Khevin, Victor, Colt, UGA Articles

Dave Reardon profiles running back Khevin Peoples, who despite injuries and low depth chart standing, has remained enthusiastic and been a valuable member of the team.

Khevin Peoples is a scout team running back for the Warriors. At practice yesterday for the Sugar Bowl, he impersonated Knowshon Moreno -- the Dawgs' talented and precocious running back, UGA's best freshman ball carrier since Herschel Walker.

Of course, Peoples would rather have a starring role as the 10th-ranked Warriors (12-0) go up against No. 4 Georgia (10-2) in the Jan. 1 BCS bowl game at the Superdome in New Orleans. Both of his parents (mother Regina was an Auburn track star) thrived in competition against the Bulldogs and other SEC schools.

But the junior from Tampa, Fla., knows his task is important, though relatively thankless.

"It's a job that I was given. I'm not gonna turn my nose up at anything, be it scout team or whatever it is," Peoples said. "An opportunity like this, it really feels good. I'm physically getting back into what I used to know playing football in the South. I was brought up with the I-formation and running straight at you. Spreading out, four recievers, I really wasn't brought up with, it wasn't shown to me."

Stephen Tsai writes that Victor Clore fell off a bull.

Clore suffered a separated acromioclavicular joint and a fracture in his right shoulder when he was thrown while riding a bull Friday.

Clore asked if he could tag along with linebacker Brad Kalilimoku, who is a paniolo.

"He wanted to come to the ranch (at Whitmore Village), so I took him to the ranch," Kalilimoku said.

Kalilimoku said he put Clore on a bull that has "good and bad days."

Man, that's definitely a story to tell the grandkids one day. Also from that article, Tsai writes about Karl Noa and Amani Purcell switching sides on the defensive line.

Tsai also writes that Colt is officially off probation.

"I did the time," Brennan said. "Now I'm a normal kid again."

Brennan, who developed into a Heisman Trophy finalist in his third season at UH, has been a model citizen since arriving in Hawai'i in July 2005. He has been a frequent speaker at juvenile-detention centers in Hawai'i.

Colt goes on to talk about preparing for Georgia.

Josh Kendall of The Macon Telegraph writes about Georgia's view of Polynesian culture.

Hawaii head coach June Jones speculated Monday that no Georgia player has ever met a person of Polynesian descent, and he probably would be right if not for cornerback Thomas Flowers.

Flowers' father lives in Seattle, and Flowers has spent enough time there to count a few Samoans as friends.

"They can cook good, I know that," he said. "It's really good food, seriously."

Beyond that, "I'm clueless, really," on the Polynesian culture, Flowers said.

David Paschall of the Chattanooga Times Free Press writes about June Jones' very high praise of Georgia.

There is praise, there is significant praise, and then there is overdoing it.

Hawaii football coach June Jones likely did the latter Monday afternoon when discussing the New Year's night Sugar Bowl matchup against the Georgia Bulldogs.

"They are by far the best team we've played since I've been here," Jones said on a Western Athletic Conference teleconference. "They have a lot of great athletes and a lot of speed, and we're going to have to play a perfect game to hang with them."

Jones, who is in his ninth year with the Warriors, must believe the Bulldogs are superior to the recent stalwart known as Southern California.

How is he overdoing it? This is after all, "SEC football" -- the greatest conference in all the land, might as well not show up, and all that.

You can listen to June's teleconference on this WAC page.

David Ching of the Ledger-Enquirer writes about the BCS money helping out non-BCS schools like Hawaii.

"We have new football offices that were halfway built three years ago and they've never been completed because they ran out of money," Hawaii coach June Jones said. "Hopefully the money will go to that and those type of things will be improved. We have a lot of things that need to be done and I'm sure this will start the ball rolling anyway."

In fact, the needs are so numerous on the Hawaii campus that mild squabbling over how the money would be spent started as soon as it became clear the Warriors were in position for the school's first BCS appearance.

Jones expressed confidence on Monday that help was on the way.

"I think the season we've had has brought attention to the legislators and the people in town that understand how we've gotten this thing done and made it visible that we need more help from (the state legislature), and I think that's taking place," he said.

"I think the actual check itself will obviously be of help, but at the same time we have big needs. The $4.2 million will probably do some of the things that we need repaired more than anything."

Ching also has some news and notes.

Carter Strickland of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that Georgia is looking at the Sugar Bowl as a springboard to the 2008 season.

"If we win this [bowl] game, we will be in the top five, top three in the country," said running back Thomas Brown, when speaking about playing Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. "If we can start early in the top three or top five [next season], we can do a lot easier than where we started this season, as far as getting to the national title game."

"The way it is set up, it is very important where you are ranked [in the] preseason," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "You hate to say much about it, but it is the way that it is."

And finally, Kalani Simpson writes... an interesting column.

But as far as Hawaii cashing that BCS-bowl check, Herman is the MVP.

This is Herman's schedule Hawaii went 12-0 with. UH getting these BCS millions is his greatest feat.