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there is already a US national kendo league... its called the AUSKF, there is nothing an additional college kendo organization could do on a national level that you wouldn't already see there. I dont think you understand how funding colleges work if you think they have money laying around, most are hard pressed to provide paper to print syllabus on these days. There are modern movies with kendo as a main theme, fourth dan comes to mind in English, and if you learn to speak Japanese there is a whole bunch more. A tv commercial only costs money. As for college people getting into kendo and loving it, sorry not going to happen. See other posts re droupout rates. I've posted this example before but at MSU Ron teaches a kendo class, which exposes between 35-50 new college students to kendo every single semester... thats close to 100 per year, guess how many fall in love with kendo, and keep going on with it? And remeber these are students that elected and paid money to take an introduction to kendo class.....