[FarmBoy]

I remember Shaq Thompsen saying something similar about his commitment to UW over Ca.l. Comfort with academics can mean a lot of different things. It may mean that he was intimidated by Stanford and felt more at ease in the Iowa classroom. Maybe he wants a degree in agriculture that Stanford doesn't offer. Who knows. More likely, recruits want to pretend that their final choice actually matches the priorities they stated at the start of the process, even if it doesn't hold true. It make it look like the process had "integrity" even if the final decision was based on Iowa cheerleaders being cuter than Stanford cheerleaders, or some other nonsense.

[FarmBoy]

I remember Shaq Thompsen saying something similar about his commitment to UW over Ca.l. Comfort with academics can mean a lot of different things. It may mean that he was intimidated by Stanford and felt more at ease in the Iowa classroom. Maybe he wants a degree in agriculture that Stanford doesn't offer. Who knows. More likely, recruits want to pretend that their final choice actually matches the priorities they stated at the start of the process, even if it doesn't hold true. It make it look like the process had "integrity" even if the final decision was based on Iowa cheerleaders being cuter than Stanford cheerleaders, or some other nonsense.