Originally posted by Husker Fan:
Smokeycabin,
Those are two great posts with some excellent points and ideas. You are exactly right we need a big push from the our organization and all its leaders. It would be great to get all the Club directors to get a petition up that would be signed by the parents and the kids. The high school coaches need to do that too. Maybe if some of the above groups see this then they will start the process. I will start trying to contact these individual and groups with the ideas.
You are definitely correct that we need to point out to them that we taxpayers help pay for their salaries and the facilities that they work in and play their sports in so the facilities should be for us too and so should the athletic department services. They should be representing all the athletes of our state not just the tall or big ones.
Great thoughts, Sean. Someone took my topic off of the high school forum. I had put it on three forums (Kids, High School and College). I know I am not supposed to do that but I thought it could be an exception this time because I think the message needs to reach everyone and we need some action now. I will include this something about this topic in the Division 1 program ideas topic on the high school forum and hopefully it will not be deleted there.
Oh, I do agree that if we can get a lot of action from our leading State wrestling organizations that will be more effective than e-mails or mail to the KU Athletic Department. However, like Sean said e-mails and letters can't hurt so let them fly. I say bombard them with them but be direct, diplomatic, and even congratulatory about their new ESPN contract. Make sure to include Smokeycabin's ideas about wrestling families are taxpayers who pay their salaries and that we need to be represented too.
