I guess what I meant is that they may seem idiotic to him. He committed to the U, took no other visits, is wearing U gear, is throwing up the U on camera with future teammates, is telling reporters he’s going to the U. He didn’t sign, but also hasn’t decommitted or taken any other visits as far as anyone knows. If he’s playing things straight and just working out some details with UM/NIL then he’s telling people what he’s doing and ostensibly nobody is taking it at face value.
The alternative is that he’s running some elaborate and very deliberate troll job, potentially in concert with Deion. There is no actual evidence of that and it doesn’t seem to fit what we know about his personality. The speculation isn’t entirely baseless though — there’s large amounts of money involved and anything is possible with recruiting (and historically these things don’t go our way).
I don’t pretend to know what’s going on here, but this doesn’t strike me as a troll job. I’m hopeful we sign the kid, he kills it here, and gets drafted in the first round.