Mom Finally Comments

Quotes from RM's mom (story here).

His mother, Patricia Morris, a teacher of the hearing impaired, said of Tech, "I think you have to have a particular disposition to thrive and do well in that environment."

Tech offered "a very challenging academic environment, plus you have to produce in a very challenging (Atlantic Coast) conference," she said. "It'd take a different type of Randolph to pull all of that off together. That caused him some dilemma."

Sounds to me like RM just was not confident in his abilities. Hard to imagine.