U.H. Warrior Football Team Nationally Ranked!!! [2007 Season]
HI played very well. Congrats!
Nov 24, 2007, 4:19 pm
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Nov 24, 2007, 4:49 pm
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Nov 24, 2007, 8:30 pm
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Great win by UH last night. Boise was certainly up for the challenge, but injuries to some of their key DBs spelled trouble for them especially later in the game.
That said, I have a lot riding on UH winning against Washington to close out the regular season.....among other small bets include the rights to purchase tickets at face-value should UH make it into a BCS game. I would certainly love to see the team playing in January.
P.S.---Would UH still take their AQ 737 charter to New Orleans should they make the Sugar Bowl, or would they "upgrade" to something larger (hint...hint)?
That said, I have a lot riding on UH winning against Washington to close out the regular season.....among other small bets include the rights to purchase tickets at face-value should UH make it into a BCS game. I would certainly love to see the team playing in January.
P.S.---Would UH still take their AQ 737 charter to New Orleans should they make the Sugar Bowl, or would they "upgrade" to something larger (hint...hint)?
Nov 24, 2007, 9:38 pm
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Nov 24, 2007, 11:17 pm
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A win tonight would have brought them to the Islands with extra vengeance as they'd be one away from becoming bowl eligible. Just a reminder that UW isn't as junk a team as their record makes them seem. They have the toughest strength of schedule in the nation, a feisty quarterback who will have concussion stories to share with Brennan come Saturday night, and a sizable fan base at Aloha Stadium (all those pesky Huskie alums who are born and raised locals or have moved to the State).
FWIW, also, most if not all the Top 16 at-large berth prospects for Hawaii collapsed today. So it would seem that Hawaii MUST crack the Top 12 to go BCS bowling. But, we should see Hawaii rise in the polls tomorrow after a Texas and Oregon loss. That should, knock on koa wood, bring Hawaii up to #13. Then there should be enough next week to take Hawaii into the #12 spot, if Hawaii wins against UW. That's because (currently #1) LSU will play (currently #18) Tennessee and will likely win (thereby making sure UT doesn't jump Hawaii in the BCS), (currently #4) Missouri will play (currently #10) Oklahoma and will hopefully win, (currently #8) Virginia Tech will play (currently #14--one rank higher in the BCS than Hawaii) Boston College and hopefully win. All these, minus Tennessee, would create upsets that would open up the top 12 and allow Hawaii to slip in. And let's not forget the outside chance that (currently #6) Arizona State and (currently #11) USC may lose against in-state rivals Arizona and UCLA, respectively.
If all goes well, Hawaii may be a lock in the BCS and may have to book that AQ charter flight to MSY and spend NYE eating gumbo on the bayou. Fingers and toes crossed. Should be a wild week and an exciting game on Saturday!
Last edited by slippahs; Nov 24, 2007 at 11:49 pm Reason: wow--typing too fast to miss all those spelling errors
Nov 24, 2007, 11:39 pm
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With Kansas' loss to Mizzou tonight, UH is the ONLY undefeated team in the land.......with a win against the Huskies next week, and an undefeated season, the Sugar Bowl is a no-brainer!
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Nov 25, 2007, 2:41 pm
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Alright, so Hawaii is there. #12 in the BCS rankings. If they can just hold on against Washington, they will be there. New Orleans (most likely--although it would be easier to travel to PHX) on January 1st. Just ONE more game!!!
And Hawaii is #12 in the latest BCS rankings. If they can just, hold, ON!
