Don't want to intrude into this too much, but if you take a stroll through DP's past posts on this board it can be pretty quickly deduced that the scope of his/her employment within athletics involves spending time directly interfacing with both coaches and student-athletes. Out of respect for his/her privacy, I won't elaborate further but suffice it to say that personnel directly responsible for athletic performance (coaches, trainers, etc) are just a part of the total sum of individuals who interact with student athletes on a daily basis. For example, another respected poster on this board works in the Thornton Center and interacts with SAs in that way. There's also nutrition, groundskeeping, equipment, admin/support, and Vol Network personnel, just to name a few other areas. It's possible and even likely that any of those people could have seen enough of a certain SA to be able to make a personal judgment call on their character.
Hope this is clear as mud!