Posted by bambi2godzilla on 1/9/2008, 11:42 am
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KITV's Robert Kekaula reports that WR Ryan Grice-Mullins has signed with an agent, making him ineligible to return to UH for his senior season.
Grice-Mullins will now apply for the 2008 NFL draft.
Also from Stephen Tsai's column is a boost for this Hawaii assistant coach:
Call off the search committee.
Cancel the contract with the head-hunters. (That's how we got in this mess in the first place.)
The best candidate to succeed June Jones already is on the payroll, already has a third-floor office with 15-year-old carpet.
My pick is defensive coordinator Greg McMackin.
He's still in town.
Best of all, he knows the town.
He wears slippers to practice. He eats poke. He embraces the Polynesian culture.
He's been in the big time — Miami Hurricanes, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers — but doesn't act big time.
He's a football genius. UH doesn't beat Oregon State in the 1999 O‘ahu Bowl without that funky defensive twist, moving up an outside linebacker to create a five-man front.
Last season's comeback victory over San Jose State, the one that spawned the "Believe" rallying cry? That was made possible because McMackin ordered Blaze Soares to heat-seek the running back.
McMackin offers the best chance for continuity in a program that desperately needs stability.
With McMackin, the staff turnover is minimized.
And the systems remain. Ron Lee can run Jones' four-wide offense.
Cal Lee can run the defense.
And two guys with head-coaching futures — Rich Miano and Jeff Reinebold — get to stay in Hawai‘i.
With McMackin, recruiting proceeds as scheduled. It might even improve. McMackin is a skilled recruiter who can work the living rooms. And he could turn loose the Lee brothers, Miano and Reinebold. Cal Lee can land most of the top local prospects.
Most of all, McMackin is a workaholic. That office carpet? Who notices. The floor often is covered with pages and pages of defensive concepts.
Not sure if he would even want the job. But it wouldn't hurt to ask.
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