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Basketball is a joke
« on: March 28, 2013, 09:06:38 PM »
Hobby sport couldn't be more appropriate:

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Baylor's associate athletic director of communications, David Kaye, said the school lost money on travel costs alone when accounting for the school's trip to the Elite Eight last year.
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Kentucky was given a total travel stipend of $209,000 in its run to the national title last season. But with a bigger travel party and paying for tickets, the school spent "about twice that," senior associate athletic director Jason Schlafer said.
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A source close to the George Mason athletic department told ESPN.com that the school lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that were not reimbursed during its 2006 run to the Final Four. One of the culprits: The school still had to pay for hotel rooms even though it played its Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Washington D.C.
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This week, FGCU sent out an email to its fans asking them to donate $16, $160 or $1,600 to athletic department in recognition of the team's run to the Sweet 16.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9108559/ken-kavanagh-hoping-travel-costly-florida-gulf-coast

Thank god we have a football team to pay for this bullshit.


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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2013, 09:07:36 PM »
Hobbies can get really expensive if you put a lot of work into them.

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2013, 09:16:37 PM »
Hobbies can get really expensive if you put a lot of work into them.
yeah. Like Magic: The Gathering. Really expensive hobby.
Where did you get that overnight bag?

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2013, 09:17:11 PM »
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NCAA tournament teams don't normally come out ahead in their travel expenses despite Turner and CBS paying an average of $771 million a year for the television rights.

The NCAA in a nutshell

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 09:32:38 PM »
the NBA is great.

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 09:43:54 PM »
Hobbies can get really expensive if you put a lot of work into them.
yeah. Like Magic: The Gathering. Really expensive hobby.

I know a guy who races those Lemans cars.  That is a really rough ridin' expensive hobby.

Golf is pricey too.  It's fun, but pricey.  Basketball is kinda like that for colleges, isn't it?

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2013, 09:47:34 PM »
Equestrian would have been CRAZY expensive if we hadn't made it BYOH.

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2013, 10:37:44 PM »
Equestrian would have been CRAZY expensive if we hadn't made it BYOH.

did not know this. 
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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2013, 12:43:59 AM »
Hobby sport couldn't be more appropriate:

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Baylor's associate athletic director of communications, David Kaye, said the school lost money on travel costs alone when accounting for the school's trip to the Elite Eight last year.
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Kentucky was given a total travel stipend of $209,000 in its run to the national title last season. But with a bigger travel party and paying for tickets, the school spent "about twice that," senior associate athletic director Jason Schlafer said.
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A source close to the George Mason athletic department told ESPN.com that the school lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that were not reimbursed during its 2006 run to the Final Four. One of the culprits: The school still had to pay for hotel rooms even though it played its Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Washington D.C.
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This week, FGCU sent out an email to its fans asking them to donate $16, $160 or $1,600 to athletic department in recognition of the team's run to the Sweet 16.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9108559/ken-kavanagh-hoping-travel-costly-florida-gulf-coast

Thank god we have a football team to pay for this bullshit.

Now do this for bowl games

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Re: Basketball is a joke
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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2014, 11:43:11 AM »
@Trogdor_gE

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2014, 11:48:11 AM »
Ok, guys...  Now I'm SUPER confused.

All the ku people with internet access say that they make loads of cash from basketball.

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bears are fast...

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2014, 05:38:12 PM »
Ok, guys...  Now I'm SUPER confused.

All the ku people with internet access say that they make loads of cash from basketball.

 :whistle1:
YEA! and if they really belief that, boy do I have some Ocean Front property I would like to sell them!

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2014, 08:55:38 PM »
Ok, guys...  Now I'm SUPER confused.

All the ku people with internet access say that they make loads of cash from basketball.

 :whistle1:
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Yeah, and I've got about a block of property in Lawrence that has no homeless people, no drug addict losers, and no 19 yr old chics who kill 50 year old men, for sale!

