jayhawk pride

You know you will not get a lot of people on this forum who are going to agree with your trust in the future prospects of a KU sport administrator making a move towards adding wrestling anytime soon. If they were going to add men's teams I think most sports people believe that it would be tennis or swimming/diving which I believe were more recently dropped at KU. I and probably everyone else on this forum hopes you are correct that the new KU AD would consider adding wrestling but I do not think many people here believe that is a remote possibility. I see only two possible ways the first I mentioned already which would be if KU eventually joined the Big 10 conference and that invitation was made only if they would add wrestling. I think there is an outside chance of this if the Big 12 conference eventually breaks up. The second possibility would be a legislative act by the Kansas state legislative body. I doubt that has any chance.

Also I am not sure where you are getting your numbers on the KU men athletic teams. The KU website only lists six (not 8) men teams (baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, track & field). Your numbers do match for KU women and Okla State University both men and women. So KU has two less men teams than Oklahoma State which shows all the teams you listed for KU plus tennis and wrestling.

And I do think you can compare to Ohio State by using percentage comparisons. KU's revenue in 6/30/11 reporting year with the US Dept of Education as reported by EADA was the 70 million that you reported while Ohio State was $131.816 million. Percentage wise that means KU was a little over 53% of Ohio State revenue. In the EADA report all running sports are combined so KU was showing 5 men sports and Ohio State 15 men's sports. KU's men total should be eight teams based on Ohio State's 15 men's sports so by revenue pct KU is 3 men's sport shy of Ohio State. Even if you go by enrollment pct % which the EADA report showed KU at 18,137 47.35% of Ohio State's 38,300 KU still should have 7 mens teams based on Ohio State's 15 so again KU is two men's team short based on Ohio State enrollment just like they are two men's teams short of Oklahoma State which is showing the equivalent $70 million of revenue on the 6/30/11 EADA report and Oklahoma State even shows less students at 15,736.

Remember KU did not have any college wrestling program from 1934 to 1964 and then had one for only three years to drop it again in 1967, 45 YEARS AGO! I just saw where Title IX as it is today was passed on June 23, 1972 so KU dropped wrestling well before that date. Does this really impress you as a sports department that really wants to add wrestling if only Title IX would allow it? If it does, I am pretty sure you would be in a pretty small miniority with that opinion on this forum.

Again I like everyone in the Kansas wrestling community would love to see KU add a NCAA college wrestling program. But you got to be realistic, they simply will not do it unless forced to. At least that is my opinion. I would think most people on this forum would probably agree with that.