Look, we offered the guy and never retracted the offer. You can still look up his offer list online if you don't believe me. If a school has extended an open scholly offer to a player, then by definition it did not "turn him down." Instead the opposite is true if the kid selects someone else. It ain't complicated.
Not dogging you out or anything but if you were recruited is he's out stipulations on that offer. If your the number #1 target then no stipulations. Cosches will tell you they want you and are watching you closely and even tell you what they would like to see you work on. How you will fit into their program and compare you to former players of theirs etc etc. They talk all this good stuff and then tell you that you have an offer but need to wait until later in the year to see where the other offers they have out is going to do and those guys are going to be giving me an answer in a month. Just wait till then.
Now as a recruit are you going to wait and have another school you really like sign someone else as your offer to them is unconditional but they told you they are not waiting and have somebody wanting to verbal for your spot right now.
Coaches play games all the time to see how big a fish they can possible land and this year it backfired on us on some important recruits.
Now do I believe that he had an offer? Yep. Do I believe it was conditional? Yep. Do I believe he would have commited if it wasn't? Nope it was rumored for some time that is where he was going before we even got involved with him. When Marquette got his brother you pretty much knew where he was going.
Think about it).