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What’s Next For The NCAA? Loansharking?

Posted by srr50 on June 18th, 2009 under Baseball, Basketball, Football

The NCAA, the defenders of all that is pure and clean about collegiate athletics has decided to get into the ticket-scalping business.

The NCAA has entered into a deal with Ticketmaster to create TicketExchange which competes with online resale sites such as StubHub, Craigslist, eBay and others. Sellers set their own prices on the Ticketmaster-run Web site. The NCAA and Ticketmaster take a 10% cut of the action. Tickets were selling for as much as five times the face value this week.

Now should you try to sell your tickets at the CWS for above face value within a half mile of Rosenblatt Stadium, the NCAA will take away your tickets and prosecute you.

Here is the quote from Dennis Poppe, the NCAA VP for football and baseball.

“There’s a secondary market out there, and I have no qualms about that revenue going toward college athletics,” said Poppe.

Substitute the word athlete for athletics and I bet the NCAA wouldn’t feel the same.

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  1. Black Scholes said:

    June 18th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Myles Brand would slap an IU logo on her and pimp his grandmother if there was a market for it. Or he’d at least make damn sure he got a cut of the TV rights.

    But if granny got an extra textbook or got a ride across campus from a coach, he’d cut that bitch off at the knees.

    Yes, I know his grandmother has probably been dead for 40+ years. That does not negate my point.

  2. CrazyJoeDavola said:

    June 18th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Wait, let me get this straight.

    Here we are at the tail end of the Aughts, and there’s a quasi-governmental agency that’s using its accumulated power and influence in order to inject itself into a business niche without having to deal with the barriers to entry that its predecessors had to contend with? And cloaking such tactics in the soft, warm cloak of “We’re doing it for the kids”?

    That’s unpossible!

  3. Blueshorn said:

    June 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Further proof that nothing will come of USC’s transgressions. Harsh consequences would have a negative effect on ticket prices. A clear conflict of interest, but fully in keeping with what the NCAA has become.

  4. Parlin Hall said:

    June 18th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    This will all end tragically when some bandaged punter stands before the cameras and wails “Charlie! They took my thumb!”

  5. NateHeupel said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 5:36 am

    This is probably the reason OU doesn’t get worried about little things like “major NCAA violations”. Even UT fans can acknowledge that the NCAA is FAR more corrupt than OU could ever aspire to be. They’re a national racket. OU is just regional, and even then we can’t make good on it in the BCS.

  6. TaylorTRoom said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 5:37 am

    The next 10 – 20 years will be a very wild time in college athletics. There is nobody regulating it and enforcing the rules. The NCAA has decided, like the conferences, that it would rather focus on marketing than regulation.

    The problem is that it takes $16 – 20 million to run a D-1A footbaall program, $5 – 7 million to run a D-1 basketball program, and $100k to buy an All-American. Right now, you see small programs like Memphis seeing an opportunity to buy their way to the big time, and big programs like USC and Bama football putting their toes tentatively into the pool of illicit recruiting in order to stay on top. If the NCAA and the conferences won’t restrict them, what will? Their sense of shame?

    If the small, mainstream programs were smart, they would recognize that a new outlaw era in college sports will end up hastening the next breakup and restructuring of D-1, and support efforts to regulate the sports again.

  7. BatesHorn said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    Taylor- I think you are on to something. Like the late seventies/early eighties in the SWC, there is little incentive to not cheat. Or if you prefer a baseball metaphor. It’s the late nineties, chicks dig the long ball, everybody is juicing, and the owners need only look the other way and count the benjamins.

    The crash from this little party is probably going to involve Congress, some quality trumped up media outrage, and a hell of a hangover.

  8. TaylorTRoom said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    I can see a new era of cheating coming. It starts when people look away when star players are given some walking around money, or hooked up with a booster who funds them. I guess the USC model of letting sports agents pay them and pretending not to notice is similar. The next step is when bidding wars start for top recruits, and it’s not enough just top pay them- they insist on a commitment to be paid more than they would at any other school. This was the deal Daryl Shepard and Marcus Dupree got. As this goes on, teams stop seeing their conference mates as partners, but rather as real rivals and enemies. The big shakeup in college sports happens when teams reach that point, because they decide to find the conference affiliation that makes them the best deal.

    Yeah, Bates, the losers when this all shakes out won’t be the big boys. The losers will be the smaller programs who were passive when the cheating started, and maybe even encouraged it as a means to achieve competitive parity. They are the ones who will be left out, like TCU, SMU, Rice, and UH.

  9. Facebook User said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    For any of our newer visitors, I highly recommend TaylorT’s fantastic series on the history of this stuff.

    Recruiting & Cheating

  10. BatesHorn said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Well, who are you going to punish? LSU? Right after ESPN signs a deal with the SEC for a Bazillion dollars? Or Baylor when Art Briles has them smelling BCS bowl and the boosters starting getting a bit randy with the envelopes?

  11. HenryJames said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Nice job by the NCAA to partner with the biggest douchechills in the industry.

  12. NateHeupel said:

    June 19th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    @HenryJames: The NCAA is partnering with the BCS?

    Oh. You meant the ticket industry. I see what you did there.

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