If the lawsuit is that big of a factor then Jones isn't the recruiter we all thought he was.... Even me when I wasn't convinced he was a great recruiter.
Ole Miss, Bama, MSU, UF, UGA,.... pretty much every SEC school with a pulse has had some sort of thing like this happen that could have hurt recruiting... but didn't.
The only one I know of that DID hurt recruiting was the student protests at Mizzou. It didn't just hurt athletic recruiting.... I understand that their applications for enrollment are down about 25%.