Slight correction, Oklahoma has two D-1 programs at both Oklahoma State and the University of Oklahoma.
I realize the odds are probably non existent that the athletic departments or even the administrations at KU or KSU would approve a wrestling program. It has been almost fifty years since KU had one and I believe around forty years since KSU had a program. It will only happen if they are forced to do so by the legistlature, the board of regents, or some other outside entity that might have some degree of regulatory control of them such as the NCAA or the Big 12 or who knows maybe the Big 10 conference someday.
It will probably not happen in my lifetime but I have not given up hope that KU and KSU will one day have a D-1 wrestling programs again. I want the same for Wichita State but I am not sure if they are in financial shape to do it. I still intend to devote my main support to the Kansas College Wrestling Fund and the Kansas colleges that currently have programs.
However, these articles point out that the money is plentiful at both schools. KSU is showing operating profit of $11 million in FY 2010, $23 million in FY 2011 and $12 million in FY 2012 and $11 Million in FY 2013. All these things you point out are they not issues in Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri? Don't all those schools have football programs and Title IX issues too? How do they make it work? Why can't KU or KSU make it work the same way.
We know how many kids we having wrestling in Kansas at the youth and high school levels. Does this state not deserve wrestling programs at their two biggest state schools with D-1 programs? I think it does. I think most of us do.
I know it is not likely to happen anytime soon but I also know it will definitely not happen if we do not let some people who could possibly have some power to change the situation know that it should happen and with the facts of why we think it should happen.
