I'm going to ask this one more time and hope somebody can explain it to me....
The prevailing narrative around here is that IW was signed sealed and delivered to SJU until Willard decided to go all in, up the ante, whatever melodramatic description you prefer and promise Tiny Morton a job. So according to that narrative, IW, who had already decided to come to SJU, despite the crowded and experienced backcourt, said to himself "What? They offered Tiny a job? Nevermind what I said before, now I'm going to The Hall." Does that make any sense? Why would he change his mind based on something that wouldn't benefit him in the least? People keep citing the Danny Manning and Dajuan Wagner cases as similar examples...but in those cases (as well as the Duke cases cited by Fun) the players parent directly benefitted. Totally different situation.
I'm not naïve enough to believe something just because a kid says it, but IWs contention that he chose SHU because he'd be the man there and SJU wouldn't promise him that seems like a much more rational explanation that him changing his mind just because they (allegedly) offered his coach a job. IF Willard offered Tiny a job, it sounds like he's the one who got played into bidding against himself when IW was already coming there, not Lavin.
Am I missing something? I mean, if IW's mother gets an 80k a year secretarial job in East Orange, OK, that I can understand. But he changed his mind because they offered Tiny a job? I just don't get that reasoning.