Utah State Previews, Letuli, Tormey, Silva, Joke

Billy Hull has a UH-Utah State preview.

Like the Wolf Pack, Utah State is led by a quarterback who can beat you with his arm and his legs.

Junior Diondre Borel has completed 58 percent of his passes (146-for-251) with 11 touchdowns and only one interception. He's also run for five touchdowns and piled up 342 yards on the ground.

In last week's near-upset of Fresno State, Borel ran for 105 yards and threw for 240 more, proving he'll be a tough cover for a Hawaii linebacker corps that will have to be disciplined in its assignments.

"When you're blitzing, you don't want to just run all out at him because he can just run around you," senior Blaze Soares said. "You can't let that guy loose. He can hurt your team."

G. Christopher Terry of KSL.com has a game preview.

Junior safety Rajric Coleman is pumped for the chance to play a team that consistently goes with four wide receivers on first down, as opposed to the steady diet of WAC-power-rushing attacks USU has seen.

"It's great for me being a DB," Coleman said. "That's our chance to go get some picks and for us to shine a little more. We've got to accept the challenge of them throwing it and let everyone know you can't throw on Utah State."

Andersen said the key to forcing Hawaii to punt the football will be mixing up coverages and taking Moniz out of his rhythm.

"You have got to keep them off pace," Andersen said. "You can't let them sit back there and know where you're at. You can't let them play catch. The key is to mix up enough coverages from man to zone, and different types of zone coverages, to force him to not be able to just go to his first read."

In a special to the Star-Bulletin, Jeff Hunter takes a look at Utah State's season so far.

Wade Denniston of the Herald Journal takes a look at Hawaii's season.

Here are some game previews and notes from HawaiiAthletics.com and UtahStateAggies.com. USU's site also has some supplemental notes.

Stephen Tsai has some sad news regarding Laupepa Letuli and Chris Tormey.

Hawai'i offensive tackle Laupepa Letuli's knee injury is serious enough that he is not expected to play the rest of the football season.

Tsai writes that Letuli is a strong candidate for a sixth year.

Chris Tormey, who coaches the safeties and coordinates special teams, is scheduled to return to Honolulu today after attending his sister's funeral in New York.

Tormey departed for New York Wednesday.

McMackin told Tormey he could take as much time off as he wished, and that he would be excused from coaching in tomorrow's game against Utah State.

But Tormey decided he wanted to return in time to coach this afternoon's walk-through practice.

"I told him to do whatever's best for his family, and don't worry about us," McMackin said. "But he wants to be here for the game. ... Family is always first. That's what all of our values should be."

Condolences to Chris Tormey and his family.

Jason Kaneshiro profiles Mana Silva.

Since coming up with five interceptions in its first three games, Hawaii has gone more than five games without a pick, a span of 139 opponent passes. The Warriors are the only WAC team without an interception in league play and are last in the conference in turnover margin.

Silva owns three of those early-season interceptions, and the lack of takeaways since grates on the Warrior defense.

"It runs through my head a lot," Silva said. "We haven't gotten an interception in a while. They come in bunches, so hopefully this is the week we get one."

And finally, this makes me laugh and cry at the same time

In a tongue-in-cheek police report left on a media highlight board this week at police headquarters, an unknown person described an incident in which a suspicious white powdery substance was found on the UH practice field on Oct. 30.

Police highlights list details of a case and usually are written by detectives investigating felonies, such as murders, assaults and robberies.

In this case, the highlight stated that UH head coach Greg McMackin suspended practice and the FBI investigated the suspect powder.

"After a complete field analysis," the highlight states, "the FBI determined that the white substance unknown to the players was the goal line. Practice was resumed when the FBI decided that the team would not be likely to encounter the substance again."

The story aired several times on the Perry and Price radio show yesterday morning as a genuine news story. But the station soon realized it was a hoax, said Chuck Cotton, KSSK general manager.