That was a calculated position taken by TB to get us promoted - huge difference being that it was his own money he was prepared to chuck at it. If we'd failed, I've no doubt at all the loan from TB would have been increased to fund them.
Can call it what they want, it'll still be the 'second division' - won't be any more or less interest in it as a result, or any more money so it'd be reliant on the PL clubs taking less of the pie. Massive club feeling hard done by as they get the same amount as the others in their league...