September 03, 2010

UH vs USC

It's always amusing to read game stories from newspapers in each side's hometown papers. Case in point: here's the LA Times coverage of last night's USC - U of Hawai'i football game: the headline is "USC wins shootout but defense is full of holes."

Here's the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's coverage of the same game: the headline is "The Warriors ran out of time in playing catch-up to the Trojans."

Both headlines are accurate. If the Warriors had been more effective on offense in the first quarter (they settled for two field goals on two different occasions when the ball was inside the SC five-yard line) they could have won the damned game. As it was, they got 588 yards of total offense, including 459 passing yards.

After the first field goal (three passes from inside the three-yard line?!?) my screaming at the coaches was in mid-season form, but then the passing game got going. And if you'd told me beforehand that UH would get 129 yards rushing against USC from its pass-first run-and-shoot offense I'd have said you were dreaming.

All in all, a game that might have been won, but one that showed the team has promise for the rest of the season.

Posted by Linkmeister at September 3, 2010 09:12 AM | TrackBack
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