Colt Brennan, Hawaii's Heisman nominee, went to "the dark side"

For those close to Colt Brennan, his football afterlife was an excruciating cycle of addiction. In his last days, he seemed to see the bigger picture.

The excruciating struggle to break Colt Brennan’s endless cycle of addiction: drinking and drugs, arrests and alienations, apologies and promises. Repeat.