Arizona State Denies It

I hate dredging stuff regarding the schedule back up again, but Arizona State is saying they WERE NOT offered a cool million to play UH this year.

Arizona State did not turn down a $1 million guarantee to return to Hawaii for a football game on Oct. 20.

Karl Benson, Western Athletic Conference commissioner, told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that ASU, Oregon State and Washington State rejected offers from Hawaii, made in conjunction with the WAC and ESPN for national television coverage.

"None of that is true," said Mark Brand, ASU associate athletic director who puts together the football schedule. "I never talked to Hawaii." The WAC did approach the Pac-10, Brand said, to see generally if any teams were interested in a game.

Certainly Herman Frazier, Hawaii athletic director and former long-time ASU athletic administrator, would have contacted Brand to make a serious pitch to ASU.

So either Herman didn't actually talk to them, which is hard to believe... or they're just covering their ass. In any case, we probably won't be playing them for a while, which is too bad.