News and Notes: No Posters, Cory Daniel, Dick Tomey, Etc.

Stephen Tsai confirms that there will be no schedule posters printed this year.

In a practical move that will save $30,000, the athletic department is doing away with UH team posters.
The Warriors had issued posters, which include a team's schedule, for more than 30 years. The practice originated at a time before the widespread availability of the Internet.
Now UH's schedules can be found through various media sources. The Warriors still will distribute schedule cards. The school also is offering free downloadable desktop wallpapers that feature the schedules.

I think that sucks. Tsai notes that media guides for football and women's volleyball teams will still be printed. Personally, if they had a choice I think they should've kept the posters and gotten rid of the media guides. You can't really hang a media guide in your window.

Yesterday, Tsai had a Q&A with incoming linebacker Cory Daniel.

Cory Daniel, a former MMA fighter and Castle High TKO linebacker, is enrolled at UH-Manoa and prepared to join the Warriors for training camp. He spent the past couple of years at Arizona's Pima Community College, where he earned an associate degree.
Daniel took a break to talk story with the Warrior Beat.
Weighty question first.
"When I came back, I was up to almost 270. Now I'm back to the high 240s. I'm trying to peak it out. I don't want to come out too light. At camp time, I can lose whatever I have to lose. Hopefully, I can play at 235, 240."

Earlier this week, Ferd Lewis profiled former UH coach Dick Tomey as part of their Sports' Fabulous 50 series.

Tomey left UH in 1987 with the most wins in UH history, later to be overtaken by one of his former assistants, June Jones. But the measure of Tomey's tenure is deeper than the 63-46-3 record.

The 39-year-old Tomey was about hope and stability at a juncture when UH football had reached its lowest ebb. In some ways the situation then was more dire than even the 0-12 season of 1998.

Today, the Advertiser profiles the Leaheys -- Chuck, Jim and Kanoa.

And Jason Kaneshiro has some notes about Colt Brennan, the updated UH roster, Aloha Stadium's roof replacement and UH's first opponent of 2009:

Central Arkansas, UH’s season opening opponent, is ranked eighth in the FCS by Lindy’s, 11th by The Sporting News and 16th by Athlon in their preseason publications. The Bears went 10-2 last year and visit Aloha Stadium on Sept. 4.