everyone here on the ground speculates that they STILL have no money and that a chief motivator in not firing Durkin is they literally can't afford to. Keep in mind that school president Wallace Loh already accepted blame on behalf of the school when McNair passed, so that's going to be a several million dollar settlement alone.

They're renovating Cole Field House into a football facility, and the fundraising effort was a bitch. You can only go to the Under Armour well for so long before results are expected. It's evident that the athletics department is cash poor.