They'd be better off spinning all this and saying he wanted to be closer to home. Because it would make some sense and would actually be believable. As it stands, his dad is just an idiot and Nico will probably realize that at some point.
It's bad enough OU gets a big advantage in the WCWS. They don't need it in the SEC tournament, too, especially since they're new to the conference and TBQH nobody in the SEC was asking for OU and Texas to join the conference, anyway.