Whew! That was close...

Before I even blog about the Weber State / Hawaii game, I did want to mention very quickly how much of a headache I had earlier from the countless hours I spent watching college football today. I would say I spent almost 9 hours on college football, jumping from game to game. Even for a "sports guy," that can be quite a bit.



Luckily for me, I have this cool thing called High Definition Television, and with it came this channel that showed a concert from one of my favorite bands of all time, Dave Matthews Band. If you are a DMB fanatic, or are just a fan of good music, I strongly suggest you check this out. It was on the Palladia channel on Oceanic Time Warner Cable.

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It looks like the Tyler Graunke era begins sooner rather than later at the University of Hawaii.

And when I meant later, I was meaning Week Four of this season.

After Inoke Funaki went down with a reported concussion, and the Warriors had given up 14 straight points at the end of the 1st half to trail by 10 to the Football Championship Subdivision Weber State team, Graunke was inserted to start the second half and was flat out fabulous.

Graunke finished with a quarterback rating of 206 (I still don't really know the math behind that), threw for 218 yds and had 3 passing touchdowns.

Inoke Funaki wasn't BAD, but its just that the offense didn't move with him at the helm. With Graunke out there, things were exciting again, and the Warriors seemed to have an easy time hitting paydirt.

I guess this means we will have our third different starting quarterback in three weeks as Tyler should get the nod against the 0-2 Beavers, who were demolished in Happy Valley by JoPa's Nittany Lions, which leads me to some other college football notes.

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- Excessive Celebration? Seems to me we have excessive amounts of stupid rules.

The referees MIGHT HAVE cost the Washington Huskies a chance to win over #15 BYU on Saturday, when Jake Locker was called for Excessive Celebration after his touchdown to get his team within a point.

I emphasize the IF factor because we don't know if BYU would have blocked the extra point attempt from the regular distance, so Washington didn't totally get robbed.

But, back to the point. Under the letter of the NCAA's Rules and Interpretations, if you toss the ball up in the air in a celebration, that can be interpreted as part of an excessive celebration. Locker indeed threw the ball up in the air in celebratory fashion, so he was penalized.

Should that really be a penalty, though? I can see this called in High School, because we want to teach Sportsmanship and goodwill to the young moldable athletes. In college, different story. While based on the letter of the law, the referees made the right call, its a call that shouldn't have to be made in the first place.

- ECU upsets another Top 25 foe, this time Top 10 West Virginia

Whatever, Daniel Brock. You've got a surprise coming your way on Monday's show.

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By the way, for those of you who missed Friday Night's BIIF Game of the Week between the Honokaa Dragons and the Hilo Vikings, click here