College Hoops Thread '09-'10

The Poet · 05-26-2010, 03:04 PM

Two stories of some interest, at least to me . . . one from KU, one from UK.

As reported on this thread earlier, Lawrence is ablaze at the moment with the ticket-selling scandal, and the $#!+ is really starting to hit the fans. It has been confirmed that a handful of employees for the KU athletic department have been selling tickets to basketball and football games for at least five years, all for personal profit. (Well, since some of them were only pulling down 6-figure incomes, you can understand their need for more in the outrageously expensive environs of Lawrence.) The sales were for over 17,000 hoops ducats, and 2K gridiron stubs, with face value of at least a million. Five KU athletic staffers and one consultant have been dismissed. No word yet on criminal charges, but since it appears that one of these staffers also destroyed records to hide the thefts, I'd expect some serious jailtime to ensue.

Meanwhile, in Lexington, the basketball program announced that they had an improvement in academics for the spring semester, from their fall figure of 2.025 . . . all the way up to a 2.18.

05-26-2010, 03:04 PM	#10
The Poet Il megglior fabbro Join Date: Jun 2009 First Name: Thomas Location: Hickory, NC Posts: 8,420 Trading: (2)	Re: College Hoops Thread '09-'10 Two stories of some interest, at least to me . . . one from KU, one from UK. As reported on this thread earlier, Lawrence is ablaze at the moment with the ticket-selling scandal, and the $#!+ is really starting to hit the fans. It has been confirmed that a handful of employees for the KU athletic department have been selling tickets to basketball and football games for at least five years, all for personal profit. (Well, since some of them were only pulling down 6-figure incomes, you can understand their need for more in the outrageously expensive environs of Lawrence.) The sales were for over 17,000 hoops ducats, and 2K gridiron stubs, with face value of at least a million. Five KU athletic staffers and one consultant have been dismissed. No word yet on criminal charges, but since it appears that one of these staffers also destroyed records to hide the thefts, I'd expect some serious jailtime to ensue. Meanwhile, in Lexington, the basketball program announced that they had an improvement in academics for the spring semester, from their fall figure of 2.025 . . . all the way up to a 2.18.