Well now I am very confused. What I meant was that, if a certain assistant was to partake in grey activities requiring resources and the AD does not support such activities, then those resources came from somewhere. The only reasonable source would be donors, which then implies that donors would likely try to "help" any assistant coach partake, not just the current one(s).
I am also not sure how you can get demoted for doing exactly what the AD wants.
Maybe he meant that Underwood did exactly what Whitman wanted by demoting Walker?