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See? see? Â This is what happens when... - Redrum - 05-27-2010
..your sports teams are successful enough to be a tough ticket. Â Pretty amazing stuff. Â This was the AD who almost hired Harbaugh, ummm, supposedly.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5223151
Re: See? see? This is what happens when... - washingtonismoney - 05-27-2010
I was prepared for a Big Lebowski reference here.
Anyway, I have a tough time getting worked up over this. How is ticket scalping a scam? To me, it\'s just transferring an asset through trade, the kind of stuff our capitalist overlords tell us is the magic of the free market. If they\'ve evaded taxes, prosecute them, but don\'t tell me it\'s a scam or a scandal or something like this. Am I missing something? I always worry that I\'m missing something at times like this.
Re: See? see? This is what happens when... - Robbie - 05-27-2010
And let it be noted that StubHub is a major sponsor of ESPN.com. Pot, meet kettle.
Looks like your basic "scam" on its face - Redrum - 05-27-2010
This:
"It was only after the federal authorities began to ask questions that Kirtland began to reveal facts he knew about Jones and expressed his belief that Jones was selling tickets and could be making as much as $75,000 to $100,000 a year in additional income," the report said.
Sounds like selling somebody else\'s assets for consideration or personal gain. Now the guy who made that assesment also seems to be implicated, but one way or another, it\'s not business as usual. Worth an investigation.
And this:
"Blubaugh allegedly arranged to have ticket records destroyed and then suggested it be blamed on stadium construction, the report said. And at the 2009 NCAA tournament, after a Kansas loss, Blubaugh and others went out and sold the unneeded Elite Eight tickets "on the floor." One staffer came back with a bag of $3,400 in cash, but Blubaugh never turned hers in.
Again, on its face it seems like an employee selling school property for personal gain. Worth an investigation, don\'t you think?
This doesn\'t seem like the normal athletic dept. shifting tickets to brokers so they get sold. This seems more like athletic dept. employees running their own operation for their own gain...maybe it was money, maybe it was other consideration. But it doesn\'t seem like a straight-up business transaction from the information provided.
The report that the development fund was apparently untouched just means that the damage didn\'t touch that one arm of the department.
Guess we\'ll see where this leads. No mention yet of criminal charges being filed. Maybe firing the employees, releasing the investigation findings and daring the ex-employees to sue for wrongful termination is the only satisfaction KU will get out of it. Whatever, as a public institution they owed it to the public to reveal what was going on.
Re: See? see? This is what happens when... - fullmetal - 05-27-2010
Holy crap :( Â The AD had no idea? Â Loss of institutional control.
Re: See? see? This is what happens when... - dabigv13 - 05-27-2010
I was waiting for the lebowski reference as well there.