Strategic Byes

Because after all, this was all a part of the strategy.

"It's not the end of the world that we don't have 13 games," Frazier said. "We have some strategic byes that can help the team."

Anyway, Dave Reardon writes that there is good news regarding the schedule.

There was some good news yesterday. Frazier said the contract for the Warriors' home game against Washington on Dec. 1 is signed and was received by UH this week. If the Huskies had balked for some reason, it would've been a real disaster.

That would've been crazy.

Stephen Tsai talks to Herman Frazier about why this was the final final drop dead deadline.

Frazier acknowledged the package to the BCS team was valued at about $700,000, and it included an appearance on an ESPN channel. He said the offers were made at the beginning of May.

"They've had some ample time to come forward," Frazier said. "I'm not into begging. I just had it."

If he felt that way, I hope he had others begging in his stead. For real. Calling, schmoozing, cajoling. Because that's the position we were in. Hello? I hope I'm just misreading these quotes.

But it's all moot now. Tsai talks to Jacob Patek and Solomon Elimimian about what they think.

"It's a little disappointing," safety Jacob Patek said. "Knowing all of the guys are competitive, we wanted that 13th game. We wanted to get a Michigan game to show what we've got. We've got to prepare for the season and the games ahead of us. We can't be wishing for anything else now."

Linebacker Solomon Elimimian said: "We wanted more games. We all did. It's not our fault a lot of teams don't want to play us. I can see why teams don't want to play us. We have a lot of great players, like Colt (Brennan), Davone (Bess) and Ryan (Grice-Mullins). We're all frustrated, but there's nothing we can do. If that's what we've got, that's what we've got. We'll try to win all 12."

It should be a great season.

And Kalani Simpson sums it up.

If this were a game, it was lost in the summer workouts. Any coach will tell you -- by the time you hit the playing field, it's already too late. We saw this coming.

This was a classic case of miscalculation, to use his own word.

No, yesterday wasn't the exclamation point. It was just the merciful end.

Hopefully UH fans see the sun today. Hopefully Frazier does, too. One last sigh and move on.

This is a huge disappointment. But at least it's over.

And that in itself is a relief.

I'll get around to completing my Saga of the '07 Schedule post later on. Not right now though. The ending is too depressing!