LaTech Previews / Colt Articles

Here's a preview of the Louisiana Tech game from The Sports Network.

The LaTech defense came out rather flat in the opening moments of the first quarter last Saturday, allowing Central Arkansas to march 80 yards on just five plays, taking a mere 2:25 off the clock, to score the first touchdown of the game. But from there the Bulldogs tightened up and clamped down, holding the visitors scoreless the rest of the way. However, the fact remains that Central Arkansas still produced 386 yards of total offense against the Bulldogs, which is not exactly going to scare off a team like Hawaii and Brennan.

Here's an article from Jimmy Watson of the Shreveport Times, focusing on Colt Brennan.

Brennan will bring his Heisman trophy-candidate credentials to Tech's Joe Aillet Stadium on Saturday for a 6 p.m. meeting with the Bulldogs (1-0). Several NFL scouts, a Davey O'Brien Award representative and several bowl scouts are expected to be in attendance to see Brennan and his Warrior teammates perform.

They'll see a guy who has passed for at least 400 yards for seven consecutive games, including contests against Purdue, Arizona State and Oregon State at the end of last season.

Here's an article from the AP, focusing on the amount of travel the Warriors will log on this trip, and this season.

"Hawaii has had a history of losing on the road and we want to break that," receiver Davone Bess said.

Located more than five hours by air from the West Coast, every away game is a major trip for Hawaii.

While many teams complain about how difficult it is to travel to the islands, Jones said traveling east is "way worse."

"They should try it. We sleep on the plane all night and try to get ready to play a football game," he said. "It's (traveling west) not even the same ballpark going east."

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And below is a sampling of the onslaught of articles from the past few days discussing Colt Brennan.

• In their weekly best-player-in-college-football top ten list, CFN has Colt ranked at #1.


• ESPN's College Gameday Final praises Colt's performance against UNC, asks fans to stay up late to watch the home games, and has a sidebar mentioning Michigan turning down a game with UH this year.


• John Murphy of Yahoo Sports discusses Colt's NFL prospects.


• In a battle of Colts, Brennan and McCoy, CB wins the Passing Pony Award, at least for this week.


• ESPN's Tim Keown thinks June Jones showed good sportsmanship in sitting Colt after the first half.


• Norman Chad has some really good things to say about Colt.

When he's praised, Colt is good about deflecting that praise back to his teammates and coaches. But a lot of fans and media are more than happy to heap it back onto him. If you're sick of the Colt Brennan stories, I'm afraid there's gonna be tons more from here on out. In any case, I think a light on Colt is also a light on the team, the school and the state. Right on.

P.S. Thanks to Mike and Legios for some of the links.