Hawaii in danger of dropping football
Michigan may need a new nonconference opponent in 2016.
August 18th, 2014 at 9:56 PM ^
I AM GROOT
August 18th, 2014 at 10:11 PM ^
I AM GROOT
August 18th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^
First!
August 19th, 2014 at 2:44 AM ^
I don't miss it at all. I thought "first" and the sooo urbane "frist" were two of the stupidest things I ever saw, at least after the first 20,000 times.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:16 PM ^
getting old
August 18th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
I AM GROOT :'(
August 19th, 2014 at 6:16 AM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 10:48 PM ^
I love you.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:00 PM ^
More importantly, though, we DO have an all-time winning record against Hawaii, don't we?
/semi s
August 18th, 2014 at 10:10 PM ^
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August 19th, 2014 at 6:51 PM ^
i remember watching that 1986 game at the malibu inn, out in socal. go blue!
August 18th, 2014 at 10:06 PM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 10:07 PM ^
Braylon start coaching there?
August 18th, 2014 at 10:07 PM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 10:13 PM ^
This is only the beginning if the nflization of college sports goes through. MAC sports will be next.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
Actually, I think it's the opposite of professionalization. I'm hoping the coming court decisions press MAC teams to deemphasize sports. EMU, Akron, Kent St, etc have no business playing big-time college football. Instead, they could regionalize, play each other, and shrink their athletic budgets to a sustainable level.
I don't like big-time sports programs that are heavily subsidized by student bodies and taxpayers. Spending enormous amounts of public money on a program that a tiny percentage of students will ever have an opportunity to use isn't a good use of funds--at least in my book.
August 19th, 2014 at 3:33 AM ^
August 18th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^
program went straight downhill after they switched the warriors. . .
August 18th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
to the peaceful and tranquil rainbows.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
to the peaceful and tranquil rainbows.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
First thing in the morning I'm gonna punch Lenny in the back of the head.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
Maybe we can add someone like Wisconsin or Nebraska to the non conf?
/s
ok not /s
August 18th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
This won't surprise me one bit if they lose it. I think their stadium is too large. Plus, not many teams want to travel that far to play a game, so their program's traveling expenses have to be way higher than literally every other program.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:31 PM ^
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August 18th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
August 19th, 2014 at 9:33 AM ^
Sure. But with that rule in place, Hawaii doesn't have a problem getting home games. That's my only point.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:22 PM ^
How they can compete in any conference at all for sports is really a wonder.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:26 PM ^
Fuck Dodd. He's blaming autonomy but mentions they're 2.1 million in the hole right now, which has nothing to do with autonomy since that hasn't even begun. He doesn't blame rising coaches' salaries of course. I don't know all the reasons for their budget deficit, but obviously they have some unique problems being in the middle of the Pacific.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
As you might note here thanks to USA Today (more details within regarding revenue and expenses), Hawaii's finances were a bit unstable long before Big 5 autonomy was even a thing:
YEAR | TOTAL REVENUES | TOTAL EXPENSES | PROFIT / DEFICIT |
2013 | $37,017,100 | $40,357,387 | ($3,340,287) |
2012 | $37,879,740 | $40,319,775 | ($2,440,035) |
2011 | $36,801,458 | $36,344,952 | $456,506 |
2010 | $36,239,991 | $34,946,092 | $1,293,899 |
2009 | $33,355,712 | $35,717,190 | ($2,361,478) |
2008 | $37,427,263 | $35,133,798 | $2,293,465 |
2007 | $30,384,508 | $30,236,183 | $148,325 |
2006 | $29,172,055 | $28,348,930 | $823,125 |
2005 | $19,878,946 | $22,036,611 | ($2,157,665) |
August 19th, 2014 at 9:11 AM ^
...a year by year comparision including football W-L as well as their travel budget for all sports.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
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August 18th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
The article I read (Link) said, "[T]hey've operated in the red for 11 of the past 13 seasons... reported in July only 15,500 season tickets had been sold, and that the Warriors have not sold less than 18,000 since the 1970s." It's a bit sad to witness college football changing and less interest in attending games.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
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August 19th, 2014 at 12:07 PM ^
down the left sideline on a scramble.
What made me go "Holy Cow" about the play was that Henson was sitting in the pocket with a defender (DE?) coming at him full speed from the right. Henson noticed him about two steps away and yet was able to accelerate from standing still quickly enough to avoid the sack. (Maybe the legend grows in my mind over time.)
August 19th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
Watch it at 14:30 of Wolverine Historian's post above. It was aweseome, the defender was right next to him in the backfield and Henson just ran away from him. I remember thinking he was toast and then he just turned on the jets. Nobody touched him and he looked like he jogged the last 20 yards.
August 18th, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^
The Stevie "Wonder Blunder" fiasco didn't help their finances either. The Athletic Department was scammed out of $200,000 by people claiming to be agents for Stevie Wonder. Then the university spent another $1.2 million on PR, outside legal advice, and a settlement with the outgoing AD under whose watch the whole fiasco took place.
August 18th, 2014 at 11:17 PM ^
LOL Their first mistake was thinking that Stevie Wonder had any juice as a fund-raising act in 2013 to begin with. His best creative days are long, long behind him.
August 18th, 2014 at 11:21 PM ^
It's sad and perhaps unfair, but not every city can support an NFL team, and not every university can support a D1 football team.
Hawaii is in such a unique situation that they either need the rich autonomous teams to throw them a bone and support the existence of their program, or they need to give it up.
August 18th, 2014 at 11:26 PM ^
WAC, Mountain West fiasco's also kind of screwed them over.
August 19th, 2014 at 12:31 AM ^
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August 19th, 2014 at 12:26 PM ^
who only taught at UM in the fall. He spent the winter semester in Hawaii. I asked him why he just didn't get a gig at UH-Manoa. He said he didn't want to spend any of his time in Hawaii indoors when he and all of his would-be students would be staring longingly out the window.