What is sad about this is that D-I wrestling (by NCAA rules) only gets a total of 9.9 full scholarships per school; few if any wrestlers are on full rides. The same is true of most "olympic" sports. Most D-I wrestlers are paying for more than half of their college expenses out of their own pocket.

Title IX always gets the blame; and does carry part of the burden. But football is the biggest problem. The trouble is that it's the 800-pound gorilla in the corner that no one wants to take on.

Football gets what, 85 full scholarships per school? WHY? 85? How many of those kids will ever play? How many of those kids will leave early? How many will get kicked off the team or flunk out for never going to school or get arrested for doing something stupid?

If you cut football back to say 60 even, what effect would have on the sport we now see? If you cut football coaching staffs from 20 to 12, would the quality of the game suffer? Why can't the third-string right outside linebacker also play left outside linebacker? Can't the offensive coordinator also be the QB coach? Do special teams really need two coaches?

Think about it: those 25 scholarships that you could cut from football would have saved Oregon and Arizona State's wrestling programs, and probably swimming too. Title IX wouldn't have been effected and not one big-money booster would have even noticed.