I agree I just think that having a kid will make it very hard to be so far away. I believe he originally wanted to stay close to home and go to Linfield a D3 school but the scholarship money was too good to pass up from UND compared to the price he would have had to pay to go to Linfield.
Here's a quote from http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/argus/index.ssf/2013/01/column_sam_riddle_faces_the_re.html about going to Linfield:
"If I had $25,000 a year to pay them, I would do it in a heartbeat," Riddle told me. "If it could work out I would definitely be going there, but that's not the case."