Ohana Fest, Draft, Chad Owens

Stephen Tsai previews the Warrior Bowl, profiling the opposing head coaches Ron and Cal Lee, and providing breakdowns of both teams' offense, defense and special teams.

Dave Reardon previews the game and takes a look at the competition at quarterback.

As spring practice concludes, Inoke Funaki and Tyler Graunke remain locked in a tight battle. Rolovich, the first-year quarterbacks coach, charts every pass.

"They're very close," Rolovich said. "Both could probably use a little of each other. Tyler's the gunslinger, a little reckless sometimes. Inoke's conservative on his reads."

For more Ohana Fest / Warrior Bowl info, check the UH press release.

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Stephen Tsai talks to Colt Brennan about this weekend's NFL Draft and highlights some really good things Brennan has done that a lot of "draft experts" tend to overlook.

At the NFL Scouting Combine, he was the only quarterback credited with a perfect score — 21 of 21 — in the passing drills. Three of his completions were for more than 40 yards.

In his three-year UH career, in fact, Brennan completed better than 50 percent of his deep passes (that traveled more than 20 yards in the air from the line of scrimmage). Because he took at least a three-step drop out of the shotgun, his deep passes traveled at least 27 yards. The UH goal is to complete a third of those passes.

Here's an excellent draft analysis of Colt from PaT Gesuale on the Bleacher Report.

With widely varying opinion and draft predictions, Colt is taking it all in stride.

"We're preparing for the worst," a relaxed Brennan said. "Even if I don't get picked, and same with my receivers, we're still going to be in NFL uniforms this summer, with the opportunity to live out what we've been dreaming about our whole lives."

Ferd Lewis writes that Brennan's success in the NFL could do a lot to raise UH's profile.

With more than 40 players drafted by the NFL, the Warriors have made a name as a proving ground for linemen, linebackers, defensive backs and, yes, even a Pro Bowl kicker and punter. But when it comes to putting a QB on football's grandest stage in the modern era, UH is still waiting and critics are still pointing. How many times have snipers at Brennan used Chang's inability to crack an NFL roster as ammunition?

A program that has been at or near the top in passing statistics for nearly a decade shouldn't require that kind of validation. But it does. UH needs a living, breathing symbol of its passing game in the NFL. It needs one people can see front and center on Sundays. Somebody, who, when they do those Monday Night Football lineups, can say, "quarterback ... the University of Hawai'i."

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And the Colorado Crush of the AFL may have lost Friday night, but ex-UH receiver Chad Owens had a great game.

Chad Owens started in place of leading Crush receiver Ben Nelson, who was involved in only one offensive play in the game.

Owens, a rookie from Hawaii, had 12 catches for 115 yards and two touchdowns.

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...and here's a CCC of last night's news about the spring game, the draft, and UH basketball recruit Roderick Flemings.