Schedule deadline pushed back again

HF said that 1 of the 2 teams he has offers out to for the 13th game is:
"half in the door, half out the door." (HA)


About the $700k offer out to the BCS conference school, HF said:
"It is more money than many teams would receive even for an appearance in a bowl game. We've had some astronomical numbers out there." (HA)


HF said that the offer to the non-BCS conference school:
"won't be that much." (HA)


HF said that 1 of the 2 teams is getting:
"cold feet." (HSB)


HF said that the number of teams they are dealing with is down to:
"one and a half." (HSB)


About his May 31 "drop dead" date he told the legislature, HF said:
"You've got ADs trying to convince their football coaches to do it." (HA)


HF said that because WAC commisioner Karl Benson leaves for work tomorrow:
"we will announce one way or the other" (HA)

"It's: Who wants to make a decision? At this point, we're not going to sweeten the pot any more or do anything differently. We're just going to let the balls fall where they may." (HA)

"Karl Benson's going on vacation on Friday. I told him if we didn't have anything done at the middle of this week or toward the end of this week we're just gonna go with 12 and we'll have everything resolved by Friday. People have got to make a decision one way or another. So at this point I'm not going to hold us up anymore. So it will be 48 hours. One (school's) got cold feet. So we'll go with one-and-a-half and we'll let you know Friday." (HSB)


About how he wants to schedule a 1AA team every year, HF said:
"It's called a 'W.' No question you want to do that." (HA)


About future scheduling, HF said:
"The year I need one I'm done; I'm just waiting for a contract. Our goal is, by the end of December, we're going to be flush" through 2011." (HA)


About how the team will probably stay in Houston between La Tech and UNLV games this season, HF:
"We have looked at it and we're doing an analysis on the costs and everything else. We haven't decided yet." (HA)


Unsure what role he'll have for the 2008 China Olympics:
"I suspect I'll get some calls on certain things just because I was on that board for 22 years. I get some calls from time to time when specific topics come up. But I won't be the chef." (HSB)


About the new parking plan for Aloha Stadium HF said:
"I've had several conversations with (new stadium manager) Scott Chan. I would say we are in a real good sea change as relates to conversations with him about parking. We have a new parking plan we hope enables us to get people off the streets sooner and into the parking spaces." (HSB)