Java - I don't disagree, but I also don't think we know what went on in those conversations between Kim and BG. What an 16-17 yr old thought was important, how she envisioned her life age 18-21 are likely very different from what was important and how that life progressed. And what Kim said and more importantly what BG actually comprehended are also likely two different things and BG (and Kim's) recollection of those conversations 5 years later may be wildly different from what they were in the weeks after they occurred.
I suspect that Kim made some subtle warnings that she was 'sure' were pretty clear, and I suspect BG was willfully ignorant or just very naive as to what her college experience at Baylor would be. Kim wanted BG at Baylor, and BG wanted to play for Kim so it was easy for both to gloss over any counter arguments that might have presented themselves and follow their daydreams.
As a follow on thought and to make this more general - this is the general issue with recruiting:
I really don't believe most coaches try to deceive their recruits about their school, though all coaches certainly are in part salesmen who play up the positive aspects of the school and brush over negatives. Every once in a while stories come out about a specific coach who has gone overboard on this but they are fairly sporadic. (The one I remember is from years ago with Seton Hall where a bunch of former and some current players dished on the program.)
Serious recruiting starts at 16 and children of 16 go through huge developmental changes in the next 6 years of their life - socially, emotionally, and physically the changes during those years when humans change from children to adults and from dependent to independent are 'life changing'. And the choice of a college (or no college) is the first truly divergent decision that is largely made by that 16-17 year old on their own.
That 16-17 year olds do not actually have enough life experience to make well reasoned decisions of this magnitude is in almost all cases true. Luckily most of us muddle along with the choices we made at that age. (I at least think back and really wonder what might have happened had I made a different choice. It all turned out very well for me, but ...) That the adults surrounding/advising recruits all have their own agendas can complicate matters even more. It is not surprising that recruits make mistakes and transfers occur, or that graduates look back and question why they made the choice they made, and question whether they were mislead, forgetting that they may have discounted at 16/17 the issues that in the hindsight of age 22 now loom so large.
(That adult fans ascribe motives and personality traits to those 16/17 year olds when they make those choices with not intimate knowledge is a little obscene!)
