Given how much he cares about the development of the players, both as football players and as people, that wouldn't surprise me.
I think he looks at football as a way to help young men become grown men, a milieu where they can learn, grow, mature as humans. And he takes pride and personal reward in watching those young men develop. I think that is what he feels his calling or vocation really is. Not just winning football games.
The fact that he may care more about the relationships with those guys more than they care, that would take a hammer to his real goals. And frankly, it would hurt.
If CMC said, "hey I have $20M in the bank that I will never spend, NIL is wrecking what I want to do with my life, so I am going to go help guys at a Div3 school instead because that is my vocation" - would you really be all that shocked?