UH Assistant Coach Mike Sealy!

[mikesmith]

Mike Sealy will be outstanding as Assistant coach for UH. He has a great knowledge of the game of Volleyball. UH should consider this a great move! He will do well.

[grunionrun]

Haha. If Shoji wanted a mediocre ex-collegiate all-star California boy as his assistant coach, he should have went with Mark Presho instead. At least Presho has ties to UH volleyball.

Sealy? Are you kidding me?

[mikesmith]

I guess if winning a national championship as a starter, being an all-American, while playing for the best Collegiate sports team in any sport, makes you mediocre, then that was a great reply.

But, I would disagree.

He was also assistant coach for five years under arguably the best coach Volleyball has ever seen.

This move was great for UH volleyball. You will see the difference immediately.

[Deleted]

The UCLA mens team plays Hawaii next weekend, maybe someone can get an interview with him at this time.

The mens' season does not end until May, so he may not be Hawaii for the spring match next month.

[808]

pete said:

The UCLA mens team plays Hawaii next weekend, maybe someone can get an interview with him at this time.

I'm sure someone will.

The mens' season does not end until May, so he may not be Hawaii for the spring match next month.

This month.

[IdahoBoy]

grunionrun said:

Haha. If Shoji wanted a mediocre ex-collegiate all-star California boy as his assistant coach, he should have went with Mark Presho instead. At least Presho has ties to UH volleyball.

Sealy? Are you kidding me?

Mark Presho?

I've at least heard of Sealy before.

[ACE]

the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/04/br/br01p.html

[grunionrun]

mikesmith said:

I guess if winning a national championship as a starter, being an all-American, while playing for the best Collegiate sports team in any sport, makes you mediocre, then that was a great reply.

But, I would disagree.

He was also assistant coach for five years under arguably the best coach Volleyball has ever seen.

This move was great for UH volleyball. You will see the difference immediately.

Yes you will, but it won't be the kind of difference that UH fans are going to want to see. Sealy had one good year in his college career when he was a senior, and only because Scates threatened to start a freshman setter in Stein Metzger who was actually better. On a team that had Jeff Nygaard, Dan Landry, Eric Sullivan, Kevin Wong, and Tim Kelly - how good did the setting have to be? As for his 5 years under Scates, big whoops. What exactly did he have to do when you already have Scates and Rofer doing the majority of the work and maintaining a vast majority of the control over the program? Sealy also helped out Jeff Campbell for awhile at CSUN. Doesn't mean he knows squat about actually coaching. The coaching approach in the men's game is completely different than the women's game - how much does Sealy actually know from a techincal standpoint? What real experience does he have at making athletes better individually from a skills standpoint or making the team better through developing systems of play? Wade was dynamic, high energy, a motivator, and a good yin to Shoji's yang. Sealy is just gonna be totally bland
in the role of assistant, and I think he's in way over his head in this role. He might actually have to do some real work as an assistant for the UH women.

[IdahoBoy]

grunionrun said:

mikesmith said:

I guess if winning a national championship as a starter, being an all-American, while playing for the best Collegiate sports team in any sport, makes you mediocre, then that was a great reply.

But, I would disagree.

He was also assistant coach for five years under arguably the best coach Volleyball has ever seen.

This move was great for UH volleyball. You will see the difference immediately.

Yes you will, but it won't be the kind of difference that UH fans are going to want to see. Sealy had one good year in his college career when he was a senior, and only because Scates threatened to start a freshman setter in Stein Metzger who was actually better. On a team that had Jeff Nygaard, Dan Landry, Eric Sullivan, Kevin Wong, and Tim Kelly - how good did the setting have to be? As for his 5 years under Scates, big whoops. What exactly did he have to do when you already have Scates and Rofer doing the majority of the work and maintaining a vast majority of the control over the program? Sealy also helped out Jeff Campbell for awhile at CSUN. Doesn't mean he knows squat about actually coaching. The coaching approach in the men's game is completely different than the women's game - how much does Sealy actually know from a techincal standpoint? What real experience does he have at making athletes better individually from a skills standpoint or making the team better through developing systems of play? Wade was dynamic, high energy, a motivator, and a good yin to Shoji's yang. Sealy is just gonna be totally bland
in the role of assistant, and I think he's in way over his head in this role. He might actually have to do some real work as an assistant for the UH women.

So grunion, which OTHER applicant were you? Just kidding. Seriously though, you're kind of putting the cart before the horse in your analysis aren't you?

[donkeykong]

grunion...sorry to hear you didn't get the job.

[Charlie]

This Grunion guy sure is showing his ignorance. I've known Sealy since the mid-90s. He was a terrific setter for UCLA and also did well in Europe professionally. He still can get it done at the Open Nationals, too, just ask his teammates.

For the past year, he has worked with the UCLA women's team, and the players think _very_ highly of him. He not only had great insights into the game, particularly for the setters, but he also established great rapport with the players.

Probably the only area in which he has not already proven himself is in recruiting.

This hire was a good one for Hawaii, and it's a good move professionally for Sealy. A win-win as they say.

[silversurfer]

charlie said:

This Grunion guy sure is showing his ignorance. I've known Sealy since the mid-90s. He was a terrific setter for UCLA and also did well in Europe professionally. He still can get it done at the Open Nationals, too, just ask his teammates.

For the past year, he has worked with the UCLA women's team, and the players think _very_ highly of him. He not only had great insights into the game, particularly for the setters, but he also established great rapport with the players.

Probably the only area in which he has not already proven himself is in recruiting.

This hire was a good one for Hawaii, and it's a good move professionally for Sealy. A win-win as they say.

So which former Bruin is the next second assistant for Andy?

[grunionrun]

It's impossible to know if Sealy was the best choice or not of out all the applicants. We don't even know who all the applicants were. As for Charlie, your Bruin bias has been well known for quite some time. And no I didn't apply for the position, there is no way I'd move to Hawaii for that job based on the salary scale and the cost of living there. And I stick with what I said, Sealy has alot to prove and thus far he's shown nothing in his coaching career to indicate he's gonna put his nose to the grindstone like Wade did and make a real impact on the Wahine program.

[kolohekeiki]

Mark Presho is a former all-American that played for the Warriors in the early 90s.

[USAFAN]

A lot of the emphasis has been placed on the achievements that he's garnered as a player which basically have no meaning at this level. The recent article talked about Charlie and his baseball career and John Cook of Nebraska has done amazing with a different sporting background. Mike Sealy's coaching resume doesn't blow my mind, but we'll see what kind of effect he will have on the UH program. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and wait till next season to make judgements.