Hawai'i Opens Camp on Monday
I think for Hawaii, it's more like those who stay may very well not know nor care where they are staying anymore, for they will have been on the road for what seems like a year at that point. I almost feel sorry for them actually, because their away schedule is by definition rather painful. Almost.
"While our record screams "coach", our boarding passes read "first class"."
"We're at our best when we're not on the ground."
"We're not very good at football."
"Australia sounds cool."
they will still lose 63-0. Doesn't matter when, where, why, or how they'll open camp.
Does anyone know the spread for this game?
First time starting QB for us in game 1, I anticipate some growing pains, think the points are a good bet.
This ^^^^
First game out will be used to work on things once its salted away. Which should be about midway through the 2nd.... I'd take the points, many times.
Not only will JMFH work on basics, he'll also let the young'uns play - the ones that won't be redshirted. He'll use the first several games to sort out fundamentals and timing issues, like he did last year, while getting the kids some useful reps. By the time the big boys host us, they'll be hitting on all cylinders.
This is my prediction, written in stone for all to heed.
If it's more than 35 points, I wouldn't touch it, either way, with a 10-foot pole. This could very easily be 45-0 at the half, but it could also be a 34-3 final if the coaching staff wants to get the starters out early and look at a bunch of young players in the 2nd half instead.
Plus in the opener, Harbaugh is likely to pull some starters fairly early if we are up big. He'll also probably treat it somewhat like a practice (again, if we get up big) and not really prioritize scoring tons of points.
Should be in the Big West Conference.
That's a good observation, I had no idea.
heads.
but don't go into that room....
cool
Aloha means hello and goodbye.
BTW they played OSU close for a half last year.
Because Meyer was too busy fucking with the QBs and the rest of the team couldn't believe they actually had to play in that game. I remember watching and the arrogance was unreal.
Bosa got a targetting ejection and was smiling and laughing until they enforced the penalty and reversed the ejection...then he looked confused and kind of upset that he had too keepl playing.
It was a disaster.
When do the polls start to come out?
Who gives a damn...they shouldn't come up until after week 3 or week 4 anyway.
They ruin it for teams at the bottom of the Top 25 and make it easier for teams in the top 10.
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59-7. Hawaii will have flown roughly 20 hrs once they set foot in Ann Arbor. Not too mention our team is as hungry, talented, well coached as I've ever seen it. I predict 28-0 by the end of the first quarter tbh. Hawaii is going to be so tired from flying and thinking that it's six in the morning that they won't even be awake until it's 42-0 at half. I feel bad for those guys, is Dave Brandon their AD or something. What stupid scheduling.
Hawaiian names are fun to say
Aloha means breathing in the spirit or essence of the moment and of the people you are with.
From their schedule, they will be lucky to win a game.
I miss the old days of actually scheduling football teams to play in September.
Like 1985: #13 Notre Dame, #15 South Carolina, #17 Maryland.
1986: Notre Dame, Oregaon State, #20 Florida State
1992: #3 Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Houston
1997: #8 Colorado, Baylor, Notre Dame.
etc
We used to be the premier opening game every year.
Cross your fingers the playoff committee really starts emphasizing SOS - and I don't mean the kind where one 11-1 team gets in over an 11-1 team that didn't have as many quality wins. I'm talking about to the extent where a 10-2 team gets in over an 11-1 team because the 10 win team played a much tougher schedule. Until we see something like that, there's no real emphasis for a major conference team already playing 9 conference games to schedule multiple heavy hitters outside of conference play.
The odds are still much greater that that extra loss will do us in than a low SOS score will doom us against another team with an equal record.
All we have to do is look back at last year to understand. We lose to Utah by a TD week 1 in Utah. We play that game in January at a neutral site and it's probably as ugly for them as it was for Florida. Then again that was Harbaugh's first year as coach and probably as less talented of a team as he will ever see in Ann Arbor, if you can believe that. That's why the big boys like the Alabama's of the CFB world usually open up with a nationally televised game. They can compete year in year out. We're about to see that at Michigan. Don't worry our teams are actually going to be prepared and talented enough to beat top 10 teams week 1.
When the Playoff guarantees a berth to every major conference champion, it will make sense to schecule a bunch of good teams. Otherwise, Michigan is doing it right: one good team for SOS and a couple of tomato cans to help them get ready for the serious part of the schedule. Also, when the 1985, 1986, 1992 and 1997 schedules were made, the teams weren't all as good as they are now or as they would be in the years they playted.
South Carollina and Maryland were not traditionally good. Oregon State was usuallly bad. OK St and Houston were usually easy games. Baylor was not yet great. Colorado has a couple of good years but were usually bad.
It usually looked like Michigan was trying to balance their non-conference schedule like ND did their full schedule: equal parts tough teams, medium teams and bad teams.
the game just showed up a day or so ago in my espn.com favorites section. means football cant be far away.