I know a lot of us (including myself) read HR and HN for the banter that ensues from the milquetoast, but some have return with melancholy retort.
However, a lot of the events that HN and HR believes significant I believe to have high contingency to be mutually exclusive.
For instance, the girlfriend thing... really... breakups happen. ESPECIALLY when one member goes to college. It happened to me. Forgive me, but I doubt and would hope neither party would be shallow enough to break up with the other by Xavier saying “I’m going to be a Hok”. That would be crazy. Especially if his plan is to only go to the school for one year.
Also, yes the game thing yesterday is strange, but is it really? If I’m a recruit and a coach called me up with free tickets and it’s not far away, h*** yeah I’m going. It’s fun.
Your prediction verdict should not be based on normal behavior. My two cents.