Say aloha to Big Ten football in Hawaii

Posted on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 : 3:07 p.m.

Say aloha to Big Ten football in Hawaii

By AnnArbor.com Staff

This Saturday, Wisconsin will travel to Hawaii to face the Warriors in the regular-season finale. It's probably the last time you'll see a Big Ten team traveling to the 50th state for the foreseeable future.

Ferd Lewis of the Honolulu Advertiser says that for a lot of reasons, including rising travel expenses, opponents are either not scheduling new games with Hawaii or opting out of current contracts.

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Comments

gulo gulo

Tue, Dec 1, 2009 : 5:46 a.m.

I wonder why Hawaii doesn't get its own chartered plane to go pick up opponents, bring 'em back, arrange a hotel for them, so that the costs are not appreciably higher than any other game.

A2D2

Mon, Nov 30, 2009 : 5:02 p.m.

plus, the out of conference games are such a financial shot in the arm to small "directional schools" (W. Mich, E. Mich, etc)that it will probably mean that schools like UofM will stick to the most local or in-state oof matchups.