The whole "where are we gonna get the cash" thing is a bit overblown. GT can get a loan without too much trouble. It's not ideal, but you're not going to sell any season tickets for a while if you can't give people something to look forward to. Clearly nobody is buying GC's vision at this point.
The only reason you keep your hand off the trigger is if you have some super donor willing to make the AA whole no matter what. Or maybe some super donor threatening to pull the plug if they don't get their way. Who knows what actually happens up there in the clouds.
Maybe GC recruits some astounding class or gets somebody drafted and we can all hold on with that hope, but we used to make this joke about UGA that nobody does less with more. Well it's nearly appropriate to joke about us now that nobody does less with less. Not even sure at this point what changing just one of those lesses is going to accomplish. This coaching staff is so bad that even if we were recruiting on par with UGA we'd never beat them.
Get out the ice cream and put on your favorite sad song, let's get this over with.