Stephen sees FBC Spartanburg as the typical SBC church of the day, a large First Baptist that draws membership from a wide geographic area around a large, county seat town in the Deep South. The big attraction for him there is that Billy Graham is a member there. It is a conservative church, not fundamentalist, has a large youth and college ministry, and a large young adult ministry, is growing, and probably is typical of the SBC in South Carolina. But he's just guessing about where the kids of church members are going, and whatever factors are involved, it doesn't make a statement about denominational hypocrisy. I happen to know one of the staff members there, which is why he probably mentioned it again.
No doubt there are anecdotal examples where the children of prominent Baptist conservatives bypassed the college that their Dad was involved in attempting to bring back to the conservative fold. But by and large, that's not been the case. There is a long list of state convention related Baptist colleges and universities that are seeing the benefits of the conservative resurgence in the SBC in terms of both contributions and increased enrollment of Baptist students. You just left Texas, where HBU has been courting the SBTC for quite some time, resulting in increased enrollment and funding for some nice facilities. And a lot of the prominent Baptist conservatives in the Houston area in particular have kids who chose HBU rather than Liberty, or Aggielandia. There are several other Texas Baptist institutions following HBU's example, and I don't think it will be too long before we see dually affiliated colleges and universities, something that was unthinkable a decade ago. There's a long list of other Baptist colleges that are doing just fine as they have courted the conservatives in the denomination, and it has paid off in terms of enrollment and money. We've had that discussion here about dear Shorter University, which is now the darling of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and the beneficiary of increased enrollment and money for nice buildings.