re: Is CBK too “above board” to succeed in the NIL game

CBK doesn't have to get dirty. Or any of the staff. In fact that is a layer we need to play dirty and be safe.

TAF, L-Club, indvidual boosters, even Woodward would be the ones playing dirty.

CBK and the staff just need to make sure the ones with the dirty hands have enough info of who to target.

For example: CBK lets Woodward know that WR 1 is in danger of entering portal because Gumps are making overtures. Woodward let's his guy at TAF know. TAF guy contacts booster(s) and says we need X dollars to keep WR 1. Booster(s) form a charity for the Eradication of Thigh Chaffing of Offensive Linemen. The ETCOL charity hires WR 1 at Y dollars (with Y>X) to do a thumbs up poster with his arm around Will Campbell. And then they pay Campbell too.

ETA: worth a note...
Coaching staff's phones are logged by Compliance. Some of admins too. TAF's are not. If you get the right info outside the Compliance system and then to boosters, anything is possible. So if a coach calls a booster and that booster arranges a NIL deal there's a direct line to the school athletics and a NIL deal that our Compliance knows about. If our compliance has it, the NCAA has it. To boot, TAF's job is to specifically raise money and talk to boosters regularly. That's good plausible deniability.