee bus station. I am an hour out of there on the
way to Gainesville in a low signal area so I have to blog by email.
Bighilofan2 just called - he was shopping at Orlando for tailgate
goodies.
In exactly 12 hours, Genji's will be rocking along with the fans in
the Swamp.
God bless us all and the people in harms way as Gustav bears down on
NOLA.

Gainesville, Here We Come!

It's announced- the Captains of the Warriors are linebackers Solomon Elimimian and Adam Leonard, defensive tackle Keala Watson, and center John Estes.


Mahalo, chawan_cut

Auntie MariaLani says:

Hoo wee! Da Gators fans gonna wear white... dey must be da good guys. Of course- we kona be decked out in Warrior Green so you can see us mo bettah! Jes look for da ti leaves in one corner of da stadium near da endzone.

So- Who kona play?

DA GREEN TEAM 

OFFENSE

LWO—1 Greg Salas

LSB—5 Michael Washington

LT—50 Laupepa Letuli

LG—61 Keith AhSoon

C—55 John Estes

RG—51 Clarence Tuioti-Mariner

RT—78 Keoni Steinhoff

RSB—85 Aaron Bain

RWO—89 Malcolm Lane

QB—12 Greg Alexander

RB—4 Leon Wright-Jackson

You notice one position missing, eh?

QB??? whatchu theenk??? GA? BR? IF? JS?

GOING BE Greg Alexander- the Grrrreeeeat! 

DEFENSE

LE—94 David Veikune

LT—93 Keala Watson

RT—99 Josh Leonard

RE—58 John Fonoti

LLB—44 Adam Leonard

MLB—13 Brashton Satele

OLB—17 Solomon Elimimian

LCB/NB—2 Ryan Mouton

SS—7 Erik Robinson

FS—Keao Monteilh

RCB—3 Jameel Dowling

CB—23 Calvin Roberts

SPECIAL TEAMS

PK—86 Dan Kelly

P—49 Tim Grasso

LS—Jake Ingram

KR—89 Malcolm Lane

KR—2 Ryan Mouton

KR—7 Jovonte Taylor

PR—5 Michael Washington

Fo da White Hat Team:

OFFENSE:
WR—9 Louis Murphy
WR—6 Deonte Thompson
LT—75 Phil Trautwein
LG—63 Jim Tartt
C—56 Maurkice Pouncey
RG—55 Mike Pouncey
RT—77 Jason Watkins
TE—81 Aaron Hernandez
QB—15 Tim Tebow
RB—25 Brandon James
RB—33 Kestahn Moore

DEFENSE:
DE—8 Carlos Dunlap
NT—90 Lawrence Marsh
DT—92 Terron Sanders
DE—49 Jermaine Cunningham
SLB—16 A.J. Jones
MLB—41 Ryan Stamper
WLB—32 Dustin Doe
CB—4 Wondy Pierre-Louis
SS—35 Ahmad Black
FS—21 Major Wright
CB—5 Joe Haden

SPECIAL TEAMS
PK—38 Jonathan Phillips
P—17 Casey Henry
LS—43 James Smith
KR/PR—25 Brandon James
KR—33 Kestahn Moore

So, Warriors, two outa tree, eh? Tree outa tree mo bettah!

GO WARRIORS!!!

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Warriors are a Mystery

Hiding in plain sight???
Alexander getting a lot of snaps during practice at Georgia Tech's facility.
Brent Rausch is feeling 100% but getting about half the snaps that Alexander did.

After morning practice Thursday, they travel to Florida and will have a walk-through practice in The Swamp Friday afternoon.

 Chawan_cut's video. (amazing, eh? da buggah no stay home and still can make video!)

Auntie MariaLani says:
Hey, Tsai-kos! No take nuttin away from Tebow and da Gators. Dat boy is one good boy. He get spirit. He get talent. He work hard- jes like our Warriors.
Da ones who going show up on da Swamp field with da most MANA and PREPARATION, going prevail.
One Team in Absolute Unity= Stronger than da sum of any Individual Talents.
PROFOUND, eh? Hoo, da beeg words and kaona!

Remember: Not too sweet, not too rancid, juuuust right!

POSITIVE ENERGY!
WE BELIEVE!
GO WARRIORS!!!

On the Road

Garret has maintained his UH Warrior Quotes blog site since April 2007 and notes that it is current with all the daily UH football statements.  As an alternative to reading and giving hits to a web site location where a blog strike is in progress, get the direct quotes of the people who make the news at:

  http://warriorquotes.wordpress.com

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From the Redskins Blog yesterday:

All the Colt Brennan fans who were worried after yesterday’s critical report can exhale and stop worrying. Brennan looked much better today, with a couple of terrific passes to Fred Davis (one off his hands, the other a touchdown in the back of the endzone). I’ll be honest: I hope to see Brennan play well tomorrow and then not take another snap until next August, but that shouldn’t be taken as a referendum on him as a player. Nice to see him back in form.

