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1 KANOA:
2 WOW, HOW WAS THAT BCS TITLE GAME, POPS?
3 >> JIM: IT WAS TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE.
4 I DIDN'T WANT TO EXPERIENCE IT.
5 I DIDN'T WANT TO DROP LIKE WATER TORTURE ALL THROUGHOUT THE
6 GAME, SO I SAID I'M NOT GOING TO SEE IT.
7 I JUST WANT ONE PERSON TELLING ME WHAT HAPPENED, SO I WENT TO A
8 MOVIE.
9 AN GUESS WHAT?
10 YOU WENT TO A MOVIE INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE BCS CHAMPIONSHIP
11 GAME?
12 >> JIM: I COULDN'T TAKE IT.
13 >> WHAT WAS THE MOVIE SIMPLE.
14 >> JIM: EMBLEMATIC OF HOW NOTRE DAME PLAYED.
15 IT WAS CALLED "SKYFALL."
16 >> I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY "LINCOLN."
17 >> YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S GOING TO SIT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE ON
18 LEAHEY AND LEAHEY, A GENERATIONALLY CHALLENGED DISCUSSION ON
19 SPORTS AND OTHER THINGS.
20 LEAHEY AND LEAHEY.
21 KANOA: WHAT'S UP, EVERYBODY.
22 WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF LEAHEY AND LEAHEY RIGHT HERE ON
23 PBS HAWAI'I.
24 POPS JIM, SON KANOA SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, WELCOMING A
25 COLLEAGUE FROM KHON 2 IN A LITTLE BIT, JAI CUNNINGHAM,
26 REPORTER/ANCHOR, ONE OF THE CAST MEMBERS IN WAKE UP TODAY, THE
1 MORNING SHOW AT KHON.
2 >> WHY ARE WE DOING THAT?
3 >> BCS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHED UP NOTRE DAME AND ALABAMA AND BY
4 LAST COUNT THERE WERE FOUR PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF HAWAI'I THERE
5 AND ABOUT ROOTING FOR ALABAMA THAT DAY.
6 ONE OF THEM WAS JAI CUNNINGHAM WHO'S FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA,
7 FROM CENTER ALABAMA, RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE.
8 >> JIM: YOU THINK SO?
9 YOU'RE KIDDING ME.
10 KANOA: HE'LL COME BY AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE GAME.
11 HE HAS A FUNNY STORY ABOUT HOW THE CONDITIONS WERE WHEN HE
12 WATCHED THE GAME.
13 FOR THOSE OF US WHO WATCHED THE GAME, YOU DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE
14 GAME.
15 YOU WERE AT A MOVIE.
16 WHAT'S GOING ON, POPS?
17 >> JIM: THE THING IS I COULDN'T TAKE IT BECAUSE I KNEW WHAT WAS
18 GOING TO HAPPEN.
19 I HAD THE EXPERIENCE.
20 I HAVE THE WAY TO FEEL A GAME BEFORE IT EVEN HAPPENS.
21 KANOA: WOW.
22 WHAT A SUPERPOWER.
23 THE MAN CAN TALK TO FISH.
24 SUPERMAN CAN FLY.
25 YOUR SUPERPOWER IS SENSING A BLOWOUT.
26 >> JIM: YES.
1 SENSING A BLOWOUT, SENSING SOMETHING IS REALLY WRONG.
2 I GOT THE SAME SENSE IN 2008 AT THE SUGAR BOWL.
3 WHERE HAWAI'I WENT IN UNDEFEATED AND I WENT OH, MY GOD, AND I
4 HAD A SEAT WHERE SHERPAS GUIDED ME, IT WAS SO HIGH.
5 ANYWAY, THAT'S ANOTHER TIME, BUT I WAS RIGHT AT THAT TIME TOO
6 AND THIS TIME I JUST SAID THEY'RE MAKING MANTI TEO INTO A
7 DEMIGOD.
8 EVERY DAY IN THE DOMESTIC PAPER THAT IS HONOLULU'S PAPER, THEY
9 HAD ARTICLES ON HIM.
10 THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR MANTI TEO AND THEN THEY HAD THE
11 DAY BEFORE, MANTI TEO KISSED THE TROPHY.
12 YOU DON'T DO THAT.
13 YOU DON'T DO THAT.
14 YOU NEVER DO THAT.
15 YOU NEVER DO THAT.
16 YOU KNOW THE STANLEY CUP?
17 THEY DON'T EVEN TOUCH THE STANLEY CUP UNTIL THE TEAM WINS IT.
18 THEY DON'T EVEN TOUCH IT, AND THEY HAD HIM KISSING IT THE DAY
19 BEFORE THE GAME AND I WENT THAT'S IT, IT'S ALL OVER.
20 I'M GOING TO A MOVIE.
21 YEP.
22 KANOA: ALL RIGHT.
23 WELL, IT DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT SUGAR BOWL FEEL.
24 THAT WAS THE FAMILIARITY FOR US HAWAI'I FANS.
25 OBVIOUSLY IN 2008 HAWAI'I VERSUS GEORGIA, GOT OUT OF HAND PRETTY
26 QUICKLY.
1 AND THEN, YEAH, ON MONDAY NIGHT, IT TURNED OUT TO BE A ROUTE,
2 42-14 ALABAMA OVER NOTRE DAME.
