First and 10 with Jim Donovan

UH Athletics director Jim Donovan participated in his monthly chat on SportsHawaii.com earlier today. Here's an interesting answer regarding future schedules:

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Essentially, 2010 is done but since we're waiting for a couple contracts to be returned, there's nothing I can announce at this point. I know I've said in a previous session that we had a home-and-home football series that would be announced within a couple of weeks -- and I still expect that particular series to be announced "shortly" -- but we ran into a serious snag with some of the legal language in the contract they sent us. As you might imagine, the legal language that these football contracts have is becoming more and more complicated, and therefore, it takes longer and longer for us to work through the actual details and to get to a point where attorneys and athletic directors on both sides feel comfortable to actually sign them. The best I can say right now is 2009 and 2010 are done and 2011 is almost done (last time I checked we just needed to sign an FCS school). In addition, we are already working on dates for 2012 and beyond -- and we should have some announcements in this regard over the next several months (and certainly at least sometime this year even if we run into more legal language issues...)

Lots more from JD, as he addresses state funding, the economy, season-ticket renewals, pay-per-view, etc.