The personnel and legal affairs committee will meet in executive session and forward its recommendations to the full board, which meets Friday at the UH-Manoa Campus Center.

UH officials refused to reveal details of what is expected to be a multi-year contract significantly above the $320,000 Jones has been receiving. Of that sum, $220,000 comes directly from the university and Na Koa, the football booster club.

However, UH President Evan Dobelle has said Jones deserved top be paid in the 80th-percentile nationally, which would be in the neighborhood of $1 million per season.

The original five-year contract Jones signed after leaving the San Diego Chargers following the 1998 season ends at the conclusion of the Warriors' 2003 season.

Athletic director Herman Frazier, who has been attempting to tap private donors for much of the salary hike, has said a new contract would become effectively immediately on approval by the regents.

Jones said he has not been involved in negotiations, leaving resolution of the contract in the hands of his agent, Leigh Steinberg. "I don't want to know anything until it is approved," Jones said. "The only thing I requested was that the university would not have to foot the bill (for the majority of the money)."

Jones is 30-21 in four seasons at UH, which earned a share of the Western Athletic Conference championship in 1999, his first season.