3 ALABAMA HAD 28 POINTS BY HALF TIME.
4 NOTRE DAME HAD ONLY GIVEN UP 26 POINTS AT THE MOST IN A SINGLE
5 GAME THIS SEASON.
6 MANTI TEO IN PARTICULAR, HE ADMITTED IT WAS AN OFF NIGHT,
7 PERHAPS ONE OF HIS WORST PERFORMANCES INDIVIDUALLY SPEAKING
8 THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER.
9 HE HAD ONLY MISSED TWO TACKLES, AT LEAST GOING THROUGH THE TAPE
10 AND ON RECORD, TWO TACKLES ALL SEASON GOING INTO THAT GAME,
11 MISSED A HANDFUL, ENDED UP RECORDING TEN TACKLES.
12 WAS IT A CASE, POPS, OF ALABAMA BEING THAT GOOD, OR NOTRE DAME
13 BEING THAT BAD?
14 >> JIM: IT WAS A COMBINATION OF THAT.
15 NOTRE DAME HAD NEVER BEEN THERE SINCE 1988.
16 NOTRE DAME HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
17 THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
18 AND IT SEEMED THAT ALABAMA HAD.
19 ALABAMA HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE.
20 ALABAMA KNEW THAT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO, AND
21 NICK, GIVEN FIVE WEEKS TO DEVELOP A GAME PLAN.
22 KANOA: HE'S DONE IT AGAIN.
23 >> JIM: HE DOES, AND EVEN THE NOTRE DAME COACH, COACH KELLY,
24 SAID I'VE GOT TO RECRUIT BETTER, I'VE GOT TO GET BETTER PLAYERS,
25 AND I GO, YEAH.
26 KANOA: WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO JOHNNY MANZEL, HEISMAN WINNER,
1 AND WHAT TEXAS TECH DID, I CAN'T IMAGINE ANY TEAM IN THE COUNTRY
2 BEATING THAT ALABAMA TEAM.
3 THEY WERE THAT WELL COACHED, EXECUTING THAT WELL.
4 WHEN MCCARRAN MAKES THE KIND OF THROWS THAT HE WAS GETTING THAT
5 NIGHT, THAT ALABAMA TEAM AND THAT ALABAMA OFFENSE IS IMPOSSIBLE
6 TO STOP.
7 >> JIM: AND WHEN HE GOT INTO KIND OF AN ALMOST -- THEY ALREADY
8 HAD THE GAME LOST.
9 I WAS WATCHING THIS AFTER THE REPLAY ON DVR.
10 KANOA: YOU'RE RIGHT.
11 I THINK THAT WAS THE INFLUENCE, THE CULTURE THAT HAS BEEN
12 CREATED BY NICK SABIN RIGHT THERE.
13 42-14, THE SCORE.
14 ALABAMA HAD THIS THING WRAPPED UP.
15 THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY TO WINNING A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, AND THE
16 QUARTERBACK GETS INTO A NEAR FIGHT, GETS PUSHED BY CENTER JONES
17 BECAUSE THEY WERE BICKERING OVER THE SNAP COUNT AND CHANGING THE
18 PLAY AT THE LINE AND IT JUST GOES TO SHOW, THAT'S THE NICK SABIN
19 COACH, THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION.
20 LET'S TALK ABOUT HIM WHILE WE'RE ON THAT SUBJECT.
21 IS HE THE BEST COACH IN ALL OF SPORTS RIGHT NOW, POPS?
22 >> JIM: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IN ALL OF SPORTS?
23 KANOA: I'M NOT TALKING HISTORICALLY.
24 IN PRESENT DAY, BEST COACH IN ALL OF SPORTS, THE MOST VALUABLE
25 COACH, MVC IF YOU WILL.
26 >> JIM: WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS A COACH THAT HAS DOMINATED IN OTHER
1 SPORTS THAT DON'T COME TO MIND.
2 KANOA: WHAT ABOUT RIGHT NOW?
3 I'M TALKING RIGHT NOW, AMONG COACHES RIGHT NOW.
4 >> JIM: AMONG FOOTBALL COACHES, YES.
5 AMONG FOOTBALL COACHES, HE'S GREAT.
6 KANOA: THE WAY TO LOOK AT THAT QUESTION WOULD BE, WHO'S THE MOST
7 DIFFICULT COACH TO REPLACE?
8 AND I THINK IF YOU WERE TO BREAK IT DOWN, COACH KEA FOR SURE,
9 BUT THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF CULTURE HE'S CREATED AT DUKE.
10 SYRACUSE, YOU'RE TALKING BASKETBALL.
11 BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT COACHES AND HOW HARD THEY WOULD BE TO
12 REPLACE, SOME PEOPLE HAVE OFFERED UP CHIP KELLY AT OREGON BUT HE
13 HASN'T ACHIEVED THE LEVEL OF SUCCESS THAT NICK SABIN HAS.
14 HE'S THE COACH THAT WOULD BE MOST DIFFICULT TO REPLACE RIGHT NOW
15 IN ALL OF SPORTS, AND YOU'RE SEEING IT.
16 HE'S NOW WON FOUR BCS TITLES, ONE WITH LSU, THREE WITH ALABAMA,
17 THREE IN FOUR YEARS.
18 NOT A LOT OF GUYS HAVE DONE THAT AND I THINK HE'S THE GUY RIGHT
19 NOW.
20 >> JIM: THERE'S EVEN ALABAMA PEOPLE, ALABAMA FANS, ALABAMA
21 AFICIONADOS, WHO ARE MAKING RESERVATIONS FOR THE ROSE BOWL NEXT
22 YEAR.
23 >> CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
24 >> I THINK OUR GUEST IS CONSIDERING THAT TOO.
