I think you are correct. At least for the city kids going to a college town like Athens, which is basically full of preppy white kids in khakis, polos and floppy hair, who still use the N word when they get drunk in their legacy frat houses, has to make some of them think twice.You may be right but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some anti-SEC school sentiment going on now after all the protests that occurred this summer (confederate statues, etc). Don’t underestimate that impact as well.
And then they meet a coach like Kirby who is basically the adult embodiment of that same SEC frat boy. It just maybe too much.