It affects all the same, and at the same time probably not much different than before. All Big West schools seem to be fighting uphill to being fully funded athletically pre-NIL. The CSU's are at a slight additional disadvantage as the governor's budget is less often hacked with budget cuts, so the UC can rely on funding for yearly operation and facility upgrades a tad bit more reliably, but frankly nothing like the P4 can rely on.

All Big West Schools have to convince donors that giving to the athlete directly is somehow the same as the department, but it is not. Facilities and program operations fundraising still has to be done. NIL is now on top of that, but there are only so many P4 schools who can afford this. If the universities of the Big West stay committed to athletics, they will still be able to get athletes as high school athletes will take a scholarship over nothing. How long the athletes stay and how that appeals to the donor base to pay athletes directly is what really has changed.