Sunday's WAC news, notes and links

Gib Arnold is still in the market for immediate help at the point:

Dayton Morinaga is here and Brian McInnis here on the latest UH recruiting target.

This is no knock at anyone, player or fan, but none of us really know how well Mr. so-and-so recruit is going to perform next season. We feel we have an idea, probably mixed in with some hoping and wanting to believe but the truth is that some signees perform better than expected, some as expected and some worse than expected.

The following is a prime example -- go here -- and read about Jeremy Lay's signing with Bob Nash and Hawaii in April 2009. Positive things were expected -- rightly so -- everyone was happy with the news but it all ended in a going off the tracks for both parties.

But hey, without hope, what else do we have?

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Chris Murray is back with more on Luke Babbitt here.

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Anthony Ray is officially reporting today at the Rivals ArizonaPreps site (a sub is required) that 6-foot-9 Arizona prepster Matt Korcheck, due to academics, will be playing at Cochise College next season. It's a community college in the southeastern section of the Grand Canyon state. What's curious about this decision is that Cochise plays a very uptempo style which oftentimes is not conducive to a big man. Korcheck had been mentioned in conjunction with Utah State and Fresno State.

Who will Matt Korcheck sign with now?

Our intent is not to 'create' recruiting interest when it is not or no longer present but 6-foot-9 Arizona prepster Matt Korcheck has been released from his letter-of-intent by new UTEP Coach Tim Floyd. Korcheck signed with the Miners back in November but that was when Tony Barbee still headed the program -- Barbee is now at Auburn and the SEC typically requires a higher level athlete than the Conference USA does.

Both Utah State and Fresno State had interest at one point with Rivals listing both as having offered. But that was then, this is obviously now.