Look, if it is Ryan calling it a bribe, then who and why should anyone else keep trying to explain it as something other than that.
If Ryan calls it a bribe, as he has on his website, then turns around and says it really was not a bribe, but tuition paid in full for the one year contract that his parents signed, then he is changing his own words to fit that of someone elses. He can't keep changing his words and his actions, he will lose whatever little bit of creditability he may have left. (Ex. He had his story posted on the PURE website, but then took it down upon request. He took it down because of the fact that his association with PURE could be seen as a conflict of interest.) Now if he changes his statement that the "bribe" was anything other than a "bribe", especially now with all of the contraversy surrounding his story, well then...what is his word worth?