Quotes about the "A Colt Following" DVD

About the 43-minute DVD, Colt said:
"It is a pretty cool DVD." (HA)

"Robert's done an awesome job." (HA)


About the purpose of the DVD, director/producer Robert Kekaula said:
"We wanted people, the voters, to get to know not only Colt the football player but the person. It isn't just, 'Hey, I'm Colt and here's what I've done and here's what I'm running for.' Colt's a special guy and we wanted people to know why he has such a following in Hawai'i." (HA)


About the DVD, 1000 of which will be sent to the media and voters, UH SID Lois Manin sai:
"It will showcase not only Colt, but the team, the school and the state, which is the way Colt wanted it." (HA)


UH Associate AD John McNamara said that the DVD will cost the athletic department $25k:
"But that's only a fraction of what it would have cost had it not been for the help of Robert and a lot of others." (HA)


About how representatives from both newspapers and all 4 TV stations and radio participated, Kekaula sai:
"It really is kind of a grass-roots effort that says a lot about how people feel about Colt. Everybody jumped in on it." (HA)


About Colt and the DVD, Kekaula said:
"He plays puka shell tour guide and talks about how Hawai'i has become home." (HA)


About how they wanted to do something once Colt stayed at UH, Manin said:
"As soon as Colt said he was coming back it was 'game on!' for our planning." (HA)


About how only the worry about NCAA violations slowed their DVD work, Kekaula said:
"It was going in the snap of a finger. The only problem we had were the compliance people at UH found what they considered some gray areas they didn't know whether or not were violations of NCAA guidelines and it took them some time to find out." (HA)


Kekaula, who spent "countless" hours on Colt's DVD, also did a Heisman DVD for Timmy Chang and said:
"Like Timmy, Colt's a good kid, and he was very hands-on involved, which made it fun." (HSB)