http://cfn.scout.com/a.z?s=451&p=2&c=557949
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1 Missouri 2779 0.9751 1454 0.9693 0.990 0.9781 2 West Va 2753 0.9660 1467 0.9780 0.970 0.9713 3 Ohio State 2638 0.9256 1383 0.9220 0.910 0.9192 4 Georgia 2368 0.8309 1232 0.8213 0.830 0.8274 5 Kansas 2170 0.7614 1161 0.7740 0.840 0.7918 6 Va Tech 2164 0.7593 1161 0.7740 0.810 0.7811 7 LSU 2215 0.7772 1134 0.7560 0.790 0.7744 8 USC 2059 0.7225 1073 0.7153 0.640 0.6926 9 Oklahoma 2132 0.7481 1126 0.7507 0.550 0.6829 10 Florida 1757 0.6165 898 0.5987 0.640 0.6184 11 Boston Coll 1587 0.5568 861 0.5740 0.720 0.6169 12 Hawaii 1829 0.6418 958 0.6387 0.470 0.5835 13 Arizona St 1446 0.5074 756 0.5040 0.660 0.5571 14 Tennessee 1249 0.4382 654 0.4360 0.510 0.4614 15 Illinois 1254 0.4400 674 0.4493 0.370 0.4198 16 Clemson 897 0.3147 469 0.3127 0.380 0.3358 17 Oregon 716 0.2512 316 0.2107 0.350 0.2706 18 Wisconsin 911 0.3196 493 0.3287 0.140 0.2628 19 BYU 649 0.2277 327 0.2180 0.230 0.2252 20 Texas 903 0.3168 417 0.2780 0.070 0.2216 21 USF 249 0.0874 100 0.0667 0.410 0.1880 22 Virginia 478 0.1677 271 0.1807 0.190 0.1795 23 Cincinnati 512 0.1796 146 0.0973 0.170 0.1490 24 Auburn 402 0.1411 271 0.1807 0.120 0.1472 25 Boise State 493 0.1730 247 0.1647 0.000 0.1125 26 Connecticut 57 0.0200 54 0.0360 0.170 0.0753 27 Arkansas 108 0.0379 145 0.0967 0.010 0.0482 28 Texas Tech 100 0.0351 116 0.0773 0.000 0.0375 29 Air Force 89 0.0312 41 0.0273 0.000 0.0195 30 Michigan 40 0.0140 17 0.0113 0.000 0.0085 31 Penn State 10 0.0035 19 0.0127 0.000 0.0054 32 UCF 5 0.0018 18 0.0120 0.000 0.0046 33 Oregon St 9 0.0032 7 0.0047 0.000 0.0026 34 W Forest 1 0.0004 9 0.0060 0.000 0.0021 35 Rutgers 0 0.0000 6 0.0040 0.000 0.0013 36 Kentucky 11 0.0039 0 0.0000 0.000 0.0013 37 Troy 3 0.0011 3 0.0020 0.000 0.0010 38 Okla State 0 0.0000 4 0.0027 0.000 0.0009 39 Miss St 0 0.0000 4 0.0027 0.000 0.0009 40 Tulsa 2 0.0007 2 0.0013 0.000 0.0007 41 Michigan St 0 0.0000 3 0.0020 0.000 0.0007 42 UCLA 5 0.0018 0 0.0000 0.000 0.0006 43 Houston 0 0.0000 2 0.0013 0.000 0.0004 44 Fresno St 0 0.0000 1 0.0007 0.000 0.0002 45 Florida St 0 0.0000 0 0.0000 0.000 0.0000
Nov 25, 2007, 3:30 pm
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Ahhhhhh......dreams of Hawai'i in da Shuggah Bowl...how appropriate! http://www.hcsugar.com/
Nov 27, 2007, 4:36 pm
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UH Football Article
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BILL DWYRE
Here's hoping Hawaii isn't voted off BCS island
Bill Dwyre
November 27, 2007
Perhaps the most important game in this season's BCS horn of plenty will be played Saturday night, with the vast majority of college football fans already warm and cuddly and tucked in.
If you are in the East, you might catch the ending by setting your alarm for 3 a.m.
This is the essence of the University of Hawaii's problem. It has a very good football team -- unbeaten as a matter of fact. But few know about it and even fewer care. Some schools have special-teams problems. Others have depth problems.
Hawaii has a geographical problem.
When it takes its 11-0 record and No. 12 Bowl Championship Series standing against Washington, the game will begin at 6:30 p.m. Honolulu time. That's 8:30 in Los Angeles and 11:30 on the Eastern Seaboard, including New York City's Big Apple, where all major decisions in this sport and others are chewed on.
ESPN2 will carry the game. Few will watch. Bedtime is bedtime.
What a shame.
What is at stake is huge. It is also a nuance.
The BCS needs Hawaii in one of its five major bowl games. It needs it so it can market the memory of last year's Boise State moment.
You remember. Everybody remembers.
Boise State was the little team that could, the unbeatens from the always-ignored Western Athletic Conference, who actually got into overtime in the Fiesta Bowl against traditional football factory Oklahoma and actually ended up beating the Sooners.
Chances are, you remember how.
Ian Johnson took a Statue of Liberty-like handoff and skirted left end for the winning points as all those blue-chip, soon-to-be-NFL-millionaire Sooners defenders tried to retrieve their jockstraps. Then Johnson, the best thing to come out of San Dimas since "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," kept right on running toward the sideline, where he proposed marriage to his girlfriend, cheerleader Chrissy Popadics.
Television was there because television is everywhere. America loved it. Florida won the national title a week later, but people were still buzzing about Ian and Chrissy. And only part of that buzz was their story.
