Why would television networks offer up this money? Because you changed your rules, now I need to pay you? Where else are you going to go? Also, all the major conferences have their own networks already. I'm sure there will be some type of agreement made, but the national networks only play games on the weekends. Most of the games are aired on ESPN or Fox Sports, which I believe are both ultimately owned by Disney, who is going broke.TV revenue will be the number one place money comes from. Ticket sales will compliment, not support, basketball and football programs.
Where my mind keeps going is not non-revenue sports, but small programs. As conferences merge into mega conferences, that is going to leave mid and low majors even further outside. When the top 60-80 programs are paying every player $100k+ through a mix of direct payments and NIL, with top guys making well over $1 million, how in the world does anyone outside those top conferences, who get by far the most revenue, keep up?