1. The love Nebraska showed him (they had like 6-7 different coaches calling & texting him every day seeing how his day was going. When he landed for his OV fans were in the airport asking for pics begging him to come. Random people in Lincoln knew who he was)
2. Academics (Nebraska has the largest academic support staff in the country & has produced the most Academic All-Americans, #2 isn't close)
3. Travis Fisher's coaching prowess (in 2 years at UCF he turned Mike Hughes & Shaquill Griffin into draft picks; in 2 years at Nebraska he's turned Lamar Jackson from an overrated Cali DB into an NFL draft pick next month & has turned Marquel Dismuke, Southridge kid Dicaprio Bootle & Cam Taylor into NFL prospects. Also, Nebraska allowed the fewest passing yards per game in the Big Ten this year)
4. The fan support (90,000 fans show up cheering every Saturday no matter how bad they are)
Nobody denies that he experienced those things.
But he doesn't factor in a number of things.
1. The "love" factor, vs. what happens in reality. Every school "shows love" during recruiting. Some may show more love than others. But what we do know is that once that kid enrolls, the coaches are no longer "calling & texting him every day seeing how his day is going." As for the "fans in the airport", yes, people in Lincoln, Nebraska literally have nothing else to do in life. My family comes from a state that borders Nebraska, I am not merely tossing out cliches and generalizations. I know what Midwest sports love is like, I know how the fans react. But I guarantee you, that "love" is conditional, same as it is everywhere, but maybe it hurts more if he loses it, because it felt so good at the beginning.
2. Again, nothing better to do. And, hey, academic support is great, I worked as a tutor for the Athletic Department at UM. But people have to be honest and realistic...if there is a DIRECT CONNECTION between the size of the Academic Support Staff and Academic All-Americans...then maybe, JUST MAYBE, it's not the players earning those honors, it's the tutors and "essay-editors". I'm not saying Jaiden wasn't impressed, but why didn't he consider that Miami's football GRADUATION RATE (one of the best in the country year after year) is pretty strong evidence that we get the job done, honestly, and regardless of staff size.
3. Travis Fisher may be a good coach. But Rumph and Banda have been putting guys in the league too. I'm not going to knock this one too hard, every kid is entitled to evaluate his coaches and decide who he feels most comfortable with.
4. See #1 above. Literally, nothing else to do. Consistent with #2 above, we should all want a sense of accomplishment in life, that we earned something. Not sure why "90,000 fans, no matter how bad they are" and "largest support staff in the country produces the greatest number of Academic All-Americans" are such great selling points when Nebraska, as a school and as a football team, has been on the decline. Nebraska is an AAU institution, based on how things were 40 years ago, and they are not nearly as good academically as they once were. And football has not been nearly as good since Osborne left.
In summary, if all of these "good reasons" were so powerful, and gave Nebraska such a clear-cut advantage over Miami, then it still doesn't explain the crying and the delaying and the game-playing on Signing Day.
You have a couple of good points, but if those were so compelling, then Jaiden should have dried his tears and signed with Nebraska drama-free. And not played games with Miami. That is all.