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From the Warriors news:

Coach Mack says  da QB  situation is still open-  no decision at this time.

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Another BEAUTIFUL DAY on the WarriorBoat!

one O-line and 66-roosters

Da WarriorBoat (Auntie MariaLani)

I'm in Vegas with guess who!


Midori7 with Florida Ted's prize (thank you Mei Ling)


WarriorBoat adumdum (Da Menehune)
One mynah birf wen tell me da kine Rausch still get owie and da odda bradda Alexander Da Great was chroween mo wif da primo no ka oi boyz. Who goin' staht? No bodda me.

E-Rob stey #1, but no worries BHF2, Mana goin' see akshun too!

What is Tsai-ko Culture? For those of you who missed it or want to see and hear Bulla again, here you go!



 

Da OMG-line: Laupepa Letuli LT,  "Lafu" Tuioti-Mariner RG, Keith AhSoon, LG. John Estes, C. Keoni Steinhoff, RT.

Coach Mack's travel team get 4 QB, 5 RB, 9 WO, 12 OL, 11 DL, 8 LB, 14 DB and 3 ST. 66 braddahs all together.

So now, wid all dose guys travelling- whatchu teenk. Going be same kine team like last year??? Nah, we goin' keep da Gators guessin' until Saturday!

Coach Mack and da odda Coaches wen check out all da guys real good. Some stay sick, ladat, some get owie, mo bettah stay home an res'.
When dey come good, dey going come back in to give planny dirty likkins on da field again.

Oh yeah, #1 QB Brent Rausch stay all good now (he is one tall buggah!)
And oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no forget Tyler Graunke. He stay all smaht now and wen pass his test so he can come practice.
But no can go Disneyworld dis time. Gotta stay back.
Rausch, Alexander, Funaki and Santos - nuff QB's dis trip.

Solomon Elimimian- oh yeah, he stay bettah now and wen practice again.
And Bryce Kalau'oka'a'ea, (say dat fast 10 times...) going be one running back now. I think he going do good, but da coaches like make sure.


Not too sweet, not too rancid, jesss right!

k-den!

Try wait, try wait!
Uncle Dref (you know da one,eh? Always lookin' and thinkin' and typin') been tell-

WTH! (oops, sorry, family blog) Howcome we gotta go EST timezone for da first game???
What kine travel agent wen fix up dat one 3 years ago???

Whatchu thinkin???
How expensive!
An when dey gonna come ovah hea and get da Aloha Stadium treatment?? Nevah.

We might as well play one Japan team! More closer dan da Swamp!

But Coach Mack - he not going grumble, la dat. Shoots- Heisman trophy winnah, hot like hell stadium, one small handfull green shirts sitting in da one corner all surrounded.
Da boys going show off their new Ha'a to us with our ti leaves...
Den we going see who going get da last laugh... Ha'a  ha'a ...

GO WARRIORS!

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NEWS FLASH!

From bighilofan2:
TO ALL THE HAWAII FAN PEEPS LIVING IN EAST COAST, like Alnbama la dat, if you want to take your family but no can because of costs, i get 5 tickets for give you. My treat. First come is da winnah! If a bunch of Hawaii buddies (5) stationed Navy Jax or Pensacola like go, Hawaii section 49, row 74, seats 14-17.

MariaLani note: Just leave your message for bhf2 on the blog if you can attend the game and need tickets. Yes, they are in the Hawaii section.

Tyler among rooster additions

EDITED POST
Monday, August 25, 2008

From the Warrior Boat
 
Warriors roosters might expand by 20.

Coach Mack's Warriors are going all out in practice to grind da Gators on Sunday.
Dey going to Atlanta Tuesday fo two days before heading to Florida.

Tyler Graunke, stay on da team now but not going to go on da trip. He can practice, tho.

RB Mario Cox stay invited to join the team today even tho his name no stay on da list
More additions include OL Levi Legay and Daniel Johnson and 2007 SL grad  Marc Moody.

QB Kiran Kepo'o no stay onda list..

Da 66-player travel roosters list going come out today.

Warriors like take 4 QBs
— Brent Rausch, Greg Alexander, Inoke Funaki and  service QB Jake Santos (whose mom called today to hook up with us in Florida!)


All in all, it's looking good for da Warriors going to da Swamp.  They are not going just to play, they are going for the WIN!
GO WARRIORS!

Welcome to the Lifeboat!

