Yes you are. It's the illustration. First off, you're completely mistaken at the idea that "funds are separate from football." Texas One Fund handles a ton of NIL for all the different sports, while football is certainly prioritized, guess what, unless that money is designated to a specific sport, it's going to football first and foremost. Additionally, the funds come from Boosters. Period. A guy who gave his maximum amount for the year has given his maximum amount.
The "Just ask someone else" Fallacy is just that, because OU is already going around whining about how fucking poor they are, and how they can't compete. Period. It's not because they're sitting on a ton of funds and the athletic department just hasn't asked for more money the right way.
But you're really missing the actual point. You can speculate their booster and NIL funds all you want, and you can apply whatever logic you want to the situation, but that is completely IMMATERIAL to the perception that recruits have...which is "You found million dollars for a softball player, but you won't find market value for my son?" It doesn't matter the circumstances, the reality, just like it doesn't matter that our football NIL roster didn't cost 45 million dollars...Kirk Bohls said it, and now the perception is the reality, and we have to deal with it. And that narrative would be a problem for OU.