Podcast Episode 112 – Brian McInnis

Gib Arnold is out as Hawai’i men’s basketball coach, Isaac Fotu has left the team, leaving the program scrambling with just days to go before the season starts. By Owen Main

As we charge toward to start of the Big West Basketball season, a few potential scandals are brewing. One is at Cal State Northridge, where players have been suspended for something they can’t tell us about, and the other is at Hawai’i, where many more facts are known. Still there, is lots of information that still isn’t known about what led up to the firing of head coach Gib Arnold and an assistant less than two weeks before the start of the season. We also try to sort out how the subsequent investigation led to Isaac Fotu being ruled ineligible and eventually leaving school just a few days later.

To help sort it all out, I was joined by Brian McInnis, the Hawai’i men’s basketball beat writer for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. We talked Hawai’i basketball, the unknown, and what his outlook for the Big West is this season.

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1. Taking Cal Poly’s Big West season one (home) game at a time - Fansmanship says:

   12/30/2014 at 11:12 am

   […] In my conversation with beat writer Brian McInnis before the season started, we debated whether Hawai’i would actually end up as the ninth (last) place team in the confere… […]
2. 2015 Big West Men’s Basketball Tournament Preview - Fansmanship says:

   03/11/2015 at 3:45 pm

   […] Just days before the season started, the Hawai’i program was in shambles. They lost their best player and coach and beat writer Brian McInnis and I were both pondering what life could be like in ninth place in the Big West. […]