Not sure why they'd be ****ed about Kirkland's situation getting out. Every school that got eyes on him shut it down immediately. Honestly no clue why Texas took him.. they must have never seen him in person.
When I was on a visit with some kids, one being an OLineman (Johnathan Cline) and sitting in meeting rooms with Mirabal and Pata and walking around with the group of OL kids, Kirkland comes in and sits down and pulls out a jumbo box of little debby honey buns out of his backpack and tore into about 4 of them in 30 minutes. The kid can barely breathe walking across campus. I think he hit 400 pounds. Presumably chronic knee, ankle, and foot issues developing already based on what I heard.
Florida, Michigan State, Miami, etc. backed off when he made his final rounds to each campus.