his family (father in particular) will be willing to let it be a fair battle, without shady or underhanded things happening.

For example, most sources say BYU is in the lead for AJ and they have a good relationship with him and the family. So I don't think it's unreasonable to ask them for the right of last refusal if someone (e.g. Phil Knight at Oregon) tries to swoop in with a bigger offer at the last minute. Or in football as in Lane Kiffin basically stealing away Brandon Dart to Ole Miss when many sources had him strongly leaning to BYU.

I also hope that they don't turn it into a bidding war, as in back and forth between the final bidders like a live auction ("they offered this much, what's your offer?", then back again to the first bidder).

I am in the rare book business, and I've found that more times than not when I've been working on a deal for a high-value book or a collection that there is someone in the process that turns to shady or under-handed practices. One time a dealer found out about a rare Book of Mormon that my client had already committed to sell to me and then found their number and called them, asked them our agreed-upon offer price, and then offered to add another thousand dollars if they would break the deal and sell to them.

Another dealer is infamous for refusing to put a firm number in a bid, but instead putting in an offer that says "whatever your highest offer, I'll beat it by 10%. It just gets kind of ridiculous.

In the high-stakes world of college basketball elite recruits, with AJ being the #1 elite recruit, you just know that there will be some shady stuff going on, or attempted. I believe if BYU is given a fair and above-board opportunity at landing him, then he will commit to BYU. Yes it's going to take a lot of money, but there has to be a realistic ceiling somewhere. Here's hoping he ends up wearing BYU blue.