Thundering Herd co-eds pay rougly six times more for athletics than to their WVU counterparts. This despite a MU athletic budget that’s less than half of the one in Morgantown.

Looking at the money Marshall sends from its university side to its athletic department, about 19 percent of its overall tuition revenue goes to fund sports, according to the center’s data. 

In other words, if Marshall eliminated its fees for the athletic department, it could cut student tuition by nearly a fifth. But then, its athletic department would lose about half the money it uses to operate each year.