Spring Day 12, Previews, Update: Sat scrimmage photos (w/MORE UPDATES)

Check for spring practice Day 12 notes at the UH Sports Extra and the Warrior Beat.

UPDATE #1:
Scrimmage pics from Saturday here: (chawan_cut & ubercow's pics from SH)

Panorama of the coaches from the clinic on the sideline:


UPDATE 2: Here's Dave Reardon's notes from practice, which includes play-by-play by Brian McInnis. An excerpt:

Some spring game format details: First half regular clock, second half running time. First play will be at 8 p.m. Starting QBs (Funaki, Graunke) expected to play most of the game. Some key defensive players will participate in just a few plays if any. Snapper Jake Ingram will join kicker Dan Kelly in playing for both teams.

“We’re calling it the Warrior Bowl,” coach Greg McMackin said today.

UPDATE 3: FlyinManatee reminds us that tonight is Call the Coach with Greg McMackin at the Willows. Be there! Or listen to it on 1420AM or get the live streaming audio at ESPN1420am.com. Show starts at 6:30pm HST.

UPDATE 4: The Advertiser has a video about the walk-ons, and the importance of spring practice and the newly-dubbed Warrior Bowl this Saturday. Greg McMackin, Richard Torres, Nathaniel Nasca, Bryce Kalauokaaea and Les Soloai are interviewed. Mack talks about how tough it is to cut players from the team.

UPDATE 5: Here's a CCC of tonight's news. Some stuff about the progress of the offense in the spring, Saturday's scrimmage, and Colt and the upcoming NFL draft.



UPDATE 6: So I was listening to Greg McMackin on Call the Coach and for once I was taking notes. I see now that I wasted my time -- lots of Call the Coach notes from Reardon.

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Dave Reardon previews the final week of spring practice as well as Saturday's Ohana Fest scrimmage.

The team will be split in two for Thursday's practice, McMackin said, but probably not by offense and defense as usual. Offensive coordinator Ron Lee and defensive coordinator Cal Lee have already drafted their teams for the spring encounter, which will be in a regular-game format rather than offense against defense. McMackin is considering using the practice to let the teams prepare for Saturday.

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And David Fox of Rivals.com takes a look at the upcoming 2008 UH football season, with all the changes that have taken place since the end of 2007.

"I look around and see it's not the same program, but we can be a better program than it was last year," said linebacker Adam Leonard, a Rivals.com first-team All-WAC selection last season. "In college, personnel changes all the time. We're going through what every college goes through."

Turnover is routine in college football, but not always this drastic. Jones made Hawaii nationally relevant, with its first trip to a major bowl. Brennan went to New York as the school's first Heisman finalist. But in less than four months since the loss in the Sugar Bowl, Hawaii has had to replace its coach, the star quarterback, three 1,000-yard receivers and its athletic director.