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.
Actually,K-State would still work and they are probably much closer in terms of Title IX compliance than you think. Why you ask? For the same reason Oklahoma State is! It's called a Varsity Equestrian Team. Check it out the next time you are on either schools web page and you will see a large number of girls on their teams and on scholarship which allows them to be much closer in regards to balancing out those dreadful Football numbers.
