These days if a recruit talks to a college coach on the phone, the media guys will frame that as "He is openly listening to other teams". God knows what they spoke about but the narrative will be spun. Cormani could have just spoken to TRob/Saban on the phone, told a media guy and they ran with the "he is listening to other teams" nonsense.
Cormani and his mom spoke about their rship with DVD being the deciding factor. (outside of the money of course). As long as DVD is still here, im not worried. Maybe Bama is telling him that he needs to at least consider a backup plan in case DVD is let go or takes another job because he is a hot commodity and will get big offers from other schools. Its a smart strategy