re: NCAA will not allow Lattimore to be on staff ....

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Also barring him from being on staff because he's a former player is down right idiotic.

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yeah, that makes zero sense. there are plenty of former players on staff throughout the country. maybe it has something to do with USC being maxed out on official staff members and wanting Lattimore being involved in practices, recruiting, and whatnot. I can see that being an issue. But the reasoning in that article doesn't make any sense

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Muschamp wants him on staff but not as a coach. Right? And if you aren't a coach, then you can't recruit. So what unfair advantage does the NCAA think SCar is getting?

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I think you just answered your question there. He's working with camps and such with uncommitted recruits already, so if he's not a coach but still on the staff, he's in position to "recruit" by working the circuit while being a USC employee. Not sure how much of an advantage that would give a program like USC (LSU, Bama, etc, I can see it more clearly) but that does sound like the logic being used here. So they either hire him as a coach and let him recruit or let him be an unofficial Super-PAC type of guy who is technically not coordinating with the staff but no rational person believes that's actually the case.

I don't know why Boom can't just find a position group being covered by a coordinator and make Lattimore the position coach. Minimal work, and he gets paid.