That's not how it would've gone down. He would have redshirted as a freshman at Iowa and his roommate would have gotten him hooked on GTA. The constant exposure to violence and the drug culture would have made him calloused, resulting in bad decisions. He would have considered moving back home, but decided go to NIACC in Mason City. Things there would have started out rough but gotten better and his family would have been really happy that he had finally turned it around. After two years, he would go to UNI, but lose his passion for basketball and quit after his junior year. He'd be working in retail and starting a family right now, had Fran recruited him.
I went through a spell where i played a ton of gta. When i was driving down the road, it was all i could do to not drive through yards to take short cuts. True story. At least it never gave me the urge to shoot down helicopters with rocket launchers.