vikes,

I understand the reality of comments that you have made on this issue. When I read my paper today, I see that they have an article on the front page of the sports section about how Coach Self believes that the KU basketball team lacked intensity in their Nevada game from two days ago. I thought that game was reported on pretty well the day before and how significant was it anyway? It does show how popular college basketball is locally.

If wrestling is to grow, it needs to develop some interest with the general sports public. I think that it's lack of interest with that group is the primary reason that wrestling programs are being dropped at colleges and universities. If young kids are unable to read about high school wrestling in their local sports pages, then they will lack the motivation to even consider wrestling as a potential sport to participate in. If we don't get more young kids to participate in wrestling, the interest will not grow with the general sports public. I know that is a long slow growth path, but that is how I think it will have to happen. So for that reason alone, I think it is very important that we start pushing for more local media wrestling coverage.