Jovonte Taylor, UH Camps

Stephen Tsai writes that UH receiver Jovonte Taylor is fast.

The sprints were run on the Cooke/Ching field's synthetic track. Because they had completed an hour of unsupervised workouts, they were wearing turf shoes, not sprinter's cleats. They did not have a practice run.
Under those conditions, against slight tradewinds, Taylor ran the 40 in 4.31 seconds.
Thing is, the distance was not in yards but in meters.
That equates to a distance of 43.7445 yards. "He's fast," Anthony Pollard said.

Tsai also has a picture of Corey Nieslen at his high school graduation.

And on Midweek, Bob Hogue talks to Coach Mack about the in-progress UH Football camps.

“We really stress fundamentals and technique,” McMackin says. “It’s a great chance for local players to work with our entire staff of coaches and with former Warrior players.”

Not only do present and future high school stars get a firsthand chance to share in Coach Mack’s passion and enthusiasm, but they begin to build the bonds that will help them all making important recruiting/college placement decisions down the road. In the world of college football recruiting, summer camps have become an important tool for college programs - whether those camps are located in Gainesville, Fla., Norman, Okla., Los Angeles or Honolulu, or on college football fields everywhere in between.

“Last year, we gave out 11 scholarship offers at our camp,” McMackin says.

Of course, not every scholarship offered is a scholarship taken, but Coach Mack says that the University of Hawaii has a great success rate. “Eight-nine percent of those who committed decided to stay,” he says. The reason for that is often because of the relationships that began with the summer camps.

“We get to build those relationships,” he says. “(The campers) get to see how proud it is to be from Hawaii and to be a part of Hawaii football.”