My top 10 reasons
to boycott UH games

Ten reasons I will not be attending another University of Hawaii football game this season:

1) Seeing the gates to the Aloha Stadium parking lot closed despite there being plenty of empty parking stalls. While you can usually get into the lot if you are willing to "tip" the parking attendants, this is a despicable practice/problem that the stadium's managers have been ignoring for many years.

2) Having to wait for more than an hour to buy tickets at the stadium.

3) No more 'Go 'Bows!' As an alumni from the era when the team name was "Rainbows," I do not appreciate the university's former president or athletic director allowing one football coach to change decades of university tradition by changing the team name, the rainbow logo and other long-standing customs.

4) The UH band no long plays the "Hawaii Five-0" theme or the UH fight song.

5) The presence of ubiquitous advertising throughout the stadium. The only place there is no advertising is in the bathrooms; this will probably change next year. The most obnoxious examples are the new fast-food ads on the goal post nets and on the flag that the UH cheerleaders carry around the stadium after a touchdown or field goal. "Go Burger King! I mean Rainbows! Oops, Warriors!"

6) The half-time show is simply terrible. The band, which played for less than 10 minutes at the UH-Florida Atlantic game, was uninspired -- who can blame the musicians after the way they have been treated. The "rapping" that followed was obnoxious and indiscernible; we actually thought it was a joke until we were left without a punch line.

7) The commercials that are blasted over the loudspeaker system between plays are so loud and intrusive that you can not even talk to the person sitting next to you.

8) An abundance of rude fans. There's too much swearing, too many fights, too much taunting in the stands and a general lack of aloha to the visiting team and its fans -- our guests.

9) The stadium rules and employees are devoid of common sense. For instance, why is a water bottle with a cap a dangerous weapon, but hundreds of fold-up metal chairs along the walkways are not questioned?

10) The absurd notion that UH quarterback Timmy Chang is a Heisman Trophy candidate. While Chang has certainly been a good quarterback, I think we are all still waiting for him to become a team motivator like Dan Robinson or Nick Rolovich.