Tell me, please, that this is not the last time we will see Fresno State football coach Pat Hill at Aloha Stadium waving and flinging that banged up red Bulldogs' cap of his.

The hat is something of a trademark for Hill, who has a tradition of writing the scores of Bulldogs' games on the underside of the bill each season.

What he looks at right now isn't very pretty, and we don't mean the sweat stains but the un-Bulldog-like 1-3 record heading into Saturday's game against Hawai'i.

It should be noted that the losses have all come to nationally ranked teams: Wisconsin, Boise State and Cincinnati, two of them on the road. But that no longer cuts him much slack in Fresno where Hill (93-64 in 13 seasons) is a victim of his own early success and the heightened expectations. People there have heard the "anybody, any place, any time" mantra for so long they believe it is possible to play that kind of a schedule and still win the WAC, if not go to a Bowl Championship Series game.

Unfortunately for Hill, he hasn't taken them to a share of a WAC title since 1999 when a UH upset forced a three-way tie. And, well, there has been no BCS at all.

He darn near delivered the biggest win in school or WAC history when the Bulldogs came oh-so-close to stunning No. 1-ranked Reggie Bush and USC in 2005 before falling 50-42 in the Coliseum.

But since then Hill is 21-24, has lost three in a row to UH and four straight to Boise State. Because of that, folks in the San Joaquin Valley think heavily in terms of what Hill hasn't done than rather than all he has accomplished, which is considerable.

At a school where NCAA investigators have a reserved parking space, Hill has run a clean program. At a place known as Felony State U. for its basketball program, his players have been remarkably law-abiding and graduated.

But Hill is in the penultimate season of a $1.2 million-a-year contract that athletic director Thomas Boeh has shown no indication of extending. And there is little public support for doing so.

Hill is cantankerous, bull-headed — and one of the best rivals UH has ever had. In his last visit here in 2007, UH barely side-stepped an upset on the way to an unbeaten regular season and Sugar Bowl appearance. Though he had just lost a tough game, 37-30, Hill asked to speak to the Warriors in the locker room where he told them how proud he was of them and offered a BCS pep talk.

It was a class thing to do especially since they, not the Bulldogs, were living his enduring BCS-buster dream.

That's the kind of a guy you'd like to see stick around for a while.