From the Blogs and Boards: Hawaii Bowl

The Blue-Gray Sky, a Notre Dame blog, has a really thorough, well-researched scouting report on the Warriors.

Rakes of Mallow, another Notre Dame blog, has a guide to the Hawaii Bowl as well as a guide to what's on TV this holiday season.

Check out the Chicago Tribune's "Aloha Blog", which has a bunch of news and notes. Looks like Fighting Irish offensive coordinator has taken the head coaching job at Miami (Ohio).

Stephen Tsai has a great profile of cornerback Jameel Dowling, who took a huge load of coursework in the summer and fall in order to graduate this semester.

And over at SportsHawaii.com, CoachKen has a game overview. Here's an excerpt:

The key to stopping Notre Dame will be two things. Stop the running game (which includes no big runs from scrmmage) and pressure on the QB. This team is the second most talented team we will play all season after Florida so don't let their record fool you! There are more high school All Americans on this team than you can imagine. Do they have speed? Yes! Do they have size? Yes! So why haven't they won more games? Tough question because it has nothing to do with talent. This is a mistake prone team and a "mess up at the wrong time" team which usually means there is a mentality on the team that probably expects something bad to happen. That being said for them to mess up early (fumble, penalities, interceptions) will be extremely important. If there offense scores often and early it will be tough for UH to come back.