The rest was a national "well done" for the little guy, Boise State. The 98-pound weakling had stomped the guy kicking sand in his face. This whole BCS deal, which was designed by football factories to further enhance the well-being of football factories, has struggled from the start to find politically acceptable ways to keep it a members-only club.
So, when all the computers and football-factory-brainwashed voters and all the tweaks to the computers were unable to exclude Boise State, the team from Idaho made the most of it.
And guess what? It was the best thing that ever happened to the BCS. It was suddenly more than the same 10 teams changing places near the top of the rankings every year and the same millionaire coaches being fawned over by the press and TV talking heads as they droned on about establishing the running game first.
Boise State ran a flea-flicker! Then a Statue of Liberty! In overtime! This was great fun.
So the BCS, even though it may not know it, needs another Boise State, another outsider with a chance to be wild and crazy and fun and maybe upset the apple cart again. Hawaii is the team.
It has a quarterback named Colt Brennan who couldn't be more aptly named. His arm is a gun, and he used it this season to establish an NCAA career touchdown passing record with 126, with probably more to come against Washington.
Last Friday night, Brennan took Hawaii to the outright WAC title by passing 53 times, completing 40 for 495 yards and five touchdowns. He also ran for a touchdown. The team Hawaii beat was once-beaten Boise State, beaten, incidentally, by Washington. The player most effusive in his praise for what Hawaii had done was Ian Johnson, still one of the best running backs in the country.
Hawaii has a coach named June Jones, a veteran of nine years in the program, who has more creative things on his mind than establishing the running game. He knows Brennan has a gun, so he keeps sending bullets into the huddle.
Jones also should get points for his handling of the aftermath of a concussion suffered by Brennan against Fresno State. Brennan wanted to play the next game against Nevada two weeks ago, and that's understandable. He was then -- and remains today if any mainland voters ever watch him -- a top Heisman Trophy candidate. Jones and Brennan knew that one missed game could take him down the list a bit.
Jones did the right thing. He opted for health. He sat Brennan out against Nevada for all but two plays. He decided that he didn't need to win at all costs, and he nearly lost.
As expected, Brennan's stock slipped in the Heisman race, as Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's has risen. Such is the nature of this fickle award.
To be clear, this is not an argument for Hawaii to be No. 1, even if it beats Washington and goes to 12-0. Strength of schedule has to factor in somewhere, somehow, and Hawaii did play Charleston Southern, after all. But then, Kansas was contending to be No. 1 until this weekend, and it played nonconference games against Central Michigan, Southeastern Louisiana, Toledo and Florida International.
Kansas, of course, is a member of a conference that is in the BCS club, the Big 12.
Assuming Hawaii beats Washington, no easy assumption, then it deserves to be in the BCS mix somewhere. Maybe even if it doesn't.
It is No. 12 now, which just gets it in the BCS door. But another weekend of games brings another shuffling of votes and computers and nothing is a sure thing.
The BCS certainly could use this outsider, this interloper, to spice things up, to deviate from the sameness. America loves these kinds of stories.
The hope here is that Hawaii gets full consideration. The BCS needs to have its eyes wide open on this one. Get Hawaii in a bowl game, at a decent hour, and nobody will go nighty-night.
BILL DWYRE
Here's hoping Hawaii isn't voted off BCS island
Bill Dwyre
November 27, 2007
Perhaps the most important game in this season's BCS horn of plenty will be played Saturday night, with the vast majority of college football fans already warm and cuddly and tucked in.
If you are in the East, you might catch the ending by setting your alarm for 3 a.m.
This is the essence of the University of Hawaii's problem. It has a very good football team -- unbeaten as a matter of fact. But few know about it and even fewer care. Some schools have special-teams problems. Others have depth problems.
Hawaii has a geographical problem.
When it takes its 11-0 record and No. 12 Bowl Championship Series standing against Washington, the game will begin at 6:30 p.m. Honolulu time. That's 8:30 in Los Angeles and 11:30 on the Eastern Seaboard, including New York City's Big Apple, where all major decisions in this sport and others are chewed on.
ESPN2 will carry the game. Few will watch. Bedtime is bedtime.
What a shame.
What is at stake is huge. It is also a nuance.
The BCS needs Hawaii in one of its five major bowl games. It needs it so it can market the memory of last year's Boise State moment.
You remember. Everybody remembers.
Boise State was the little team that could, the unbeatens from the always-ignored Western Athletic Conference, who actually got into overtime in the Fiesta Bowl against traditional football factory Oklahoma and actually ended up beating the Sooners.
Chances are, you remember how.
