Corey Paredes was determined to play at UH, even when UH ran out of scholarships in 2007 and he had to walk-on

About not getting a scholarship offer from UH in 2007, Corey Paredes said:
"They ran out of scholarships. They said they would call me, and I never got the call the day before signing day. It was a hard time for me." (HSA)


About being a "preferred" walk-on at UH, Paredes said:
"It means you get zero aid. It's a nice way of saying you'll be on the scout team." (HSA)


About how he was determined to play for UH, even as a walk-on, Paredes said:
"I wasn't going to change. I really wanted to play for Hawaii." (HSA)


About growing up a baseball fan but choosing to play football instead, Pardes (who is of Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese, German, Scottish, and Irish ancestry) said:
"Football is really not a sport Filipinos play." (HSA)


About the comings and goings in the WAC, Fresno State coach Pat Hill said:
"The WAC has been a petri dish ... and we've grown tremendously as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. The new schools coming in will grow tremendously. Boise State, when they first came into the WAC, everyone was going: 'Who's Boise State?' It was quite a platform for Boise State, quite a platform for Fresno State, quite a platform for Hawaii, what a platform for Nevada. It'll be a platform for growth. That's what it's all about." (HSA)


Hill said that the changing WAC membership is:
"just a part of evolution. Everyone changes. Everyone moves. To me, the WAC represents a conference that will fight, and it's a survivor." (HSA)


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