reason to discount him or you or someone else either. Seems to me the chance is about as likely that a person who works in the media might have a contact who knows something from the whole list of conference employees to 10 school employees to media contacts in at least 10 different cities, as a random fan is related to someone who knows something from one school.

One thing I am completely certain of is that you actually have zero idea if Monty actually has a legit source or not.