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MWC head not worried about UH football fate “I don’t lose sleep over it,” Thompson said during Tuesday’s MWC media days. “Hawaii has played football since 1909. They’ve been playing football for an awfully long time. It’s so important to that state. The state has helped the athletic department several times just since they’ve been in the Mountain West Conference to sustain a football program. I don’t see that football program falling aside.” Thompson said there have not been any discussions on the league easing the travel subsidies the Rainbow Warriors pay to visiting teams. The subsidies range between $150,000 and $175,000. “We haven’t brought that up,” Thompson said, noting several school leaders “use the language ‘a deal is a deal is a deal.’” In joining the MWC as a football-only member in 2012, the Warriors agreed to pay for the cost of charter flights for visiting teams. The arrangement was made between UH and nine MWC teams. A year later, San Jose State and Utah State joined. Both schools receive travel subsidies when they play in Hawaii. Thompson said there are five different membership agreements with seven schools that joined or decided not to leave in the past five years. “You’ve got half the presidents and ADs who are new going, ‘How did this (deal) happen?’ Well, your guy three years ago voted for it,” Thompson said. Thompson said there are no plans to amend UH’s television deal with the league. In exchange for keeping the $2.3 million received from local television rights, the Warriors do not share in the MWC’s television payouts. http://www.staradvertiser.com/sportspremium/20150729_mwc_head_not_worried_about_uh_football_fate.html?id=319282871