Tokai University (Japan) football players and coaches are spending this week with UH's players and coaches

HA Note: "Tokai University players are training this week on the University of Hawai'i's Lower Campus. Their day begins early. At 6:30 a.m., the Tritons watch the UH football players go through weight-training exercises. The Tritons then practice on UH's grass football field from 9:30 a.m. to noon. At 1 p.m., the Tokai coaches watch videos of football plays with the UH coaches. A question-and-answer session follows. At 4:30 p.m., the Tritons watch the Warriors go through on-field conditioning drills."

About how NCAA rules forbid their coaches from providing on-field instructions to the Tokai players, Mack said:
"We can coach the coaches. Their coaches can come up to our offices and watch films and ask questions." (HA)

HA Note: "Tokai's visit, which has been in the works for about a year, is part of UH's plan to build relations with athletic programs in Japan. The hope, according to McMackin, is to one day use Japan as a recruiting base. In turn, that would help UH develop marketing and merchandising efforts."

About being a featured speaker at a football clinic in Japan last week, Mack said:
"They asked good questions, like how to defend the spread offense." (HA)

About how there are about 70 high schools in Japan that play football, with Tokai comparable to a D III football program, and how UH football telecasts are showed on a delayed basis in Japan, Mack said:
"It's getting to be a pretty big deal over there. We're doing this not just for football. We think there's a potential for all of our sports." (HA)

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