[socalstanfan1]

I haven't read the piece, so I obviously don't have much to work with, but I would take anything a recruit says with a serious healing of salt. Why say publicly that one school is inferior to the other in any way?  Why take any chance at creating hard feelings at all, when this most politic, and painless, thing to say is both programs are equal? He may in fact have chosen Vandy for all the reasons an 17 year old might: proximity to home, comfort level, etc. But he may say all the things about the equality of the institutions just because, at this stage of the process, that's what many kids do. If he does pick Stanford (didn't Harrison Phillips supposedly have a great relationship with the coaches?), we may hear him turn around and say that Stanford's academics were the deciding factor.

[socalstanfan1]

I haven't read the piece, so I obviously don't have much to work with, but I would take anything a recruit says with a serious healing of salt. Why say publicly that one school is inferior to the other in any way?  Why take any chance at creating hard feelings at all, when this most politic, and painless, thing to say is both programs are equal? He may in fact have chosen Vandy for all the reasons an 17 year old might: proximity to home, comfort level, etc. But he may say all the things about the equality of the institutions just because, at this stage of the process, that's what many kids do. If he does pick Stanford (didn't Harrison Phillips supposedly have a great relationship with the coaches?), we may hear him turn around and say that Stanford's academics were the deciding factor.