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I don't know....sounds great but when you are playing Hawaii....why not HAWAII
We played Hawaii for the season opener in1990 in Honolulu - I was there. Best road trip ever. We went a week ahead of time and did other islands then came back to Oahu the day before the game.
Hah. I had a friend who played baseball at a WAC school when Hawaii was in the WAC. The whole team hated going to Hawaii. The travel was the longest they had to do the whole season. Second, he said everyone at the hotel knows why you're there, and you're playing against the local team, so they do everything to distract you - free luas, piled on booze, etc - all in the guise of Hawaiian hospitality. It was also the only stadium that they played in that had astroturf due to the rainy weather. Finally, and worst of all, the WAC couldn't afford to send umps and crew multiple times a season, so the vast majority of them were local and probably went to UH. You can imagine it was sorta like A&M playing tu, but worse.