The athletic department only netted 3.8 million last year, that includes the football revenue. The football revenue is used to fund other sports at Nebraska. You add another 5 mil/yr onto the bill and see how well things turn out. We do not have unlimited cash like some think we do.
Bo is being paid $128K/month, so that comes out to $1.536M. Eichorst said that payment is coming out of existing surplus funds, so it doesn't cut into that $3.8M net.