The University of Hawaii athletic department and its primary apparel partner, Under Armour, have agreed to a one-year contract extension, officials confirmed.
Their initial eight-year agreement was due to expire June 30.
“Right now it is a one-year extension,” athletic director David Matlin said.
UH is due to receive $160,000 for its rights fee plus $260,000 in product allowance, $41,000 in coaches apparel plus $85,000 in marketing support and other considerations that make the deal worth $587,000, according to terms of the 2008-16 agreement.
Matlin said the terms are essentially the same for the extension and will give the parties more time to discuss the future. “The goal is to put the university in the best possible situation,” Matlin said. “There are a lot of factors that will go into it. A lot of it will be their budget as well as how we are performing.”
When UH and Under Armour signed their initial agreement in 2008, less than two months after the Warriors’ Sugar Bowl appearance, the school got in on the ground floor as one of the first non-Power Five conference football programs to get a cash and trade deal with Under Armour.
Since then UH has expanded the deal to include its baseball, softball and, beginning in 2015-16, men’s basketball programs and has discussed the possibility of eventually having most of its 21 teams under the same banner.
In 2014-15 UH’s deal ranked third in the 12-member Mountain West, trailing only Boise State and Nevada-Las Vegas, both Nike clients.
Texas has the largest deal in college sports, a reported 15-year, $250 million agreement with Nike.