.....Emerald Green and Lemon Yellow.....

I remember June Jones from the 70's, when he played QB for Mouse Davis at Portland State.

After the Univ. of Hawaii received the NCAA death penalty,.. June Jones built a winner from the ashes. With Colt Brennan, Jones guided Hawaii to a BCS bowl. Amazing turn around, impressed the hell out of me.

I like him a lot, but he's a free spirit,.. I think the big schools are scared of him.

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...a great American moment...

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Although the strike movement had no coordinating center, the workers had developed an information network to spread news of their struggle. A "dissident" group, originally set up in 1976 to organize aid for victimized workers, had attracted small groups of working-class militants. At the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, the firing of Anna Walentynowics, a popular crane operator and activist, galvanized the outraged workers into action.

On August 14, the shipyard workers began their strike, organized by Lech Walesa, a former shipyard worker who had been dismissed years earlier, he arrived at the shipyard the morning of the strike.

The strike committee demanded the rehiring of Walentynowicz and Wałęsa, with an accord respecting workers' rights,.. and the legalization of independent trade unions.

The Polish government minimized the situation and enforced censorship, official media said little about the "sporadic labor disturbances in Gdańsk"; as a further precaution, all phone connections between the coast and the rest of Poland were soon cut.Nonetheless, the government failed to contain the information: a spreading wave of [underground pamphlets] along with Radio Free Europe broadcasts, ensured that the ideas of the emerging Solidarity movement quickly spread.

On August 16, delegations from other strike committees arrived at the shipyard, and 21 demands were setforth, beginning with a demand for new, independent trade unions and going on to call for a relaxation of censorship, a right to strike, new rights for the Church, the freeing of political prisoners, and improvements in the national health service.

A tidal wave of strikes swept the coast, closing ports and bringing the economy to a halt. With support from many intellectuals, workers occupying factories, mines and shipyards across Poland joined forces. Within a week, most of Poland was affected by the strikes. More and more new unions were formed, and joined the federation.

Thanks to popular support within Poland, as well as to international support and media coverage, the workers held out until the government gave in to their demands. The Gdansk agreement. Though concerned with labor-union matters, the agreement enabled citizens to introduce democratic changes within the communist political structure.

Encouraged by the success of the August strikes, on September 17 workers' representatives, including Lech Wałęsa, formed a nationwide labor union, "Solidarity". It was the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.

Solidarity transformed itself from a trade union into a social movement, more specifically, a revolutionary movement. Over the 500 days following the Gdańsk Agreement, 9–10 million workers, intellectuals and students joined it or its sub-organizations.

Using strikes and other protest actions, Solidarity sought to force a change in government policies. At the same time, it was careful never to use force or violence, so as to avoid giving the government any excuse to bring security forces into play. After 27 Solidarity members were beaten, a 4 hour warning strike was called. Involving around twelve million people, the strike paralyzed the country. it forced the government to promise an investigation into the beatings.

After the Gdańsk Agreement, the Polish government was under increasing pressure from the Soviet Union to take action and strengthen its position. Viewed by Moscow as too independent, he Polish head was replaced by Gen. Jaruzelski who adopted a strong-arm policy.

On December 13, 1981, Jaruzelski began a crack-down on Solidarity, declaring martial law, Solidarity's leaders, and some 5,000 Solidarity supporters were arrested in the middle of the night.

Censorship was expanded, and military forces appeared on the streets.A couple of hundred strikes and occupations occurred, but were broken by paramilitary, people were killed.

The last strike ended on December 28. Some 2000 miners began it on December 14, going 650 meters underground, half remained until the last day. Starving, they gave up after military authorities promised they would not be prosecuted.On October 8, 1982, Solidarity was banned.

The range of support for the Solidarity was unique: World leaders, peace campaigners and NATO spokesman, Christians and Western communists, conservatives, liberals and socialists.

Ronald Reagan imposed economic sanctions on Poland, the CIA together with the Catholic Church and various Western trade unions such as the AFL-CIO provided funds, equipment and advice to the Solidarity underground. The political alliance of Reagan and the Pope was important to the future of Solidarity.