For the next week, we have abandoned The Warrior Beat in support of Stephen Tsai and his colleagues at The Honolulu Advertiser who have declared a hiatus from blogging until after Labor Day.

Stephen will continue to write articles for the paper which will appear in the Breaking News and will be following the UH Warriors to the mainland as they prepare for their first game in Gainesville on August 30.

LizKauai (me) will also be traveling to Florida and will try to keep up with the goings on before, during and after the game. SteveM will support the Lifeboat in Hawaii.

While Stephen cannot participate directly in any other blog, we will find a way to share information about the team.

Chawan_cut will also be traveling to Florida and will be updating his usual videos and other goodies on Tombo Ahi's site, University of Hawaii Football Fan Blog.

So be of good cheer, Tsai-kos and Warrior fans, and make yourselves at home for the next few days!

Sunday, From The Warrior Boat

EDITED POST 

Paying my onion dues; prize giveaways

August 24th, 2008 by Tephen Sai
I will be taking a break from blogging.
Several non-bloggers — — called for a temporary blog shutdown.
blah blah blah- I have agreed to take a temporary break from blogging.
Break begins tomorrow.
Teven to have daily reports on the Warriors in the (cough.paper.cough.and.cough.online). Following the team to Atlanta and then Florida. Dates,  will be posted on the break dancing news section.
In accordance with cough.newspaper.cough policy, not gonna hang with any other boats during the break.

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Some winners somewhere are:
• Stretch's football media guide— Hawaiianbod.
• JJ's F C Golf C program autographed by Jones, Jesse Sapolu and Reagan Mauia — by Pride to Kekoa.
• SB Whiteout poster — Jack Flash.
• Stretch's Two field passes  — Liz da slippah.
• Autographed AZ Redbird cap (donated by MeiLing) — Florida Ted for his haiku:

Warriors marching
with one mind, one heart, one soul.
Victory is near

7 short and 1 long

From the Warrior Beat:

Tephen Sai hinted
August 22nd, 2008 at late pm.
Blogs sympathetic to Hawaii Newspaper unions will be going on a break for a bit, starting Monday. Warrior Beat will pau hana Sunday pumpkin time.

Lifeboat Advisory

The Tsai-ko home away from home will be ready to take on passengers starting Monday, August 25 and is anticipated to remain afloat until September 2.


See you then!

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End of Blog "Lifeboat Drill"

On Sunday morning, July 20, 2008 it will be  time to secure from this 2-day Warrior Beat blog ship "abandon ship and lifeboat" exercise/drill.  

Bookmark or make Favorite this location in your web browser... you never know when the abandon ship signal (seven short and one long blast on the horn/whistle) will sound again...  

A big Mahalo to LizKauai for her initiative and tireless action in setting up and maintaining this "lifeboat".  These personal blog sites might not be heavy duty enough for the volume we could generate, but adequate to sustain us for a short while. We have more than one lifeboat prepared here--but that's only if needed.

Everyone -- Thank You for supporting ST in this difficult time.

8 from your Tsai-ko lifeboat coxswains:  LizKauai, ST, homey, & SteveM

SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY!

Bloggers and Lurkers, If you would be so kind- please send a shout out to Stephen Tsai to let him know that you cared enough to check in here to see what is happening. No need to register with Gmail if you don't want to. There are several options that don't require registration. Even logging in as Anonymous and posting your blog name is fine.

Happy Aloha Friday and remember Tsister Tsai in your prayers.

Mahalo,
LizKauai

Happy Birthday, Brian K!

Per Jason's request, here is a special HAUOLI LAHANAU Tsai-ko Tshout out To Brian Kajiyama for his birthday!

LoCal Calf Call- the Fuud

Sorry

Much apologies for the blog withdrawal for the next couple of days.
These are difficult times for everyone in the news business.
But I hope to post news that I gather on my own time over here, as well as to continue our discussions on the five Fs.
Thanks to Liz for setting this up and, of course, SteveM's technical support.
Let's stay in touch.

Posted by Stephen Tsai
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Mahalo to Auntie Ronnie for some tantalizing LoCal Calf Call pics!

Sorry

Much apologies for the blog withdrawal for the next couple of days.
These are difficult times for everyone in the news business.
But I hope to post news that I gather on my own time over here, as well as to continue our discussions on the five Fs.
Thanks to Liz for setting this up and, of course, SteveM's technical support.
Let's stay in touch.

Warrior Beat hiatus for 2 days

Stephen Tsai writes:

In support of the six unions representing The Honolulu Advertiser, this blog [Warrior Beat] will not have any new posts Friday and Saturday.

We apologize for the stoppage.

The blog returns with fresh UH news on Sunday.

If you need any updates, feel free to call 525-8051 or email: sstsai@hawaii.edu.

See ya in a couple of days.