"Primary Tampering" in my book would be if a coach or official recruiting staffer directly contacted a kid or kid's agent to gauge interest, find out what numbers would move the needle for him, etc, all while the kid is signed to their current school, and then they go from there.

It's my understanding that that is not allowed according to NCAA by laws, etc. I suppose it's easy to believe the NCAA has been neutered on their ability to enforce such rules now and maybe some programs out there are willing to risk going against such rules, but I don't think that's happening much, if at all, when you can just as effectively turn to what I'd call "secondary tampering".

What I'd call "secondary tampering" is when you get creative and start looking for and taking advantage of all loopholes you can. Stuff that doesn't have any rules explicitly against. Something like a coaching staff and their school's collective collaborating on a target player. They come up an offer the collective is willing to make. A rep of the collective works their back channels to get in with with the target player's family and/or agent. Interest is gauged. An initial and conditional offer is made. Player enters portal. Then further negotiations take place and details are hashed out and finalized. Then player signs new NLI and new NIL deal to suit up for the new school. While all this may be technically legal at the moment, and some may even call it good strategy and certainly would be the type of stuff most would probably consider fair in the corporate business world, it's also the stuff that has many saying is what is ruining college sports and turning it all into a semi-professional trade system.

I don't see BYU engaging in any "primary tampering", obviously, regardless of NCAA ability or willingness to enforce any such rules there may be. But I could see BYU getting a little involved with some "secondary tampering" in select cases, and you probably couldn't really fault them for it. But, what I'm pointing out in my OP is what if Kalani is so committed to the higher road that he doesn't even permit any sort of "secondary tampering" either, for the sake maintaining a stricter code of ethics and what he views as a higher level of integrity?

But then what if, in doing so, it pays off anyway. One might even say: "Blessed." It would be incredibly ironic if a team that engaged in even some "secondary tampering" actions got the ball rolling but then lost out to a team that held itself to an even higher standard and didn't get involved at all until the player was officially in the portal, all thanks to the actions of the bigger brand program.