He serves a dual appointment in the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and in the William S.
The Monarchs improved to 10-3 on the year and have successfully transition to the Division I level as a football program.Kamanamaikalani Beamer, PhD, is a full professor in the Hui ʻĀina Momona Program at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa. Old Dominion defeated the Eastern Michigan Eagles 24-20 in the Popeyes Bahamas Bowl. A solid former FCS school turned Conference USA member in the Old Dominion Monarchs won their first ever bowl game on Friday. It’s not all bad news in the college football world on Friday, Dec. Old Dominion Monarchs win first ever bowl game in the Bahamas Bowl
Not great publicity for a special teams coordinator. Beamer’s involvement in Wakeyleaks has the Virginia Tech program and now the Georgia program on notice. Long-time defensive coordinator Bud Foster retained his gig for Fuente. After his dad’s retirement, Beamer left Blacksburg to join Kirby Smart’s staff at the University of Georgia as the Bulldogs’ tight ends coach and special teams coordinator.įinal Thought: Maybe Beamer’s exit from Virginia Tech had something to do with his role in Wakeyleaks? He could have stayed on Justin Fuente’s staff in 2016. Now former Virginia Tech Hokies coach Shane Beamer has been fined five figures for his role in the scandal.īeamer is the son of former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer, who retired at the end of the 2015 NCAA season. Initially, the University of Louisville was hit hard by accusations of their role in Wakeyleaks. The Wakeyleaks scandal involving former Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coach turned radio personality giving other ACC football teams clandestine information about the Wake Forest program has been an eyesore of a scandal nobody needed to happen. Shane Beamer fined for his role in the Wakeyleaks scandal The Mixon video drop makes Auburn now an overwhelming favorite to win a New Year’s Six bowl to improve to 9-4. Oklahoma was the better team by a considerable margin this season. Mixon looks inconsequentially better, Oklahoma still looks bad, and Stoops looks worse.įinal Thought: Trying to get this distraction out of the way before the holidays and a week or so before the Allstate Sugar Bowl isn’t going to help the Sooners’ chances against Auburn. A lesser player would not have been given this type of preferential treatment.
Oklahoma should have tried to get Mixon help and to a new team, but had to accept that once he struck that woman that his Sooner career was over. The university had already failed him by trying to cover up the incident from two years ago. Mixon seemed very remorseful for the incident, but there is no way that Oklahoma will be better from seeing its star running back speak on the issue. Joe Mixon apologizes for this disturbing video from two years agoĪ week after the disturbing video of Mixon slugging a female surfaced on the internet, the Oklahoma running back took to the podium to apologize for the incident in the week leading up the Sooners’ New Year’s Six bowl game against the Auburn Tigers. Here is where we’ll being the College Football Blitz. Mixon apologized on Friday afternoon for the incident that happened two years ago. Winning is apparently more important in Norman, Oklahoma than anything. Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops said earlier in the week that Mixon would have been suspended had this incident happened in 2016. The video was graphic, but we all knew that. A week ago, the video of Oklahoma Sooners running back Joe Mixon’s domestic violence surfaced on a Friday end-of-the-day news drop. Outside of the occasional minor bowl game, not a ton of news is happening in the days leading up to Christmas 2016 in the college football world. Former Virginia Tech Hokies coach Shane Beamer fined via Wakeyleaks. Oklahoma Sooners running back Joe Mixon apologizes.