Matt Alkire is Field's mentor and also director of Upper Hand Promotions a recruiting service that supposedly helps recruits get offers might have had a hand in Ted cooling on RU, along with Flood cooling on the kid.
Sometimes people like him convince kids the two that might be in the bush are better than the one you're holding now and a kid's attitude changes from being glad to have the offer, to thinking he might be able to do better and stop acting like he wants top go there.
Making the school that offered feel they might be better off offering the scholarship to someone else, letting the kid and his mentor know they feel that way.