Injuries, Cover Boy, Ridiculousness

Stephen Tsai writes about the injuries to Colt Brennan and Blaze Soares, who both plan to play this weekend, Jason Rivers, who may not, and Ryan Mouton, who had an MRI done on his knee and feels good about his chances to play. On the other hand, freshman safety Le'Marcus Gibson looks to be done for the year due to an ACL injury:

Gibson, a freshman from Mississippi, is prepared to undergo surgery to repair the partially torn ACL in his left knee.

He will seek a medical hardship. If granted, as expected, he will have four years to play four seasons.

"I'll still be a freshman next year," Gibson said.

Gibson said he suffered the injury while practicing in Houston two weeks ago.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery. Also from the article:

• A few words from new dad Josh Leonard.


• Keoni Steinhoff, Adam Leonard and Ryan Mouton were selected by coaches as Warriors of the week.


• Ryan Keomaka is on the comeback trail after getting academics in order.

Dave Reardon writes about Colt Brennan being on the cover of the soon-to-be-published ESPN The Magazine (the article has a picture of it), and writes about Jason Rivers' injury.

"I feel bad for him in his senior year," Jones said yesterday at his weekly press conference. "He's getting (his back) looked at again. He tried to go, I probably should have held him out. So we'll make adjustments that he's not going to be there."

Reardon also has some national stats:

The Warriors have run two kickoffs back for touchdowns and enter the week third in Division I at 32.4 yards per return.

The Warriors also enter the week third nationally in net punting (41.9 yards per punt) and 12th in punt returns (16.8). Mike Washington is second in the country in punt returns, based largely on his 80-yard touchdown in the opener.

Cool.

Kalani Simpson has a few great quotes from QB coach Dan Morrison about the ridiculousness of the UH offense.

He said, "We're doing some things different (scheme-wise), but nothing dramatically different than we've been doing the last eight years." On behalf of the coaches, he said, "It's not us."

Well, then what is responsible for this seismic shift? El Nino? Global warming? A grave disturbance in the force?

"It's just the young people we have in the system right now," Morrison said.

"Get to the stadium while you can," Morrison said. "Because they're going to be gone really shortly." He's talking about the young people. They're on quite a roll. And once they're gone ...

Golden age, baby!

And finally, Ferd Lewis writes about the unseemliness of the Boise president begging to join the Mountain West. Boooooo!