I think that number keeps going up because I have seen the number of $8 million on themat.com's college wrestling forum in several topics over the past week. I believe the athletic director used the $8 million endowment level in answer to someone on what would be needed.

Several topics on that forum are talking about the possibility of starting a National College Wrestling Endowment that would be for the purpose of preserving current programs and starting new college wrestling programs. The endowment fund would be administered by a wrestling credible organization, e.g. the NWCA. Money would be granted in the form of either loans or some type of match. For instance in this case maybe 4 million would be matched by the National Endowment Fund and ASU and its boosters would need to come up with another $4 million. Of course the wrestling community would have to donate to build the National Endowment fund. The basic idea would be to enpower wrestling with some financial clout to deal with college athletic departments in the future. Football and basketball do not seem to have to deal with proportionality and Title IX obstacles. I think we know that is due to the money they bring into universities. Maybe this would be a way for wrestling to get itself in position to bring money into universities making wrestling more attractive to them as a program.

What do you think about a potential National College Wrestling Endowment Fund?