Shane Austin injury, APR Note, BCS payday info

About fracturing his right foot after throwing a shovel pass to Jake Heun (that went for a TD) during the Warrior Bowl, Shane Austin said:
"Nobody was around me. I just planted on it wrong and something popped." (HSB)

HSB Note: "Austin said a stress fracture from earlier in camp may have weakened the bone."

About how being injured after Spring Practice is not as bad as it would be in other times, Austin said:
"There's no good time to be injured, but if there was this would be it. I'll be back by early June." (HSB)

About how they do not know how many QBs they will have for Fall camp, Ron Lee said:
"We don't know yet, it depends on the summer." (HSB)


HA Note about the APR: "UH football could lose one scholarship from its allowable limit of 85, and baseball is expected to be docked the equivalent of half a grant in aid from its 11.7. Baseball is an equivalency sport, allowed to award portions of a scholarship. Meanwhile, as many as five of UH's 19 teams — expected to be women's volleyball, women's basketball, track, indoor track and cross country — could be commended for exemplary standing. Last year UH had two exemplary teams, softball and women's volleyball."

HA Note: "UH football has been sanctioned in each of the two previous years, losing five scholarships in 2006 and one last year. Baseball lost 1.17, the maximum in its sport, two years ago but was spared additional penalties last year due to squad-size considerations. Football is also coming off a year in which it had its most scholar-athletes (32) in school history and, like baseball, has been making annual progress in firming up its APR numbers."

HA Note: "The University of Hawai'i's rebuilding men's basketball team is bracing for what is expected to be the heaviest penalty of the three UH sports sanctioned when the NCAA today announces Academic Progress Rates for 2006-07 school year. The Rainbow Warriors could lose two scholarships — 15 percent of the maximum number of 13 they are permitted to grant."

About how UH will not be the only WAC team to lose scholarships due to the APR, Karl Benson said:
"We are going to be penalized, but I can't be specific at this time. Some had a long ways to go and it isn't always possible to do it in one, two, three years. It does require time. However, I'm confident that our schools have plans in place to rectify" the situations." (HA)

BCS payout info in the HA: "UH realizes $4,385,555 from its 41-10 loss to Georgia, 70 percent of the WAC's share of the Sugar Bowl payout, when checks go out in July. Other WAC members will receive $410,555 each from UH's BCS appearance. Benson declined to say what the future figure would be but said it would be "significantly" less than what UH received. Among the six BCS conferences and five affiliated conferences, the WAC pays one of the highest returns to its participating teams. Georgia, for example, said it will get $1.74 million off the top of its Sugar Bowl victory and "about $800,000" in travel expenses. The rest will go into the Southeastern Conference pool from which all members draw. In the Pac-10, where bowl receipts are also pooled, Southern California earned just $1.846 million from its Rose Bowl victory over Illinois, the Los Angeles Times reported."