Maui Invitational Tournament
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Sep 26, 2026
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
I mean, I, I like to compare it to the preseason or like the non-conference basketball tournaments.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
We got the Maui invite, we get eight teams or whatever, and they go do it over however many days do that with flag football, like have these football teams enter two or three tournaments in the spring.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
You know, you have them over the course of a few days on a weekend.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
Then you go, you know, from the end of, you know, probably from the end of the basketball tournament, right? It seems like a kind of an obvious place to start.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
and and i think that's like that underscores the point right is that if you have um like and that's there's no stakes there that's just like a bragging rights thing between alumni teams that like no one else matters and they're that fired up imagine if there's like a league with a trophy and you're like there's a season and there's you know a you know, some sort of playoff format in a one-off tournament.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
I mean, I like to compare it to the preseason or like the non-conference basketball tournaments where you get the Maui invite, we get eight teams or whatever, and they go do it over however many days.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
Do that with flag football.
Kyle BonaguraGUEST
Like have these football teams enter two or three tournaments in the spring.
Matt DebsHOST
they are 4-1.
Matt DebsHOST
Going to the Maui Invitational.
Kellen FrangioneHOST
Oh, no.
Kellen FrangioneHOST
Why are we doing another one of these? I can tell you this,
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Kellen FrangioneHOST
Yeah.
Matt DebsHOST
It is entirely a toss up.
Matt DebsHOST
Um, So any combination of Maui Invitational, you essentially go two and one if you're the right team.
Matt DebsHOST
And we are the right team.
Kanoa LeaheyHOST
It's difficult to convince teams to wanna come out here.
Kanoa LeaheyHOST
Of course, you do have the Maui Invitational.
Kanoa LeaheyHOST
Uh, we have always thought that it would be a great opportunity.
Kanoa LeaheyHOST
They've taken advantage of it a couple of times, uh, to get a team to stop over in Honolulu to play Hawaii en route to Maui.
Billy HullHOST
Isn't that sad?
Kanoa LeaheyHOST
Uh, it's, it's a challenging thing.
Billy HullHOST
Isn't it sad that we've gotten to a point that because of NIL and everything, suddenly a Thanksgiving tournament with the prestige of the Maui Invitational isn't anything what a lot of teams wanna do? Like, you're telling me not...
Billy HullHOST
Those kids growing up, if you asked, what, 20 years later now or 10 years later now, all those athletes, all those basketball players that got to play in the Maui Invitational, I guarantee you they all have nothing but positive things to say.
Rocco MillerGUEST
Had a great first year there.
Rocco MillerGUEST
with the rams and like you said with the maui invitational draw you know providence is a great opener i think that projects to be a team right around the same level as vcu probably for me maybe mid 30s to mid 40s range uh preseason with the opportunity to go up with a win if you get the win you're probably going to get a crack at arizona which who knows it's that early in the year things weird things wild things happen in maui just ask the date and flyers um And if you lose the game, like I said earlier, Colorado State's got seven of eight guys back.
Rocco MillerGUEST
That's a quality, quality team.
Rocco MillerGUEST
Top three Pac-12 potentially.
Shane DennisHOST
Ball State marched into fog, Allen Fieldhouse? No, they
Jack JohnsonHOST
played them in Hawaii for the Maui Invitational.
Jack JohnsonHOST
They lost 93-91.
Jack JohnsonHOST
Wow.
Carter ElliottHOST
Just had Kevin Pangos on, by the way, which, uh, I'm mad I didn't get the question in here.
Carter ElliottHOST
Wanted to know what Kevin Pangos felt like on the other side of a Lee Bailey 30 ball, uh, at the, at the Maui Classic.
Greg WaddellHOST
Yeah, that would've been nice to hear.
Greg WaddellHOST
Matt has been crushing.
Austin BurklundHOST
I think that we'll see in like five, 10 years.
Alex KyiHOST
Yeah, and we know Brad is not going to do one of these in-season tournaments, whether it's the Maui or Battle for Atlantis.
Alex KyiHOST
I think it's the Crown or the Players' Era Classic that Michigan played and dominated last year.
Alex KyiHOST
Brad just doesn't seem very fond of playing three games in three days at a random neutral site.
Terry StefankiewiczGUEST
It was a special, special night.
Terry StefankiewiczGUEST
So that November, I was watching the Maui Classic in basketball, and they were playing in these high school gyms, but man, they had these top-notch teams that flew all the way over there.
Terry StefankiewiczGUEST
So I'm watching it, and I pick up the phone, and I called Jerry at home, and I said, we need one of these in men's soccer.
Terry StefankiewiczGUEST
He said, he got quiet and he said, I'll tell you what, Terry, if you can put it together, you got the Indiana Hoosiers.
Chase RogersHOST
They might have seen Arizona already by the time they get there.
Karter BaughanHOST
They might see Arizona in the championship of the Maui Invitational, and then they play them twice in conference play, could see them again in the Big 12 tournament, and then if somehow things shook up to where they see them in the Final Four or the national title game, obviously that's insane to think about.
Karter BaughanHOST
You know, there is the fact that we live in a world in college basketball where there is even a potential of seeing the same team play five times in a college basketball season is already outrageous.
Karter BaughanHOST
But yeah, going back to the non-con like.
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