In just over four years, he doubled the size of the conference, and helped lead the PacWest to prominence in the west region of NCAA Division II. The PacWest was the largest DII conference in the West.
In 2013, he was named to the NCAA DII Management Council and the NCAA DII Membership Committee, which he served through 2017. In 2017 and 2018, Hogue served on the men's and women's tennis national committee. Beginning in 2019, Hogue is now serving on the NCAA DII Nominating Committee.
Hogue has more than 30 years of radio and television broadcasting experience and six years experience as a state senator in Hawai‘i, and now is in his 13th year as commissioner.
In his first few years as the chief operating officer for the PacWest, Hogue helped recruit several new schools to the conference, and added five new sports including baseball, men's tennis, women's golf, and men's and women's outdoor track & field.
Hogue initiated the PacWest Magazine television and radio shows, and welcomed the addition of the Academy of Art University, Dominican University of California, California Baptist University, Azusa Pacific University, Fresno Pacific University, Point Loma Nazarene University, and Holy Names University. In 2011, he oversaw the move of the conference office from Hawai‘i to California, and an expansion of conference personnel. In 2013, he helped start the inaugural PacWest men's and women's basketball tournament.
In addition to his public service and media careers, Hogue was also a certified public accountant, having earned his business degree from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in accounting.
He has a long background in the print and broadcast media and was a former collegiate student athlete who played baseball as a walk-on pitcher at USC in the 1970s.
Hogue started his broadcasting career in college sports in the MidWest. He became the primary play-by-play announcer for the Iowa Television Network covering University of Iowa Hawkeye basketball on a five-station statewide television network, and Iowa football and Hawkeye wrestling on local stations.
During his tenure of the early 1980's, the Iowa Television Network broadcasts were often the highest-rated local college basketball broadcasts in the nation.
His broadcasting experience also extended to University of California football, Sacramento State football and basketball, and the University of Hawaii football and basketball.
In Hawai‘i, Hogue was a play-by-play announcer for Hawai‘i Pacific University and other PacWest schools, as well as the University of Hawai‘i, and he served as the lead broadcaster on several Hawaii high school state championships, including football, basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, and swimming and diving. During his long broadcasting career, he also reported on numerous Super Bowls and NCAA Championships.
Hogue served in the Hawai‘i State Senate as from 2000-06 before running for the U.S. Congress.
From 1988 to 2018, he wrote a weekly sports column for popular MidWeek Magazine, and has written a best-selling historical novel in Hawai‘i, Sands of Lanikai. He coached all three of his daughters, Jesica, Becky, and Amanda, in basketball and previously served as head boys basketball coach at AOP and head girls basketball coach at St. Anthony's and Trinity Christian. He is married to Sherri Kingsley Hogue and resides in Newport Beach, California.