Well, the half-shares from the Big 10 have also left us with less money to pay assistant coaches. It seems like this is coming down to money in some way, whether it was De Boer's salary or assistant salaries. Which more Big 10 money would have helped us with.
At least in theory, the conference distributions aren't supposed to be used to pay the players, though. Not that anybody doubts that the athletic departments are disobeying the rules and paying the corporations to give out the NIL deals.
