There was more to it than that. Something happened behind the scenes that caused a shift in belief and it wasn’t just from the IU source side of things
He's very careful when it comes to his wording on things that involve one specific candidate. I've been trying to bait him for weeks in the peegs chat on Monday nights lol
I do know for a fact that Scott is using smokescreens with other people at IU after what happened last time. He doesn’t want anyone that doesn’t need to sticking their nose into the search.