Frazier, 45, met with UAB interim president Malcolm Portera on Monday to say he was going to interview for the UH job, a UAB spokeswoman said today.

A Birmingham, Ala., television station, citing sources in the UAB athletic department, said it will report that Frazier has taken the job. Officials at UH declined comment.

Frazier is supposed to arrive in Hawai'i today, people familiar with the situation said.

Frazier told the Birmingham News over the weekend he was approached by the UH-contracted search firm Eastman & Beaudine at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics' Dallas convention. A seven-member UH delegation was in Dallas to interview candidates for the job that will be vacated with the retirement of Hugh Yoshida.

Frazier became UAB's athletic director in the fall of 2000 following a commitment with the Sydney Olympics.

Upon graduating from Arizona State, where he was an NCAA 400-meter champion, he became a graduate assistant with the Sun Devils' track team. He would later become assistant director of events and facilities, director of athletic facilities, assistant director of operations, associate director of athletics and senior associated athletic director for business and operations before succeeding Gene Bartow at UAB.