Perfect then you would know someone who has offer potentially on the table from all the prestigious universities and one from West Pointe you don’t find it conceivable given the culture then that he’d select another route?
No, I find it entirely conceivable that he would go Ivy League (which he did) and not go Military (which he didn’t do).
I find it conceivable that Westmoreland would offer him help getting into West Point and that it would go as far as phone calls and checking back.
It happens to athletic recruits probably every single year hundreds of times.