It depends on what you think the AD's job should be. Does he serve the entire university athletic community or just football fans? Non-football student/athletes deserve nice things too.
Yes.....I know football brings in the big bucks.
If they wanted to ditch the free board, they could just do it. There's no need for them to play games.
Maybe they will do it but it doesn't make any sense to me that the purge would be related to such a move.