you can not run a D1 basketball program on a D2 budget.
Nor can you run a D1 MBB program on distilled peanut oil, but what's that got to do with the price if tea in China? If you are implying we aren't paying enough, I would make the case we are in fact running a D1 program on the current budget, albeit not a very successful one, but we are D1. Second, while we are far from the top budget, I'll bet you a couple bucks we are not the lowest either.
If you point is we will need to pay a new head coach more that we were paying JS, that is very likely. We are paying BP about twice what we were paying EW, for what reason I have absolutely no idea, and the “management” (read JT) has demonstrated a willingness to step up if the cause is worthwhile. We have no reason to suspect otherwise in this case, do we?