The story of Sam and Carson and their camps along with ZTF's payment at UW Boating day is exactly why UW's NIL philosophy is so broke.
On one hand, The Washington Way doesn't want to do direct pay to play recruits before they've ever set on campus for ethical and in their mind potential locker room issues.
On the other hand, they are facilitating a free camp to young kids where Sam and Carson will be coaching at it and 95% of the reason it exists is so they can get paid (as an aside could their dads be the donors footing the bill for the event)? For me, this is just another way of calling a dog a cat. Cohen will tell you this scenario is within the intent and rules of NIL. However since there are essentially no NIL rules, nothing is illegal, and if the NCAA did want to do investigation about it, they would find out very quickly what this was all about no matter how UW attempted to code it.
So instead of UW trying to be "a little bit pregnant" and straddle a impossible line, why not just jump in with both feet and taut you are trying to get all present, future and potential student athletes that come here all the revenue streams available to them which like it or not is where the sport has went.
PS: Does Jen really believe the NCAA is going to make a example of a couple schools and their NIL payments? LOL LOL. Can you imagine how many trial lawyers would line up to challenge that in court? The NCAA would get murdered by them trying to take a revenue stream away from the student athletes in a court of law not to mention public opinion. It is a fight they would never win and even they wouldn't try imo.