Most employers who have an employee suspended from work for a year due to immoral, unethical conduct don't wish to pay said employee.
So $ is a reason to care.
Secondly, reputation.
On the other hand, if he really cared about "reputation," I guess he wouldn't be playing for Bellicheat in the first place!
NBC begs to differ, I'm sure! :)
He definitely doesn’t care about the money, his wife makes way more than him.
And there’s no reputation hit on this. Only the usual crowd of idiots who already hated him think this issue matters in the slightest.