This sounds like a manufactured crisis. Do the math.
They "only" have ~$400M cash on hand instead of the expected $640M.
The article is woefully short on the total size of the budget, spend rate and what the cash miscalculation really does to the budget. Then, half the article focused on sports, which is only $100M per year and looks to be breakeven:
"The athletic department’s budget is roughly $100 million. About $40 million of that comes from the Pac-12, about $30 million comes from ticket sales, “primarily in football and basketball,” Robbins said, and the last $30 million comes from philanthropy and contracts."
Somebody has a hard-on against UA sports.