Hard Work / Boise / 60 Per

Dave Reardon writes about the hard work Davone Bess and Ryan Grice-Mullins are putting in during offseason workouts.

They say character is defined by what you do when no one is watching. So it means even more that Davone Bess and Ryan Grice-Mullins are early for practices now -- in the summer, when the coaches aren't around to note who are the early birds.

The work ethic of the Warriors' junior slotbacks doesn't cool off as the temperature rises. They were more than a half-hour ahead of the other 15 players who participated in yesterday's informal pass-and-catch session at UH.

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"If you want to succeed, be the top in your sport, you have to go beyond what the average do. We come out early, make sure we get our running in," Grice-Mullins said. "We run pretty much every day of the week. We do different things, but it's every day. A lot of times it's just me and him out here until everybody else comes. To me, every year's our biggest year."

Awesome. Kids, that's how you do it! Reardon also writes about Jazen Anderson petitioning for another year, and transfer Nate Nasca participating in informal workouts.

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Columnist Ferd Lewis devotes a column to another column written by Idaho Statesman columnist Brian Murphy, who doesn't like Hawaii being referred to as "this year's Boise State." Ferd is looking forward to November 23, when this year's Boise State meets last year's Boise State to determine if UH will be this year's Hawaii. Hope that made sense. Ferd wraps it up:

If the Warriors can get through the first 10 games on the schedule unscathed, then there will be a lot to look forward to. Beat the Broncos, something few have done over the past five years of Boise domination of the WAC, then there will be plenty to talk about.

As Boise State has shown, Cinderellas might be presumed in summer but they aren't crowned until January.

Gonna be a great season.

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And SI.com's Stewart Mandel, in his College Football Mailbag, has a forecast for Hawaii's season:

4. Hawaii will become the first team in history to average 60 points per game. Have you looked at the schedule Colt Brennan will be facing this season? Let's just say the first six opponents are Northern Colorado, Louisiana Tech, UNLV, Charleston Southern, Idaho and Utah State. Boise State and Washington loom at the end, but in the meantime, I shudder to think what kind of numbers the Warriors are going to put up.

Well, that's looking on the bright side of things. I think Colt's gonna sit out of so many 3rd and 4th quarters that Tyler Graunke's gonna throw for 10 touchdowns this year. The SI article also has a big picture of Colt giving you a shaka.