If Lew Perkins would get off his high horse and use some of the ESPN revenue to give other instate male & female students educational opportunities as they do to out of state kids we would have a wrestling program and other womens programs. Who knows maybe he would feel good about what he is doing as an athletic director. Most of those guys (athletic directors) have pension plans, base salaries, car allowances that could finance most "minor/nonrevenue" sports. I do not want to hear they do not have the money because there is sufficient data that says KU is in the Black. K-State has been in the Black on finances. Wichita has not and has continued to have financial difficulties as an institution.

Here is one of Lew Perkins, KU athletic director's comments from the KC Star article on the ESPN Agreement:

I think it was $27 million dollars or more!

"You can safely say this is one of the largest agreements in the country...I'm telling you, this is huge. We're not talking peanuts here. We're playing in the big time now."

I say KU will be playing in the big time along with Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Iowa State and Missouri once they wisely use some of this windfall to add college wrestling for both men and women. It obviously could be done now.