Saturday, July 30, 2011

Cal Lee talks about UH being favored to win the WAC and about UH's Warriors from Maui (Kaniela Tuipulotu and Andrew Faaumu)

MN = Maui News


About UH being picked to win the WAC, Cal Lee said:
"Well, it is really exciting being picked to win the conference and it is a credit to what the kids did last year. I think it takes about a couple of days until you realize you are not going to win any games on somebody picking you to win it." (MN)

"If you are picked to win it, you have got to work extra, extra hard and I think that is what the kids are going to do." (MN)


Praising DT Kaniela Tuipulotu (an academic all-WAC selection last year who is from Lahaina), Lee said:
"Kani has really taken that leadership role that you need. He is like another coach out there because of his leadership. People kind of gravitate to him. They know he is a player, they know what he can do. That leadership out there on the field is invaluable. He makes the other kids play better because of his actions." (MN)


About how he thinks that Tuipulotu will make it to the NFL, Lee said:
"I really think he does.Again, it just  depends on what happens this year. If he has a good year, which we expect, I think the future is bright for him." (MN)


About how UH's other player from Maui, walk-on OG Andrew Faaumu, is a candidate to start, Lee said:
"Andrew is going to be good. He is going to have a great year because he is big, he is strong, he is physical. I mean, he wants to knock people down. Sometimes I think he should have been a defensive player because he just wants to mix it up." (MN)


About how Bryant Moniz shows that walk-ons can accomplish great things, Lee said:
"Him being a walk-on shows that you can do anything you want. I mean maybe he wasn't highly recruited out of high school. I will just mention Moniz, nobody recruited him and now everybody knows who he is. Andrew is the same way, he worked hard. Not only is he a good athlete, he is a good person, good grades, graduating, works hard at it and that is all you can ask from somebody." (MN)


About being part of the fundraiser by the Wailuku Hongwanji at an Obon dance selling T-shirts to raise funds for the Soma City victims (50 children were orphaned in the city of 17,000 that is located in the Fukushima Prefecture), Cal Lee said:
"Eric Texidor, who was living in Fukushima, he gave me a call when the nuclear plant opened up. He was actually checking out, he was telling me that he wasn't going to make it. You try to motivate somebody to hang in there - this wasn't a football game - this was about life. . . . I felt the horror in his voice and until today I can still remember how he sounded. Thank goodness he survived." (MN)

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/551924/Lee-sees-bright-futures-for-Maui-s-Warriors.html?nav=11

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