I think we forget sometimes how fragile young people in this generation are sometimes as they struggle through the mental health epidemic that we have. I hope that doesn't come across as insensitive (it probably does), I'm just trying to say that we don't know what struggles a young person may be having, perhaps even an RM college basketball player.
I know NOTHING about Jace Whiting, so he may not want to be close to home and may not care. I'm just saying — we don't know. There could be lots of reasons why a college student may want to go to BYU (and dating could certainly be one of them, along with academics), so I don't like to count them out, recruiting wise, until they say themselves they are out.