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!
Monday, September 1, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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
August 30, 2008 11:47 PM
