Yet Another Boneheaded Move by the Iowa AD

I bet the people in their athletic offices show up to work every day and wonder to themselves what kind of **** am I going to have to deal with today because our boss is a complete moron.
 
Remember how many fans wrote in to him saying they wanted Kirk fired?
How many write into the Prez to say they want Barta fired? Probably none.
 
I bet the people in their athletic offices show up to work every day and wonder to themselves what kind of **** am I going to have to deal with today because our boss is a complete moron.
It’s the Hawkeyes, you are putting faith into the belief that they are smarter then their boss?
 
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how is this any different than the guy who went on social media from Texas Tech to buy up all the available tickets to the away game at Texas last year? Longhorns didn't care.

This is quite pathetic.
 
This is from the St. Louis post dispatch:


The University of Iowa provided the following statement in response to the Orange Krush statement, "The Iowa Athletics Department became aware of a discounted group ticket order for the Iowa-Illinois men’s basketball game on behalf of an Illinois chapter of the Boys & Girls Club. In following up with that organization, it became clear this was not factual. When contacting the individual who made the original ticket order, they admitted to falsely ordering tickets under the non-profit organization. Iowa Athletics has refunded the original ticket order and donated tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Cedar Rapids. We look forward to welcoming these kids to a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena this Saturday."
 
This is so pathetic. Large numbers of rival fans attend college football and basketball games all the time. I went to Northwestern for grad school and visiting fans were often half the attendance. I don’t remember the AD trying to keep them out.
 
This is from the St. Louis post dispatch:


The University of Iowa provided the following statement in response to the Orange Krush statement, "The Iowa Athletics Department became aware of a discounted group ticket order for the Iowa-Illinois men’s basketball game on behalf of an Illinois chapter of the Boys & Girls Club. In following up with that organization, it became clear this was not factual. When contacting the individual who made the original ticket order, they admitted to falsely ordering tickets under the non-profit organization. Iowa Athletics has refunded the original ticket order and donated tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Cedar Rapids. We look forward to welcoming these kids to a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena this Saturday."

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This is from the St. Louis post dispatch:


The University of Iowa provided the following statement in response to the Orange Krush statement, "The Iowa Athletics Department became aware of a discounted group ticket order for the Iowa-Illinois men’s basketball game on behalf of an Illinois chapter of the Boys & Girls Club. In following up with that organization, it became clear this was not factual. When contacting the individual who made the original ticket order, they admitted to falsely ordering tickets under the non-profit organization. Iowa Athletics has refunded the original ticket order and donated tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Cedar Rapids. We look forward to welcoming these kids to a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena this Saturday."

Based on the orange crush statement, I’m guessing they order the tickets through the org and raise money for them.
 
This is from the St. Louis post dispatch:


The University of Iowa provided the following statement in response to the Orange Krush statement, "The Iowa Athletics Department became aware of a discounted group ticket order for the Iowa-Illinois men’s basketball game on behalf of an Illinois chapter of the Boys & Girls Club. In following up with that organization, it became clear this was not factual. When contacting the individual who made the original ticket order, they admitted to falsely ordering tickets under the non-profit organization. Iowa Athletics has refunded the original ticket order and donated tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Cedar Rapids. We look forward to welcoming these kids to a sold-out Carver-Hawkeye Arena this Saturday."
The optics are horrible but if this is the case I kind of get it. This student group lied about who they were to buy tickets at a discounted rate. But they couldn’t have been that worried about the lost revenue because they the gave the tickets away for free.

PR 101 on display again from Barta.
 
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The optics are horrible but if this is the case I kind of get it. This student group lied about who they were to buy tickets at a discounted rate. But they couldn’t have been that worried about the lost revenue because they the gave the tickets away for free.

PR 101 on display again from Barta.

I’m not so sure. I’m guessing it was a little sketchy but not quite what Iowa is making it out to be. Like the orange crush people raise money for the boys and girls club. The boys and girls club thanks them with tickets.
 

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