34, alumnus is singular. Alumni is plural. You and I are UCONN Alumni. You are an Alumus of Xavier (well traditionally, alumnus refers to the university where you recieved your undergraduate degree, but it has come into more general usage of late as any school of which you are a graduate. Traditonally one would never be an alumnus of a high school, but it is acceptable in this more egalitarian era. No single person woud be an alumni of any institution.) sorry to be an a7shole, but that mistake drives me insane.
Now that we have that out of the way, a general comment on recruiting. Part of the job of a coach is to, in a sense, peer into the future and determine what the a kid might be in a couple of years with better coaching, time in the weight room, better or more consistent nutrition and so on. I'm not saying it is the case here, but sometimes you see a kid who is simply more developed and blows the high school competition away, but is really at his peak while another kid is not quite as advanced physically, hence not quite as dominant, but has a much higher upside as he matures. I've seen Boyle play. I have not seen Brown play, so I can't comment on the specifics of that situation.
