Agreed. But what can you do then? All these coaches from smaller schools are *****ing and moaning about tampering so that goes back #1. Just not sure what the NCAA can realistically do without creating an even bigger mess.
It's not easy.
On tampering, it will ALWAYS be hard. Not to mention that most of the back-channeling is NOT tampering. If a kid wants to leave, he wants to leave. If he wants to lock in a landing spot before he announces, that is normal. How do most of us ever change jobs? We usually accept the new job before we put in notice at the old job. It is the PERCEPTION of tampering that is being overblown. If any of these dopey coaches think that their players were sitting around their dorm rooms jerking off when they got a spam autocall offering a scholarship and an NIL deal at another school...yeah, that's not what was happening.
One thing you could do to address tampering is set a waiting period after a kid enters the Portal before he can announce or sign with any team. If, say, five business days later, the kid still wants to sign with Team #1 and refuses to answer the calls of Teams #2 through 10, so be it.
As for the boosters, you can limit what they do. No NIL agreements prior to picking a school. No meetings with boosters prior to picking a school. Neither of those things prohibits ANY kid from signing MILLIONS of dollars of NIL deals, so long as it happens after a transfer destination has been chosen (or an initial destination, for HS recruits).
It is possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. You can embrace the reality that NIL will happen, while still setting time/distance/person limitations during the recruiting period.
That is all. Let the coaches recruit. And let the money roll in AFTER a school has been chosen. We've had less than a year of Wild Wild West, the kids know who is paying and how much. Not every NIL deal is signed before a kid picks a school. Look at all the deals TVD has picked up SINCE he has become a starter for Miami. It's not some big secret.
Again, this is not 100% of my own personal opinion, I'm just suggesting what the NCAA might COULD do to address these problems, or at least the perception of a problem in the "tampering" myth.