Quotes from the local papers

About all the congratulatory calls he has been getting (his cell phone stopped taking messages), Colt said:
"My phone's been going off." (HA)

HA Note: "Brennan said he received text messages from across the country. Several came from Boston. More from Chicago, where a former Colorado teammate watched Friday's telecast of UH's 39-27 victory over Boise State."

About the text messages from Chicago, Colt said:
"He said the game was on every single TV in the bar, and the place was going nuts cheering for us. That was really awesome." (HA)


About their first outright WAC title, Colt said:
"Being out here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we're isolated from the rest of the United States. We're all we have out here. This is for everyone here." (HA)


About how this championship builds on all of JJ's past teams at UH, Colt said:
"I don't think this championship is solely for this team. It goes to so many teams, ever since coach Jones got here. All of those teams built up this standard, and now we've taken it to the next level." (HA)

HA Note: "The core of the team — Brennan, slotbacks Davone Bess and Ryan Grice-Mullins, linebackers Elimimian and Adam Leonard, defensive tackles Lafaele and Fale Laeli, and kicker Dan Kelly — joined or emerged in 2005. Although that team finished 5-7 — only one of two losing seasons during Jones' tenure — it established an identity."

About the 2005 recruiting class, JJ said:
"That was a special group. It just continued to grow. We reaped what we sowed." (HA)


About the leaders on the 2005 team, Colt said:
"There were tremendous leaders on that (2005) team, like Lono Manners and Kila Kamakawiwo'ole and Brandon Eaton and Derek Fa'avi. I remember how disappointed I was because we couldn't give them a great senior year. That was one thing we wanted to give Sam (Satele) and Nate (Ilaoa) and Mel (Purcell) last year." (HA)


That is why Colt says:
"whatever success we have this year is definitely dedicated to all of the guys who have been here the last couple of years, especially last year. It's dedicated to the guys on the 5-7 team. Those guys were a part of this. We set out to do great things when we played with them. The lessons we learned (in 2005) helped us last year and made us what we are this year." (HA)


About how he broke their final stretch into a 4-game season after the SJSU game, JJ said:
"It's a four-game playoff, and we won the third. We have to win the fourth to get to our Super Bowl. Everybody knows what's at stake. We've been talking about it for so long. Everybody knows we have to win one more." (HA)


About finally beating BSU to win the WAC, Colt said:
"Now that we've done that, there's new life on our team. We got that big monkey off our back. Now we can focus on going out and making a great statement." (HA)


About how they got confidence from their previous road comebacks, Colt said:
"We could be down by 14 or 20 points in the fourth quarter, and we still believe we're still in that football game. That's the difference in this football team, and that's the difference between winning and losing. That's what a lot of analysts don't realize about what football is and what winning is." (HA)


Asked if his play vs. BSU would get him into Heisman consideration, Colt said:
"I think it helps. It was a great win for our school, a great win for the team." (HSB)


Praising Colt, JJ said:
"He was the best college football player in America last year and still is this year." (HSB)


Hoping that going undefeated is enough to get into a BCS game, Colt said:
"Hopefully we win next week (at home against Washington) and an undefeated season is enough to get us in a BCS game." (HSB)


About how the BSU game doesn't help Colt that much for the Heisman, Ted Lewis (national college football writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune) said:
"It was late Friday night, so a lot of people didn't see it. The fact that they beat Nevada without him works against him, too. It adds to the idea of him being a system quarterback." (HSB)


About how UH is still "an unknown quantity as a team", Lewis said that UH should be in the BCS:
"An undefeated team deserves to be rewarded." (HSB)