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Big win would make
Heisman a possibilityWIN at USC and this TC for Heisman thing becomes real.
What do I mean. ... Well, how is Timmy Chang, a quarterback from Hawaii, a "Heisman Trophy candidate"? Two reasons:
1) He has a DVD.
2) June Jones said so.
That's it. He's got numbers, too, of course, but numbers don't mean anything. Not yet. Numbers are tiebreakers. Numbers are easily discounted, especially passing numbers from passing offenses from small conferences.
Ask Byron Leftwich and any of the other recent Marshall quarterbacks (anybody remember any of their names?) about numbers.
Numbers mean nothing if you're not already in the race.
Wins do mean something. Big wins do, big moments do, especially on the road. Especially against Top 5 opponents in historic venues with shocking scores that echo coast to coast.
Right now this isn't real yet. I admire the ambition. I applaud the effort. I like the idea. But at this point Chang is running for Heisman like people are running for governor of California.
A win next week changes all of that. You'd have a new contender in the race.
Suddenly, a real one.
>> June Jones always says that football games are rarely won and often lost. You almost never go against an opponent so good it is just too good, no matter what you do. Usually it's something you didn't do.
But USC won that game last Saturday at Auburn. That's the scary part.
>> We knew UH's offensive line was the unanswered question heading into this season, but it was still a surprise to see spots thrown wide open after one game against a Division I-AA team.
"We'll juggle some," Jones said Monday, "make a few juggles and kind of go from there."
Let's see if these new guys are there to stay or if they're simply living wake-up calls.
Nine days to go. Let the mind games begin.
>> Anybody else think Ross Dickerson is Hawaii's third-best inside receiver? But at UH an "H" is an "H," and a "Y" is a "Y."
>> It may have been an unfamiliar sight yesterday, all those UH coaches' salaries there in black and white. But this happens at every paper in the country where college sports are big.
The annual salaries in the University of Nebraska athletic department are published every summer, every coach (including football assistants), every athletic director. Every incentive.
And they've never heard of June Jones.
>> By the way, good luck, Dave Shoji, on getting those tuition payments. Why not ask?
>> Can we move Kapolei up to Division I in midseason?
>> It looks like Kahuku has its speed back. That OIA Red East is going to be fun.
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Kalani Simpson can be reached at ksimpson@starbulletin.com
