Takahara-Dias is class act, but she didn't win enough

For Thursday, March 8, 2012

By Dave Reardon

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 08, 2012

~~<p>Sometimes it's just not enough to be a good person.</p>
<p>To use the popular parlance, that's my main takeaway from Wednesday's firing of Dana Takahara-Dias. And those 19 turnovers by her University of Hawaii basketball team were takeaways for Louisiana Tech in its 63-54 victory over the Rainbow Wahine, a sloppy loss at the WAC tournament that helped spell the end of the UH coach's tenure.</p>
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Sometimes it's just not enough to be a good person.

To use the popular parlance, that's my main takeaway from Wednesday's firing of Dana Takahara-Dias. And those 19 turnovers by her University of Hawaii basketball team were takeaways for Louisiana Tech in its 63-54 victory over the Rainbow Wahine, a sloppy loss at the WAC tournament that helped spell the end of the UH coach's tenure. Login for more...