From: jpd@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: The Warriors of Hawaii
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:48:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: jpd@camino.austin.ibm.com



Hawaii gets little respect in my book until they start scheduling games at a
decent hour AND start splitting home/away games.  The "Big" wins over BYU
and the "dangerously" close upset of Notre Dame are jokes, since all three
of those games were played WAY late at night.  The BYU games were played from
11:00 to 2:30 am Utah time and the Notre Dame games were even later than that
to the Notre Dame team.  So, gimme a break.  Any team with an advantage like
that could give a good game to any top team.


In article <1992Oct6.000300.29213@clipper.ingr.com>, vikram@clipper.ingr.com (Vikram Gupta) writes:
> The 'Bows have done extremely well this year and they have a 3-0 
> record which speaks for itself. Their first game this year was
> a 24-21 win over Oregon. Beating any team from the PAC-10(even though
> the Ducks are one of the lousier teams) is an accomplishment in itself.
> They followed this with a 6-3 win over Airforce. Then came the wild 36-32 
> win over BYU. All three wins havent come easy and all have been close.
> They came through in clutch situations. The Defense looks awesome and the
> offense is 'weirdly' exciting. They have an All-American in their place
> kicker, Jason Elam, who knocked a 56 yarder in the BYU game. They havent
> shown any ill-effects in having lost a star player, Jeff Sydner, who was a
> sixth round pick of the Philadelphia Eagles, who chucked a year of eligiblity
> to enter the NFL.
> 
> I dint post this article to woof or anything but just to give plain facts 
> about a team that got me introduced to football(that was a 56-14 win over
> over BYU with Detmer, et all). The Bows are the only football team from Hawaii
> and having gone to school there I can tell you that they have a lot of
> following at home. They have always been an exciting team to watch and are 
> highly unpredictable. They play with a lot of emotion and feeling. They had a 
> terriffic 1989 season where they went 9-3-1 and made it for the first time
> to a bowl. They lost very badly. They also had a Top 25 ranking that year.
> The only other 'tough' team they will play this year are San Diego State. 
> They have a good chance of making it to a Bowl and ending with 
> a similar record as 1989. Their unpredictablity (more so in the offense)
> is their undoing but its also the reason that makes them so exciting to watch.
> Last year, when they played Notre Dame(Mirer, Bettis etc etc) they came
> dangerously close to an upset(ND won 48-42). They beat BYU(59-28) on the day 
> Detmer won his Heisman and the team was ranked No.4. 
> 
> Hawaii doesn't boast of being a football powerhouse but the team there has 
> given all the locals out there and also people like me who have lived in 
> Hawaii for a while, a higly emotional and exciting team to shout for.
> I wont be surprised if they continued doing so well or lose the rest of their
> games.  The only pity is, I hardly get to watch any games here in the Bay area. Any pointers on that would be most welcome. I would also appreciate if fans at
> UH could send me stats and stuff. Thanks...
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