re: LSU's Wives Sealed The Deal For Fournette

I took it as more wilson just telling a funny story from the recruiting trail, I highly doubt it was truly the deciding factor of where he played

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You let your mommy pick your employer based on her relationship with the bosses wife??? That is very odd.

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A better way to view this anecdote would be to realize that Leonard and his family-- but primarily Leonard-- put in a ton of time and work evaluating school choices. Leonard easily eliminated 50 to 100 schools, thoroughly evaluated 5-10 more and whittled it down to LSU and Bama. If you were to imagine the prospective benefits of LSU and Bama adding up to exactly 1 ton each sitting on opposite ends of a scale in Leonard's mind, then the Bama wives insinuating themselves as family friends had the potential to be a mere one pound weight that could upset the balance of the much larger scale.

In this way, the wives were by far not the most important factor, but were potentially the deciding factor... like the little bird in a movie who lands on the hood of a car that's teetering on the edge of the cliff and ends up being the reason the car goes over the edge (though the bird was not the main reason the car was in a position to fall).

BTW, good edit to get rid of the respect part.

eta: I guess you haven't taken the lack of respect comment out with your edit; it's still in your first post and I replied to the 2nd.