Dreaming. Numb. Totally numb. We walked out and said, ‘What just happened?’ He just obviously felt like a million dollars.

I think at first it was not a perfect experience. There was zero student participation. He would play football and no one would be in the stadium. Football athletes were really frowned upon. … They...

We said, ‘No, you didn’t have to go there. You’ve got three more options. We couldn’t talk him out of it. They must’ve made some kind of mark. We couldn’t believe he made the decision....

He wasn’t going to look at the Ivy League. I told him he didn’t want me to tell his children that he passed up just the option. There had to be one Ivy League school...