Steven Christian, Herman, All-Americans

Stephen Tsai writes that cornerback Steven Christian has committed to UH.

The Warriors yesterday secured a commitment from Steven Christian, an athletic cornerback from Kennedy High School in Sacramento, Calif.

The Warriors' starting cornerbacks, Gerard Lewis and Myron Newberry, complete their NCAA eligibility at the end of the Jan. 1 Sugar Bowl.

"Yes, I'm going to be a Warrior," said Christian, who is 6 feet 1 and 175 pounds.

And funny story about how UH came to recruit him.

He was an inadvertent UH recruit. During an unofficial recruiting visit to the University of Nevada last month, he attended the Warriors' 28-26 victory over the host Wolf Pack.

After the game, he approached UH defensive assistant Terry "Duff" Duffield and defensive coordinator Greg McMackin.

"It started from there," Christian said.

Pretty cool. Congratulations to Steven!

Michael Tsai talks to Herman Frazier about June Jones' contract, rumors, and the ticket fiasco.

A popular question on talk radio and online message boards has been why Frazier didn't survey season-ticket holders to gauge their interest in making the trip. Such a survey, critics have argued, would have provided a ballpark figure that Frazier could have considered before returning 4,000 of the 17,500 tickets UH was allotted.

UH was able to get back 1,500 tickets, but the demand still exceeds the supply.

Frazier said surveying season-ticket holders likely would have yielded misleading data.

"You can do the survey, but how sound is it?" Frazier said. " I'm sure if I did a survey everybody would say, 'Yeah, I want to go.' But everybody can't go. You aren't going to find many people who are going to say no on a survey, especially when they're as enthusiastic as they've been."

Pulling a number out of thin air? Much more accurate. This is all very hilarious, in a really depressing sort of way.

In a completely unrelated story, Ferd Lewis writes about the high demand for Sugar Bowl tickets.

Dave Reardon has a rundown of Hawaii's All-Americans.

"I thought it was nice that a couple different publications chose different guys instead of one guy," said Brennan, who just returned from the Heisman Trophy ceremony Sunday. "There's three guys who deserved first- or second-team All-American. Their numbers and the way they play warrant it. But because of where we play and the system being stereotyped, it's hard to get recognition. And Herc's definitely a guy that deserves it, too."

And here's an All-America rundown from Stephen Tsai.

"I'm thankful," Bess said. "I give praise to my coaches and teammates. I'm going to try to work my way to second or first team next year."

Grice-Mullins said: "I'm happy. It's a pretty good accomplishment. I definitely worked hard, but it was never my goal to be on an all-star team. It was to do what we did as a team. That was the most important thing."