25 WE'LL TALK TO GUY IN A LITTLE BIT.
26 SWITCHING GEARS BY STAYING ON THAT GAME QUICKLY, WHAT DOES THIS
1 DO TO THE LEGACY, DO YOU THINK ARE OF MANTI TEO WITH A STORYBOOK
2 SEASON, YOU MENTIONED DEMIGOD STATUS.
3 THAT WAS PART OF THE HYPE MACHINE.
4 >> HYPE IS --
5 >> A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE UP IN ARMS ABOUT THE HEISMAN.
6 WHAT DOES THIS DO FOR THE LEGACY OF MANTI GOING FORWARD?
7 >> I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, BUT I THINK IT LESSENS IT.
8 I THINK IT TAKES THE SHINE OFF.
9 I THINK IT MAKES HIM MORE HUMAN.
10 I THINK THAT HE'S GOING INTO THE ALL-STAR GAME BUT I DON'T KNOW
11 WHETHER THE ALL-STAR GAMES REALLY DEMONSTRATE HOW GOOD A PERSON
12 IS.
13 I THINK HE WILL BE DRAFTED BY THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, BUT
14 I DON'T KNOW HOW HIGH NOW.
15 I THINK HE WAS SET UP FOR THE FIRST ROUND, BUT NOW I DON'T THINK
16 SO.
17 CONTINUING TO HURT HIM.
18 KANOA: I THINK WHAT CHANGES IS THAT ARGUMENT ABOUT JOHNNY MANZEL
19 WINNING THE HEISMAN.
20 IT'S HARDER TO ARGUE ABOUT NOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT HE DID
21 AGAINST ALABAMA AND WHAT MANTI DID AGAINST ALABAMA, SO SOME OF
22 THOSE THINGS.
23 BUT ULTIMATELY THOSE ARE TRIFLES, STILL NO DOUBT THAT TEO CAN
24 PLAY THE GAME OF FOOTBALL, BUT IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW
25 HE IS EVALUATED IN THE SENIOR BOWL, IF HE PARTICIPATES IN THE
26 COMBINE GOING FORWARD.
1 HE IS BEING REPRESENTED BY ONE OF THE SUPER AGENTS IN ALL OF THE
2 KNIEVEL, WHICH IS TOM CONDON, A GUY WHO REPRESENTS GUYS LIKE ELI
3 AND PEYTON MANNING AND DREW BRIIS, SO HE'S WELL REPRESENTED
4 GOING INTO HIS PRO ENDEAVOR.
5 WE'LL SEE EXACTLY WHERE HE LANDS COME DRAFT TIME.
6 >> HE STILL HAS THE LEGACY OF FOUR YEARS AT NOTRE DAME.
7 >> EXACTLY, AND ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PLAYERS IN THE
8 HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
9 >> JIM: YOU ARE CORRECT.
10 KANOA: MOVING ON TO THE SPORT OF BASEBALL BECAUSE THE HALL OF
11 FAME BALLOTS WERE IN TODAY.
12 IT WAS ANNOUNCED AND GET INTO THE HALL OF FAME THIS YEAR,
13 NOBODY.
14 FOR THE SECOND TIME ONLY IN FOUR DECADES, NOBODY GETTING INTO
15 THE HALL OF FAME.
16 IT WAS A BALLOT THAT INCLUDED BARRY BONDS, ROGER CLEMENS, SAMMY
17 SOSA, ALL TIED TO STEROIDS, AND NONE OF WHOM WERE VOTED IN.
18 IN FACT, I THINK THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE WAS BARRY BONDS, WHO GOT
19 LIKE 37% OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
20 OF THAT GROUP.
21 OF THOSE THREE, AND YOU NEED 75% OF THE BALLOTS.
22 >> JIM: GREG BICHIO HAD 68%.
23 KANOA: SO NOBODY GETS IN.
24 YOUR REACTION TO THE DENIAL OF BONDS, CLEMENS, SOSA?
25 >> JIM: I THINK IF YOU'RE NOT NATURAL, IF IT WASN'T A NATURAL
26 ACCOMPLISHMENT, YOU SHOULDN'T GET IN.
1 BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BODY OF WORK OF SAY LIKE BARRY BONDS, HE
2 WAS A VERY GOOD HITTER, MVP, EVEN BEFORE ALL OF THIS STUFF
3 STARTED.
4 BUT BECAUSE ALL THIS STUFF HAS STARTED NOW, I DON'T THINK THE
5 SPORTS WRITERS REALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO.
6 I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S GOING TO GET IN THIS YEAR OR NEXT
7 YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER THAT.
8 BUT MAYBE, MAYBE AFTER THAT, THEY WILL.
9 BECAUSE OF THE FACT THEY LOOK AT THE WHOLE BODY.
10 KANOA: THAT'S MY ISSUE.
11 IF YOU ARE A SPORTS WRITER AND YOU DENY THEM ACCESS NOW, WHAT IS
12 GOING TO CHANGE IN FIVE YEARS?
13 IS THIS JUST THE PENANCE THAT YOU'RE PUTTING ON BONDS, SOSA AND
14 CLEMENS FOR HAVING BEEN TIED TO STEROIDS IN THE STEROID ERA?
15 WHAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT IS WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE STEROID ERA,
16 THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE GUYS WHO HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
17 EVIDENCE AGAINST, OR WHO HAVE BEEN FOUND TO HAVE USED, BUT YOU
18 DON'T KNOW EVERYBODY THAT USED.
19 THERE MIGHT BE SOME PEOPLE ON THE BALLOT THAT USED THAT DIDN'T
20 GET CAUGHT.
21 IT'S HARD TO DIFFERENTIATE.
22 ITS HARD TO DECIPHER, AND I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN ISSUE WITH
23 THE HOLIER THAN THOU ATTITUDE OF THE BASEBALL WRITERS.
24 >> JIM: TRUE.
