UH Seeks Stadium Relief

Ferd Lewis writes about the UH Athletics Department's efforts to receive a little more revenue from games played at Aloha Stadium.

Donovan has told regents that UH is the only school in the nine-member Western Athletic Conference that does not receive concessions, parking or signage revenue from its football venue and is the only one without a student athletic fee.

The stadium regularly generates a surplus, often somewhere between $1 million and $2.5 million per year, though the legislature sometimes "sweeps" much of it for other state use.

Donovan has asked that when surpluses arise that major tenants share in the profits. "My logic is that we're bringing in the lion's share of the revenue from sports (events) that actually use the stadium," Donovan said. "And, it is imperative for us to be a success in Division I football."