I'm not sure I fully understand. Do we believe that if we collect $1 million, that one of the D1 schools will use that money to initiate a program? Has anyone at any of the schools indicated any enthusiasm for this effort?
Cleve, those are good questions. I really do not know if one of the D1 schools would say yes to starting a D-1 wrestling program if we came to them with a million dollars or more. I do know there would be a better chance of it happening if we actually had a million dollars than just the promise of it. Also if none of the D-1 schools were interested than you still can greatly benefit the current non D-1 schools that currently have programs in Kansas. My suggestion would be to finance these current schools as the fund develops over the years. I think you could give each of our current schools 1% a year in donations of the fund balance. For example at the end of the fund fiscal first year if you had $100,000 in your accounts, you would give $1,000 each to Fort Hays State, Labette, Neosho, Pratt, Newman, Colby and Baker universities for their wrestling programs. I would suggest doing that every year. If the fund grew to $500,000 in five years each school would get $5,000 a year at that time. If a D-1 Kansas school is ultimately not interested we can still do a lot of good for Kansas college wrestling by funding these current Kansas college universities with wrestling programs. Maybe at some point the fund would grow big enough that we would finally get a D-1 school on board. What would a fund like this amount to today if it had started say thirty or forty years ago?
