Coach Mack Show, Weber St, Oregon St, Graunke

This week's Coach Mack Show is now online at KGMB's website.

Dave Reardon's Warrior Replay highlights five key plays from the Weber State game.

Jason Kaneshiro talks to Tyler Graunke, who is looking forward to the Oregon State game.

"They went to Penn State and we went to Florida, we're both battle tested and they're obviously going to be hungry for a win," said Graunke, who followed the Pac-10 as a youngster cheering for his hometown Arizona Wildcats in Tucson.

"(The Weber State win) felt great, but that's in the past and Oregon State is the game we're thinking about."

"I love playing road games. I love hostile environments," Graunke said. "I can't wait. I've been watching Pac-10 football my entire life. I've got the opportunity and I'm going to take advantage of it."

Stephen Tsai write about how Coach Mack was tough on Graunke.

Did it hurt?

"Sure it did," McMackin said. "But sometimes you have to have a little tough love."

For failing to resolve "academic issues," quarterback Tyler Graunke was suspended from offseason workouts in March and from participating in this summer's training camp.

McMackin said Graunke was not included in the Warriors' 2008 plans.

"We moved on," McMackin said. "Basically, he was not going to play this season."

Tsai's article also includes some news and notes about Blaze Soares and Rocky Savaiigaea possibly coming back in time for the San Jose State game, injury updates on Fale Laeli and Leon Wright-Jackson, and the emergence of Jayson Rego.

Ferd Lewis writes about Brashton Satele maintaining the family business.

Satele's hounding of Higgins brought credit for the first sack of his career which, if you're counting, was the 20th by the household. Of course, his father Alvis, an All-Western Athletic Conference pick in 1984, had 19 of them in a four-year (1981-84) career, so you could say the son has some catching up to do.

And at the end of a column about Wahine volleyball player Kanani Herring, Dave Reardon notes that the Warriors will need to improve on special teams by the time they face Oregon State.

As bad as Weber's special teams were (three botched punt snaps), Hawaii's weren't any better - lowlights including two missed field goals, a ridiculous illegal hit on punt coverage and a nice kick return called back for a block in the back.

The Warriors will have to win all three phases to beat Oregon State on the road Saturday - remember the Beavers beat the Warriors here two years ago because of a kick return. Also, many key calls went Hawaii's way at Aloha Stadium the other night. That cannot be expected in Corvallis.