I wonder with all the absurdity surrounding bags if someone isn’t willing to pay a recruit just to do something like this - wipe out his IG.
Imagine you‘re UF. You know the ship has sailed - he ain’t coming. You tell the recruit - $10k to wipe your IG temporarily. Figure it alarms the other guys, makes them raise their offer. By way more than $10k.
Net/Net you made them spend way more of their budget on someone they already had locked in, and for a relatively small amount of your own money.
If you think of it like an arms race, you’re just interested in depleting their money faster for future benefit.