As one deadline clicked past, the University of Hawai'i set a new one — next Monday — to have at least one of its two remaining football games on the 2007 schedule filled.

Athletic director Herman Frazier, who a week ago announced yesterday afternoon as the deadline to complete the 13-game schedule, said he wants to have the Warriors' seventh home date done in time for the planned March 19 kickoff of the season ticket renewal campaign.

The other game, apparently a sixth road game for UH, could come at the same time or later.

"For the two contests we are talking to three different schools," Frazier said. He declined to say which schools — or conferences — he is talking to but said at least one of them is a Division I-A member.

"We were anticipating confirmation (yesterday), but university officials have asked for additional time in order to make final arrangements on their end," Frazier said. "Therefore, they requested that we hold off announcing the game, which could be played on one of two open dates. Once that game is determined, it will allow us to finalize the last home date.

"We expect everything will fall into place," Frazier added. "We talked about the time frame for when we are going to do the ticket sales (renewals and) we expect to have things done for that (March 19) deadline," Frazier said. "And that was our original launch by our folks down in marketing, so we want to make sure we are going to go ahead and make that. So, that's the thing that is most important, I think, is that we identify who the home contests will be and what dates they will be."

Frazier has not identified the potential remaining opponents to his staff, the football coaches or the Western Athletic Conference.

But yesterday he said: "We've been having these conversations with the folks, not that they are being difficult, but it is just one of those things where we felt confident that by the time I got back here (from Las Cruces, N.M., site of the WAC Basketball Tournament), that's why we said once we got the conference schedule that I would do it Monday when I returned. So, we gave everybody ample time so we could get prepared. But when I got in (yesterday) morning, I did a call, a four-way call, with all the people involved, and one particular school had needed more time."

He did not say why he waited until yesterday afternoon to announce the delay.

UH coach June Jones, who is on the Mainland, has declined to comment publicly about the schedule situation.

UH yesterday confirmed it will play Division I-AA Charleston Southern on Sept. 22. The Buccaneers and the WAC confirmed the date last week but UH had said it held up confirmation until the entire schedule was released.

Meanwhile, Frazier said Michigan State, which a year ago announced its intention to cancel its contracted Nov. 24, 2007 game with UH, is paying "compensation" for the withdrawal. Frazier declined to say how much UH receives.

The Nov. 24 date, which UH was unable to fill in time with a non-conference opponent, was taken over by the WAC and has been shifted to Nov. 23 for a Friday night game with Boise State to accommodate ESPN.

A UH announcement said season ticket prices and premium seat contributions will not increase this year, a third year prices have remained the same. Fans renewing their season tickets or placing a $50 non-refundable deposit (per order, not per ticket) for new season tickets by March 28 will receive two free tickets to a UH baseball game or men's volleyball match. In addition, UH said, those purchasers will qualify to win a Las Vegas trip.

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