You guys may be right that the hammer is coming.
I'm not sure that it's as cut and dry as some of you think, though.
It's not against the rules to pay for helpful information from scouts. It's also not against the rules for a scout to give helpful information to athletes.
The area that could be a major violation is receiving help in the recruiting process. Lyles denies steering recruits for any program. The activities that could be seen as helping the recruiting process are "scheduling and driving coaches around to visits." However, if driving coaches around is a violation, wouldn't hiring a taxi during a recruiting trip also be a violation? What if a parent or even some random dude who happens to answer the phone at a recruits house schedules a HS meeting? Is that a violation also?
The rules don't make it very clear when an act goes from an ok service to one that is "part of" the recruiting process beyond what scouts are allowed to do.
Given Kelly's letter, Lyles appearing publicly with staff and recruits multiple times, etc. it suggests that Oregon thought it was working within the rules.
So, your idea is that he was a cheater by day, legit recruiting service by night? That's fanciful.