[vincesanity82]

Western Athletic Commissioner Karl Benson today disclosed the names of three Pac-10 schools that declined to play at Hawaii in the upcoming football season despite a guarantee of $1 million and a national TV appearance. "Arizona State, Oregon State and Washington State turned down the offer," Benson said. The schools did not accept 11tth-hour invitations from UH (working in conjunction with the WAC and ESPN) to play at Aloha Stadium on Oct. 20. The Pac-10 would have paid $400,000 of the amount and UH would have paid $600,000. Because of its scheduling difficulties, Hawaii will play 12 regular-season games this year rather than the 13 it is allowed. Two of the nonconference games are against Division I-AA opponents, and only one of the other two is against a BCS conference opponent (Washington of the Pac-10). Hawaii also plays at UNLV of the Mountain West. -- Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Star-Bulletin Breaking News - Benson names football schools UH courted for 13th game

[desertrat]

Arizona State has a brand new coach this year and already plays another WAC school in San Jose State and San Diego State of the MWC along with a trip to Boulder to play BCS conference member Colorado.

Oregon State has Utah and a road trip to play BCS conference member Cincinnati and a game against weak Idaho. They should have taken the game in my opinion.

Washington State already has a game at Wisconsin and plays MWC opponent San Diego State as well. They do have Idaho also on their schedule. The date in question is Oct 20th, Wazzu plays at Oregon on the 13th and UCLA visits Pullman on the 27th, no need to schedule another tough opponent between those two with Wisconsin already on the schedule.

Maybe Hawaii should try to get their schedule set up a little earlier and not just single out the few schools that have an open date that week. How many other BCS conference schools have that date open?

[bears9]

I want to see Iowa play Hawii ited be a show.