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Get-Rich Quick Scheme at KU - Ticket Scalping

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, May 26, 2010.

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  1. kingcreole

    kingcreole Active Member

    There's no way this sort of deal is isolated at KU. This stuff has to go on everywhere, but especially at high-profile basketball and football programs.
     
    kingcreole, May 27, 2010
    #13
  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The NCAA can say they're trying to "help" fans but they're also masterfully double-dipping, getting money from the original sale and the resale.

    I don't have links but look up Mark Alesia's stories in the Indy Star, he watched the operation over the weekend and it turned out to be a huge clusterf*ck. The NCAA not only shouldn't be in the scalping biz, but when they were, they were terrible at it.
     
    playthrough, May 27, 2010
    #14
  3. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I interviewed one of the Pumps once. I could feel the slime coming out of my phone.
     
    Bubbler, May 27, 2010
    #15
  4. SoCalDude

    SoCalDude Active Member

    The Pumps went to high school -- a rich kid school in a VERY upscale L.A. suburb -- that the paper I used to work for covered. First time I saw them was at a USC basketball game. Two super-geeky, goofy-looking, red-haired dorks who were hanging around with ultra-hip black dudes in the basketball scene. (What's wrong with this picture?)
    So what does that tell you? Who do you think was paying for the chance to hang around with the basketball bros.?
     
    SoCalDude, May 27, 2010
    #16
  5. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Name dropper.
     
    Flying Headbutt, May 27, 2010
    #17
  6. AgatePage

    AgatePage Active Member

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    is not amused with your insinuations about red-headed white guys at USC.
     
    AgatePage, May 27, 2010
    #18
  7. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    If so, it would be the lamest name-dropping in the history of name-dropping.
     
    Bubbler, May 27, 2010
    #19
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