Jones, who led Hawaii to its first ever BCS game — where the Warriors got trounced by Georgia — is reportedly fed up with Hawaii’s lack of commitment to the football program and has been talking to SMU about their vacancy. Meanwhile, everyone on the island has been calling and writing letters to try and change his mind; even the governor has called to mediate a solution.

I didn’t realize that Hawaii was so starved for national attention that they’d drop everything in order to keep a coach from leaving a mediocre football program playing in a barely legitimate conference. I would have thought hosting the eighth season of The Real World would have been enough.

Maybe they don’t play defense in the WAC, or maybe they just don’t have defensive linemen the size of defensive linemen, because the Georgia Bulldogs pretty much had their way last night against the vaunted Warriors passing attack. (To be fair, Boise State beat Oklahoma last year, and we all know they don’t play much defense in the Big 12 either.)

The debate can still rage whether Colt Brennan is a better quarterback than Tim Tebow, but it’s clear Brennan is no competition when he spends most of the game picking himself up off the carpet. The Bulldogs manhandled the Hawaii line to get eight sacks on the Heisman Trophy candidate and otherwise cause general mayhem in the Warriors backfield.

Hawaii was supposedly coming to the Sugar Bowl to prove to the world they could stand toe-to-toe with the best in the country, but all they really showed was they have a long way to go before we have to take them — or any other WAC team — seriously. Maybe in the future they should schedule a game or two against teams from real conferences before taking a BCS slot away from a more deserving program that could maybe compete on the same field.