Despite all kinds of meetings this week, barring an unforeseen case of intestinal fortitude, there’s no "decision" coming, University of Hawaii football fans — or at least not the one many of you want. The status quo is much easier for those who live off the public trust and dime pretending to be "leaders."

It’s simpler to ignore the obvious, to pretend it’s not there and go along like nothing is wrong. There’s an easy crutch; graduation rates and relatively few off-field problems. The UH students who play football are good people, and that’s a reflection of the coach and his staff.

I really wish that paid the bills. I’ve always said it’s more important that UH athletes represent our state as winning people than as winning athletes. But that’s not why people buy or don’t buy football tickets.

Norm Chow was an outstanding assistant coach, but fans don’t want to wait for him to keep learning on the job as a head coach.

It’s easier for the administration to say we can’t buy out a coach for $750,000 and just wish without rational backing that a team that has won eight games total in three years will somehow at least match that in 2015 and bring back the ticket sales and the pay-per-view orders.

And, most important, bring back the hope.

We all know hope guarantees nothing. But it is better than continuing to bang your head against a wall.

No, I would be hugely surprised if any real "decision" is forthcoming. There’s only entropy — disorder bordering on chaos through avoidance of dealing with problems that are likely to worsen.

At UH things don’t happen because of leadership. Things happen, or don’t happen, because an answer (not necessarily a solution) is found at the end of the path of least resistance, right near its intersection with cover your okole street.

The fan base needs something to believe in. Chow does not provide that. He’s gotten better at projecting a positive message, but it is like the team’s on-field improvement: too little, too late.

I don’t know any football people who think UH can improve significantly on the 4-9 record of 2014 next season.

Hawaii is better than in 2012, but only slightly. Not enough to give fans confidence against a 2015 schedule that includes Ohio State and Wisconsin — just two weeks apart, on the road. And the Mountain West schedule will be tougher, as Boise State and Air Force rotate back onto it.

If administrators and politicians even understand any of this, they are handcuffed because of the backlash they would get from upper campus and others. So they just pretend it will fix itself … kind of like how the facilities throughout campus are supposed to maintain themselves.

They should either support athletics and make the moves so it has a better chance of succeeding, or kill it.

Don’t just let it wither away by doing nothing.

Unfortunately, if UH’s "leaders" continue deciding not to really decide anything, there is a very strong chance of that happening.

Reach Dave Reardon at dreardon@staradvertiser.com or 529-4783. His blog is at hawaiiwarriorworld.com/quick-reads.