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It’s a dream season when YOUR team goes undefeated.  As we all know the Hawaii Warriors have yet to get any respect.  They looked ahead at the end of last year having beaten a pretty good bowl team then.  They planned, envisioned it, had summer practice picturing the undefeated season.

And they handled it.  Not just because of Heisman candidate, Colt Brennan.  Colt had a year that would be heroic for any other QB, but many of us sighed and said “it was OK.”

He rebounded from “The Hit” which put him out of that game and yet another the following week.  It just plain knocked him into next week.  I was there.  We were about half-way up the lower stands and it happened right in front of us.

I saw another big one like that, almost exactly 20 years ago.  Tim Lewis of the Packers had his career ended by a textbook (legal) head-on block by, of all people, Willie Gault.  Now Willie wasn’t exactly Hulk Hogan then, and I assume now.  He just caught him right….or wrong.  Kida wierd that I had almost the exact same view.  The sound of plastic on plastic shoulder pads rang throughout that corner of Lambeau Field.  But I digress.

Anyway Hawaii beat everyone that stepped into the ring with them.  Only a few were KOs, most were not the blowouts that we came to expect from last year.  Some happened long after those that vote on the polls in the East and Midwest were in their jammies and tucked in bed.

It ain’t the Warriors’ fault that big powerhouses chose to weasel out of their contract to play here (Michigan State) or ignore a possible made-for-ESPN opener (Michigan).  How DID that home opener with App State work for ya, you old wolverines?

Herm Frazier, who’s middle name is not ‘job-security’ struggled mightily getting capable opposition to come here.  Of course you have the jet lag babies, and those that are afraid of the lost time in the next week after they return home.  Waaaaah.  Hawaii had to tough it out and travel evey other week on average.

He did get-r-done for the following years, though.  Check out this scenario.  Assuming the 12-0 Wariors take it to the Georgia Yard Dogs, I mean Bulldogs, and end up 13-0, they will earn respect going into next year.

THEN, Week one, 08 with them heading into the Swamp in Tally, FL to take on those pesky Gators, a win there would surely force the early season voters to put the Warriors up there in the polls.

(In case you were wondering, Hawaii is NOT used to swamps, and  gators and snakes, but they do have a mean system in place.)

I know we have a LOT of games to play now, and next year, but this is how dynasties start.  I gotta hurry, I am waking up here.

No disrespect meant to the oft-dissed Bulldogs, but you can’t stop destiny.

Remember Manifest Destiny back in fifth grade?  It was the United States’ excuse for plowing across the middle and western parts of the land to claim it for us.  Of course, they got in boats and plowed right over to our rock in the middle of the Pacific, but I don’t want to discuss that with a bunch of readers here in Hawaii.

It’s Hawaii’s destiny to make believers on New Year’s Day.  Some of the same pajama wearers that missed the Colt Brennan express throughout the year can order pizza and eat at the big person table on the first.  Just watch.

I can think of at least 3 NFL teams that sorely need him the first round in April.

Anyway, to back it up:    Hawaii Warriors 41; Georgia Bulldogs 31.  You can put it on the board….  

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