I believe that if we could get a combination of a National College Wrestling Endowment fund and individual school alumni funds working together thru matching contributions or loans from a National Endowment Fund that wrestling could start reversing this trend of colleges cutting wrestling programs and instead we would be gradually building our numbers again. We would be taking matters into our own hands and not waiting for legislators or the NCAA to solve it for us. We would start developing some financial clout for college wrestling that would enpower our sport with universities. It might not ever get to the level that football and basketball are at not but I know it would be a lot better than it is now.
I do understand that it would be very difficult to say how much you were willing to give on a forum if you have your real name on a post. If you would like to post that with an anonymous post you could do that on the national forum once you are logged in on the topic:
http://www.thematforums.com/myforum/?show_topic=54170&forum_id=3Any level of committment on an annual basis would be important and signficant. Like I said if you don't want to say how much specifically. Just to say that you would contribute would be enough. If you think this is a terrible idea that is fine too and please feel free to say why.
