Don’t go looking for any great lessons in the saga from which Ryan Broyles and a good bit of the state finally emerged from Wednesday. Don’t go looking for them because they’re not there.

An early signing day, an otherwise fantastic idea, might well have saved Norman High’s offensive, defensive and special teams highlight reel from several sleepless nights the past few weeks, but it might also have landed him at Oklahoma State, a place Broyles, after going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, decided was not the place for him.

“Last night, I finally came to it about two o’clock,” he said. “I just slept on it. I just slept on it and woke up to see if I felt good about it.”

He did.

Trying to explain it all after going through a mock signing for picture takers several hours after faxing his national letter of intent to play football at the University of Oklahoma, Broyles explained there were no silver, crimson or orange bullets that hit their mark and told him where to go.

It was just a decision he made.

It was just a decision he made at 2 a.m., a full calendar year after Oklahoma State offered him a scholarship for the first time and a little more than three weeks after the Sooners offered him a scholarship for the first time.

“I changed here and there, but Oklahoma is where I want to go,” he said. “Being close to home, that really wasn’t a factor in the beginning …”

Only, apparently, in the end.

Of the storm that seemed to follow him ever since he told the world he was going to OU after first verbally committing to OSU, only to then tell the world how he had thought it over again and was indeed headed to Stillwater — “My head has cleared,” he told GoPokes.com Feb. 1, “and I realize that Oklahoma State is where I really wanted to go and where I need to be … I am 100 percent committed to Oklahoma State” — only to choose to stay home at the 11th hour, Broyles did not find it hilarious, offensive or anything beyond mildly interesting.

“I was surprised that people knew more about me than I thought they did,” he said.

At one point, asked what he might tell others faced with the same decision, he offered the wisdom of early decision-making. Of course, about 5 minutes earlier, he said he “just wanted to make the right decision, so I guess I needed all the time right up to signing day.”

And by “all the time,” he meant all the time.

Over the last week, Broyles said he hadn’t slept much at all, maybe three hours a night. His high school coach, Butch Peters, was talking to him every day and what Peters noticed was Broyles becoming progressively more worn out by the process.

Broyles’ inquisitive nature may have been part of the ordeal.