Well, I have been around OSU wrestling my entire life and I am here to tell you there are a boatload of OSU wrestling fans in Oklahoma. Go the NCAA's when they are in Penn sometimes and look at all those orange shirts. Are you kidding me? You are gauging the interest in OSU wrestling by some little coed in the book store. Not really the most reliable of tests there. Go online, you can spend your entire net worth on OSU wrestling gear. Thats nonsense. My wife almost lost her arm there once when her purse hooked on the door and the crowd was pushing in so hard for the Big 8 tourney when it was the old Big 8. If you didn't get there early you would be in a line a quarter of a mile wide. Been like that for a while down there. Your contact girl must have missed it.
As for KU and Title IX, they could care less. They just didn't have any intrest in wrestling of any kind. Every single administrator then were ex-basketball coaches and they would laugh at you even now if you tried to get them to talk to you about it. I know, I tried, and they look at you like you have one eye in the middle of your forehead. There is zero interest in wrestling at KU. I gave up on that idea a long time ago. Wichita State, maybe, KSU when hell freezes over, but that is still better odds than KU having it. The day the earth comes to an end, there will still be big crowds of roughneck Okies going to the Bedlam.
hahah right across the street from where that little gal told you they didn't like wrestling sits the National Wrestling Hall of Fame!! You could have walked across the street, shook hands with LeRoy Smith, and bought all the wrestling gear you wanted. I bet that little princess never heard of him either but about 99% of everyone else in Oklahoma has and they know where he works every day. Are you kidding me?????
Last edited by Westfahl; 02/24/12 10:28 AM.