25 KANOA: A LOT OF THEM NEVER PLAYED THE GAME AND YET THEY
26 UNDERSTAND THE GAME, BUT IT'S JUST HARD AND THE STEROID ERA,
1 IT'S HARD TO DIFFERENTIATE -- I SAY PUT THEM IN.
2 >> JIM: HOW CAN I OR YOU LEGITIMATELY SAY THAT?
3 KANOA: WHEN GO TO COOPERSTOWN YOU SHOULD WALK THE HALLS AND YOU
4 SHOULD BE INTRODUCED TO THE HISTORY OF THE GAME AND BARRY BONDS,
5 ROGER CLEMENS AND SAMMY SOSA ARE ENORMOUS PARTS OF THE HISTORY
6 OF THE GAME OF BASEBALL.
7 >> JIM: IF YOU HAD A CEREMONY OUTSIDE OF THE HALL OF FAME AND
8 YOU HAD TODAY WE'RE GOING TO START CONSTRUCTION ON THE ERA WHERE
9 PEOPLE TOOK STEROIDS --
10 KANOA: YOU'RE TAKING MY IDEA.
11 >> JIM: AND PUT THEM IN THERE.
12 THEY'RE IN THE HALL OF FAME, BUT THEY'RE NOT REALLY IN THE HALL
13 OF FAME.
14 KANOA: YOU'RE TAKING MY IDEA.
15 THAT WAS ORIGINALLY MY IDEA.
16 YOU HAVE HONORARY INDUCTION AND YOU HAVE DISHONORARY INDUCTIONS
17 OR STANDARD INDUCTION WHERE YES, THEY'RE PUT IN THE HALL OF FAME
18 AND MAYBE PUT IN THE CERTAIN CLASS BUT THEY DON'T GET THE
19 CELEBRATION OF THE CEREMONY THAT OTHER HALL OF FAMERS GET.
20 BUT I THINK THEY DESERVE TO BE THERE BECAUSE I KEEP LOOKING BACK
21 ON THIS AND YOU'RE BARRY BONDS, ONE OF THE BEST BASEBALL PLAYERS
22 IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME, AND YOU'RE SEEING ALL THE INK THAT'S
23 BEING WRITTEN ABOUT MARK MCGWIRE AND SAMMY SOSA AND THESE OTHER
24 GUYS AND THINKING TO YOURSELF, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO TO
25 MAINTAIN THAT.
26 YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
1 YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S NOW MADE AVAILABLE.
2 THE TESTING WAS SO MURKY AT THE TIME.
3 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERHAPS HUNDREDS OF
4 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ENDORSEMENTS AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
5 I CAN UNDERSTAND, NOT SAYING IT'S RIGHT BUT I CAN UNDERSTAND THE
6 LOGIC BEHIND THE TEMPTATION DURING THE STEROID ERA OF GETTING
7 INVOLVED WITH THAT STUFF.
8 AND I'M NOT SURE IF THESE SPORTS WRITERS SHOULD DEMONIZE THESE
9 GUYS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES BASED ON WHAT'S THE ERA WAS
10 ESSENTIALLY GUIDING GUYS TO DO.
11 >> JIM: I'M NOT SAYING THE REST OF THEIR LIVES, BUT THEY'RE NOT
12 GETTING IN THIS YEAR AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING IN NEXT YEAR AND
13 THEY'RE NOT GETTING IN THE YEAR AFTER THAT.
14 WHO THE HECK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE?
15 THEY COME UP AND THEY JUICE.
16 THIS IS THE JUICE ERA.
17 THEY COME UP AND THEY JUICE AND THEY HIT THE BALL FARTHER AND
18 THEY PITCH THE BALL BETTER, BUT IT'S NOT THE GAME OF BASEBALL.
19 IT'S A TANKED EXISTENCE OF A WONDROUS SPORT, AND I DON'T THINK
20 YOU GET IN.
21 KANOA: THERE WERE OTHER ERAS, WHERE THEY DIDN'T ALLOW BLACK
22 PEOPLE TO PLAY AND GUYS DID *** AND OTHER DRUGS.
23 >> JIM: WE'RE NOT IN THAT ERA NOW.
24 WE'RE IN THIS ERA.
25 DON'T LET THEM IN.
26 NO.
1 >> JIM: RAINBOW BASKETBALL, 3-0 IN THE BIG WEST CONFERENCE WITH
2 WINS LAST WEEK.
3 JEFFERSON HIT A GAME WINNING SHOT, BUZZER ***, BRANDON JIWATO
4 GOES 7-7 AGAINST THE HIGHLANDERS OF RIVERSIDE, 3-0 FOR THE FIRST
5 TIME SINCE THE 2001-2002 SEASON.
6 IS THIS LUCKY OR THAT GOOD?
7 >> JIM: THIS TEAM WAS AT HOME.
8 KANOA: OH, SO YOU'RE SAYING MAYBE ON THE ROAD MIGHT BE --.
9 >> JIM: HAWAI'I HAS ALWAYS STRUGGLED ON THE ROAD.
