Thank you for breaking this down. I knew we spend more on hockey but nearly all was not accurate. I believe that there are other elements to this argument such as institution size for example. Miami and UND are seem pretty even in enrollment (14k - 15k).
I am not hating on the MAC. In the past I have always pulled for MAC teams in football such as No Ill the past few seasons. Fun to see the underdogs (No. Ill the major exception) win. I just think that there is a fair amount of similarities between the MAC and Big Sky. However, there are teams in the Big Sky such as No. Colorado that do not fit these similarities. UND has great facilities and new buildings coming such as the indoor practice facility, but we do need more seats in football.
UND does need to put more resources into football asap. As I am sure you are aware we had a pretty rough season last year and many here seem to agree that more resources would help move FB in the right direction.
Out of curiosity what does Miami spend on hockey?
I tried looking it up but it appears that number has been omitted :
http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/InstDetails.aspx?756e697469643d32303430323426796561723d323031322673656172636843726974657269613d33313364366436393631366436393230366636363230366636383639366632363732363437343364333632663331333432663332333033313334323033313331336133343333336133303339323034313464267264743d362f31342f323031342031313a34333a303920414d