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The Canes hire Hawai'i GM Keiki Misipeka

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DMoney said:
Polys are the best football players in the world per capita and possess intangible qualities we’ve been lacking here for two decades.

What I like is the potential to stash kids on the 105 who can be developed from scratch. One of the best LTs in the NFL (Jordan Malaita) never even played football before getting drafted. We should be the top team in securing those kinds of kids early.
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DMoney
Most of those kids gravitate to West Coast schools..
BYU....UNLV....Arizona...USC....UCLA....and Utah.........
For us to be in the conversation now with what we have shown with our Poly players is huge because word of mouth and family to family interaction can make some good talent consider us in the future.....

I like your verbage of stash and develop......that has Mario's fingerprints all over it......
Great position to secure kids early too...
Excellent points.
 
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canesdogo said:
DMoney
Most of those kids gravitate to West Coast schools..
BYU....UNLV....Arizona...USC....UCLA....and Utah.........
For us to be in the conversation now with what we have shown with our Poly players is huge because word of mouth and family to family interaction can make some good talent consider us in the future.....

I like your verbage of stash and develop......that has Mario's fingerprints all over it......
Great position to secure kids early too...
Excellent points.
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Notre Dame too. Plenty over the years.
 
My favorite thing about this is not necessarily the hire because I have no clue whatsoever, but the fact that we have a position and it has been filled. CFB is turning into an organization/corporation and those who can create a structure will succeed and the rest won't.
 
AlexCane said:
My favorite thing about this is not necessarily the hire because I have no clue whatsoever, but the fact that we have a position and it has been filled. CFB is turning into an organization/corporation and those who can create a structure will succeed and the rest won't.
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The guy most against this hire......Joe Zagacki. Long names, lots of vowels, and difficult to pronounce. Expect plenty of nicknames to be given to players in upcoming years from Joe.
 
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Empirical Cane said:
and not one mention of poi or spam.

******* travesty.
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My wife is a University of Hawaii alum. I lived in Hawaii for 12 years. I am happy with this hire. People underestimate how good high school football is in Hawaii. June Jones was a high school coach at the school nearest to my house.

Familiarity is very important in Polynesian culture. The chances of even a great recruiter just selling a program or thinking a huge NIL offer will close the deal is slim. Someone on staff needs to be Polynesian or very familiar with Polynesian culture like Mormons who went on a mission to Samoa or Tonga. Also those are different groups of people that don’t necessarily like each other. Having a Samoan on staff may not help with all Polynesians. It would be like saying Hispanic culture. Cristobal could probably have an edge in recruiting Cuban players, but I don’t know if he’d be particularly effective at recruiting a cholo from East LA.
 
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I think a few people misread the tweet as him being hired as the GM. He’s been hired to our recruiting department and was the GM and UH. I don’t think anyone complaining could name everyone in our recruiting department so complaining about this hire is insane.
 
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