10 COME ON, LOOK AT ITS HISTORY.
11 KANOA: BUT 3-0, LAST TIME THEY DID THAT THEY WENT TO THE NCAA.
12 >> JIM: GOOD FOR THEM, AND THEY LOST DURING THE FIRST ROUND.
13 KANOA: STILL BARKING.
14 MR. LEAHEY.
15 >> JIM: HE KNOWS YOU.
16 NICE SUIT.
17 ONLY ALABAMA PEOPLE COULD DRESS LIKE THAT.
18 LIKE GOING TO CHURCH WHEN YOU GO TO THOSE GAMES.
19 LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO A NICE RESTAURANT FOR LUNCH.
20 >> I MIGHT DO THAT, MY FRIEND.
21 I JUST MIGHT DO THAT.
22 KANOA: I THINK YOU ARE OFFICIALLY THE BEST DRESSED GUEST THAT
23 WE'VE OF HAD ON THE SHOW.
24 >> JIM: YEAH, HE REALLY IS.
25 KANOA: CONGRATULATIONS.
26 >> BECAUSE YOU HAVE TELEVISION.
1 >> TELEVISION PERSONALITY AT KHON 2, I'M PROUD TO SAY.
2 HE IS AN ANCHOR, A REPORTER WITH WAKE UP TODAY, THE WAKE UP
3 TODAY CREW IN THE MORNING OVER THERE AT KHON 2, SO WE APPRECIATE
4 YOU GIVING US THE TIME HERE TO TALK STORY WITH YOU.
5 >> SURE.
6 KANOA: LET'S GET RIGHT TO THE GAME BECAUSE YOU ARE ONE OF YOU
7 LESS THAN A HANDFUL OF ALABAMA FANS OR AT LEAST PEOPLE THAT WERE
8 ROOTING FOR ALABAMA IN THAT GAME, BECAUSE EVERYONE HAD ADOPTED
9 NOTRE DAME BECAUSE OF THE THREE LOCAL GUYS.
10 YOU HAIL FROM CENTER ALABAMA.
11 WHAT WAS IT LIKE, BEING IN THE MINORITY, SIGNIFICANT MINORITY.
12 >> LET ME TELL YOU, MY FRIEND.
13 I WENT TO A WATERING HOLE TO WATCH THE GAME, AND IT TOOK ONLY
14 TWO MINUTES AND I BELIEVE 56 SECONDS BEFORE THE CRIMSON TIDE TO
15 SCORE THE FIRST TOUCHDOWN, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
16 IT WAS PRETTY QUICK.
17 STOPWATCH.
18 SO I'M LIKE YEAH, AND I REALIZE THERE'S NO ONE ELSE SAYING THAT.
19 THERE'S ONE OTHER GUY WHO CHEERS AND I'M LIKE, OH, SO THE REST
20 OF MY TIME I HAD MY DAUGHTER WITH ME.
21 IT WAS A RESTAURANT.
22 >> WAS THE OTHER FAN WEARING ALABAMA STUFF?
23 >> I DON'T BELIEVE HE WAS, BUT I BELIEVE HE MAY HAVE WAGERED ON
24 THE EVENT AND WAS THRILLED THAT ALABAMA HAD GOTTEN OFF TO A
25 GREAT START, SO AS I SAID, RESTAURANT/WATERING HOLE, WE WERE IN
26 THE RESTAURANT PART OF IT, MY 10-YEAR-OLD TOLD ME BASICALLY,
1 PIPE DOWN, DAD.
2 SO THE REST OF THE GAME, THE SCORE 21-0, AND I'M LIKE, YEAH --
3 [WHISPERING].
4 THAT'S HOW I GOT TO CELEBRATE.
5 KANOA: YOU WERE DOING A LOT OF CELEBRATING.
6 >> QUIETLY.
7 >> JIM: WHAT IS IT LIKE?
8 FOR US IN HAWAI'I, OUR EXPOSURE TO COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS WITH THE
9 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I, BUT IT IS SO DIFFERENT IN OTHER PARTS OF
10 THE COUNTRY WHERE IT REALLY DOES TAKE ON A SORT OF RELIGIOUS
11 TONE.
12 WHAT IS IT LIKE WHEN IT'S CRIMSON TIDE FOOTBALL IN THE STATE OF
13 ALABAMA?
14 >> IT'S -- CRAZY IS NOT THE RIGHT WORD FOR IT.
15 IN FACT MY AUNTIE, MY AUNT GAY WHO LIVES IN ALABAMA, CALLED ME
16 THAT DAY AND DURING THE SEASON TEXTED ME EVERY SATURDAY, ROLL
17 TIDE ROLL, THEN TELLS ME ABOUT HOW THEY'RE DOING.
18 SHE KNOWS MORE ABOUT ALABAMA FOOTBALL THAN I COULD EVER HOPE TO
19 KNOW.
20 IT DATES BACK TO WHEN I WAS A KID.
21 '78, '79, THEY WON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH BEAR BRYANT, SO