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2014, 01:06:34 AM »
Hobby sport couldn't be more appropriate:

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Baylor's associate athletic director of communications, David Kaye, said the school lost money on travel costs alone when accounting for the school's trip to the Elite Eight last year.
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Kentucky was given a total travel stipend of $209,000 in its run to the national title last season. But with a bigger travel party and paying for tickets, the school spent "about twice that," senior associate athletic director Jason Schlafer said.
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A source close to the George Mason athletic department told ESPN.com that the school lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that were not reimbursed during its 2006 run to the Final Four. One of the culprits: The school still had to pay for hotel rooms even though it played its Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Washington D.C.
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This week, FGCU sent out an email to its fans asking them to donate $16, $160 or $1,600 to athletic department in recognition of the team's run to the Sweet 16.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9108559/ken-kavanagh-hoping-travel-costly-florida-gulf-coast

Thank god we have a football team to pay for this bullshit.

Now do this for bowl games

« Last Edit: January 28, 2014, 12:21:29 PM by MakeItRain »

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2014, 10:25:10 AM »
Hobby sport couldn't be more appropriate:

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Baylor's associate athletic director of communications, David Kaye, said the school lost money on travel costs alone when accounting for the school's trip to the Elite Eight last year.
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Kentucky was given a total travel stipend of $209,000 in its run to the national title last season. But with a bigger travel party and paying for tickets, the school spent "about twice that," senior associate athletic director Jason Schlafer said.
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A source close to the George Mason athletic department told ESPN.com that the school lost hundreds of thousands of dollars that were not reimbursed during its 2006 run to the Final Four. One of the culprits: The school still had to pay for hotel rooms even though it played its Sweet 16 and Elite Eight games in Washington D.C.
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This week, FGCU sent out an email to its fans asking them to donate $16, $160 or $1,600 to athletic department in recognition of the team's run to the Sweet 16.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9108559/ken-kavanagh-hoping-travel-costly-florida-gulf-coast

Thank god we have a football team to pay for this bullshit.

Now do this for bowl games


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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2014, 11:51:13 AM »
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=172&f=2481&t=12633465

Would you trade? Bball championships for Fball championships.

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NO!!!!#

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no.

not a chance in hell.

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no

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Gawd No.

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I weep for our fan base sometimes.

Are you KU Fans or KU Basketball Fans?  Big difference.
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i am a basketball fan who went to ku 96-2000 and has been rooting for ku since I was in 3rd grade.

I don't really care about other sports.  I enjoy going to a football game once a year...maybe twice.  it would be nice to be competitive in that sport but i'm never going to watch that sport over a preseason bball game for instance.

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Some of us ARE fans of both programs...some are also clearly fans of the basketball program only. Most of these people most likely never set foot in a KU classroom.
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why?

I grew up in KC.  football was not all that popular when I was in 7th grade through high school.  Basketball was huge (High School to NBA).  I never even watched a college football game on TV or in person until I was at KU.   So i'm lesser a fan because I didn't grow up around the sport of football?  That is like saying you need to be a fan of KU's hockey team or you aren't a real KU fan...or Tennis...or chess.  football is just another sport, not everyone is required to care. 

I thought of football as a sport for fat kids and people who weren't athletic enough to play basketball growing up.  dead serious.


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« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2014, 11:52:56 AM »
dead serious.

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #19 on: January 28, 2014, 12:09:29 PM »
Isn't KU known for their business program? Cause if they are, they sure don't know wtf they are doing.

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Re: Basketball is a joke
« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2014, 12:14:05 PM »
honestly surprised by those responses

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« Reply #21 on: January 28, 2014, 12:23:10 PM »
honestly surprised by those responses

Pretty sure duke fans would say the same. Kentucky would be the interesting test case

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« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2014, 12:27:45 PM »
honestly surprised by those responses

Pretty sure duke fans would say the same. Kentucky would be the interesting test case

They'd take b-ball.   


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« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2014, 12:30:00 PM »
Isn't KU known for their business program? Cause if they are, they sure don't know wtf they are doing.


I would say no since a lot of the bball players that got Self'd don't know crap about TVM.

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« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2014, 12:31:01 PM »
this is almost as sad as that pizza ranch wedding that MIR traipsed upon