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Was it two months ago when doom and gloom were set to meet in Manoa ?
After an 18-month tenure, Craig Angelos was not retained as the University of Hawaii’s athletic director.
Nineteen UH football players had entered the NCAA transfer portal.
And an independent auditing firm went through the UH athletic department’s self-submitted budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and determined—for the umpteenth consecutive year—the numbers in red ink were larger than the ones in black ink.
And then … nothing.
The worst-case scenario was a no-show.
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Life went on in Manoa, as usual as the daily mist.
Acting athletic director Lois Manin added a year to football head coach Timmy Chang’s four-year contract that was set to expire at the end of the 2025 season. An apparel deal with BSN Sports, a distributor of Nike products, is close to being finalized. Talks are renewed for the naming rights to the newly installed artificial surface at Les Murakami Stadium. After months of the urinal in the athletic department’s men’s room being blocked from use with a plastic garbage bag, the situation has been repaired and open for business.
The big-dawg donors—the banks, Outrigger Resorts &Hotels, Hawaiian Airlines—did not waver in their support.
In the aftermath of Angelos’ dismissal, hotelier Michael Kawazoe initially said he would withdraw support and take down his signs from SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center. Since then, Kawazoe clarified he would “pause ” personal donations until seeing the next direction of the athletic department. But he remains an…
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Author : The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Publish date : 2025-01-15 04:52:00
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