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Oh God, where to begin. What a sad day for UH Athletics. There's been accusations of this sort of thing for a while now, especially this season, but usually you just attribute it to guys who lost their take betting on games.
No offense to Hawaii bettors, but a lot of them here are sort of stupid when it comes to betting UH games. It's basically bet UH and the over no matter what, and before the game people bet more because it's the last game of the day, they've been drinking whatever it is. This strategy worked more or less for many of the past years because Hawaii has been an improving program and it took a while for the totals to adjust to their offense as well, this season though it's been the opposite and people can't seem to jump off their old ways.
Bottom line, if you're betting on hawaii every week, it's degenerate gambling more likely than smart gambling.
On to the scandal, I posted earlier this year when someone brought up Moniz and point shaving my opinions. I have a friend who swore this happened during Jones' tenure but only for a few games, I'd call BS but he went 6-0 on those games over what was I think a 3 year span. I believe Rolo (Hawaii's current O Coordinator) was also the QB those years. So there's that, and truthfully I could rationalize that happening to some point, Hawaii was good, they probably could build a lead then shave some off and still win the ball game back then.
This year though? Man this team is just not a great football team. They have all the writings of an average team who makes a lot of mistakes. People bring up the UNLV game, and there are legitimate points to be made there I can see, but Hawaii didn't look like the better team at any point in that game, and it's pretty tough to justify laying over 20 for Hawaii on the road in almost any game, in my opinion smart money was on UNLV there. Same with the NMSU game, NMSU is so much better this year than in previous years and the line didn't reflect that AT ALL, again smart money on NMSU.
There were some sick games, Idaho for example I don't even want to relive that one. I don't know how I feel about people saying blocked kicks are part of the point shaving, I feel like it would be a little difficult and stupid to plan a "Blocked" pat attempt, why not just fumble the snap or something if thats the case?
Moniz name comes up all the time, honestly I don't think he's a good football player he's a backup and he's done some nice things here but he's not the future and no where near the caliber of some of our other QB's. This scandal probably has some truth to it unfortunately (even though it sounds sketch as hell, anonymous letter? hpd investigating?) I hope the NCAA comes here because I can't see HPD being very reliable here.
It's a sad day, I hope it's untrue for the programs sake, but if it is true time to drop some bombs, all the coaches need to be fired and any players involved need to be expelled in my opinion.
Those are my thoughts 
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