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Is another sit-in
in store at UH?

AMATEUR night on an open mic:

» UH interim president David McClain is a nice guy. And in case you missed it, he bent over backward to prove that point recently when he let a throng of protesters take over his office.

I thought it was a classy move on his part, but, wow. Oh, you guys need my office? Let me pack up a few things and get out of your way ...

Now that is a nice guy.

But it struck me that he was working overtime to try to show how reasonable he is and then they stayed there for the next day, and the next day. And he was stuck!

Everybody has since left and everything is cool and McClain is now, officially, the Nicest Guy Ever. But I have to laugh wondering what kind of precedent he's set now.

What's next? Joe Moore and myself moving in to make house until the rainbow is restored?

(This has "bad sitcom" written all over it.)

» Sure, you could protest and sit in Hawaii athletic director Herman Frazier's office. But he's on the mainland so often you might give up and go home before anybody noticed.

» If Mike Trapasso can keep the baseball 'Bows hot through this potentially momentum-killing timeout of a week off we'll know the guy can coach.

» Don't worry, Trap, they love you. Even the guy who always complains to me about the baseball team is now telling me he knew this was coming all along.

This next series with Fresno State could be a lot of fun.

» I liked at this week's sports tourism forum, when panelist Michelle Nagamine said her name is "Bud." "But not for the reason you think." I remember, a friend of mine said the same thing when he introduced me to his old classmate "Skid."

» I was a little surprised when our paper, in an editorial, endorsed UH taking over management of Aloha Stadium. Especially since during that most recent Stadium Authority meeting associate athletic director Tom Sadler said that idea has "never come out of our office."

My guess? I think UH gets a couple of percentage points shaved off the rent (which is $300,000-plus, not that total $800,000 number) and everybody spins it a win-win.

» What a treat to speak with UH libero Alfred Reft just after he'd officially received first-team All-America honors this week. It's nice to hear someone so genuinely happy and humble about something like that.

» A Solomon-like decision from the Oahu Interscholastic Association in taking away Kalaheo's home-court advantage for the opening rounds of the OIA girls basketball tournament. It's a harsh penalty -- but it has to be when you've got a home-crowd fan allegedly going on the court and pushing an official. Yet moving the games to Radford, the next seed, penalizes the Kalaheo girls themselves as little as possible, still letting them play for a chance at a championship.

Of course, the decision probably made a lot of people unhappy. But then, when fans attack (allegedly!) unhappiness generally follows.

Given the circumstances, it sounds like an inspired resolution.

» Still grinning at the image of UH football assistants Mouse Davis and Jerry Glanville strolling down Kalakaua Avenue each night putting on a Waikiki street performance of their own. These guys are crazy. How crazy? Glanville has not only crashed a race car, but during spring practice he made Mouse sit down and watch the video.

» I was kind of worried that Mouse's standup comedy routine might be wrongly taken as trash talking, but only for a half-second. Then I remembered that:

1) He's Mouse Davis.

2) The reason it was so funny was that he was joking about dominating a defending two-time national championship team and a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback.

A sense of humor may come in handy after that USC game.

» Then again, you never know. Every good UH fan remembers what happened the last time the 'Bows took on a quarterback who had already won the Heisman.