tonight and random thoughts
By Jeff
on the show tonight, ESPN 1420, at 6, will be Tommy Amaker, head coach at Harvard, and former head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan, as well as a former assistant at Duke, and our own Athletic Director, Jim Donovan. Should be interesting.
On the National scene, Ohio State appears to be the clear number one and remains unbeaten while all the teams around it are taking a loss or two ( in Syracuse's case, three). Pitt's loss at home to a good Notre Dame team was a surprise to some, but N.D. can beat anybody if they play their game. Syracuse was undefeated and ranked third before two unexplainable losses to Pitts and Villanova, but the blow out loss last night at home to Seton Hall is unexplainable and suggests that once again the Orange are over-rated. Duke suffered its only loss at Fla State, but will not lose many other games this year.
The game i am looking forward to is tonight's match-up against the two surprise teams, BYU and San Diego State. The Aztecs go into Provo as the only other undefeated team, but BYU is ranked in the top ten and is very tough to beat at home. I look for there to be only one undefeated team after tonight.
In the world of the WAC, the second half of the season starts tomorrow when everyone but the Bows will see action. Hawaii will get a few more days to prepare for Utah State who will play at San Jose tomorrow. Lot's of build-up to the Saturday night game. Should be a large crowd. Utah State has run thru the conference again, but the toughest game it faced so far was our game to open the Conference season.
By the way, I should know by now that anytime i raise any issue about the team that is in anyway critical or asks the tough question, i will receive lots of responses. I don't need to agree with them , and i often don't, but i appreciate the responses. Fans have opinions, and some fans will not and cannot accept any other opinions that do not match theirs. That's ok, but don't expect me to waste everyone's time by simply writing a blog that says everything is always great in Alohaland. Its not.
Hoops Talk
January 26th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Don't apologize f'r an'thing, Portnoy. You TELL IT LIKE IT IS, a viewpoint that a lot of folks here in the isles brag that they do, but, when it comes to it, they assess the situation and then go walk back into the shadows; YOU actually DO the talking, so thanks. Hey, what was one of your catch phrases on AM 1500? "Happy talk," ha ha ha, lot of us still remember!
Lookin' forward to the show tonight and to you and Curran's play-by-play next UH b-ball men's Warrior game. You are quite knowledgeable on the game and a Grease has no cause to fawn on you for no reason, son! Keep on, brotha, no stop!
January 27th, 2011 at 7:31 am
"Tell it like it is."???
An LA sportscaster used to say "Time to call em like I see em." That's what we do; no one knows how it is. Jeff is great at calling it like he sees it.