You won't find a bigger KSU fan than myself but you are wrong. With a football program a school is most likely already slightly upside down on Title IX compliance already. When adding another men's sport you would need to add even more women's sports to stay in compliance with Title IX. Think of it as the difference between having to raise 1 million dollars vs say two or three, in order to start the program. Also, football and ******ball already eat the lion's share of a desperately under-funded athletic budget as well as produce the only revenues. You will NEVER get either KU or KSU to add a men's program until one of two things happen. Either you have some type of weighted revenue sharing system in the conference or Title IX is revisited.
A club program means nothing to the AD's except that they don't have to fund it.
At this time, if we want to have a Division 1 program in this state our only prospect is WSU.