GameDay: Hawaii vs San Jose State

Stephen Tsai's gameday preview highlights the danger of SJSU running back Yonus Davis and QB Adam Trafalis.

The Spartans will try to overload a side, using a tight end or another sort of extra blocker, and feed Davis. Despite his size, Davis had two games when he had more than 22 carries and four when he exceeded 100 yards rushing, including 199 against Louisiana Tech and 184 against Stanford. "He doesn't need much space," UH defensive line coach Jeff Reinebold said. "He'll make you miss. He can turn a 5-yard gain into a 50-yard gain."

If defenses stack the strong side, Tafralis can fake the handoff and U-turn to the weak side. Tafralis has completed 68.5 percent of his passes, and his accuracy was 80 percent or better in three games. He has gone almost four games without an interception, a span of 71 passes.

Dave Reardon talks to Leonard Peters about what he expects to see Dick Tomey throw at the Warrior defense.

Senior safety Leonard Peters said by the middle of the first quarter it will just be another football game.

"They do a lot of shifting and motioning to see if you're playing man or zone and stuff like that. After the first two series it'll settle down and we won't have to disguise as much. Just go man on man," Peters said. "They've got so many formations and trick plays and stuff like that. They're going to try to run on us, everybody knows they're going to try to run the ball. They have a great back.

"Dick Tomey would like nothing better than to come here and beat us on our home turf," he said. "I know for sure this week we're planning on playing four quarters of football."

Stephen writes more about "Tomey Ball" and also has some uniform news about tonight's game.

When the Warriors host San Jose State tonight, it will be the first time this season they will wear silver helmets for a home game.

"It's nice to have a different look," Brennan told the Ka'u players. The Warriors wore the silver helmets during the 90-minute, walk-through practice.

"No, no, no," offensive line coach Dennis McKnight said. "I don't care what we wear or play in as long as we show up to play. The only way to tell how good we are is if our minds are right, our arms look good and we're ready to play."

Should be interesting to see if they wear all black unis with the silver helmets.

And finally, Laurence Miedema of the San Jose Mercury News writes a profile of Colt Brennan and how he almost became a Spartan.

``Colt Brennan is playing the best I've ever seen a Hawaii quarterback play,'' said SJSU Coach Dick Tomey, who coached at Hawaii in 1977-86. (And there have been some of good ones -- most notably Timmy Chang, who shattered the NCAA career record for passing yards.)

To think, Brennan could've been a Spartan.

Tomey and his staff arrived in January 2005 and got a late start recruiting, but they did extend a scholarship offer to Brennan. It probably didn't hurt the Spartans' chances that they had a member of the coaching staff named Brennan.

Brent Brennan, Colt's first cousin and the SJSU recruiting coordinator, said he gets questioned all the time by fans about why he couldn't bring his flesh and blood into the fold.

``Especially now, as well as he's playing,'' Brent said. ``But a lot of time with recruiting, I think players end up where they belong.''

Thank goodness! GO WARRIORS!!!!