I hate to bring this up, but it's on my mind considering I lost a family member recently.

Imagine if there's a tragedy in his family in the next month and instead of running the risk of playing somewhere random in the U.S. (or ending up overseas) where it's hard for his family to see him, he decides, "you know what? I'll play six hours away from them again for one more year." The likelihood that something like that occurs is very low, and I really hope it doesn't happen because he and his family are such nice people, but it's always a possibility.