UH puts on special teams 'Demo'

By Dave Reardon

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 16, 2012

~~<p>Yes, I really did think Hawaii was going to beat Lamar by just a couple of touchdowns. And the Warriors did -- outscoring the Cardinals by two or three TDs in EACH QUARTER, except the first. Turns out I used the wrong points of reference, those being some of UH's losses and narrow wins against FCS teams in recent years.</p>
<p>Sure, in 2007 there were the Charleston Southerns and the Northern Colorados (UH starters in street clothes after halftime). But this 54-2 rout in Norm Chow's home debut as head coach was more like what Dick Tomey's and Bob Wagner's teams used to consistently do to overmatched visitors from lower levels back in the '70s and '80s. When the Warriors began to pull away Saturday, it brought forth memories of blowouts like 65-0 over Prairie View in 1979 and 62-10 over Yale in 1987.</p>
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Yes, I really did think Hawaii was going to beat Lamar by just a couple of touchdowns. And the Warriors did -- outscoring the Cardinals by two or three TDs in EACH QUARTER, except the first. Turns out I used the wrong points of reference, those being some of UH's losses and narrow wins against FCS teams in recent years.

Sure, in 2007 there were the Charleston Southerns and the Northern Colorados (UH starters in street clothes after halftime). But this 54-2 rout in Norm Chow's home debut as head coach was more like what Dick Tomey's and Bob Wagner's teams used to consistently do to overmatched visitors from lower levels back in the '70s and '80s. When the Warriors began to pull away Saturday, it brought forth memories of blowouts like 65-0 over Prairie View in 1979 and 62-10 over Yale in 1987. Login for more...