Warriorshaka.com Update

Just a quick note -- for those who pre-ordered the upcoming J. David Miller UH football book through WarriorsHaka.com and wasn't able to enter the promo code, I got word that if you use the same e-mail address you pre-ordered the book with, then you'll get your book. You can also try e-mailing them back, asking for confirmation. Hope that made sense. I just put in my order.

Anyway, after another stretch of silence, the WarriorsHaka.com site suddenly has three new articles up. June Jones has a new Ask Coach Q&A. Here's an excerpt:

Connor F. from New Jersey asked: How much of your offense do you see incorporated into other Top 20 and NFL teams?

Connor, every season it seems there are more and more teams using some or parts of what we do – watching New England this week, for example, they use a lot of what we do … if you look at every college team, they are using some form of a spread-look, but a lot of the colleges are into more running with their QB's than I would do, or especially, what an NFL team would do.

Dan Robinson has a great column up. Here's a passage about being a QB in June Jones' offense.

I think the most important thing for a quarterback, especially coming off a game like that, is to not dwell too much on the picks you’re throwing. Go back to your basic reads. Go back to your basic routes. Quit worrying about the interceptions – don’t even think about them. Back in ’98, before June got there, I was terrified to throw the football, because all the coaches would tell us is: Don’t throw a pick. Don’t throw a pick. Whatever you do, don’t throw a pick.

With June, if you throw ten picks, he’s going to run his offense and not change anything.

Why? A quarterback simply can’t play the game if he worries about picks. The quarterback can’t go out on the field thinking about what might go wrong; rather, you’ve got to visualize what’s about to go right. Tell yourself, ‘Don’t throw a pick,’ and that’s the first thing you’ll do.

And finally, author J. David Miller has another funny article about being a UH football fan in Florida. This week, he deals with South Florida fans.

With everyone abuzz over USF, the very next night after their victory, I sat fuming while I watched perhaps the most talented team in Hawaii history pound the spud out of Idaho in an airplane hangar. I could only surmise the unmitigated joy USF must currently feel over just having had the opportunity to “prove it” against top competition. Me? I was sitting in my local sports bar inflicting Hawaii on the crowd -- watching the Idaho video feed on my laptop, which was three seconds behind the Hawaii audio feed with Bobby Curran and Robert Kekaula, whose commentary I had cranked to the rafters.

“Turn that crap off,” yelled my compatriots, not the least of whom was the local ABC weatherman, who, for the record, was looking partly cloudy, with rising temperatures. “Who cares about Hawaii beating up on ‘lil, ol’ Idaho? They couldn’t beat USF!”

The crowd roared.

Sonuva … are you kidding me?