Maybe SMU won't have to wait till 1/14
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:30 pm
Leigh Steinberg, the agent for Hawaii coach June Jones, said he expected a decision on Jones's future to be made in a "fairly rapid time frame." Steinberg would not get into specifics about programs that have expressed an interest in Jones, but it has been widely reported that SMU is one of them. The major lingering issue for Jones's future at Hawaii is not his salary, which is $800,000 a year and could be expected to increase. It is whether Hawaii, now that it has begun to benefit from playing big-time football, will commit to investing heavily in the program. The program's football budget -- $2.2 million -- is more than $1 million less than that of its chief Western Athletic Conference rival, Boise State. The Hawaii football facilities were described as "condemned" by quarterback Colt Brennan, who had to campaign through the news media to get soap in the locker room earlier this season. The Hawaii team videotaped practice for four years from a hand-held camera that Jones won at a golf tournament. – New York Times
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