Heisman Recap (w/UPDATE)

UPDATE: Chawan Cut compiled last night's live, local, late-breaking coverage of last night's Heisman ceremony. Here's Part 1, which has segments from KGMB and KITV:



Part 2 (KITV contd, KHON) and Part 3 (KHNL).

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Check out this page, which has video of the Heisman post-ceremony press conferences, including a great one by Colt Brennan. Here's a direct link to Colt's page. You might have to launch the external player to view it.

Stephen Tsai has a Heisman Trophy recap:

"I felt I was representing all of the mid-majors," Brennan said. "It was a great honor to be here. Hopefully, (the next time) a kid in my position will have a lot less scrutiny and will be able to be thanked for who (he is)."

Brennan and Missouri's Daniel first met at an Elite 11 football camp in July. Brennan became fast friends with Tebow and McFadden during this visit.

"We were hanging out" before the Heisman show, Brennan said. "There was no nervousness. All of the finalists were great guys. All we talked about was how much fun we were having."

Here's Dave Reardon's recap.

Brennan was scheduled to return to Hawaii today after a whirlwind weekend of appearances and trying to dodge human and vehicle traffic on the streets of Manhattan.

"It was pretty tough, scrambling through the people today, the crowds, it's like the biggest shopping time of the year out here. They close down sidewalks just to make the sidewalk not so jammed. Boise's (defense is) probably just a little tougher," said Brennan, who got full star treatment from people who recognized him on the street. "It was crazy, it's amazing, to think you're all the way in New York and people know who you are. We stopped sometimes to take pictures, a great feeling, obviously."

In the article, Colt talks about hoping that the facilities will be improved.

If Hawaii is to keep the success going that has it 23-3 the past two seasons, Brennan said its infrastructure must be worked on.

"I really do hope the school improves things, because it's a long time coming. We talk about the facilities and the way things are," Brennan said at last night's ceremony. "But we have to stop fooling people by telling them our facilities are good -- they're not. We've got to start telling our recruits how good our facilities are going to be. Maybe not their freshman and sophomore years, but by their junior and senior years they'll have the best facilities we can provide."

Brennan said the school's athletic facilities are an embarrassment.

"It shouldn't be that place that you drive by on the H-1 and it's kind of falling apart. It should be a diamond that shoots out of Manoa's campus," he said. "That's where this step took us, and we need to get the whole school, the whole community to ride this momentum and take the school to the next level."

Shine that light!

More from Colt, in this Tsai article:

Brennan said the program will grow if the school "does a great job and takes the money and the momentum and does what (it is) supposed to, and gives it to the students, and gives a reason for all of the student-athletes to really feel like it's a pleasure to go to Hawai'i. We have the talent and the attitude. We need the school to make it just as beautiful."

Brennan said the atmosphere in Hawai'i "is college football at its best. It's a unique place with unique people. It's a diamond in the rough."

Also from that article, a great honor for Hercules Satele:

Hawai'i senior offensive lineman Hercules Satele was named to the Football Writers Association of America's 64th All-America Team, it was announced yesterday.

Reardon has some news and notes from the Heisman festivities.

And Paul Arnett writes about his choice for Heisman... Dennis Dixon.

UPDATE: I missed this, but Stephen Tsai has a great post about Colt deserving to win, along with a couple more anecdotes about his time in New York.