22 THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE 199 AND 1980 SUGAR BOWLS THEY WERE
23 GOING TO.
24 AT THAT TIME THE SEC CONFERENCE WOULD ALWAYS GO TO THE SUGAR
25 BOWL.
26 IT WAS JUST NATURAL THAT EVERY YEAR WE MADE TO THE SUGAR BOWL,
1 SO I GOT TO GO TO THOSE GAMES.
2 I GREW UP ON BEAR BRYANT, SIX NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
3 EVERY YEAR YOU COULD COUNT ON HIM BEING IN THE MIX.
4 SO IT'S ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, MY BROTHER SAYS IT'S A BIG
5 MONUMENTAL MILESTONE BIRTHDAY FOR US -- FOR HIM, SO HE SAID
6 LET'S GO GET TATTOOS.
7 I SAID OK.
8 SO MY BROTHER GOES FIRST.
9 HE TAKES A SWEATSHIRT THAT HAS THE ALABAMA ELEPHANT ON IT AND
10 PUTS THAT ON HIS THIGH, THE FIRST TATTOO HE EVER GOT.
11 NOW HE'S GOT THE SLEEVE THING, SUPERHEROES, BAR CODE, SPEARS,
12 WHATEVER.
13 HE'S GOT THEM ALL OVER, BUT HE PUT THE ALABAMA ELEPHANT ON HIS
14 LEG.
15 THAT WAS THE FIRST ONE.
16 THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT HE THOUGHT IT WAS THAT HE ACTUALLY PUT THAT
17 ON THERE.
18 >> WHAT ABOUT YOU?
19 >> NOT THE ALABAMA ELEPHANT THAT WENT THROUGH A NICKNAME AND
20 ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT?
21 I GOT A GAME OF CORN.
22 IT WAS LIKE GLITTER.
23 KIND OF PINK.
24 I'LL SHOW IT TO YOU LATER.
25 KANOA: PLEASE DON'T, OK.
26 >> JIM: WHAT IS AMAZING TO ME WAS HOW LOOKING AT THE HIGHLIGHTS
1 AND THINGS LIKE THAT, HOW ALABAMA KNEW WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT.
2 I MEAN, THEY HAD A PLAN, FIVE WEEKS TO PREPARE, AND THEY WERE
3 WELL PREPARED, BETTER THAT BE ANY COACH I THINK I'VE EVER SEEN
4 IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
5 HE DOESN'T -- IT'S PHENOMENAL THE GAME PLAN HE CAN PUT IN AND
6 HOW SOPHISTICATED AND HOW OVERWHELMING HE CAN MAKE IT.
7 EVEN LAST YEAR, A GOOD FRIEND OF OURS, THEO WHO USED TO WORK AT
8 CHANNEL 2, MOVED BACK TO THE MAINLAND, HUGE LSU FAN AND I
9 WATCHED THE GAME IN TUSCALOOSA WHEN THEY BEAT ALABAMA, GRANTED
10 I'M A HOMER, HUGE ALABAMA FAN, BUT I WATCHED THE FOOTBALL GAME
11 AND SAID WE'RE A BETTER TEAM THAN THEY ARE.
12 ONCE THINGS FELL THE WAY THEY DID, I LITERALLY TEXTED THEO AND
13 SAID YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, AND HE SAID, I KNOW.
14 THAT'S WHAT PLAYED OUT.
15 IF YOU GIVE SABIN FOUR OR FIVE WEEKS OF GAME PLAN FOR ANYONE, HE
16 CAN BEAT WHATEVER YOU THROW AT HIM.
17 >> HE'S PROVED IT.
18 >> AND I FELT BAD FOR THE GUY A LITTLE BIT.
19 IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE THEY HAD A CHANCE TO REALLY CELEBRATE, ALL
20 THE SOUND BITES AT THE END OF THE GAME WERE ABOUT NEXT YEAR,
21 ABOUT GETTING BACK TO WORK, AND I THOUGHT JUST ENJOY IT FOR ONE
22 NIGHT, AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FIGHT, THE KIND OF
23 BROU-HA-HA BETWEEN THE CENTER AND AB MCCARRAN.
24 THAT EDUCATED IS WOUND SO TIGHT THAT IN THE FOURTH QUARTER UP,
25 42-14, HE CAN'T ENJOY.
26 ALL HE CAN DO IS GET WORKED UP IF THEY HAVE A DELAY OF GAME
1 CALL.
2 THAT'S HOW TIGHT NICK SABIN HAS HIM WOUND.
3 YOU CANNOT MAKE HIM STAY AT ANY MOMENT, FROM THE VERY FIRST KICK
4 TO THE VERY LAST WHISTLE.
5 AND THEY DON'T.
6 THEY DON'T.
7 THAT'S THE TRUTH.
8 >> JIM: NOTRE DAME WAS OUT-COACHED, OUT-PLAYED, OUT-CLASSED.