Ian Johnson took a Statue of Liberty-like handoff and skirted left end for the winning points as all those blue-chip, soon-to-be-NFL-millionaire Sooners defenders tried to retrieve their jockstraps. Then Johnson, the best thing to come out of San Dimas since "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," kept right on running toward the sideline, where he proposed marriage to his girlfriend, cheerleader Chrissy Popadics.
Television was there because television is everywhere. America loved it. Florida won the national title a week later, but people were still buzzing about Ian and Chrissy. And only part of that buzz was their story.
The rest was a national "well done" for the little guy, Boise State. The 98-pound weakling had stomped the guy kicking sand in his face. This whole BCS deal, which was designed by football factories to further enhance the well-being of football factories, has struggled from the start to find politically acceptable ways to keep it a members-only club.
So, when all the computers and football-factory-brainwashed voters and all the tweaks to the computers were unable to exclude Boise State, the team from Idaho made the most of it.
And guess what? It was the best thing that ever happened to the BCS. It was suddenly more than the same 10 teams changing places near the top of the rankings every year and the same millionaire coaches being fawned over by the press and TV talking heads as they droned on about establishing the running game first.
Boise State ran a flea-flicker! Then a Statue of Liberty! In overtime! This was great fun.
So the BCS, even though it may not know it, needs another Boise State, another outsider with a chance to be wild and crazy and fun and maybe upset the apple cart again. Hawaii is the team.
It has a quarterback named Colt Brennan who couldn't be more aptly named. His arm is a gun, and he used it this season to establish an NCAA career touchdown passing record with 126, with probably more to come against Washington.
Last Friday night, Brennan took Hawaii to the outright WAC title by passing 53 times, completing 40 for 495 yards and five touchdowns. He also ran for a touchdown. The team Hawaii beat was once-beaten Boise State, beaten, incidentally, by Washington. The player most effusive in his praise for what Hawaii had done was Ian Johnson, still one of the best running backs in the country.
Hawaii has a coach named June Jones, a veteran of nine years in the program, who has more creative things on his mind than establishing the running game. He knows Brennan has a gun, so he keeps sending bullets into the huddle.
Jones also should get points for his handling of the aftermath of a concussion suffered by Brennan against Fresno State. Brennan wanted to play the next game against Nevada two weeks ago, and that's understandable. He was then -- and remains today if any mainland voters ever watch him -- a top Heisman Trophy candidate. Jones and Brennan knew that one missed game could take him down the list a bit.
Jones did the right thing. He opted for health. He sat Brennan out against Nevada for all but two plays. He decided that he didn't need to win at all costs, and he nearly lost.
As expected, Brennan's stock slipped in the Heisman race, as Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's has risen. Such is the nature of this fickle award.
To be clear, this is not an argument for Hawaii to be No. 1, even if it beats Washington and goes to 12-0. Strength of schedule has to factor in somewhere, somehow, and Hawaii did play Charleston Southern, after all. But then, Kansas was contending to be No. 1 until this weekend, and it played nonconference games against Central Michigan, Southeastern Louisiana, Toledo and Florida International.
Kansas, of course, is a member of a conference that is in the BCS club, the Big 12.
Assuming Hawaii beats Washington, no easy assumption, then it deserves to be in the BCS mix somewhere. Maybe even if it doesn't.
It is No. 12 now, which just gets it in the BCS door. But another weekend of games brings another shuffling of votes and computers and nothing is a sure thing.
The BCS certainly could use this outsider, this interloper, to spice things up, to deviate from the sameness. America loves these kinds of stories.
The hope here is that Hawaii gets full consideration. The BCS needs to have its eyes wide open on this one. Get Hawaii in a bowl game, at a decent hour, and nobody will go nighty-night.
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Nov 28, 2007, 10:50 pm
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And, for all those interested again, Hawaii are 14 point favorites against the Huskies. Should be interesting once again; with all those pesky Huskies alum in the crowd...
Nov 28, 2007, 11:00 pm
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Nov 30, 2007, 7:30 pm
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And just for those interested: UW is delayed coming into HNL. 
They were scheduled to arrive on chartered flight, ATA 6317. As per ATA's flight tracker, the flight was supposed to arrive at about 3-4 p.m., but will now arrive closer to 10 p.m.
See what happens when you charter an old DC-10 to do the job?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMT6317
They were scheduled to arrive on chartered flight, ATA 6317. As per ATA's flight tracker, the flight was supposed to arrive at about 3-4 p.m., but will now arrive closer to 10 p.m.
See what happens when you charter an old DC-10 to do the job?
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMT6317
Last edited by slippahs; Nov 30, 2007 at 7:39 pm