If you are on the outside looking in, it’s hard to appreciate how hard it can be to find a team that wants you at a school you really want to attend.
Often the school you love has no interest (maybe they recruited for your position last year) or you are ho-hum about the schools where the coach is loving you. This can force someone who has devoted a lot of their life to a sport they love and who has a lot of their identity tied up in that to decide between attending their top choice school (if they can get in without being a recruit) or playing their sport.