It is interesting the reasons kids have for attending certain schools. You can never be certain why they would choose one school over another. Academics, location, how they interact with other recruits on thier visit, how they interact with coaches, an undescriptive word "feel" for one university over another. My favorite example of this was the recruiting class of which I was a part, 2002. UND was coming off of a national championship and NDSU did not make the playoffs. NDSU absolutely killed UND in head to head recruting in the state of North Dakota that year. All of the high profile players within North Dakota chose NDSU over UND. Why? Who knows. All you can do in recruiting is show a player what you have to offer and the rest is up to them. Some players can be convinced, others know where they want to go and no amount of talking or reasoning can convince them otherwise. Ryan Chappell is a great example of this. I hosted him on his recruiting visit to NDSU and neither him nr his father would stop talking to me about UND. He did not even attempt to listen to anything we were telling him, he had made up his mind before he came down.