As a Nevada season ticket holder and regular bowl game attendee I can guarantee you that UCONN wouldn't do much better in the same situation. Flights to Hawaii and hotels are crushingly expensive over Xmas. Its the busiest week of the entire year in the islands and the cost to attend the game would run into the many thousands of dollars. Ive been to the Maui invitation on multiple occasions, multiple UCONN bowl games all over the country, final fours, etc. etc. and am no cheapskate when it comes to traveling to sporting events but when I looked into the cost of going to Oahu for the Nevada v. Southern Miss game it took me about .o1 seconds to decide it was ridiculous.
ps. Nevada sold 15,000 tix to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl against BC last year in the first 4 days after they went on sale and ended up bringing WELL over 20,000 to the game. Im not sure we should be breaking their balls.