AJ didn't know about the money, his dad did. AJ picked byu because he liked the coaches, the school, the culture, the honor code. Then his dad asked byu to match what others were paying and we did.
But money wasn't the driving factor and that's why byu stayed interested. It would have been different if aj didn't care about the byu culture and was just going to the highest bidder. Byu won't pay that kind of player