9 AND THAT IS A RESOUNDING DEFEAT THAT HAS I THINK REPERCUSSIONS
10 IN THE YEARS THAT COME UP.
11 YOU WERE UNDEFEATED, NOTRE DAME, BUT WHEN IT REALLY CAME DOWN TO
12 THE CHAMPIONSHIP, YOU JUST DIDN'T REPORT.
13 YOU DIDN'T PLAY.
14 KANOA: THERE IS A CERTAIN LEVEL OF READINESS AT PLAY, MAYBE
15 BECAUSE THEY EXPERIENCED THAT BIG SAGE PREVIOUSLY, THAT THEY HAD
16 ON THEIR SIDE, THAT THEY EXHIBITED, THAT NOTRE DAME JUST COULD
17 NOT MATCH UP WITH, AND THERE WERE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONABLE CALLS
18 EARLY AND ONCE THE MOMENTUM GETS ROLLING THAT WAY, THINGS CAN
19 GET OUT OF CONTROL.
20 BUT THERE WAS NO DOUBT THAT ALABAMA WAS MUCH MORE READY TO PLAY
21 THAT GAME THAN NOTRE DAME WAS.
22 FOUR YEARS AGO, PLANO BEATS TEXAS.
23 THE FAMOUS GAME WHERE THEY KNOCKED MCCOY OUT LIKE IN THE SECOND
24 PLAY AND HE HAD THE SERVE DAMAGE AND SAT ON THE SIDELINES THE
25 WHOLE TIME.
26 TEXAS RALLIED AND MADE IT CLOSE, BUT ALABAMA ENDED UP WINNING BY
1 A COMFORTABLE MARGIN IN THAT, THE FIRST OF THE RUN THEY'RE ON
2 NOW.
3 DURING THE PREGAME, I TOLD MY BROTHER, MYSELF AND MY FRIEND JIM,
4 ALL OF US MADE THE TRIP UP THERE, WE'RE SITTING IN THE ROSE BOWL
5 WATCHING THIS AND IT WAS PREGAME AND HE TURNED TO MY BROTHER
6 ONCE I SAW THIS, TEXAS DOING ITS THINGS, ALABAMA DOING ITS
7 THINGS, AND A SONG COMES ON, HIP-HOP POP SONG AT THE TIME THAT
8 WAS ON THE BLARING ON THE LOUDSPEAKERS AND ONCE IT GOT TO A
9 PERSON START OF THE SONG, THE TEAM STARTS JUMPING IN UNISON AND
10 I LOOKED AT MY BROTHER AND SAID WE'VE WON THIS FOOTBALL GAME.
11 THEY WERE THAT COMFORTABLE, AND THEY HAD NOT PLAYED IN IT.
12 TEXAS SEEMED TO BE UPTIGHT AND SURE ENOUGH IT PLAYED OUT THAT
13 WAY.
14 IT'S LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN TO THE DANCE, THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S
15 ABOUT, THEY DIDN'T LET IT GET TOO BIG AND THEY THINK, FOCUS, AND
16 ONE THING WHEN YOU WATCH THEM, THEY DO NOT MAKE PENALTIES OR
17 TURN THE FOOTBALL OVER.
18 >> JIM: IT'S PERFECTION.
19 KANOA: IT'S AS PRECISION AS YOU GET, AND IT'S IMPRESSIVE.
20 >> TO CLOSE THE BOOK ON THIS ISSUE, I GUESS, GOING FORWARD A
21 COUPLE OF SEASONS THEY'LL MOVE TO THE TOURNAMENT.
22 HOW IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE THINGS, THAT LITTLE PLAYOFF THEY'RE
23 GOING TO APPLY?
24 BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT WITH
25 NOTRE DAME EVEN HAVE BEEN IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IF THEY HAD
26 TO PLAY A SEMIFINAL AGAINST SAY OREGON OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT,
1 OR TEXAS A&M?
2 HOW DO YOU THINK THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT THINGS?
3 >> IT WILL BRING AT LEAST A FEW MORE TEAMS INTO THE END OF THE
4 DISCUSSION.
5 THAT'S FOR SURE.
6 AND MAYBE IT WILL HELP THE MATCHUP, THAT FINAL MATCHUP.
7 MAYBE WITH WILL STRAIN OUT A TEAM THAT HAS BEEN -- YOU KNOW, TO
8 BE HONEST, AND I WAS PULLING FOR OUR LOCAL BOYS TO PLAY WELL AND
9 I WAS HOPING MANTI WOULD PLAY WELL, I REALLY WAS.
10 I CAN'T FORGET WHERE I COME FROM SO I WANTED ALABAMA TO WIN THE
11 FOOTBALL GAME, BUT I WANTED TO SEE THEM PERFORM WELL AND PLAY
12 WELL IN THE GAME.
13 BUT IF YOU LOOK BACK, IF YOU LOOK BACK ON JANUARY 2 OR 3 AT THE
14 SEASON, A WIN IN OCTOBER AT OKLAHOMA MAYBE ISN'T THE SAME AS
15 WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS, PA, BECAUSE AFTER ALL, WE JUST WATCHED
16 JOHNNY MANZEL JUST TORCH OKLAHOMA, SO MAYBE YOU GO WAIT A
17 SECOND, OKLAHOMA IS NOT VERY GOOD, AND YOU LOOK BACK AND YOU GO
18 WHAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT A GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM EITHER.
19 ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU GO WAIT A SECOND, IF YOU START BREAKING DOWN
20 EVERY WEEK IN HINDSIGHT, BECAUSE DURING THAT WEEK YOU GO THEY
21 MARCHED IN AND BEAT A GOOD OKLAHOMA TEAM.
22 AT THE END OF THE SEASON YOU LOOK BACK AND THAT'S PART OF
23 IT.
24 IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR VICTORIES, THOSE VICTORIES
25 WERE CLOSE MOST OF THE TIME, AGAINST TEAMS THAT I THINK WEREN'T
26 NECESSARILY THAT GOOD.
1 SO ULTIMATELY WHEN I WAS LOOKING BACK AT IT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
2 HOW THIS GAME IS GOING TO PLAY OUT, I THINK STANFORD IS THE ONLY
3 GAME WHERE YOU CAN SAY THEY PLAYED WELL AND BEAT A GOOD TEAM,
4 BUT I THINK THE REST OF THOSE WINS ARE NOT AGAINST STRONG TEAMS.
5 >> JIM: HE HAS A STORY?
6 KANOA: THAT WAS THE STORY.
7 HE TOLD THE WATERING HOLE STORY.
8 >> JIM: OH, THE WATERING HOLE STORY.
9 YEAH, YEAH.
10 >> HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF THE PLACE?
