I agree with your analysis.
Has anyone else been a high school all american in football, basketball, and baseball?
One of the funniest call in shows I heard was when someone called in to ask Lavell about a football player named Daniel Ainge that he had seen play in the Oregon state championship game. He had heard he was coming to BYU and wanted to know why Lavell wasn't using one of the best high school football players he had ever seen.