News from the Day

The Star-Bulletin wraps it up pretty nicely.

Hawaii junior quarterback Colt Brennan did not win either of the two awards he was up for yesterday at the Home Depot ESPN College Football Awards Show at Buena Vista, Fla. tonight.

But Brennan did attain Walter Camp Foundation second-team All-America honors.

He was also named an honorable mention, along with sophomore receiver Davone Bess, on Sports Illustrated's si.com All-American team. Senior center Samson Satele made the si.com second team.

Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith, a heavy favorite for the Heisman Trophy, won the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and the Davey O'Brien Quarterback Award.

From this Advertiser article, here's a link to the Sports Illustrated All-Americans.

Colt Brennan was also being a cool guy to all the Pop Warner kids from Hawaii.

University of Hawai'i quarterback Colt Brennan took time out Thursday morning to visit two Pop Warner teams from Hawai'i, participating in the Pop Warner Super Bowl festivities in Orlando.

Brennan was greeted by the Manoa Paniolo and Koloa Packers at the Disney All-Star Resort where he addressed about 75 players on both teams. Brennan spooke about having fun at the College Football Awards Festivities and asked the kids where the best place to visit in Orlando. The response was an enthusiastic "Magic Kingdom" from the youngsters.

After addressing the Pop Warner teams, Brennan stayed to sign about 200 autographs before returning to the Boardwalk Hotel, where he attended a hosted breakfast by the Walter Camp All-America Committee. Earlier this morning, Brennan taped a segment for ESPN's "Cold Pizza" from the ESPN Club.

If I was a kid, I'd be on cloud nine if Colt came out to speak to our team.

And finally, today Stephen Tsai burns with a righteous anger on the Warrior Beat.

I think somebody forgot to let the judges know that the Davey O'Brien award goes to the nation's best quarterback, not the best player on the best team. Notice when the winner, Ohio State's Troy Smith, was introduced, the talk was only about the intangibles. So I guess Smith led the nation in intangibles and "nobody meant more to his team" victories.
Want intangibles? How about Colt Brennan had to overcome the obstacles of playing for a program where there's no soap in the players' showers, the coaches' carpets were installed during the Reagan Adminstration, and the athletic director has to work out in dress loafers (see picture accompanying Catherine Toth's profile on Herman Frazier).

More at The Beat! There's so much condescending BCS BS WAC (and other non-BCS) players gotta deal with. If you play outside of the BCS, you're not supposed to be better than the players playing in the BCS, so you already have 10 strikes against you when it comes to getting any national respect, recognition or even acknowledgement. Anyway, that's my mini-rant. Can't wait for the Hawaii Bowl!