Monday, October 26, 2009

Quotes about the Warriors in the Hawaii papers (Moniz hopes to play vs. Nevada)

About the concussion he suffered in the Boise State game, Bryant Moniz said:
"I got a little dizzy. I lost my balance, and stuff." (HA)


About how he wasn't allowed to return to the game, Moniz said:
"I took a shower at halftime. I felt normal again. To be on the safe side, they held me out." (HA)


About how he does not remember the play when he was injured, Moniz said:
"I got hit pretty good." (HA)


About how Shane Austin completed 22 of 36 passes for 174 yards, 1 TD, and 3 INTs, Ron Lee said:
"Shane stepped in and did as well as he could." (HA)


HA Note: "Brent Rausch also might be cleared to participate in contact drills this week. Rausch was the No. 2 quarterback before suffering a fracture in the right pinkie of his throwing hand two days before the Sept. 12 game against Washington State. He threw during passing drills last week. But he has not attempted a pass in a game since last season. If Moniz and Rausch are not available to practice, the Warriors will give quarterback reps to running back Inoke Funaki."


About giving Inoke reps if Moniz and Rausch cannot practice because they do not want to use freshmen Graves, Shutter, or Nielsen, Ron Lee said:
"That's all we have (at quarterback)." (HA)


About how they aren't thinking about the Hawaii Bowl right now, Moniz said:
"Pretty much every game is a pride game." (HA)


About how the UH defense "stepped up" against BSU, Moniz said:
"That's good for us. Now we have to bring our game. When both sides are clicking, it'll be dangerous." (HA)


About the adversity they are going through during this 5-game losing streak, Mac said:
"So many people have so many adverse things happening, I can't gripe about our situation because everyone else is going through a lot tougher things than we are." (HSB)


About how the team needs to stay together, Alex Green said:
"The main thing is for us just to stay together. We're on a five-game losing streak ... through all this adversity, staying together is going to be the biggest part for us." (HSB)


About how their defense needs to eliminate their mistakes, Richard Torres said:
"We had some busted coverages, a lot of assignments were blown, that led to some big plays and that's on us. Now we just have to go back and correct those and get ready for Nevada." (HSB)


About how BSU took advantage of their mistakes, Alex Green said:
"We hurt ourselves over and over. ... They keyed on our mistakes and the scoreboard showed it." (HSB)


About the 35-yard TD pass that BSU completed when it was 4th-and-2 and the score was 3-0, Richard Torres said:
"We were in man and someone missed an assignment. It's hard sometimes (to pursue) when you're in cover zero. Some guys got screened." (HSB)


About how BSU took advantage of their mistakes, Mac said:
"Boise's a good football team and I thought we played with them physically, but they took advantage of our mistakes." (HSB)


About Mac's contract situation, Ferd wrote:
"Short of McMackin again inserting foot to mouth at tonsil depth or negotiating his own exit, people familiar with McMackin's contract say if things worsened to the point where UH decided it wanted to make a change it would have little choice but to come up with the cash, so well-crafted is the 19-page contract by the coach's attorney, Bert T. Kobayashi Jr.

Or, as a coach at a BCS school was moved to say recently, "that's the guy I've got to get to do my next (deal)."

In the present economic climate, where educational programs are being painfully pared and the athletic department has been running upwards of a $6 million accumulated net deficit built over seven years, spending $3.3 million to buy out a football coach, on top of the investment it would take to hire a replacement, would be a hard sell to the Board of Regents and the community." (HA)

http://sports.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091026/COLUMNISTS06/910260338/1142&template=UHSports

http://sports.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091026/SPORTS0201/910260341/sportsfront&template=UHSports/Moniz+hopes+to+play+at+Nevada

http://www.starbulletin.com/sports/sportsnews/20091026_warrior_replay.html

http://www.starbulletin.com/sports/sportsnews/20091026_nevada_threatens_to_add_to_uh_losing_streak.html

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