Quotes about Corbin Brown's recruitment by UH

LVRJ = Las Vegas Review-Journal

About how he thought he had a football scholarship offer from UH, only to have it rescinded, Corbin Brown said:
"At first, it was kinda like (expletive) the world. But I knew what I was getting into with recruiting. It was like, 'If this is how Hawaii feels, I just have to prove them wrong.' " (LVRJ)

LVRJ: "Scout.com has him as its 40th-ranked safety, giving him three stars (out of five). The Web site's West Coast recruiting director, Brandon Huffman, touted his potential."

About Brown, Brandon Huffman said:
"He is a Division I prospect. I don't know if 'major' is the word to use. He doesn't have the weight you want from a D-I safety, but he can get it. But he is a guy you want on scholarship at a school." (LVRJ)

LVRJ Note: "Fast-forward to Sept. 15, Hawaii at UNLV. The Hawaii coaching staff wooed the Browns at Sam's Town over the weekend, told them how much they wanted Corbin to travel the roughly 3,000 miles to play for the Warriors."


Corbin's fater Greg Brown was approached by UH graduate assistant Terry Duffield during the UNLV game and Duffield said to him:
"We really love your son." (LVRJ)


About how the Hawaii football community embraced Corbin, Greg Brown said:
"Nobody had gone out of their way to make him feel so welcome." (LVRJ)

LVRJ Note: "Over the weekend, Corbin made his decision. The following Monday, Brown called the Hawaii coaching staff and took himself off the recruiting block. He was a Warrior. Or so he thought. Then the phone calls stopped being answered, e-mails went unreturned. Days passed. Finally, in late October, Greg Brown received an e-mail from Hawaii assistant coach Rich Miano, telling Corbin to keep his recruiting options open. Apparently, according to Greg Brown -- Hawaii media relations officials said no one on the football staff could comment -- nobody on the coaching staff had bothered to show Hawaii head coach June Jones any of Corbin's game film."


About how Corbin was dropped by UH, Greg Brown said:
"These are 16- and 17-year-old kids, and you come into their living rooms, you call them all the time, you text them 50 times a day and then you drop them, never talk to them again. If they'd said, 'Corbin, we decided to go in a different direction,' if they were honest -- that's all we want. I mean ... they toy with their emotions, they get them all fired up. That's not right." (LVRJ)

LVRJ Note: "So Brown de-committed from an offer he might never have actually had. And he went back on the recruiting block. ... Brown's recruiting status is still up in the air -- teams want him, he wants them, but nothing is set in stone. Oregon State, Washington State and Stanford all are in the mix, and soon he'll begin taking official visits. After all this -- the courtship, the proposal that wasn't a proposal -- Brown still has his heart set on college football."

About how his heart is set on playing college football, Corbin said:
"That's tough. I've never actually thought about myself not playing football in college. Never." (LVRJ)