To the editor:

This is a sad time for Kansas University athletics, not for the athletes, but for the athletic administration, which more and more appears to be corrupt from top to bottom.

Lew Perkins “borrows” $15,000 (some say $30,000) worth of exercise equipment in 2005 “on a trial basis” from an exercise equipment company. In April, 2010, five years later, he finally pays $5,000 to the bankrupt owner. I have bought a treadmill, a bicycle and a rowing machine in recent years, and I guarantee you, nobody gave me all that stuff on trial. You pay for it before you go out the door. And if indeed the company gave the equipment to Perkins on credit or even on some sort of weird trial basis, he would have been listed as a debtor in their 2007 bankruptcy filing. Obviously he was not. There is only one other conclusion to draw.

The KU athletic department has probably a million dollars in exercise equipment for every muscle in the body sitting around in various facilities. Is there any reason Perkins couldn’t use some of that stuff? Again, there is only one conclusion to draw.

Richard L. Warrick,

Lawrence