While installing an up-tempo system, first-year Hawaii offensive coordinator Don Bailey devised ways to help slow the game down for the Rainbow Warrior quarterbacks.

Bailey loosely quantified the amount of information the quarterbacks are required to process at the line of scrimmage as "a ton." So easing their pre-snap burden just a bit is a key to maintaining a brisk pace.

"Coaches always think they’re rocket scientists," Bailey said, "but how do you make it simple?

"It might be complicated but how do we make it simple so we can play fast? And I think they bought into that and I think they’re doing a good job of processing a lot of information and a lot of adjustments that we make."

Bailey joined the UH staff as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in February and introduced a system that produced of the most productive offenses in the Football Championship Subdivision during his stay at Idaho State.

He’ll have a chance to test the scheme against a challenging schedule with a heralded quarterback looking to make the most of a new opportunity.

Max Wittek sat out last year after transferring from USC — where he made his collegiate debut against UH in 2012 — and was named the Rainbows’ starting quarterback in the summer.

The senior’s transition to the new offense included learning to speed-read opposing defenses.

"(Bailey) always says as a quarterback you can only look so many places at one time," Wittek said. "It is a lot of things at the line of scrimmage, we go fast and we have to process a lot in a quick amount of time. But if you know what you’re looking for, it’s easy.

"Everything’s slowing down. I know exactly where I’m looking, I know what I need to do. I know what I need to change when I need to change it."

Wittek changed course in his college career after appearing in 13 games, with two starts, in three years at USC. He threw for 388 yards and three touchdowns while backing up Matt Barkley in 2012 and was in the understudy role again as a sophomore.

After transferring to UH, he acclimated to the program in his NCAA mandated redshirt year while Ikaika Woolsey started 12 games. Woolsey completed just over 50 percent of his pass attempts with 13 touchdowns and 13 interceptions in his season as the starter and enters his junior year as the backup to Wittek.

Bailey said game experience at the top of the depth chart is "a good starting point and you have to try to refine your game every day."

Even the freshmen are mature by college standards.

Beau Reilly, a 6-foot-6 freshman, preserved his redshirt year last season although injuries thinned the quarterback group. Both Reilly and true freshman Aaron Zwahlen served two-year church missions before enrolling at UH.

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