This is a weird take. The NIL money has nothing to do with the OC salary. Now, if your argument is that a lack of NIL resources going towards offensive talent is making it less attractive to any potential OC's then maybe you might have a point. Last year that's where most of the NIL money went and the offense got worse. I'm not sure that any amount of money could have fixed this offense with the current staff in place. Getting rid of Brian was step one, but probably not the only steps necessary to fix all that is broken on that side of the ball.