It is hard to get entertaining teams to come in to play on a one-and-one basis in either of the NCAA major sports. Plus, you can just about forget the powers-that-be doing so. But Ferd Lewis is still skeptical about the Hawaii home schedule for the upcoming season.
It seems like Hawaii should have an attraction advantage -- warm temperatures, inviting sandy beaches and blue water, micro bikinis and Speedos -- whichever way you roll -- in November in December. But maybe the cost in getting there ameliorates these lures.
Our sense is that Rainbow Warrior fans will take a winning record over a hum-drum home schedule -- at least for now. Bob Nash certainly will, with a multitude of good reasons.
Still, UH men's basketball will need to make some noise in the WAC and the WAC tourney sooner rather than later. That will make or break Nash's tenure.
A schedule guaranteed to bring successGo here for the remainder.
Ferd Lewis
Honolulu Advertiser
July 3, 2009
Now we know why University of Hawai'i men's basketball coach Bob Nash so enthusiastically "guaranteed" an 18-win (or better) season at the team's postseason banquet three months ago.
To look at the Rainbow Warriors' 2009-10 schedule is to see Nash's "guarantee" as very attainable.
No venturing out on long limbs there.
Eighteen became the "magic" number because 18 victories — or a postseason tournament appearance — is the bottom line on a contract rollover, according to UH. Nash has two seasons, 2009-10 and 2010-11, in which to achieve it. But with the most significant performers, including the top three scorers, back as seniors, this is, as they are calling it in Manoa, the "payoff" year...
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