Coordinating NIL seems like one of the biggest opportunities left for unscrupulous coaches and programs to continue to unscruple.
Every program is operating with what essentially amounts to an NIL budget. It may be poorly defined, it probably varies a lot from year-to-year, and it's certainly not public information, but no one out there save maybe Oregon has an endless fountain of cash to draw from. In any setting of limited resources, it becomes a problem of how best to allocate said resources.
So naturally that creates a big incentive for the coaches to communicate to the collectives/BMDs along the lines of:
"this is a recruit that we absolutely have to have"
"we really need to keep this particular guy out of the portal"
"this isn't a guy that's a big part of our future plans"
"this guy needs to get X to commit but we think we can get an equivalent player for Y where Y < X"
I'm not naive enough to think that kind of communication absolutely is not taking place at Texas, but we also know that We're Texas and we love nothing more than fucking ourselves with the big, splintery wooden Dildo of Compliance. I really doubt that a program like say, aggy or Tennessee, to give a couple random examples, sees it the same way, regardless of the fact that "That's Not How This is All Supposed to Work!".