It was awe at first fright.

“First time I met him, he’s a big muscled guy,” University of Hawaii defensive tackle Aiden McComber said of associate head coach Chris Brown. “He’s kind of scary. Once you get to know him, you know he cares.”

Back in the day, the early 2000s, when he roamed the tackle box as a hard-hitting middle linebacker, Brown could bench-press 500 pounds and also bench 225 pounds 42 times. It has been said his skin appeared to be too tight on his body.

“It was crazy,” nickelback Elijah Palmer said of his initial meeting with Brown. “Everybody has a first impression. Big dude. You can’t really gauge his face. Once you get to know him, you understand who he is. He’s a man of God first and foremost. He’s a great human being.”

Through 2021, Brown was the assistant head coa

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