Ken Niumatalolo leaves for his annual trip home to Hawaii in early July. That is about the same time most of the national college football preview magazines hit the newsstands.
It’s a 10-hour flight so Navy’s 10th-year head coach picks up copies of Athlon’s, Lindy’s and Phil Steele’s College Football Preview to occupy the time.
“Right around when I take my vacation is when all the magazines come out with the preseason predictions so I grab a few to read on the plane,” Niumatalolo said this week. “By the time I get to Hawaii I’m just fuming from reading those things.