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Here is an excerpt of an email that was forwarded to me by a friend who had this forwarded to him...please take the time to read through this blog posting...

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Here is the email:

Fellow coaches,
 
Many of you are aware that I am pretty active in trying to prevent the gender-quota-based destruction of college wrestling opportunities.  I have been at it for about 10 years.

The College Sports Council is the organization through which I contribute most of my work - the 7 CSC board members that do the heavy lifting include 5 members with wrestling backgrounds. 

With the help of volunteers and professionals who do a lot of pro-bono work for us the CSC have had some real successes.    We drive opposition groups with multi-million dollar budgets crazy, mostly because we are on the right side of this issue.   

I have never asked anything of my fellow coaches in this battle (because I feel you are already devoting much to our sport) until now - and that is because we are in a tough, time pressure situation.  I really was hesitant to send this email and I want to assure you that this is a one-time deal.  The situation is spelled out below.

Can you please get the below to people who you think would be concerned about the destruction of college and high school opportunities in any sport and will sit down and write a check (any size check) today?   If it arrives by June 30 whatever they send (501 c3 tax deductible) will be matched, doubling their contribution. 

Thanks for you attention to this -  call me if you have any questions. 

Leo



Dear Concerned Fan,

Below are excerpts that should give a sense of what the College Sports Council has been doing for the last 4 years - they come from a letter to a contributor, and a letter to a foundation. Primarily we are about fighting gender-quota-destruction of athletic opportunities through the moving of public opinion.  We battle on the PR/media, grass roots, governmental, and litigation fronts. I work with some smart, wonderful, people in the CSC and they have been doing a great job on a shoestring.

The College Sports Council is in danger of not getting some significant funds from a $60K matching gift offer.  A pretty solid expectation of $20 K just evaporated on us at the last minute - and the loss of the matching fund will turn it into a $40K setback. The deadline is June 30 and not meeting this pledge will leave a big hole in the defense of boys opportunities in sports.

If we get it done about half of the money will be used to hire a woman named Jessica Gavora to serve as our director of communications. She has worked in Washington DC for the last decade. A few years ago she wrote the defining book on the Title IX sports crisis, TILTING THE PLAYING FIELD. She is enormously capable and more importantly is passionate about the cause. Between her abilities and the fact that she is a woman there will be a great impact.

Thanks

Leo Kocher
Head Wrestling Coach
University of Chicago
219-308-4048 (c)

Home address
5063 W. 113th Ave.
Crown Point, IN  46307

PS - Checks should be made out to "College Sports Council" and mailed to my address above. The CSC is a 501 c3 so contributions are deductible.