Campus Security

Hey man, some players gotta work to scrape by just to be here. Why you gotta ticket the UH players?

Brennan and starting slotback Ryan Grice-Mullins were among a half-dozen players who received parking tickets during yesterday's workouts.

Both were angry because they each paid a $3 parking fee, and their cars were in a vacant dirt area near the grass practice field. The fines are $25 each. Brennan said some players have racked up hundreds of dollars in fines. The guards ignored their pleas to allow them to move their cars. One guard yelled at a player: "You want to pay my salary?"

"There's no other school in the nation that has to deal with that," Brennan said. "I mean, the football program makes a lot of money for the school. It's kind of ridiculous we have to pay so much money to go to workouts every day. We have to pay $3 (each time). Some of these guys come in to lift at 7 (a.m.), but go home for a little while, and come back at 12 or 1. They have to re-pay. I mean, it's not very fair. ...

"You'd think there'd be some cohesion, and they'd try to work together with us instead of making kids who are obviously not wealthy as it is, pay all of this money to work out and attend school. They're robbing the students, and they don't care, and they keep doing it."

I know football players aren't supposed to get special treatment, but they shouldn't be penalized for practicing either. Or at least give them chance to move their car.

Anyways, in the same Advertiser article, Stephen Tsai says that 6 foot 7, 335 pound junior offensive lineman Kavan Bannigan will compete for a spot this spring. He initially went to Washington in 2004, but left to attend Leeward Community College. Sounds like a monster.