Hawaii 37, Fresno State 30 (w/UPDATES)
Hawaii held on to beat Fresno State 37-30 at Aloha Stadium on Saturday, but the game ended with concern for the Warriors’ star quarterback, Colt Brennan. Brennan was knocked out of the game with a grade 3 concussion.
But a scrambling Brennan was belted by Fresno State linebacker Marcus Riley with 10:43 left in the game and knocked unconscious. After about five minutes, a shaken Brennan slowly walked off the field. Tyler Graunke replaced him.Let's just hope he'll be okay. Really scary injury.
Brennan completed 28 of 39 passes for 396 yards before the hit. His status for Friday’s game at Nevada was not immediately known.
Here's an Advertiser article about it. UPDATE: This article has since been revised to say that Brennan suffered a "mild concussion."
Here's an wrap-up of the game from the AP's Jaymes Song.
UPDATE: Here's an updated AP article which has some quotes about Colt.
I just hope June is right. It does sound encouraging, but we'll have to see in the next few days.Brennan later took a jarring, high hit from linebacker Marcus Riley while scrambling on third-and-7 and was knocked out of the game with 10:43 left.
The near-sellout crowd drew silent and teammates prayed on one knee as the game was halted for about 5 minutes. Brennan stood up, wincing in pain and was helped off the field into the locker room.
"He showed a lot of heart by getting to his feet because we all knew he was out of it," Warriors receiver Ryan Grice-Mullen said.
Grice-Mullen said it was a helmet-to-helmet hit, but not dirty. He admitted it was difficult to concentrate on the game because he was so concerned about his quarterback.
"I'm not going to lie. I'm not the only one that had Colt on my mind the next snap," he said.
Jones said Brennan was "fine" and expected him to be ready for the next game.
"If you play football you're going to have concussions," he said.
The former NFL coach said, "I've seen a lot of hard hits but he seemed like he was out before he even hit the ground."
ANOTHER UPDATE: Here are some highlights from the game, uploaded by UHBows.
posted by Tombo Ahi @ 11/10/2007 10:17:00 PM HST permalink
3 Comments:
At Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 11:17:00 PM HST,
Anonymous said…
I don't know if you can just shrug off a grade 3 concussion. I watched the game, and it was a vicious hit. It was the same thing that knocked Trent Green out for the season last year, it is a serious matter and I hope for Colt's safety that he sits out for at least one week. Maybe even call it quits for the season.
It would be a shame if this ended our BCS hopes, because we played an extremely solid game today on both sides of the ball. Don't let the score fool you, we had that game wrapped up in the first quarter and was just trying to run the clock out after that.
At Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 11:34:00 PM HST,
Tombo Ahi said…
looks like we'll have to see tomorrow or the next day how bad the concussion actually is. the above advertiser article was revised to include a quote from a UH spokesman saying that it was a "mild concussion". that, along with what june said is encouraging. but that hit looked really bad, and i would be surprised if it turns out to be something brennan could bounce back from quickly. i definitely hope colt and UH will be extra-cautious in putting him back into a game. if colt can't go, i have faith in graunke and funaki.
At Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 12:53:00 AM HST,
Anonymous said…
I dunno who has seen and had concussions before but that was not a mild concussion. You can tell that much from just watching his reaction.
I don't know how June can downplay it as minor but also say that he was probably knocked out before he hit the ground. Blacking out certainly isn't a non-serious issue.
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