I think there were controls in place. They looked over ticket sales for their upcoming home game and saw a chance to welcome and recognize the B&Gs club of Champaign. They needed a contact person for their visit to have a nice PR moment with a quality org. It all fell apart when the contact person was called on, and they weren't able to follow through.
They didn't invalidate them, they refunded the tickets.
I have no idea, knowing the Iowa AD they just found out about it. Why did the Krush use fraud to obtain tickets is the better question I feel.
An easy response for the Krush was if they had any spare tickets to have invited the B&Gers with them. That could have saved them. It sounds like the Krush don't always fill all 200 tickets that they buy.
maybe they looked at the tickets allotment/sales for their next home game a few days before it happened.
Easier response is a good faith purchase, and a PR letter showing their support/fundraising mechanism for the B&G Club. They did neither.
Oh I agree they got what they deserved. I guess you're right maybe Iowa thought the Krush would just lay down because they were in the wrong.
I have no idea why they did that, it was in poor taste to impersonate them. Iowa requires any order over 19 tickets to go directly through a special ordering process or they will perma ban the buyer per the ticket office website, so they had to contact Iowa directly to do this. Not sure how this slipped through the cracks.
In the Reddit thread on this (where there are illinois fans), people are saying the discount wasn’t for being the Boys and Girls club, it was just a group rate. The reason the OK doesn’t say that they are buying the tickets is teams won’t sell to them and they want it to be a surprise when they all show up in illinois stuff
Iowa had the receipts... didn't show them to the world, until the OC went public. Krushed got Krushed, by the Iowa AD no less.
Nah that would be extremally petty and they rightfully would've been crushed for that.
Petty? Like writing letters to all the ADs in another conference for a problem your own people made?, like raising a stink about a band situation that your own people made?, like firing someone because you don't like their choice of lifestyle, like........ No, I can't see Iowa taking the petty road.
Guessing that looks to be about the amount between group rates and regular rate. Although looking at Iowa's site, they charge 20-25 for single game tickets, so that would mean group rates would be 5-10 dollars a seat. Seems a little light.
Vice President thing is very common in several professions. Banks have loads of them, basically the lending limits are based on title in some banks. Non-profit I was at called all VPs directors instead, we had several directors. I hated that because people got confused and thought I was on the board of directors. I started saying it's basically a VP level position that they label a director. That part is a hohum.
I think he was talking about the non-refundable bus. If it were me, I would still take the trip and maybe try to score tickets outside the arena or go to a bar to watch the game. Would still be a lot of fun.
