The Hawaii basketball situation

Are the drum beats getting louder or is it a case of "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" For the sake of clarification, the latter doesn't refer to basketball attendance but to UH's AD and the matter of media influencing a decision, or not. We still side with the precept that it's the program's big money donors that influence matters.

UH must step up for Nash's sake
Ferd Lewis
Honolulu Advertiser
January 13, 2010

The hope is still that the University of Hawai'i men's basketball team will somehow manage to find itself and make something of this season while it can.

The wish, at least among those who have followed Rainbow Warrior head coach Bob Nash since his days with the storied Fabulous Five of the early 1970s, is that there is a providential five- or six-game winning streak in his immediate future.

But the reality of the moment is that this season is getting away from the 'Bows...

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Nash Era At UH Is Winding Down
Steve Murray
Midweek
January 13, 2010

The University of Hawaii has entered its winter of discontent. The clouds have lowered upon the house of Stan Sheriff, and in the deep bosom of the ocean the program is being buried.

And fans are in a state of revolt. Head coach Bob Nash entered the season with the tempered support of athletic director Jim Donovan, who made public the level of success needed for Nash to receive an automatic one-year contract rollover. His current deal runs through the 2010-2011 season. The goal - 18 wins or a post-season tournament - was fair. The Rainbow Warriors averaged 16.7 wins over the length of Riley Wallace’s tenure and 19.2 over his final seven.

With 21 home games, the WAC tournament and four post-season tournaments that provide a venue for one-third of all Division 1 basketball teams to extend their seasons, opportunity exists. As mandates go, it wasn’t exactly a trap.

Unfortunately for Nash, one of the university’s most well-liked coaches, the chances of achieving either of those benchmarks are slim, which means we could be seeing the downside of Nash’s long association with the university...

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