Top 10 ways to save UH football
Top 10 ways to save UH football
In light of UH Athletic Director Ben Jay’s hint at cutting the football program, here are the top 10 ways to save UH football.
10. Lift all restrictions on buying beer at Aloha Stadium!
9. Sell half price beer after the game!
8. Have a cheerleader or Rainbow Dancer drive you home (yours, not her’s) if you’re too drunk!
7. Rehire June Jones!
6. Threaten to rehire Fred von Appen!
5. Pro bono coaches! (Tomey, Wagner and Miano are still around)
4. Schedule only “body bag” games (rich powerful opponents “pay” you to lose big time)!
3. Start wahine football! (other Wahine programs are doing great!)
2. Get the politics out of UH! Then you can hire properly and fire somebody without having to pay them! Maybe even find who was responsible for Wonder Blunder!
1. Bite the bullet and realize that most school athletic programs lose money, anyway.
Leighton Loo
Honolulu
Gonzales campaign raises questions
I am bothered by the way Ron Gonzales says he is running his campaign. I have to question if he is telling the truth.
“I’m really trying to run a clean campaign,” he said. “It would never occur to me to dig up dirt. I’m running on the issues.” But then Forward Progress, that Honolulu Super PAC that spent $63,404 in support of his campaign, spent at least $18,590 running negative ads against Margaret Wille with not one word from Gonzales. That seems to me like if you watch four other guys beat someone up, but tell the police, “Hey, I didn’t do anything.”
Then there is the question about where he really lives. According to a previous letter in West Hawaii Today, “Gonzales … said he has rented a room in Waikoloa Village for the past three years, although until May 1, he was using the family’s Honokaa home as his legal address. He rented the room to avoid the long commute,” he said. State law says that if you change your voter registration address, you have to intend to leave your old place not just move to a new place. So for three years, he has rented that Waikoloa room, but suddenly only when he decides to run for political office he decides that it, not where his family lives, is his permanent home? But he keeps his mailing address at the family place in Honokaa?
Sounds pretty fishy to me. Like that other letter writer, Joe Appleton from Waimea, said, the pono way to do things is to run where you live, not try to be sneaky about it.
William Crisp
Kapaau