Skills Camp, Bess, UCA, Colt, Corey, Tsai-kos

UH receiver Dylan Linkner reports for KITV from the Hawaii Football Skills Camp. He interviews Leonard Peters and Rich Miano.



Jason Kaneshiro has a report from the camp, and talks to Davone Bess, who was there to help out.

"Whatever you do, give 100 percent effort, on and off the field," former UH slotback Davone Bess said in summing up his address to the campers to close yesterday's session. "Without grades, there's no college, there's no football, there's none of that. That was the No. 1 thing I was stressing to them."

Speaking of Bess, there's a great Rob & Russ Show interview with him up on the AM 1500 front page (check the archives if it get's bumped).

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Dave Reardon writes that it's looking more and more like UH will play I-AA Central Arkansas in 2009, and SMU is no longer an option.

“We’ve been in communication with Central Arkansas and am trying to solidify something,” UH athletic director Jim Donovan said this evening. “I’ve conferred with Coach McMackin and he said he’s fine with an FCS team.”

Donovan said SMU and the June Jones reunion is out of the picture, at least for 2009. “That’s correct, they notified us letting us know they’re interested in future years, but 2009 is not possible.

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From a few days ago, Anthony Brown of Hog Heaven analyzes what the signing of Colt Brennan might mean to Redskins starting QB Jason Campbell.

Zorn wants Campbell to “play smaller” and is changing his motion and stance so that he plays about an inch shorter than his 6-5 frame. Brennan, by the way is 6-3.

The West Coast Offense requires Campbell to release faster and to be accurate in passes under 10 yards. Campbell earned a 76 QB rating on passes under 10 yards in 2007. His rating for passes of 11-20 yards and of 21 to 30 yards was 85.3 and 88.7 respectively.

Brennan excels at the short game according to scouting reports.

See the pattern? Hear the footsteps?

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From last year (and another great find by Fuzzy Logic), a prophetic feature on Corey Nielsen, from the Varsity Times.

Cerritos Gahr’s no-huddle, shotgun-formation is being run with aplomb by junior quarterback Corey Nielsen, who spent part of a two-week summer vacation in Hawaii in 2006 throwing the ball around with Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan.

Nielsen’s uncle, Jon Nielsen, is the quarterbacks and receivers coach for Gahr and a former NFL, CFL, Arena League and XFL player who knows Hawaii Coach June Jones… . The Gladiators’ offense, which includes an abundance of screens and shovel passes, is patterned after pass-happy Hawaii’s.

“The whole scheme is challenging because you’ve to throw the ball around all over the place – show that you’re not going to focus on any one guy,” Nielsen said. “But we all know what we’re doing. We expect to score every time we have the ball.”

Nice. And that last quote sounds familiar.

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And in support of the unions representing Advertiser workers, Stephen Tsai will not be posting anything new on the Warrior Beat blog until Sunday. In the meantime, LizKauai has set up a temporary blog for Tsai-kos to chat at.