A lot of times when football coaches come back to the school where they carved out a niche in their playing days, they avoid direct comparisons to those good times gone by.
It was great back then, they will say, but times have changed, we’re in a new landscape for college football and we just have to stick to our plan and develop a new identity.
Nick Rolovich, the former Hawaii quarterback for coach June Jones in those celebrated turnaround days for the football program 15 years ago, is back as head coach and yeah, he pretty much would like to replicate the whole show, the winning, the atmosphere, the team unity, all of it.