Almost immediately after the legal Solidarity leadership had been arrested, underground structures began to arise. On April 12, 1982, Radio Solidarity began broadcasting.

Throughout the mid-1980s, Solidarity persevered as an exclusively underground organization. Its activists were dogged by the Security Service (SB), and some were killed

Yet Solidarity was far from broken: by early 1983 the underground had over 70,000 members, whose activities included publishing over 500 underground newspapers.

On November 14, 1982, Walesa was released.

In July 1983, martial law was formally lifted, though many heightened controls on civil liberties and political life, as well as food rationing, remained in place through the mid-to-late 1980s.

On March 11, 1985, power in the Soviet Union was assumed by Mikhail Gorbachev.

The worsening economic situation in the entire Eastern Bloc, including the Soviet Union, together with other factors, forced Gorbachev to carry out a number of reforms.

Gorbachev policies soon caused a corresponding shift in the policies of Poland and other Soviet satellites. In 1989 Wałęsa created the first public, legal Solidarity entity since the declaration of martial law

On April 17, 1989, Solidarity was legalized, and its membership soon reached 1.5 million. Now a force to be reckoned with,.. Solidarity changed the world.

Pre-election public opinion polls had promised victory to the communists. Thus the total defeat of the PZPR and its satellite parties came as a surprise to all involved: capturing 160 of 161 contested Sejm seats, and 92 of 100 Senate seats,.. Solidarity had won virtually every seat.

These elections, in which anti-communist candidates won a striking victory, inaugurated a series of anti-communist revolutions. Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania,.. the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990.

14 more countries; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan declared their independence. .. The Soviet Union was dissolved by the end of 1991.

Polish Solidarity,.. a great American moment.

 

So, it turns out that I was full of sh!t. Hawaii never received the death penalty.

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• 1998 - Hawaii suffers through the program's first-ever winless season, going 0–12 under head coach Fred von Appen. Von Appen coached the Rainbow Warriors. to a 5–31 record in his three years at Hawaii. He would be fired after the season.
• 1999 - June Jones becomes the new head coach at Hawaii and guides the Rainbow Warriors to the best single-season turnaround in NCAA history, winning nine games and a share of the WAC championship.
• 2006 - Quarterback Colt Brennan sets NCAA single-season records for touchdown passes (58) and passer efficiency rating (252.96), on his way to a sixth-place finish in the Heisman Trophy voting. The Warriors return to the Hawaii Bowl and defeat, Arizona State 41–24.

 

Remarkable trivia about Oregon football;

In the 1950's the Oregon coach was Len Casanova, he had a couple of good years. The amazing thing is,.. John Robinson,.. John McKay,.. George Seifert were assistant coaches.

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In 1977 Rich Brooks was hired by the Ducks

In 1995 he left for the NFL, O coordinator Mike Bellotti takes over.

In 2009 Bellotti becomes Oregon AD, O coordinator Chip Kelly takes over.


Chip is the Ducks 3rd coach in 34 years, pretty nice continuity.

The remarkable thing is, even with a new guy taking over, 5 of the current Oregon assistant coaches were hired by Rich Brooks.

Steve greatwood, O line ...... 26 years
Gary Campbell, RB's ........... 27 years
Don Pellum, LB's ................ 21 years
Nick Aliotti, D coord ............ 20 years
Jim Radcliffe, Str & cond ..... 28 years

 

Pac-12 offensive on All-American team - Pac-12 Blog - ESPN

....Nearly half of the offense of the Walter Camp All-American first-team is made up of Pac-12 players, led by Walter Camp Player of the Year Andrew Luck.

Luck was joined on the first team by Oregon RB LaMichael James, Stanford OG David DeCastro, USC OT Matt Kalil and Stanford OT Jonathan Martin.

USC WR Robert Woods and Colorado OG Ryan Miller were named to the second team.

An offensive league? That's seven offensive players honored and none from defense.....