11 >> JIM: IT GOT TO BE 35-0 REAL QUICK AND PEOPLE STARTED LEAVING
12 AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
13 ALL RIGHT, WRAP UP THE HOT STUFF QUICKLY.
14 >> JIM: TELL ME ABOUT THE SEC.
15 THE SEC SEEMS TO BE ALL ENCOMPASSING.
16 I MEAN, THEY ARE A MONOPOLY, THEY INFLUENCE THE HEISMAN VOTE,
17 THEY HAVE ALL KINDS OF THINGS GOING FOR THEM.
18 WILL THEY DOMINATE THE PLAYOFFS?
19 >> WELL, THEY HAVE A RULE -- THAT'S INTERESTING, BECAUSE I THINK
20 THERE ARE GOING TO BE YEARS WHERE YOU CAN LITERALLY SAY LOOK,
21 LET THEM INVITE ONE PAC 12 TEAM IN BUT THE OTHER THREE NEED TO
22 BE GEORGIA, OSU AND ALABAMA, SEEDED HOWEVER YOU WANT.
23 TO THAT'S GOING TO BE FASCINATING BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE
24 YEARS WHERE LET'S BE HONEST, YOU CAN PROBABLY ARGUE IF YOU WANT
25 TO PICK THE FOUR BEST, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE TEXAS A&M, ALABAMA,
26 MAYBE GEORGIA, AND THEN WHAT?
1 MAYBE OREGON?
2 IF YOU HAD TO SEED FOUR TEAMS THAT YOU WANTED.
3 BUT LOOK RIGHT INTO THE CAMERA, BECAUSE THERE'S A FRIEND I WORK
4 WITH ON WAKE UP TODAY THAT TALKED ABOUT THIS.
5 AS SOON AS THE GAME WAS OVER I HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING
6 ABOUT OREGON WOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM A BETTER GAME.
7 GUYS, OREGON WOULD NOT HAVE STOOD A CHANCE AGAINST ALABAMA ON
8 MONDAY NIGHT.
9 CAN WE PLEASE AGREE TO THAT?
10 >> JIM: NO, I DON'T WANT TO AGREE TO THAT.
11 KANOA: I WOULD SAY THE WAY ALABAMA PLAYED, ANY TEAM WOULD HAVE
12 BEEN HARD PRESSED TO COMPETE WITH THEM.
13 >> LET'S TALK ABOUT WAKE UP TODAY MORE A COUPLE MORE MINUTES.
14 THE MECHANISM THAT IS MORNING NEWS, WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE
15 EVOLUTION OF THAT, AND HOW WAKEUP TODAY SORT OF, WHERE ITS NICHE
16 LIES?
17 CAFFEINE?
18 CHOCOLATE?
19 SNICKERS?
20 >> WE'VE EXPANDED.
21 WE JUST STARTED ON MONDAY AS WELL, SO WE'RE DOING THREE AND A
22 HALF HOURS OF NEWS AND THAT'S A LOT OF NEWS.
23 IT HAPPENS EVERY MORNING.
24 >> ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE IN A SUIT AND THERE'S LOTS OF LIGHTS
25 ON.
26 BUT IT'S FUN, AND I THINK WITH THE MORNING NEWS, I THINK YOU'RE
1 ALWAYS TRYING TO FIND A DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN INFORMING
2 PEOPLE, GIVING THEM NEWS, SORT OF ENTERTAINING THEM, WE ARE SORT
3 OF THEIR WAKEUP CUP COFFEE IN A WAY, SO YOU DON'T WANT TO
4 NECESSARILY HIT THEM OVER THE HEAD WITH TRAIN WRECKS AND FERRY
5 CRASHES AND THAT SORT OF THING, SO YOU WANT TO SPRINKLE IN THE
6 NEWS BUT THEN WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FUN, GET A CHANCE TO
7 SHOW A LITTLE BIT OF PERSONALITY.
8 THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE ENJOYED MOST ABOUT THE MOVE TO THE
9 MORNING, IS IT'S NOT AS RESTRICTED AS THOSE 30 MINUTE NEWSCASTS
10 THAT HAVE TO MARCH ALONG AT A REAL QUICK PLACE PACE.
11 YOU CAN KIND OF TALK STORY, KIND OF HAVE FUN.
12 BRING IN GUESTS.
13 WE HAVE FUN WITH THAT.
14 KANOA: WE APPRECIATE IT, JAI.
15 THANKS FOR COMING BY.
16 CONGRATULATIONS, ROLL TIDE AND ALL THAT.
17 HAVE YOU CONSIDERED GETTING YOUR TICKET FOR NEXT YEAR'S NATIONAL
18 CHAMPIONSHIP?
19 >> SURE.
20 LET'S DO IT, ROAD TRIP.
21 KANOA: LEAHEY AND LEAHEY, LIVE.
22 >> I KNOW WHERE TO GO NOW.
23 >> GOOD CHANCE THEY'LL THERE WILL BE AGAIN.
24 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
25 QUICK PLUG, RAINBOW WAHINE BASKETBALL ALUMNI GAME THIS SUNDAY AT
26 2:30 P.M., JANUARY 13. 23
1 GAVIN PETERSON, ASSISTANT COACH, STILL LOOKING FOR SOME ALUMS TO
2 PARTICIPATE?
3 YOU CAN CALL IN AT 956-50342.
4 THAT'S IT FOR US.
5 SEE YOU NEXT TIME ON LEAHEY AND LEAHEY.
6 THANK YOU, JAI.
7 BEAR BRYANT.
8 >> ROLL TIDE.