I would would love it if we didn’t feel so compelled to make those types of excuses for a kid who’d rather play elsewhere. If they decide to play somewhere else, we should just let them go peacefully and quietly. You win some, and you lose some. That’s how it is with EVERY program in the country. Even Alabama.
Personally, I’d rather lose them now, than lose them on signing day, or to the transfer portal after we’d already signed them.